Scientists see that private companies will develop the Moon in a Moon rush as companies race to grab valuable minerals and resources while trampling over scientifically important lunar sites.
The scientists are trying to get governments to help them.
This will go much like it does on Earth. The Earth gets developed and if the best spots are valuable for business and real estate then they will be used for business and real estate.
Science can put observatories in places that people do not want for other purposes.
Radio astronomers want the middle of the Moon’s far side. This will be shielded by its bulk from the hectic radio noise of Earth-bound transmitters. Astronomers envision huge crater-filling radio dishes and arrays of antennas hundreds of kilometers across that could eavesdrop on the faint hiss from the neutral hydrogen gas that filled the universe before the first stars lit up.
Space agencies and companies are planning fleets of Moon-orbiting satellites to help rovers navigate on the surface and to relay their data to Earth.
Scientists will have to deal with the activity.
If there is a lot of space activity and business and a lot of the moon gets developed then space capability will be vastly improved.
Developing the whole moon will take millions of rockets and billions of tons of missions. This will make huge space capabilities that will be able to send scientific missions all over the solar system.
It is short sighted of the scientists to create more barriers to a Moon Rush. The reason is look how the Gold Rush built California and transportation in the USA.
The 1849 Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California’s development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood. 300,000 people who came to California during the Gold Rush, about half arrived by sea and half came overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail.
Between 1847 and 1870, the population of San Francisco increased from 500 to 150,000. The Gold Rush wealth and population increase led to significantly improved transportation between California and the East Coast. The Panama Railway, spanning the Isthmus of Panama, was finished in 1855.
Developing the moon will be more space capability and more science capability.
The moon’s surface area is about 38 million square kilometers, while the United States’ surface area is about 9.8 million square kilometers. There is room for everyone and everything.
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