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Re:There’s No Planet B by kemayo on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:13PM (#34402830)
> While I would be actively surprised if the Moon, for example, had every element necessary for semiconductors

As I understand it, the currently accepted theory about how the moon formed is the giant-impact hypothesis, which is that a very large object hit the proto-Earth and the moon is the material that was "splashed" off when this happened. As such it seems at least plausible that the moon would have a similar set of elements available for semiconductor production as Earth does.

Re:There’s No Planet B by gizmo686 on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:39PM (#34403212)
We have been to the moon and collected samples. Regardless of the why, we know it has a similar composition to the Earth. At least at the surface; seismic data suggests, for instance, that its iron core is comparativly smaller than Earth's.

All of this is inputs that led to the impact model of moon formation.