Unable to back up your claim, non sequitur attacks. Keep at it!

What other foot? The one they’re about to hack off?

I am referring to commercial speculation, and I literally laid this out in the second sentence, thanks!

Nuclear, or if you want space stuff, build a station at the Lagrange point and sling from there? I don’t need to be an expert in launch solutions to know that we shouldn’t speculate mining the moon till it’s well researched and that we have more accessible options here for the forseeable future with solar as my choice of example, so let’s not jump the gun on another finite resource?

Though, of course, simple scientific curiosity may not justify the enormous cost of the undertaking. That’s where commercial interest comes in.

That’s not what this is about, the author doesn’t care about that, all they see is a finite, exploitable resource that will line their pockets.

However, to answer your question, we already have that technology.

Imagine claiming mining helium is the solution when free energy is right there radiating from the sun.

Y2K finally happening!

Scapegoat excuse. Why would he admit that it was to destroy class awareness and cohesion, when he could simply blame a kid?