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

[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.