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By Darryl Mason

The Moon : one day, we may have to bomb the shit out of it

In a couple of decades, when the various Moon-based colonies of Russia, the North American Union, China and Japan have joined together in their Earth-deprived isolation, and vow to never bring their families back to Terra, they will demand the right to build nuclear power plants, using Moon uranium. Of course, what they will really want is not cheap plentiful power, but the opportunity to build nuclear weapons.

Once the Moonalists get nuclear weapons, no-one on Earth will be safe.

A team of scientists has found the first conclusive signature for the presence of uranium on the lunar surface, an element not seen in previous Moon-mapping efforts.

In addition to uranium, the Kaguya GRS data also is showing clear signatures for thorium, potassium, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, calcium, titanium and iron.

Powering autonomous space craft out of the solar system on nuclear explosions will become more attractive to Earth-based humans if we could mine uranium on the Moon, and never have to send it up from Terran mines.

The less we need to send to the Moon from Earth to build colonies and industry on the Moon, the first permanent residents would presumably be robots, the less expensive such a project will become and the more likely then it is turn from science fiction into reality within the next two to three decades.

The more mineral wealth the Moon holds, the more likely it is that children born this decade will be able to take a retirement years trip to the outer planets of our solar system. A shuttle stopover at The Moon to do some sight-seeing, before boarding a nuclear-fueled space liner, constructed where needed from the most useful mineral elements of The Moon, for an unimaginable voyage from The Moon to Saturn and back in two months.

The trip of a lifetime.

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