Thursday, December 02, 2004
Start reading this blog at the exact same time you start the movie Wizard of Oz. It will blow your mind...!
“The new lunar decade has begun.” Or so says the so-called international Lunar Conference. It appears as the nations of the world have united to reach a shared goal… to build a robotic village on the moon. Huh?!
I love space, and I am hugely in favor of NASA and exploration, but this seems a bit out there. According to Space.com, they want to start sending up mission after mission to the moon, eventually leading to the establishment of a WiFi (grin) research facility. The ultimate goal; for the robot cosmonauts to prepare the way for man (terraforming?). The goal of these 200 scientists is to have man join the colony by 2024 (what they are calling a permanent presence, sounds a little like USA military policies through the ages...). Wow, that’s not that far away. Bush wants man on Mars before then too, so funding may be tight for NASA in the next 20 years…
I have some questions I want answered before I give my approval to this venture:
1) Are any of the companies involved named Skynet? If so, count me out.
2) Or worse yet, are any of the companies involved called Halliburton? Cha-ching! Am I right Cheney?
3) Will the robots really be sent to the moon, or a sound stage in Hollywood?
4) Which country’s robots get to be the foremen?
5) Is there oil on the moon? If so, can Bush dig for it? If not, what will the ‘bots run on?
6) Will Gov. Arnold Swartzenegger, Will Smith, Kevin Sorbo, or Wesley Snipes be banned from visiting the colony?
7) Can I get a job as a Blade Runner to track down the robots that escape back to Earth? I mean, this is sort of forced slavery on our silicone brothers and sisters…
8) Can Will Shatner be involved in some way? I think it is only right. Let him be mayor at least.
9) What will the robots do if they unearth a large, black obelisk? My God, it's full of stars... (cue giant naked baby)
10) Will aliens be allowed to work on the moon as well, or will we have an Interstellar Immigration and Naturalization Force in orbit? You know Neptunians… they have strong backs, and work for next to nothing, but they drive poorly and never bother to learn binary.
11) Is the Lunar Conference really building a super computer to answer what the meaning of life is? If so, it’s a waste of time. We know that the answer is 42.
12) If the robots find mucousy, leathery, green eggs, can we nuke the Moon from orbit? It is the only way to be sure...
13) If Gizmonic Institute builds a satellite to monitor the progress, can I volunteer to man it? I promise not to built robot friends from the spare parts. Yeah right, I am SO going to build me a Crow and Servo!
Anyway, I thought I’d post something science related and fun for a change. I started this blog to be mostly religion and science talk (hey, I knew what a meme was before net-geeks hijacked the word to describe those annoying spam “answer and return to 10 friends” questionnaires), but blogging is such a slippery slope…
Horns up!
I love space, and I am hugely in favor of NASA and exploration, but this seems a bit out there. According to Space.com, they want to start sending up mission after mission to the moon, eventually leading to the establishment of a WiFi (grin) research facility. The ultimate goal; for the robot cosmonauts to prepare the way for man (terraforming?). The goal of these 200 scientists is to have man join the colony by 2024 (what they are calling a permanent presence, sounds a little like USA military policies through the ages...). Wow, that’s not that far away. Bush wants man on Mars before then too, so funding may be tight for NASA in the next 20 years…
I have some questions I want answered before I give my approval to this venture:
1) Are any of the companies involved named Skynet? If so, count me out.
2) Or worse yet, are any of the companies involved called Halliburton? Cha-ching! Am I right Cheney?
3) Will the robots really be sent to the moon, or a sound stage in Hollywood?
4) Which country’s robots get to be the foremen?
5) Is there oil on the moon? If so, can Bush dig for it? If not, what will the ‘bots run on?
6) Will Gov. Arnold Swartzenegger, Will Smith, Kevin Sorbo, or Wesley Snipes be banned from visiting the colony?
7) Can I get a job as a Blade Runner to track down the robots that escape back to Earth? I mean, this is sort of forced slavery on our silicone brothers and sisters…
8) Can Will Shatner be involved in some way? I think it is only right. Let him be mayor at least.
9) What will the robots do if they unearth a large, black obelisk? My God, it's full of stars... (cue giant naked baby)
10) Will aliens be allowed to work on the moon as well, or will we have an Interstellar Immigration and Naturalization Force in orbit? You know Neptunians… they have strong backs, and work for next to nothing, but they drive poorly and never bother to learn binary.
11) Is the Lunar Conference really building a super computer to answer what the meaning of life is? If so, it’s a waste of time. We know that the answer is 42.
12) If the robots find mucousy, leathery, green eggs, can we nuke the Moon from orbit? It is the only way to be sure...
13) If Gizmonic Institute builds a satellite to monitor the progress, can I volunteer to man it? I promise not to built robot friends from the spare parts. Yeah right, I am SO going to build me a Crow and Servo!
Anyway, I thought I’d post something science related and fun for a change. I started this blog to be mostly religion and science talk (hey, I knew what a meme was before net-geeks hijacked the word to describe those annoying spam “answer and return to 10 friends” questionnaires), but blogging is such a slippery slope…
Horns up!
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