The Moon industries of Apollo (was The empirical data say)

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike" wrote:
> From: hitssquad
> > All emperical data so far point to the opposite conclusion.
> I'm wondering what kind of data you can be looking to. We have only a very few days expirience on the moon. None of the moon-walkers were engaged in anything we might call industrial productivity; only gathering of geological samples.

They were also setting up experiments and driving around. See this video from 9:17 onward, especially 10:18-11:08:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=373L5US2d30#t=610s

Quotes from Mission Control:

"Oh, he's going slowly, Bill. Very slowly."

"[...] that's what you call getting down into your work."