Space Madness

[pasithea]

Proposal to gay up the Moon

No really. I'm serious. NASA has said they're going to return to the moon in 2018 (using basically the same technology they used last time, which makes me very sad)

So I propose they take a 50lb bag of fluorescent pink powder like they use for marking lines on football fields and make a 1km per side equilateral triangle on the moon.

Why? Well. Triangles are easy to detect from more organic forms. At that size, you'd be able to see it with a telescope and since the Earth reflects a lot of UV, on new moons, you might even be able to see it without a telescope.

The moon is often yellow/blue/greenish to our eyes so fluorescent green/yellow are right out. Red light penetrates our atmosphere better than any other color and we already know there is orange volcanic rock on the moon but hot pink is less likely. Also, based on seeing old traffic and trail markers, I think fluorescent pink dyes last longer than orange ones.

And last of course.... A giant pink triangle would SERIOUSLY piss off the right-wingers because it'd not only be proof we'd been to the moon but it would be GHEY!


Anyone want to start a petition? :)

Comments

[triggur.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! :)

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

And afterward historians could dig up the origin of the idea to put a pink triangle on the moon, and they'd get back to your journal and look at all your friends and decide it was the work of a cabal of gay werewolves!

[paka.livejournal.com]

Can I add the proposition that because vibration from repetitive thumps might carry further from lack of air resistence, that the astronauts that place this pink triangle on the moon should play dance remixes as a means of tracking each other?

And if that's not bad science, can I also suggest doing brunch as a way of generating quick energy during this new moon mission?

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

The 'return to moon by 2018' thing has been discussed back in September 2005 -- are they still planning it? I know nowadays any kind of major venture like this that doesn't seem to have direct and immediate profit is constantly eyeballed by congress and cut any time money gets a little tight. The SSC suffered that same fate and the previous Bush's dedication to go to Mars quietly vanished long ago.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

PS.. The SSC I was referring to was the Superconducting Super Collider which, if built, would have been able to achieve collision energies triple that of the soon-to-be-finished Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Also -- If they are still planning on going back to the moon they might as well gay it up a bit.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

If you started a non-profit group to promote this idea, I would do cold-calling for donations. On a volunteer basis. I'm not even sure if I'm kidding.

[glych.livejournal.com]

Sebastien Pennyworth III will add this to his list of things to do once he's elected of these United States.

-glych
(assistant to Mr. Pennyworth)

[qdot.livejournal.com]

This better be the most fabulous petition EVER.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

The moon is going to be FABULOUS!