Sunday, December 10, 2006





In pictures: Living on the Moon

Mankind has been imagining life on the Moon since time immemorial. As Nasa reveals plans for a lunar base, BBC News here looks at some artists' impressions of lunar colonisation.

(Via Gravity Lens.)


Sweet!

7 comments:

Ken said...

Mac, this comment has nothing to do with living on the Moon, so delete it if you wish.

I've been giving a bit of thought to your difficulties in your present living situation. The neighbors, the town, the state.

Look: if it's really that bad, if you really do hate the place, use your backbone, act like a man, and take a risk. Move.

There are three ways to deal with a problem.

1. Solve the problem. You can't. Neither the neighbors nor the town nor the state will change for you.

2. Eliminate the problem. You can't. This would involve destroying the neighbors, the town, and the state.

3. Leave the problem. This is your only viable alternative.

If things are really that miserable for you, pack up and go! Take the risk, and it's a real risk, I cannot deny. But there is no good cause to live in misery when there is at least the possibility of improvement. You can't change the town or state, but you sure as hell can change your residence.

All this entails leaving what ever job and friends you have there, and a real gamble on the future, but really, man, if things are SO bad, then it's time for a change. Take the gamble, take the plunge, and get the hell out of there. You can't possibly fix it, you can't legally eliminate it, so leave it. Gamble. Risk. Change.

So sez Kenny.

Mac said...

ac, this comment has nothing to do with living on the Moon

Not true! I've been considering moving to the Moon . . .

(In space, no one can hear rap "music.")

Ken said...

I certainly hope I wasn't offensive. My bluntness often comes across as rudeness or insolence, when none is intended. But, I say what I think, and that succinctly.

As for rap ... that's music?

Seriously: you hate the place. Why stay? I don't understand that.

Mac said...

Ken--

Not offensive at all. Don't worry; the noise problem has been addressed and, in any case, I have no intention whatsoever of staying here.

W.M. Bear said...

When I was a kid, I thought it would be really cool to live on the Moon or Mars. Now I don't. I do still think it would be really cool for someone else (human, that is) to live. (Not you, Mac, unless you promise to keep PB current! Ever thought of AZ or NM -- I think the living is cheap and the landscape is definitely reminiscent of Mars.)

Mac said...

I love the Southwest. Sedona, AZ is breathtaking and tantalizingly Martian.

W.M. Bear said...

That's right. I remember you posting photos and a journal of your Sedona visit here a couple of years ago! I've been there several times myself and was also totally enchanted. I'm looking (ultimately) to finding a very small house in the middle of a very large plot (to minimize noisy neighbors) in Northern AZ. This will, alas, probably happen later rather than sooner. (But ultimately, I hope -- Northern AZ because the summer weather there is a bit more humane than in seguaro country, I think.)