YaAbsolyutnoNikto t1_itg6d51 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:19 PM

Reply to comment by anglesideside1 in Next month, Japanese company iSpace will become the first private company to deliver a lunar lander and commercial payload to the moon's surface. Two more private companies aim to follow them in 2023. Is this the start of a lunar economy? by lughnasadh

No idea. But they’re not the only ones.

As far as I know, spacex and a company in luxembourg are also working on it.

Anyway, why would you want to short it?

anglesideside1 t1_itg784e wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:27 PM

Seems like a money pit, and until there’s an actual hard cost imposed to destroying ecosystems (I’m not talking about socialized costs associated with climate change), then it’ll be cheaper to mine whatever minerals here.

dantemp t1_itk9o4y wrote on October 24, 2022 at 7:24 AM

Asteroid mining will definitely become a major industry. The question isn't if, the question is when. You might be right that the first few attempt fail but only because we'd have to work out the kinks, not because having an infinite resource that nobody has a claim on is a bad idea.