Going to be some very expensive gas.

"Apollo samples typically showed helium-3 concentrations measured in parts per billion. That means enormous volumes of regolith must be processed to extract useful gas. The basic industrial recipe is straightforward on paper. "

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    All the moon does it control the tide.

    It’s a barren irradiated, lifeless rock.

    Short of blowing it up, to my knowledge there is virtually nothing we could do on said moon that would affect us at all on earth.

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      All the moon does it control the tide.

      Yah!! 😜 That’s not all though, surely.

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        We could lower the entire lunar surface by several meter and not have a dent in the tidal effect