>: Also, to answer Nicks anti-lunar base stance: if you buy the theory, any of
>: them, that the moon was part of the earth, or was formed with it in the early solar system, then there is no reason that both bodies are composed of the same elements in similar quantities. Read: it has signifigant amounts of Si, Fe, C,
>: O etc. Is it mineable? Well we won't know until we get there(personally or through probes).
>:
I seem to remember some theory a while back that the moon was actually
*captured* by Earth at some stage (I think it was about 800 million
years ago), which also has corollaries in some of the very early
human legends. That would lead to the assumption that the moon would
be of a different composition than Earth, with possibly greater concentrations
of elements (mineable (sp?) quantities). This would change the picture
somewhat, when you assume that the only mineral explorations done on
the lunar surface were conducted in the equivalent of the Sahara.
Cheers.
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