he3 maybe for fusion but that would require some long term planning that the west would never do and it's not concentrated anywhere it's trapped in crystals mostly on the far side
concentrations of water ice for rocket fuel. there's also a few primo spots in craters that would allow nearly 24/7 solar power and also have water ice in shadows under the regolith
i could see china planning for space industrialization way down the line and the U.S. haphazardly chasing behind them throwing dumb money and elon at it
No, I get that. But it’s not anything they could realistically mine now, nor is it anything we don’t know is there too. They’re just going there to say, “hey we’re in the moon!” I say, good for them. So, what is the realistic point of landing a lunar lander there? Is it just a publicity stunt? Are they just trolling us? And what is the usefulness of that?
I guess it’s just a propaganda stunt, and I guess I understand that from a Chinese perspective. 
he3 maybe for fusion but that would require some long term planning that the west would never do and it's not concentrated anywhere it's trapped in crystals mostly on the far side
concentrations of water ice for rocket fuel. there's also a few primo spots in craters that would allow nearly 24/7 solar power and also have water ice in shadows under the regolith
i could see china planning for space industrialization way down the line and the U.S. haphazardly chasing behind them throwing dumb money and elon at it
No, I get that. But it’s not anything they could realistically mine now, nor is it anything we don’t know is there too. They’re just going there to say, “hey we’re in the moon!” I say, good for them. So, what is the realistic point of landing a lunar lander there? Is it just a publicity stunt? Are they just trolling us? And what is the usefulness of that?
I guess it’s just a propaganda stunt, and I guess I understand that from a Chinese perspective. 
It's for shovelling public money into the hands of a few useless corporations, like everything the US does.