Originally posted by sentinel2107
You mean, when those interests are at stake, to hell with potential international agreements on handling moon as a resource for humanity?
Well let's look at the US track record of NOT doing what is in it's best interest.... errr nah no need to rehash that
Lets look at the bottom line... HE3
In their 1988 paper, Kulcinski, et al., estimate a total of 1,100,000 metric tonnes of He3 have been deposited by the solar wind in the lunar
regolith. Since the regolith has been stirred up by collisions with meteorites, we'll probably find He3 down to depths of several meters.
That amount of He3 would produce approximately 20,000 terra-watt years of thermal energy, about 10 times the amount if we burned all the fossil fuels
on Earth. without the pollution. Another way to state it, 25 tons would power the United States for 1 year, which is about the maximum size of the
payload of a Space Shuttle
It has been estimated that helium 3 would have a cash value of $5.7 billion a ton in terms of its current energy equivalent to oil at $40 per barrel
oil. Thats 142.5 BILLION per Shuttle load...
Here is an article by Guy Cramer... one of the 3 holders of the Mineral rights
www.direct.ca...
H H Schmitt Apollo Astronaut LAST man to 'walk on the moon' and geologist... lets have a brief look at what he is up to...
Look at this topo mining map created in 1967 !!! by USGS
www.lpi.usra.edu...
Look at the name of who created it.
Now here is an email from Guy Cramer (whose granddad worked with John Lear's father and TT Brown on anti gravity research in 1952 under contract to
the DoD Project Winterhaven)
From: Guy Cramer
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:47 PM
To: John Lear
I've spoken with Dr. Larry Taylor, director of UT’s Planetary Geosciences Institute in Knoxville, Gerald Kulcinski, Director of the Fusion
Technology Institute (FTI) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Harrison Schmitt, Chairman Of Interlune-Intermars Initiative, Inc. and Apollo
17 Astronaut regarding Helium 3 data, although we never got as far as discussing an extraction process.
Sincerely,
Guy Cramer, President/CEO
HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp.
Fusion Technology Institute (FTI) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is one of the main facilities involved in HE3 fusion research...
Interlune-Intermars Initiative, Inc. is H H Schmitt's mining company.
Here is one of the cost/value projections from his company
The 'value' of HE3
Cost evaluation of launch vehicles...
Saturn V Hmmmmm....
US PATENT 5,092,545
Method of Delivering Lunar Generated Fluid
to Earth Orbit Using an External Tank
Publication number: US5092545
Publication date: 1992-03-03
Inventor: BUTTERFIELD ANSEL J (US); GOSLEE JOHN W (US)
Applicant: NASA (US)
ABSTRACT
A method and apparatus are provided for delivering lunar generated fluid to Earth orbit from lunar orbit. Transport takes place in an external tank of
a shuttle which has been suitably outfitted in Earth orbit for reusable travel between Earth orbit and a lunar orbit. The outfitting of the external
tank includes the adding of an engine, an electrical system, a communication system, a guidance system, an aerobraking device, and a plurality of
interconnected fluid storage tanks to the hydrogen and oxygen tanks of the external tank. The external tank is then propelled to lunar orbit the first
time using Earth based propellant. In lunar orbit, the storage tanks are filled with the lunar generated fluid with the remainder tank volumes filled
with lunar generated liquid oxygen and hydrogen which serve as propellants for returning the tank to Earth orbit where the fluid is off-loaded. The
remaining lunar generated oxygen and hydrogen is then sufficient to return the external tank to lunar orbit so that a subsequent cycle of fluid
delivery is repeated. A space station in a higher Earth orbit is preferably used to outfit the external tank, and a lunar node in lunar orbit is used
to store and transfer the fluid and liquid oxygen and hydrogen to the external tank. The lunar generated fluid is preferably 3He.
This liquid Cargo Transport is a version of the Aquila. An Aquila was launched from the Marshall Islands to the moon TWO MONTHS before Apollo 11
carried Buzz Aldrin to the Moon...
What is the Aquila? Read THIS carefully
www.thelivingmoon.com...
Aquila is built by Starcraft Boosters....
Who is Starcraft Boosters?
Starcraft Boosters Team... quite impressive.
www.starbooster.com...
Buzz Aldrin is also senior science consultant and partner for Gravwave Inc, a company working on anti gravity with the CHINESE...
Page 9
www.gravwave.com...
Here is Buzz Aldrin - China Moon
revver.com...
And finally... a private note from one of the other three people who hold those mineral rights...
Your comment on 'liquifying' minerals on the moon is 'right on time'. Our group, presently, is engaged in deep discussion as to modifying the
minerals to be harvested, and liquifying (H3, for example) is/has been the subject of much heated discussion. Actually, I suggested (to our group)
not so much 'liquifying' ...but 'changing the state' . If you look at some of my patents...you'll note that in these I teach 'change of state'
(from liquid to a gas, for example) to accomplish some desired result: Entropy vs Enthalpy, for example. The discussions continue as of this writing,
with all suggestions being considered by our group (and others) prior to making recommendations to those within and outside our group.
On the mining-thing. I can only state that in the broadest of senses mining operations have taken place on the lunar surface and are presently being
conducted on Mars (and continue on the Moon). Although the use of terminology, 'mining' has been downplayed (by NASA) and there exists an
'internal memo' .
Use of terminology, e.g., 'mining', could be considered (by some countries) to constitute a violation of the International Space Treaty. Thus, NASA
is real-careful about use of terminology that could be considered a breach of 'Policy and Protocol'. I can give you this stuff as it's 'public
information'. You have to look between the spaces/lines for more info and draw your own conclusions.
Seems India's former President Abdul Kalam was right when he said "I believe that the moon cannot be left to a few countries." 
So you really think that with all that going on that Space Command and the NAVY are going to let ANYONE else (save the Russians who are our partners)
have a 'piece of the action'
That Marshall Island launch facility? US ARMY/Space and Missile Defense Command...
The same people who brought the NAZI scientists to America in Operation Paperclip
The same people who worked with Von Braun and General Trudeau on a moon base project to be completed in 1962
An interesting side note SpaceX just launched a private rocket from this location
continued...
Let the war drums roll!! 
man, you're a darn walking encyclopedia!! 
