David Friedberg: Mining the Moon is Humanity's Next Industrial Revolution

I think the moon could end up being kind of the next industrial frontier for humanity. And the reason is if you can get to the moon, the moon has an extraordinary abundance of material that we can mine, process, and manufacture into goods. And ultimately the cost to ship those goods back to the Earth is zero.And the reason is that on the moon you can take advantage of the low gravity. It's about 1/6 the gravity. and the complete lack of an atmosphere, meaning that it's frictionless to move material off of t ...