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by gobins 844 days ago
Looks like, the race is on , to start harvesting minerals from the moon.There are still big challenges like sourcing water and setting up base camps to start with but if we can deploy mining machines, this could be a gamechanger.
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We have minerals at home.
Minerals at home:

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It's harder to get VCs to invest in minerals at home.
As the saying goes, it doesn't matter how much it costs to make the first von Neumann probe.
The less known half of that saying just never really got the viral spread as that first one.

"And that's why they're everywhere"!