If you believe, they'll put a mine on the moonFollow

"We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery... of the rare isotope Helium-3," Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the Energia space corporation, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying at an academic conference.

The International Space Station (ISS) would play a key role in the project and a regular transport relay to the moon would be established with the help of the planned Clipper spaceship and the Parom, a space capsule intended to tug heavy cargo containers around space, Sevastyanov said.

Helium-3 is a non-radioactive isotope of helium that can be used in nuclear fusion.

Rare on earth but plentiful on the moon, it is seen by some experts as an ideal fuel because it is powerful, non-polluting and generates almost no radioactive by-product.

*sigh*

The only object in the night-sky that I can reliably focus my telescope on and now we are going to try to destroy it.

If we bring enough of the moon back to earth, would it make earth larger and the moon smaller and eventually earth's gravitational pull would make the moon crash into earth?

The earth and the moon hold the moon in it's orbit with complementary gravitational pulls. If you increase one and decrease the other at the same rate, you should continue to maintain a commensurate gravitational field, thereby leaving the moon right where it is.

boring

Another 500 or so posts in the assylum and you may gain the ability to follow a line of responses without needing to question their interpretive value.

/waits for response of "I was just making a joke..."