This is r/science, we ask people refrain from false information or conjecture.

It's actually /r/AskReddit, but whatever.

Even if it was, the moon has nothing to offer we don't have an abundance of here on Earth.

It does, if you count helium-3.

That aside, though, the point isn't what minerals are available there, the point is that they're at the bottom of a much shallower gravity well. Nobody's suggesting importing those minerals to Earth, the idea is to use them in space.

I was more referring to pumps, irrigation, any mass number of machines that requires gravity to work.

You can build pumps that don't rely on gravity. And I don't see why lunar surface gravity wouldn't be quite enough for irrigation, it doesn't need to be fast.

Do you think the astronauts in the space station are exposed to it? We of course have measures to protect against that.

The astronauts in the ISS are well inside the Earth's magnetic field. They're also blocked by the Earth itself across about 50% of their sky, and almost half the time that includes the part the Sun is in. Astronauts traveling between the Earth and Mars have neither of these advantages.

But my point with the moon is it's TOO close. A colony is pointless, we could just travel there when we needed.

Only if you want to push astronauts up out of the Earth's gravity well every time, which kinda defeats the point.

So unless you've come up with a way to suck water out of rocks , don't forget you'd have to pressurize the area you are absorbing the water

Doesn't sound like a big problem. You can build an airlock and bring the water-bearing dirt in a few cubic meters at a time. You can also import water from comets or asteroids, if it turns out there isn't much to be had on the Moon's surface.

You can't have a substantial civilization under ground or in a dome.

Sure you can. There's lots of room.

You can't mine it, you can't live on it, you can't learn from it. [...] I just don't encourage the spread of misinformation.

Not sure if trolling, or just clueless.