Reply #73: Maybe you should be specific about how the game is "rigged" as regards harvesting the Moon's water

[Dreamer Tatum]

You are leaving aside the rather obvious fact that irrespective of whatever corporate skullduggery you think is going on, there remains the sticky problem of TRANSPORTING WATER FROM A DIFFERENT PLANET.

I will grant that Home Depot and Lowe's might be able to form a secret joint venture in which they could connect every garden hose in their possession to attempt to siphon the water from the Moon, but again, there is the problem of building a spaceship that could (a) hold a 200,000 mile-long spool of garden hose, and (b) successfully land a man on the Moon to lay the end in a suitable pool of water there.

Even if they've already got the spaceship part licked, they'd need (c) someplace to hold all the siphoned water, (d) someone to suck on the end of the hose until the water starts flowing, and (e) a way to make sure through time and space that the Earth end of the hose stays below the Moon end of the hose.

That sounds like a hard problem. I wonder how they're rigging that?