Quote from: bradjensen3 on 08/14/2017 07:10 pmSo how would you guys get things off the Earth, using non-Earth-based resources? You don't. You use Earth-based resources to get things off the Earth. Bringing non-Earth-based resources into the Earth's gravity well to get out of the gravity well makes no sense.
So how would you guys get things off the Earth, using non-Earth-based resources?
Part of the problem with this discussion from my point of view is that you aren't accepting my central premise for the point of this discussion, that water is plentiful on the Moon. I understand this is not currently an Established Fact, but I think the possibility that it soon will be is enough to start thinking about what to do with it.
Recent water on/in the Moon article https://phys.org/news/2017-07-scientists-spy-evidence-moon-interior.htmlNo, I wasn't thinking of extracting hydrogen and oxygen from bauxite on the moon. Not That There's Anything Wrong With That.