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I think the moon could end up being kind of the next industrial frontier for humanity. And the reason is if you can
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get to the moon, the moon has an extraordinary abundance of material that we can mine, process, and manufacture
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into goods. And ultimately the cost to ship those goods back to the Earth is zero. And the reason is that on the moon
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you can take advantage of the low gravity. It's about 1/6 the gravity. and the complete lack of an atmosphere,
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meaning that it's frictionless to move material off of the moon and very low
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energy to move it off of the moon. In fact, the design for moving material off of the moon is to use what's called a
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mass driver, which is like a a train track, like a rail, like an electric rail, and you could put a package on
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that rail and use electricity to accelerate that package to 100 g force, shoot it back to the Earth, or
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theoretically shoot it to Mars, and it will go to the exact point on the Earth you want it to go to, re-enters the
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atmosphere, and lands with a a simple parachute where you want it to go. So we could run continuous mining, continuous
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manufacturing processes on the moon at a fraction of the cost of what it would take to do it here on