2006-10-09 03:45:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
It is a resource, certainly, but not an immediately useful one. As a place to jump off for longer space flights, it will become a very valuable resource in the future, and we may also mine the moon for certain minerals one day. May even live there in substantial numbers, for all I know. In many science fiction stories, people lived under the surface of the moon, trapping air inside caves that went on for miles and provided all the comforts of home. Except blue skies and fluffy clouds, of course.
Actually, in some ways our moon is a valuable asset ("resource" sounds more like a consumable), in that it has created the tides and the variable amount of light at night which has influenced our development since primitive times.
And of course, eclipses stand out in history as mysterious and exciting phenomena, which has influenced our development as a civilization. Apparently the first people to accurately predict eclipses kept the knowledge to themselves for the power it brought them, sort of like the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. This has had a strong influence, of course.
My question: if you would not consider it a natural resource, what would you call it?
2006-10-09 04:00:20 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw a show on TV last night that explained how important the moon is for the rotational stability of earth. It said that the gravitational forces of the moon keep the earth rotating on a stabil axis and without it the rotation would be out of control with disastrous results to the ecology. It could be used as a base to launch spacecraft out into the solar system as the gravity is only 1 6th that of earth which would make launching spacecraft a lot easier.
2006-10-09 11:02:33 · answer #2 · answered by Captleemo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the moon does indeed have some natural resources on it.
2006-10-09 10:57:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the moon is considered a resourse i beleive mick jagger owns aportion of it an american has a site that sells plots on it
2006-10-09 10:49:40 · answer #4 · answered by misterplonk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how is it a resource? we dont use it for anything. it doesnt supply us with energy, unless you count the tides.
2006-10-09 10:54:37 · answer #5 · answered by ShavenLlama 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is
2006-10-09 10:52:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋