Well thanks I missed that in the beginning I guess

You are correct

Possibly, the dictionary definition in the photo didn’t mention anything about UK and specifically mentions the 3rd person tenses, so I must just be confused and missing that somewhere

What would happen if one were to stop spinning? Could one even stop spinning?

I thought so as well but the article says the spin doesn’t match the accretion disc, I’m not sure if that’s s significant aspect of the discovery possibly? I’m not well versed in relativity to be honest

Edit: forgive me, someone below said pretty much this

Hmm, I think a huge thing you’ve overlooked is using the moon as a staging area like maximum Derek said above. We stockpile fuel, food, etc. And maybe even begin to manufacture vessels there to save from using a vessel stressed from an earthly launch. Would make Mars trips easier, asteroid missions, the like

Edit to add: I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s still some forms of metallurgy or other processes that can be discovered with a continuous scientific base on the moon, that they couldn’t attempt on the ISS or replicate here in vacuum