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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. Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strip-mine it

    1. Re:obvious by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Forget the theme park.

    2. Re:Obvious by davolfman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Use the zero gravity to pretend to be ninjas.

    3. Re:obvious by DarthVain · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and the blackjack.

  2. The Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kill each other for the land

    1. Re:The Obvious by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Install a giant frickin' laser on it.

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    2. Re:The Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Install a giant frickin' laser on it. ... And then shoop-da-whoop the whole earth. :D
  3. It's made of cheese. by Crotch+Jenkins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Carve it up and eat it.

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    1. Re:It's made of cheese. by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 4, Funny

      Carve it up and eat it.

      Come on you can do a better job than that:

      1. Mine the cheese
      2. ...
      3. Profit!

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  4. Hey, Mr. Monkey, don't be asking why. by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 5, Funny

    America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon. The time is now. Children are our future.

    "You know you can't mess ... with American pride."

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    1. Re:Hey, Mr. Monkey, don't be asking why. by cartman · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are unconfirmed reports of Al Qaeda on the moon. Furthermore, we have it from very reliable sources that Saddam has been working to establish lunar colonies in order to mine the tritium there for use in hydrogen bombs. We must not wait until there is a mushroom cloud over Earth.

      We shall blow up the moon ourselves, if necessary. Nobody can deny us our right of self-defense against the moon. If the French happen to think the idea of blowing up the moon is silly, then we'll rename food products just to spite them ("terrestrial fries"). Anyway, the French don't have the right to oppose our ideas because they're only French and they don't even run the planet anymore, much less the solar system.

  5. Don't worry Grommit... by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've got crackers!!!

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    1. Re:Don't worry Grommit... by alex4u2nv · · Score: 2, Funny

      The salute: Drop pants and bend over.

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  6. Re:TFA is vacuous by mrbluze · · Score: 4, Funny

    YAWN Be glad you can yawn. On the moon you certainly couldn't.
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  7. Porno Studio by kaufmanmoore · · Score: 3, Funny

    We'd finally get real Nymphos from outer space

  8. obvious by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first pioneers will be whalers, but eventually it will be a theme park with hookers and blackjack.

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  9. On second thought ... by garett_spencley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's not go to the moon. It is a silly place.

  10. They mostly come at night...mostly by OMNIpotusCOM · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  11. Remember "Space 1999"? by p51d007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, we're only a couple of decades late, but store all of our nuclear waste on the moon, then it can blow up and leave orbit, just like on tv!!! LOL.

  12. Re:Also radio telescopes! by childprey · · Score: 4, Funny

    not to mention the fact that, yknow, the moon rotates.

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  13. Obviously... by NerveGas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steal it from the natives.

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  14. there is no dark side of the moon by mevets · · Score: 2, Funny

    really... as a matter of fact it's all dark.

    I think we should get Pink Floyd up there for a concert before its too late.

  15. Re:Ignore it. There's nothing there we care about. by jamesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Human beings are not adapted to 1/6G, we are adapted to 1G.

    This morning I felt like I was far from adapted to 1G. 1/6G would have been just the thing to help me get out of bed!
  16. Re:Also radio telescopes! by jamesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    The far side of the moon might be well shielded from the RF interference from Earth, but without an atmosphere (and all the various layers that make it up) there is nothing shielding it from the RF interference from the sun and the billions of other sources in the universe....

  17. Re:TFA is vacuous by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    +1 For using "vacuous" in a sentence +1 For ending your post in "YAWN" without being a troll.

  18. Re:Live there by WheresMyDingo · · Score: 2, Funny
    I want us to set up a large colony...

    me too, but only if i'm the only male member

  19. Re:most expensive pixels ever by WheresMyDingo · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh forgot to say, i'd use it for my twitter postings

  20. Space: 1999 by jetpack · · Score: 2, Funny

    It better come damn close to being Moonbase Alpha or I'm gonna be seriously pissed off!

  21. Re:Build a by icedcool · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thats no moon...

    Oh wait.

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  22. Don't forget! by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once we get there, the first thing we have to do is kick out the natives!

    What the hey. Why break a successful pattern?

  23. I think there's good reason to go to the moon. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Advertisement space...

  24. Re:Build a ... by rajkiran_g · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would we then have people killing each other to get there?

  25. Re:How about *nothing at all*? by solitas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why do want to go to the moon? Because the Chinese are going?

    Let's see... why did we want to go last time? Oh, because the Russians were going. Aha. The British have already been there - in 1899 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film) ).

    It's on Turner Classic movies right now.

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  26. Re:TFA is vacuous by BPPG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, watch it - that's contagious! YAWN See what you've started? YAWN
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  27. Re:Um, education, not welfare by call-me-kenneth · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is free education not a hand-out?