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>>10436161

I forgive you your hatred.

>>9214835
Heleum 3 is a meme and a bad one at that.

The moon is useful because you can build a mass driver on it. You can shoot your shit into orbit or even to a direct entry trajectory. Shipping shit off the moon is far far cheaper than shipping it off earth. So it will be great for mars and belt and orbital construction.

The moon has cold traps that accumulate water, other volitiels, silver, gold and mercury. The moon has impact sites of platinum group rich asteroids that can be mined. The moon has an abundance of aluminum and titanium, its actually easier to refine them there (in a vacuum) than it is on earth.

The far side of the moon has some of the cleanest radio reception in the solar system because it's blocked by all the noise earth puts out. Would be the best place this side of the oort cloud to build a radio observatory.