# What would Earth be like without the Moon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 19, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-earth-be-like-without-the-moon/707683 "2014-12-19T18:26:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-earth-be-like-without-the-moon/707683/21 "2014-12-24T20:48:03Z")
DC doesn’t even seem to have such a thing as continuity anymore, but classic Krypton had at least two moons. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-earth-be-like-without-the-moon/707683/22 "2014-12-25T02:33:41Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > As far as an inhabitable Venus in SF, pretty much every SF writer up until the early 60s had that in one story or another. Then the results from [Mariner 2 (1962)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_2) came in showing the real conditions there and suddenly inhabitable-Venus stories pretty much vanished. One notable exception to this is Zelazny’s “The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth”, which was published in 1964. I’m not sure if that story was written earlier, or was some kind of homage or tribute or something to the earlier stories, or perhaps Zelazny just hadn’t gotten the memo. It was certainly homage, just as his 1963 Mars story, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes,” was. The necessary nitpick: “Doors” appeared in the March 1965 _F&SF._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-earth-be-like-without-the-moon/707683.md?page=1)