Like anyone who wanted to be an astronaut as a kid the concept of Google sending robots to the moon by 2012 is a heart warming one indeed. And sure, it’s a rather mad yet achievable goal that in the process with no doubt produce all manner of cool by-product stuff. But watching the video I was left slightly uneasy. See for yourself.
The underlying thread here is the answer to our problems is to go to the moon and mine the shit out of it. I dunno about that. I quite like the idea of the moon as an international reserve, rather like how mining in Antarctica isn’t allowed. The reason being we can see the moon quite clearly and, on a purely selfish basis, that matters. Sure, go fuck with Mars, I don’t mind, but the moon? That be the sacred place.
via D’log