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Re:What are the chances of a third world war? [pdf] by eloff on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:47PM (#26706679)
I've no interest in wars, and I rather doubt that it would be China and the USA fighting over the moon. They won't last long enough to see that.

This will be hundreds, if not thousands of years from now.

I don't think there will be no resources of value on the moon, but I'm not an expert in the field, so I won't die on that hill. Sadly, even if there was nothing of value there aside from the land itself, we'd probably still fight over it.

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Re:What are the chances of a third world war? [pdf] by stcredzero on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:09PM (#26706857)
This will be hundreds, if not thousands of years from now.

It's going to happen sooner than you think. Humans are bad at exponential change. It will be under 100 years from now.

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Re:What are the chances of a third world war? [pdf] by eloff on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:49PM (#26707100)
We'll definitely be there in under a hundred years, just probably not in a huge way. I just would be surprised if we're fighting wars there before then.

That said, humans are surprisingly belligerent, so maybe.

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