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Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon
It may be more PR stunt than a viable expansion plan, but the Japanese arm of Domino's Pizza is making plans for a lunar store. Construction firm Maeda Corp has drawn-up the plans for the dome shaped restaurant and figures it will take 70 tons of materials and pizza-making equipment. Even with the cost cutting measure or using mineral deposits on the moon to make the concrete, Domino's estimates the costs at Y1.67 trillion ($21.7 billion). In 2001 rival chain Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station, but Domino's hopes to become the preferred pizza of space with the moon store plan.
Luckily the moon is only a few minutes away at the speed of light.
Or will we see disclaimers in their commercials: Not applicable on the Moon.
Will they sing the moon sailor song? "We are sailors of the moon and we carry a harpoon"
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Got 'em on the front page of /.
sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
You think?
Is this an ad disguised as content?
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if FTL drive was discovered by a pizza delivery company?
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The moon is made of cheese. I wonder if it tastes like mozzarella... o.O
Somehow they have managed to elicit images of both "pizza face" and "crater face" at the same time. Niiice.
...but for some reason all my cynicism is being pushed aside by an overwhelming feeling that pizza on the moon is somehow a great idea...Perhaps I am simply hungry.
They'll have unlimited amounts of moon dust to throw into their crappy dough.
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
I think he was right. The corporations will end up owning space.
but it's before lunch time in the entire US.
I wonder id dominoes will see an increase in sales this afternoon?
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Since we're nowhere near having long-term colonization of the moon, and the summary actually acknowledges that this is a PR stunt why are getting this mentioned at all on Slashdot? This is ridiculous. There's no where near the tech level to easily put this sort of thing on the moon and there's no way the company will actually spend money to do this. Meanwhile all sorts of interesting science and technology developments are happening that aren't getting mentioned. For example, astronomers have discovered a star that doesn't fit with a lot of our theories of star formation http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110831155340.htm. Or Slashdot could have given us another update on the ISS's current situation. Heck, if you need something with minimal actual scientific content you could have linked to this amusing video by the ISS crew about the matter http://www.universetoday.com/88559/iss-crew-provides-light-hearted-look-at-current-space-flight-plight/. Or you could talk about the new website devoted to the exploration of Mars by the Spirit and Opportunity http://www.universetoday.com/88562/driving-miss-spirit/. Stop wasting our time.
The moon is the next logical choice since they already do worldwide delivery. I gather that the pizza is also reheated quite rapidly at the point of delivery.
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... of having pizza delivery kids handling vehicles at that speed. They drive fast enough as it is on earth. Just wait until their Hondas don't need to battle gravity...
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Cheese, Grommit! Cheese!
And if you don't get that reference, then you haven't lived or you didn't grow up in the right generation.
The more you know, the more you have to say and the more you should listen.
Probably the earth's best first-line defense against an alien invasion.
profitable?
This Dominos will only deliver on nights with a full moon planet wide, and reentry keeps the pizza piping hot! What's not to love?
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Does this mean that pizza will now be delivered by catapult?
Gedankenexperiment... lol.
Some day in the far future, there *will* be a Domino's Pizza (or it's corporate successor, or some other popular food chain) on the moon, just like you could get decent KFC on base in Iraq even during the height of the war/insurgency.
Virtually all projects large enough become defined, constrained, and shaped by their logistics instead of their preferred policy or plan. Right now, if you wanted to get it built up there, it would be expensive. I could see bored teams at Halliburton/KBR coming up with spec sheets for this kind of stuff as an exercise on off-days when the number of contracts coming in is low.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
just make the divers pay the fuel costs and pay them like $1 a run + sub min wage.
What are you talking about? Slashdotters love this kind of crap. This is probably the single greatest bastion of sci fi space-adventure magical-religious cultism on the planet. No doubt plenty of people here think there will eventually really be fast food joints on the moon, that it is economically attractive to mine asteroids, that we will all one day "get off this rock" or at least "get our asses to mars" and many other such childish beliefs. I would speculate that lots of slashdotters think the $20+ billion is a realistic figure that someone will one day cough up to do something like this.
They have to figure out how to get their pizza to come out as flat and dense as linoleum even in 1/6 G
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Do they also provide a cost estimate for ingredients required to make a pizza? If those have to be shipped from Earth, price of a pizza is going to be literally astronomical, and if they are "locally produced", the cost of the restaurant premises is going to be negligible in comparison to farming facilities.
Who on Earth can call this anything *else* than a PR stunt?
Anything on the moon is a good idea. If there's one thing people need right now in the current recession, it's inspiration and a shared goal; what better than getting back to the moon?
(And before someone snipes my comment, I know it's not the only thing people need. But if it's a private business doing it, why the fuck not?)
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...the moon's made of cheese.
Once they have the location in place, the pizzas could be delivered by a mafia-employed ninja delivery guy in a rocket car!
Those 70 tons would not be a total waste.
They left out some important design details. First off, pizza cooks poorly at 1/6 gee and it's difficult to get a crispy crust, tends to be more evenly heated throughout and it all dries out. Akin to that, it takes to long to cook conventionally since it's not pressing down on the slab for the same reason. Fuel costs are of course bad, but at least it's Dominos. Can't imagine the cost per pizza for wood-fired pizza ovens. That's a lot of wood to boost to Luna. Answer to the fuel costs thing can be the *strong* sunlight on the moon, just open the shades and let the sun shine on the pizza for a minute or so. That only works for 2 weeks at a time though, and you have to be able to angle the pizza for optimal sunlight exposure based on current sun position.
I would speculate that lots of slashdotters think the $20+ billion is a realistic figure that someone will one day cough up to do something like this.
I don't understand that number; if all they need is 70 tons of stuff on the Moon, then a few Falcon 9 Heavies should be able to put that there for a billion or so.
But they'd still take a very long time to get a return on their money from selling pizza to lunar tourists.
Giant steps are what they take
Delivering on the moon
I hope my pie's not cold
Delivering on the moon
He could walk forever
Delivering on the moon
My pizza could take forever
Delivering on, delivering on the moon
Anyone else have a Papa John's banner ad at the top of the page?
Is September 1st the Japanese equivalent of April Fools Day or something?
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If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
I'm really wondering why they're talking about 70 tons of stuff when 200 pounds of props plus a real contract with SpaceX to deliver from earth on demand would be just as effective at looking like a pizza restaurant, taken just as seriously, and used the same.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
At that price tag they could feed all those starving children in Africa.... and save me from feeling guilty watching those infomercials while I am eating my pizza...
No one can hear you scream, and Domino's pizza has no taste.
Oh, wait, the second part's true on Earth, too.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
They are hopping that Dominos will find the cause of the soyuz rocket malfunction along the way.
Thank you for faithfully illustrating my point. Now calculate the construction costs and timelines.
Maybe they will built it near Google's moon base.
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
They are going to need to hire people to run the pizza place...I call delivery shuttle pilot!
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For that amount of money, they could probably give a slice to every homeless and/or unemployed person in America. But yeah, this is probably almost as good -
Would really hate to see the delivery cost of just 1 pizza. Probably be more than the pizza cost!
That commute is going to be a bitch...
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And the whalers need more than whales to live on.
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Do you think there will really be separate buildings like that on the moon, rather than indoor interconnected complexes?
Would save a lot of decompression chambers, etc. Or why not make a tube system for transportation of goods (and internet packets) while you are at it!
You're joking, right? It's worse than slashdot. Far worse.
What is "Moon Speak" for "Dominoes Pizza"?
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There is a problem with a restaurant on the moon: good food, but no atmosphere.
No billboards in space.
why not make your pizza better than a fozen one, you would think for 3x the price you could beat a fucking tombstone ... but nope and it takes you an hour to boot
This is a good idea for Amazon. There are no taxes to be paid in the moon.
Or in Antarctica which is a smaller challenge.
Pizza on the moon! That sounds great! After a long day of doing sciency moon stuff, you can relax with a delicious, hot slice of--wait, the Japanese arm of Domino's Pizza? Ah, yes, imagine staring up with poignant homesickness at the beautiful blue Earth over your steaming slice of Mayo Jaga (potato with sizzling hot mayo) pizza... or perhaps you'll fondly remember the Earthly restaurants you've loved while nibbling at your delicious slice of Camembert Mille-Feuille Seafood pizza.
But don't worry. I'm sure the rest of the Asian pizza places will quickly step up to compete and offer a much wider mouthwatering selection.
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A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with the Noid that's on the Moon!)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and the Noid is on the Moon!)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but the Noid is on the Moon!)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while the Noid is on the Moon!)
The man jus' upped my rent las' night.
('cause the Noid is on the Moon!)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but the Noid is on the Moon!)
I wonder why he's uppi' me?
('cause the Noid is on the Moon!?)
I wuz already payin' 'im fifty a week.
(with the Noid that's on the Moon!)
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that shit wuzn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with the Noid that's on the Moon!)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but the Noid is on the Moon!)
Was all that money I made las' year
(for the Noid that's on the Moon!n?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Hmm! Whitey's on the moon)
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
(of the Noid that's on the Moon!)
I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to the Noid that's on the Moon!)
So even people on the Moon will have access to that horrible "pizza" which is really nothing but a means to supply money to the pedophiles at the Vatican...
It's there in 3 weeks or it's Free!
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
So they are working out the logistics of building a structure for their storefront on the moon but they haven't given any thought to how they're going to continuously get fresh ingredients to make the pizza. Wait a minute, this is Domino's we're talking about - I'm sure they'll get by with the rocks and dust already on the moon.
What, you don't find pictures of him and Hemos from 1998 are slashdot-worthy?
If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
Finally they've found a location where they'll be the best pizza in the neighborhood - until anybody else shows up.
I'm going to build my own pizza parlor on the moon, with blackjack, and hookers....
In fact, forget the pizza parlor!
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It's gotta be a joke story. Right?
Any corporate manager who goes public with a story like is either a.) crazy or b.) recently informed about an incurable disease and figures "What have I got to lose? May as well go out with some publicity."
(And it's Domino's? Geez, can you think of a more boring pizza? Now if it was Uno's that was doing this... Unfortunately I still remember the experience of eating non-Chicago Uno's pizza and I've changed my mind. Too much of a chance of that horrible stuff I ate in Columbus making its way off-world. Let's keep our pizza here on Earth.)
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Well then perhaps you'd also be interested to know that I have contracted with a construction company to build a women's shoe store on Jupiter's moon Io. Nevermind the fact that the half trillion dollars I will be borrowing to build it will be earned back by selling a pair of shoes at a time to the approximately half a dozen space tourists we expect to see in the next 150 years or so. Now, barrel of monkeys who've evidently replaced all rational human beings at Slashdot, where's my front page headline?
A new pizza delivery paradigm?
1) Customer places order.
2) Dominos HQ checks current moon position relative to the customers address and local weather conditions. A launch window is calculated.
3) Pizza is assembled, uncooked, and prepared for launch.
4) Pizza is launched on a trajectory to arrive at your home within 8 to 12 hours, only slightly longer than that of terrestrial delivery.
5) Pizza is baked during re-entry (only extra-crispy orders, please).
6) Pizza arrives at customer's location (+/- 1 km) and, for once, it's still warm when delivered.
Stupider like a fox! - H.S.
By getting this thinly veiled "viral" advertisement onto Slashdot, some small percentage of Slashdotters with Domino's fucking pizza freshly on their minds will probably go out and order one tonight. Sad, but this is what it comes down to folks -- any publicity is good publicity in the game to drive more revenue. Thanks for whoring us out /.
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Would the so-called "american pizza" makers do the decent thing and change the name from "pizza" to something else, in order not to confuse the public with the real thing?
Anything will do, really. Changing just one vowel would be enough. Here are a few suggestions for alternative names, all much more fitting than "pizza" to what people eat in "american pizza" restaurants:
pAzza
pEzza
pOzza
pUzza
I always wondered what the whalers ate.
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Current spacesuits take 2 hours to even put on. Even assuming they fix that problem for moon suits, who would risk an EVA (and go through the process of suiting up to go to the restraunt) just to get a meal? Especially for Domino's quality pizza...
And you'd probably track moon dust into the restraunt which would cause other problems.
And that restraunt is on the surface of the moon, with windows no less.
A much better design would be to have the pizza kitchen as an adjunct to the normal cafeteria, underground, as part of the main lunar base. And hiring an employee and sending them to the moon is a terrible idea. For 21 billion dollars, you could easily fit a couple of billion worth of robotics R&D to develop a reasonably reliable robot to prepare the pizzas. The robot would be teleoperated from the ground.
Huh? The picture in wikipedia you linked looks like a pizza. A fast-food pizza is just as much a pizza as a McDonald's burger is a burger
No.
What people sell in Northamerica, whether in fast foods or restaurants, is not pizza. It's a surrogate. It's a lookalike, made with different ingredients, different preparation methods, and ends up tasting quite differently from the real thing... I have yet to find one single place that tastes the way it should. Just change the name, it'd be the decent thing to do.
Try and go to any standard pizzeria in Italy or surroundings, and you should be able to taste the difference.
Or then again, maybe not - after all people call Budweiser "beer", even though it's made with 30% rice... but it's still less different from a pilsner than the so-called "american pizza" is far away from the real thing.
There are plenty of people selling pizzas just like the ones you get in Italy in America, you just have you look to find them.. it won't be from the big corporate chains.
other than that, it is ok
fucking hell, if we've pretty much given up on space, commercialise it. That will get us out there!
(I'm serious)
plenty?
I wish... I have yet to find one... I tried in Chicago, NYC, San Diego, Indianapolis, Portland, Atlanta, etc. not to mention in many small towns, while avoiding any chains and fastfood pizza places. Some of them were interesting, a few were quite good, but they weren't at all close to the real thing.
Very few restaurants baked them in a wood-fired oven (a necessary but not sufficient condition), pretty much none of them used real mozzarella (as in mozzarella), most of them added extra ingredients etc, etc.
But if anyone has any specific suggestions for finding real pizza in Northamerica, i.e. places / names / addresses, I'd welcome them!
PS: I don't like using wikipedia so much, but they got some of the explanation OK on this, e.g.:
the real thing: "pizza types" vs. "...quite a large number of regional forms of pizza, many bearing only a casual resemblance to the Italian original".
I dont know what other business, if any, have announced plans to open businesses on the moon, but if no one else has, this is dominos way of saying "first post", thus making it highly appropriate to mention on slashdot, as an example of nerd culture leaking into mainstream. And, this is just about the right time for large business interests to start developing contingency plans for possible interplanetary business. If business A has thought it out, and business B hasnt, who will be better prepared when its time to actually bid on brick and mortar businesses on the moon?
This plan is one of the estimates by the Maeda Corporation Fantasy Marketing Department.
The Fantasy Marketing Department is an imaginary organization for public information of the Maeda Corporation.
The Department has estimated several construction costs of fictional buildings.
*The facilities that serves both as a water pool and a hangar of Mazinger Z(super robot)
*The viaduct to take off and landing for the Galaxy Express
*Grand Valley Speedway in Gran Turismo 4
*Tracy Island in Thunderbirds
No there won't, ever, just like there NEVER will be a time in the future when people will be able to tell IT IS from ITS.
In 2001 rival chain Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station, but Domino's hopes to become the preferred pizza of space with the moon store plan.
Wouldn't it make better sense to take the man-hours and dollars you're investing into a pipe-dream lunar domino's plan and put that money toward making sure you have some customers to serve there one day? Be an awful lonely store otherwise. Last I checked, moon rocks don't eat pizza.
From what I recall we couldn't make orbit much less the moon with current technology that's commissioned, built and ready to go. Unmothballing Apollo ain't gonna happen either. Wish it would....a slightly modernized Apollo would be a dream come true.... getting to ride to the moon on it would be ALL of my dreams coming true.
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it's not my favorite in nyc, but very good. they certainly boast authenticity (imported cheese; san marzano tomatoes; maybe even flour?), but i wouldn't really know how to tell. i just know good pizza.
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Before it was "doing X on the web"; now the new patent war will be "doing X on the moon". They are just pre-trolling for combination-based moon-travel patents.
Table-ized A.I.
...the Moon hits the sky, like big pizza pie....
"It's one small step for a fat man one epic fail for mankind"
There's no where near the tech level to easily put this sort of thing on the moon and there's no way the company will actually spend money to do this.
Yup. It's a pure PR stunt. ...but...
- We humans already have put things on the moon before. The engineering knowledge is still here, although the technology it self is probably rusted by now, or lying in some Aerospace history museum.
- It costs *only* 21 billion. That's well within the reach of *several* current day mega corps. Microsoft could afford this if they wanted, for example.
- If the USA didn't stupidly go into some senseless "War against Terrists!", they money spent they could have paid, not for one lunar pizza restaurant, but for a whole freaking franchise of restaurants. If the USA didn't blow money on their stupid war, if the money was diverted to the NASA, they've could permanently colonized the moon with the same budget and time frame...
Stop wasting our time.
...stop wasting your money.... :-P
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I'd say the odds are significantly in favor of Etcetera, assuming the human race lasts more than the next 20 years. Okay, maybe not about the apostrophe, but I expect we'll all be speaking Mandarin in 20 years anyway so whatever.
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So Domino's want to open a place on the moon..?
Domino's is the most hated chain in the US by anyone that has taste buds.. and they want to send this to other planets? They must be stopped before we are destroyed in retaliation!!!
This is like distributing food that has poison in it. Call the United Nations and tell them to stop this immediately!!!
Heard they will use moon minerals to construct this setup, revolutionary step towards spacism if they ever takes place.
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