There is one now, actually. We've hit a sweet spot where launch costs have diminished & we've confirmed the presence of large volumes of ice in permanently shadowed craters. Water is a kind of miracle fluid, not only because we need it to live and farm, but also because it can be electrolyzed into rocket fuel - the lack of ice found in the Apollo missions was one reason we "gave up" on the "anhydrous" Moon. The Moon now looks like the perfect cosmic gas station, where mining ice will play a pivotal role in missions further out. But it is more than that, too. There's a lot of potential with building a Lunar economy. The lower gravitational field would be a boon to any kind of logistics or heavy industry, with workers and machinery able to carry six times the payload they could on Earth. One industry in particular would truly benefit from this - fiber optics. Fiber cables are made by allowing a bead of molten glass to fall several stories, forming a long thin cylinder of glass behind the droplet as it descends. On the Moon it would be possible to make fiber cables six times longer than on Earth, as the tensile force remains the same but the gravitational force is reduced. The easy access to vacuum is also great for all kinds of chemical and industrial processes that are currently prohibitively expensive to do on Earth - such as semiconductor production that relies on clean rooms, distillation, solvent recovery, vacuum forming...and more. In terms of fuel needed to overcome the lunar "delta v", launch costs from the Moon are trivial, so it makes far more sense to build things like rockets on the Moon and do the launches from there than from Earth, if the goal is to reach other planets, so the Moon is destined to become a major spaceport. Lunar mining is also likely going to be very valuable and pay for itself in the near future - even if much of the Lunar subsurface is silicate, its surface is full of asteroid impact sites, and asteroids bring in valuable and rare metals. We don't have to wrangle an asteroid into Earth orbit, if it's just sitting out in the open on the Moon. Finally, the potential for radio astronomy is unparalleled on the Moon's far side, as this is the only spot left in our solar system that is dark to Earth's radio transmissions. I didn't even really go into the presence of Helium 3 isotopes on the natural satellite. H3 is a very useful fuel source for fusion reactions, and it is naturally created on the Lunar surface from the capture of solar wind particles. If we end up relying on nuclear fusion in the future, the Moon will be what powers our entire civilization.

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Gravity is too weak there because of the ice cap. In Antarctica, a grown-up human weighs from 6 to 9 kgs

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Interesting fact, although the Earth’s moon is the fifth largest in the solar system, it has the second highest gravity because of being higher in density than Jupiter or Saturn’s ice moons. So the moon is second only to Mars in the whole solar system for habitability beyond Earth

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Isn’t it just DHS/ICE funding expiring?

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Ice hockey gonna get redacted by China

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Mango on truth social: > Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We'll just get the leftovers! I don't think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. lol

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ice rink? not if you're in canada bro china cancelled hockey

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Futes gonna dump all over like chili on your fries at ice rink food shop

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War with Canada to save ice hockey and the Stanley Cup might do it

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What is that pedo screeching about? Canada, ice hockey, bridge, beverages wtff

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