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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/space/05nasa.html?hp&ex=1165381200&en=8eeeaf2e5d0334ce&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Also, please list anything you'd want on your Moon Base

http://www.basetree.com/thumbs/Moon_Base_Bush.jpg

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

My moon base will have a great supply of legos.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's a pic of some 4th graders with their Moon Base.

PROS: LARGE CENTRAL AREA FOR GATHERING/DRINKING MOON BEER

CONS: I THINK THAT LARGE BOTTLE IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER IS WHERE MOON BASE PEOPLES ARE SUPPOSE TO PEE.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/images/SeaCliff2.JPG

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i want my own dark blue spacesuit

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/71/350px-Moonpie.jpg

― Commander JimmyMod of TEAM COURAGE (JimmyMod), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

“The fear is that the Moon, which is now viewed as a means to get beyond the Moon, will become its own destination, for hundreds of years,” he said. “The easy way to go to the Moon is the hard way to go to Mars.”

OH NO DO NOT INVEST IN MOON TOURISM.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

SO CLASSIC!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Really? I think the idea for MOON BASE is a dud. Kind of a waste of money. I could get behind MARS BASE, though.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

juggs magazine

― thebingo (thebingo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yay moon base

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

the problem with a mars base is that it takes two years to get there, at which point the astronauts' hips will have the thickness of a pigeon wing and snap off the second they enter martian gravity

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be more concerned w/ the astronauts killing each other after having to stare at their other stupid, lying faces for two years straight.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://blogacine.blogacine.net/bm/thumbnails/128ce4a885a676c29f8112dd977e9aa1.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I would be SO into spending my retirement on a moon base. make it so.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

anything to get off this expiring planet in the next 20 years. But Altair V is nicer (post-Krell).

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Chinese are gunna beat us there, first

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

whaddayamean? we were already there first! (also Morbs = my sentiments exactly)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

when the time comes, how do i make sure i'm not on the ship that they're going to send into the sun?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd say look at the destination scroll above the window.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"when the time comes, how do i make sure i'm not on the ship that they're going to send into the sun?"

take a good look at yr fellow passengers...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.yessy.com/1865246626-15882b.jpg

^^^^ This is the most convincing argument for establish a moon colony I've yet seen.

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah and see I'd go to the moon to ESCAPE bellhop monkeys, but that's just me.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: Clavius moon base from 2001 vs. Moonbase Alpha from Space: 1999

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

vs. Moons over My Hammy

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

WITH HASH BROWNS PLS

http://celticwriter.typepad.com/images/moons_over_my_hammy2.JPG

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

classic

also, moon base = classic
i would have base made out of superstrong clear plastic so it would feel like you were always floating, floating above the earth

i would also have ham there

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm all for the moonbase, but it'll only be staffed by military people in the end.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

and Richard Branson

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(altho I really wish lefties/non-military people were more interested in getting into space, rather than just absent-mindedly conceding the future of the species to war-mongering bureaucrats)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

shakey, tcs and other libertarian/gonzo-capital type sites are nuts over private space exploration.

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't know me very well if you think I'm libertarian or "gonzo-capital" (whatever that means)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

how well do i know you if i think you're illiterate?

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I just want off this planet, soon as we can up enough infrastructure to have colonies on Jupiter's moons w/ supply runs to the asteroid belt.

Stephen Hawking is right.

Also, we need FTL drives, or else the cylons is gunna find us.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hawking is so annoying, even when he's right.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Moon base = Classic. This is all predicated on civilization not destroying itself in the next 200 years. But, this is a totally necessary step toward civilizing another planet. It's like there's another New World out there, and there's islands all the way there that we can establish bases on. Expensive, and we'll never see the benefits in our lifetime, but necessary.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

We can't have a moon base, it's already inhabited!

http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicphotos.html

and Vote Fraud on the Moon Base

― sgh (sgh), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

CLASSIC. You can hang out with miserable folks in weird suits, eat lots of cheese...

We are talking about France, right?

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I really wish lefties/non-military people were more interested in getting into space

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.startrekcollectibles.co.uk/acatalog/Space1999alphaMoonbase.jpg

― blass jaunt (blass), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

moooooooooooon

BOOTS!

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Stephen Hawking utterly OffTM. Not that we shouldn't go to the moon or mars, but the idea that once we have bases there the human race is saved is ridiculous. For one thing the chances of us making the earth UTTERLY UNINHABITABLE for human life are pretty slim.

And as for extra-solar planets - c'mon. There isn't any proof that an FTL drive is even possible (though it breaks my heart to think it) - let alone feasible within the next x hundred years.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

a totally necessary step toward civilizing another planet lol think we should totally start w/ our own planet first lol

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Who will be the first band to play the moon? Please don't let it be Sigur Ros.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't Blur send a song to Mars? They seem to be the most experienced at this kind of thing.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://thursdays.com/pic200/zappa3069.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Who will be the first person to sing "Everybody's Gone to the Moon", on teh moon?

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathan King, hopefully.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

just think of the moon as a "sub-board"

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts: MOON D)))

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The more colonies we have, the odds of them all simultaneously meeting an apocalypse are reduced. Ergo, RACE SAVED

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

ie, lotsa people will be ready to leave before we make Earth UTTERLY UNINHABITABLE

(also, my most spacefaring-eager friend ain't going til he hears how fucking in space is accomplished)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Who will be the first band to play the moon? Please don't let it be Sigur Ros.

http://static.cardigans.com/microsites/first.band.on.the.moon/img/records/fbotm_jp.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, we've been on the moon since the 50s.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n8/n41491.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe the guys were there before the Cardigans

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/po/policwotm5003470478192850.jpg

(also, my most spacefaring-eager friend ain't going til he hears how fucking in space is accomplished)

-- Dr M (wjwe...), December 6th, 2006.

Sting also must have worked that out by now.

― sgh (sgh), Thursday, 7 December 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

HA HA WATER ON MARS ALL YOU MOON BASERS LOSE

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/science/space/07mars.html?ref=us

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/astronaut.jpg

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-941-1165348111.gif

― aidsy (aidsy), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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