This is the poll question on CNN today. It is in response to NASA’s announcement of a manned moon mission by 2018, but the question makes no mention of it. It’s just asking if you’d like to take a 1 week vacation on the moon, all concerns aside. Who the hell doesn’t? It’s a week. It’s on the moon. The current poll numbers are 53% No, 47% Yes. Where is this mysterious anti-lunar majority? I’d like to know if we have similar numbers on the dope.
So, would you want to live on the moon for a week? Why or why not?
Well, I really like cheese. But there’s not a bit in the house. And the Moon is made of cheese.
[Much banging, sawing, drilling and welding insues, followed by a brief but very loud roar.]
Funny, this doesn’t taste like any cheese I’ve ever had. Oh well…it’s a grand day out, anyway.
This would scare me, I’m not sure I would want to spend a week. If Mars was a choice, I’d go to mars, at least theres a chance to rebuild the atmoshphere while I’m there.
That, and it would prove my mother right, not that she would have anything to do with getting me there.
If I had to spend a week inside a tiny capsule where I could hardly move, then maybe I’d be a bit hesitant. But if there was a big enough area to walk around in, like an actual lunar base, I would definitely go. Imagine being able to jump 6 times higher than you would on Earth! Being able to see for myself the entire Earth at once would be amazing. I would go all the way over there just to be able to drop a feather and a hammer at the same speed.
But I imagine there’s a fair number of people thinking, "you can’t trust the drinking water, and they overcharge you in those tourist-trap bars, and then there’s all that greasy foreign food, and what are we going to do with the kids? there’s not a single properly supervised play area in the whole of the Oceanus Procellarum … "
What kind of accomadations are they talking about? If you just have to bounce around in a spacesuit with an air tether for a week then that would kind of suck.
OTOH, if they had this big hotel with strippers doing crazy stuff in 1/6th gravity then I would be all over that.
Hell, yes! That’d be cool. Exploring, watching Earthrise, jumping really high, throwing things really far, visiting past Apollo landing sites… sign me up, dude.
