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Mining the Moon Redux

In Mining the Moon, I connected the Trump administration’s lunar-mining policy [1] to The Expanse and to Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis – the promise of new worlds opened by the Ring Gates. Would the writers treat these planets as another American frontier, a crucible for expansion and exploitation? The first three episodes of SeasonContinue reading “Mining the Moon Redux”

MINING THE MOON

Amid the Covid-caterwauling, the media failed to take proper notice when Mr Trump signed an executive order encouraging our mining the moon on April 6, 2020. Mining the moon and its exploitation was the premise for Robert Heinlein‘s, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In Heinlein’s vision, the lunar colony is exploited by EarthContinue reading “MINING THE MOON”