Billionares to set up their own Elysium on the moon

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Now, there’s a new entrant in this new space race, a nonprofit organization called the Open Lunar Foundation. Based in San Francisco, it’s a group made up of tech executives and engineers—many of them with former ties to NASA—who have serious ambitions to create a lunar settlement.

The driving ethos behind the foundation is to start a development that would not be beholden to a particular country or billionaire. Instead, as the group’s name suggests, Open Lunar wants to create technology for exploring and living on the moon as a type of collaborative effort. -snip

While this foundation has good intentions, when we have the technology to support people long term on the Moon, it's going to be all about mining/resource reaping; that's the true race to colonize the Moon. Would feasibly only need a handful of people to oversee the machines that mine, process, sort, package and ship the goods back to Earth.

They've watched too many movies. It'll go horribly right and they'll die a slow, agonizing death.

I would **** Bezos. He is a billionaire genius with a big D.

I liked that movie. Sharlto Copley is an underrated actor.

This idea is completely and utterly unnecessary.

This idea is completely and utterly unnecessary.

I gotta say...if I was a billionaire I'd doing crazy shit like this too.

If I was Bezos wealthy, I'd be the world's greatest conservationist, buying land all over the world. eg I'd buy miles and miles of the Amazon, making it a preserve. I'd buy land for agriculture too, but insist those who use it use sensible renewable and clean(er) methods.

Like what Ted Turner did in the US, but on a much larger scale.

Plus Ted gave us TBS.

Originally posted by Surtur
I gotta say...if I was a billionaire I'd doing crazy shit like this too.

You having money is about as believable as pigs flying.

People not knowing what the word "if" implies...makes me giggle.

Originally posted by Surtur
People not knowing what the word "if" implies...makes me giggle.

Anyways there have already been aliens on the moon.

Originally posted by Surtur
Anyways there have already been aliens on the moon.

Originally posted by Robtard
If I was Bezos wealthy, I'd be the world's greatest conservationist, buying land all over the world. eg I'd buy miles and miles of the Amazon, making it a preserve. I'd buy land for agriculture too, but insist those who use it use sensible renewable and clean(er) methods.

Like what Ted Turner did in the US, but on a much larger scale.

Renewable and cleaner methods aren’t necessarily the best way to go if you want to protect the environment.

The best source right now is still Nuclear.

Well the moon does have helium 3.

Originally posted by SquallX
Renewable and cleaner methods aren’t necessarily the best way to go if you want to protect the environment.

The best source right now is still Nuclear.

Talking specifically about agriculture there...

Originally posted by quanchi112
If is not believable when it comes to you. You are poor as shit, dude. You are the opposite of success.

Coming from a burger flipper like you, that's comedy. 😆

Hey, maybe you could try to pursue stand up comedy instead of fast food, Quan.