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On 6/26/13 9:11 AM, brooksn wrote:

> Personally I favor asteroid development, using small, Earth intersecting
> NEAs. Captured in Earth orbit and used for building space colonies. But
> if someone wants to do the moon, using the poles for light and water
> advantages and some capped lava tubes, after the tuna can phase, I'd say
> there's a good amount of local resources to develop a colony. You will
> need to import more volatiles as the moon is pretty sparse but Earth or
> better a passing iceteroid can do the trick.

But it's not as sparse in volatiles as we used to think.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html

This always makes me think of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which was
ahead of its time in so many ways...

"...had thought 'common cold' was state of ice miner's feet."

Cheers,
- Joe