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What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There?

Posted by timothy on from the good-place-for-wedding-chapels dept.

MarkWhittington writes "For the first time in over thirty five years, the Moon has become the next frontier. The United States has committed to returning human astronauts to the Moon by the end of the next decade. China has hinted that it intends to do this also. A variety of countries, including the United States and China, but also India, Europe, and Japan, have either sent robotic probes into lunar orbit or are on the verge of doing so." Contribute your favorite moon ideas below; I'd like to see it used as the set to film The Moon is a Harsh Mistress .

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  1. Install lights and mirrors... by JDark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    so the moon can never appear as a crescent again. HAHA Muslims.

  2. Fight Over Resources (deja vu) by SeeSp0tRun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Check out history... it seems like whenever something new is discovered (no, we didn't just discover the moon) it is fought over. While I don't know the specifics of the makeup of the moon's surface, if there is even one natural resource there worth actually going for, the United States will undoubtedly lay claim to it, and attempt to defend that idea, probably with a footprint and an empty shell of a lunar module.

    Which brings us back to blowing up the moon, as stated above.

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