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We have similar treaties for the sea and for Antarctica a d they are generally followed as no country wants to be the one to break them. Not foolproof by any means and it's pretty likely a rogue character like Trump would push through without thinking about the consequences.
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That was just an example - in the book they are positing that most of the things people want to mine on the moon are actually very rare - though there may be a lot across the moon it will nit be easy to mine it because the density is low.
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What exactly are they going to mine? I'n "A City On Mars" (Kelly and ZACH Weinersmith) they claim "one estimate suggests it takes 150 tons of regoluth to produce a single gram of helium-3". How is that useful?
There are lots of claims online about how abundant Helium-3 is on the moon but they all gloss over the specifics.