<![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @NeoPoliticus: The Biodome project was destroyed by its own (mis)management and deception. There's a good 2005 summary of the whole thing at The Space Review.

I do understand that Pauly Shore's career seems like it must have been the result of a conspiracy, but it wasn't scientists behind it.

inconstant_reader

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> The Biodome project was destroyed by short-sighted and jealous scientists who saw it as a threat to their myopic disciplines - and by the media who made it a public joke.

So it put the Human race 20 years behind in space exploration. So what? It gave Pauli Shore work.

NeoPoliticus

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> It's not like they tried building an elevator to the moon...

That idea did indeed exist.

Klappstuhl

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @kcquestor: Thanks.. I'm glad someone over there made the necessary Chairface comment.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> I'll bet "High Times" magazine does a special edition on this.

Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Zantor: Thank you, Space Race.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Grey_Area:

"Going up?"

"Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah

When she walks, shes like a samba
That swings so cool and sways so gentle
That when she passes, each one she passes goes - ooh"

It's a long song...





Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Imipolex_G-Unit: And five hours of Muzak. AAAAIIEEEE!!

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Tim Faulkner:
I'll bet those new grow LED's don't have that tell-tale thermal signature.
No more infra-red hot-spots on the roof.
Cultivate in coolness.
A cottage industry revolution!





Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Garrison Dean: It's a joke. Bad Astronomy explains: [tinyurl.com]

kcquestor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @ManchuCandidate: Don't forget the chunky platform heels.

Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Hobbity: Really bouncy!

Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> A space elevator seems like a great idea until you realize that the last asshole on it pushed the buttons for all of the floors.

Imipolex_G-Unit

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> Hey, speaking of the moon... Is Rolling Rock really trying to beam an ad to the moon, or is that just a hoax publicity stunt.. furthermore. if they are... wouldn't it make more sense to shine something on it when the moon wasn't full?

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> The Moon just isn't that interesting to me. After we put an atmosphere around it, maybe. Wouldn't that be cool to see from Earth?

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @braak:
Well, I guess if there's gonna be WoW on the moon, that's OK by me. I doubt there'll be DnD on the moon, though. Imagine trying to roll your 20-sided die in 1/6 gravity!


Hobbity

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @tetracycloide:

"Oh, man, I can't sit right! It's moved my base keyboard position a half a centimeter out of place, so I keep using the wrong re-mapped keys! What's going on?...Oh. There's some kind of tube in my penis. Also, I appear to be on the moon."

braak

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @braak: Hmmm, I'm intrigued by the prospect of low-gravity scenery. (Yeah, I build fake houses for a living.)

I can't imagine what the price of a sheet of plywood would cost, though...!

FredicvsMaximvs

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> So space elevators aren't a quick way to get into space, but a cheap way. If the elevator's climb speed is in the 100mph range, you're looking at a 4-5 day trip into geostationary orbit.

I'm betting on Launch Loops in the "rides to space" category.

wbenetti

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> Great, you guys take care of the plants and LED lights in your bedrooms. I'll take care of populating that colony from mine.

kakow!

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> I'll get someone to make some Rudi Genrich jumpsuits. Sorry guys, but I get to wear the only one with the black sleeve.

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @braak:
Moon Theatre Troop? For what...saucey puppet shows?
I envision a sort of "interactive" sort of theatre. You know, where the third wall is broken and audience members can "get in" on the action...if you take my meaning..

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @braak: they'd notice the catheter but only because the urinary catheterisation would probably distract them just enough to cause a dip in their DPS numbers.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @Annalee Newitz: Ohh. So, we're just sending some WoW nerds to the moon?

That's actually a great idea. Plop them down in front of the LCD, give them some of that astronaut space-food and a catheter.

Shit, they probably wouldn't even notice.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> "Moon colony preparation" -- that's the excuse I tried to feed the cops for the plants they found in my closet.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> @braak: Naw, they'll just want high speed internet.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> The next stage of human expansion will probably be into space

The 1940s called. They want their prediction back. ;-)

The_Real_Quiet_Desperation

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> I am building a full-scale replica of a Saturn V in my backyard.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[How to Jumpstart a Moon Colony From Your Bedroom]]> Really, what the moon colonists will need more than anything is entertainment.

That is why, shortly after the moon colony is established, we must send them the first Moon Theatre Troupe.

braak

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