Mars and Island One

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"
> From: babbler36 [mailto:babbler36@y...]
>
> > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > To realize the potential of lunar development needs a cislunar
> > > driver. On its own the moon offers few economic attractions.
> >
> > And what is this "economic driver" your talking? Do you have any
> > suggestions to what it is?
>
> Read The High Frontier for all the details on this.

Actually, I had the High Frontier for nearly 2 weeks.

It a very good book, and its vision is clear, understandable and
inspiring. The only problem with the book is it very bleak near
future of humanity on Earth. The natural resources of Earth have
proven to been somewhat more pentaful, or we use them more
efficently, that it make the retectal of new source of resource less
ugrent. This is the reason of the delay in space resource
devlopement, besides high launch costs.

> In a High Frontier scenario, the natural resources of the moon are
> economically competitive. Outside of it, I can't think of a single
> resource the moon has to offer which would be economically
competitive
> at present. "At present" means no commercially-competitive HE3-
burning