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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
As usual, an American fails to not that there are already Canadians who are taking part in the effort.
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I am aware. I am also aware that Canada spends 1/50th of what the US does on their respective civilian space agencies.
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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
This discounts two things; automation and telepresence.
It should be an easy sell to the enviro-weenies. "We could move some industrial operations to the airless void, helping us to keep Earth clean."
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No it doesn't. You are talking about building spacecraft from raw materials on the moon. That is a process we can only automate to a small degree here on earth. Why would we be able to integrate automation in to the process more in space?
Before any craft is built on the moon it would need to be built on earth. With no plans to do so anytime soon why would we start building the infrastructure required to do it on the moon?