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Earth Battles The Moon, Who Wins?

NASA is readying two spacecraft to slam into the Moon's South Pole in an effort to find hidden polar ice a year from now, which gives Hollywood plenty of time to prep the movie and release it when all of this Moon-violence is at a fever pitch. After the spacecraft crash dead-on into the moon, another standby ship will fly through the plume that gets thrown up, grab some of the debris, and then analyze it. But what if this were a major motion picture? Things would turn out a little differently. Here's our idea. More »

1:37 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Kevin Kelly
918 views, 18 comments

Latest by ganirambis: Yeah, the Loonies win in the Heinlein novel. Because of gravity. more »

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Forget The Earth, Let's Terraform The Moon!

Artist James Clyne, who already wowed us with what turned out to be a racer lost in Antarctica, also has a gorgeous vision of what it would be like if we started modifying and hacking the moon into a place to live and do business. But what's up with that giant ball in the middle of downtown? City-to-city low-gravity volleyball? Find out the answer, along with details of http://www.jamesclyne.com/artist's vision, after the jump. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Kevin Kelly
3,373 views, 35 comments

Latest by Ray Gunn: @Imipolex_G-Unit: "Aaaaaaand...dance by the light of the earth." more »

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The Moon Is Our Personal Art Project

Photos like this one prove that you don't need a fancy telescope to take incredible moon pictures that vividly reveal lunar geography. ComputerHotline took this much-admired picture using a Nikon Coolpix P5000 in afocal behind binoculars (12*40), without a color filter.

Images by ComputerHotline.

12:35 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By charliejane
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