What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There?

MarkWhittington writes "For the first time in over thirty five years, the Moon has become the next frontier. The United States has committed to returning human astronauts to the Moon by the end of the next decade. China has hinted that it intends to do this also. A variety of countries, including the United States and China, but also India, Europe, and Japan, have either sent robotic probes into lunar orbit or are on the verge of doing so." Contribute your favorite moon ideas below; I'd like to see it used as the set to film The Moon is a Harsh Mistress .

Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

Strip-mine it

The Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

Kill each other for the land

It's made of cheese.

[Crotch Jenkins]

Carve it up and eat it.

Hey, Mr. Monkey, don't be asking why.

[BorgCopyeditor]

America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon. The time is now. Children are our future.

"You know you can't mess ... with American pride."

Re:It's made of cheese.

[Midnight Thunder]

Carve it up and eat it.

Come on you can do a better job than that:

1. Mine the cheese
2. ...
3. Profit!

Don't worry Grommit...

[mrbluze]

We've got crackers!!!

Re:TFA is vacuous

[mrbluze]

YAWN

Be glad you can yawn. On the moon you certainly couldn't.

Porno Studio

[kaufmanmoore]

We'd finally get real Nymphos from outer space

Re:Hey, Mr. Monkey, don't be asking why.

[cartman]

There are unconfirmed reports of Al Qaeda on the moon. Furthermore, we have it from very reliable sources that Saddam has been working to establish lunar colonies in order to mine the tritium there for use in hydrogen bombs. We must not wait until there is a mushroom cloud over Earth.

We shall blow up the moon ourselves, if necessary. Nobody can deny us our right of self-defense against the moon. If the French happen to think the idea of blowing up the moon is silly, then we'll rename food products just to spite them ("terrestrial fries"). Anyway, the French don't have the right to oppose our ideas because they're only French and they don't even run the planet anymore, much less the solar system.

obvious

[Lord Ender]

The first pioneers will be whalers, but eventually it will be a theme park with hookers and blackjack.

Re:obvious

[0100010001010011]

Forget the theme park.

On second thought ...

[garett_spencley]

Let's not go to the moon. It is a silly place.

They mostly come at night...mostly

[OMNIpotusCOM]

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Remember "Space 1999"?

[p51d007]

Hey, we're only a couple of decades late, but store all of our nuclear waste on the moon, then it can blow up and leave orbit, just like on tv!!! LOL.

Re:The Obvious

[davester666]

Install a giant frickin' laser on it.

Re:Also radio telescopes!

[childprey]

not to mention the fact that, yknow, the moon rotates.

Re:Don't worry Grommit...

[alex4u2nv]

The salute: Drop pants and bend over.

Obviously...

[NerveGas]

Steal it from the natives.

there is no dark side of the moon

[mevets]

really... as a matter of fact it's all dark.

I think we should get Pink Floyd up there for a concert before its too late.

Re:Ignore it. There's nothing there we care about.

[jamesh]

Human beings are not adapted to 1/6G, we are adapted to 1G.

This morning I felt like I was far from adapted to 1G. 1/6G would have been just the thing to help me get out of bed!

Re:Also radio telescopes!

[jamesh]

The far side of the moon might be well shielded from the RF interference from Earth, but without an atmosphere (and all the various layers that make it up) there is nothing shielding it from the RF interference from the sun and the billions of other sources in the universe....

Re:TFA is vacuous

[Koiu Lpoi]

+1 For using "vacuous" in a sentence +1 For ending your post in "YAWN" without being a troll.

Re:Live there

[WheresMyDingo]

I want us to set up a large colony...

me too, but only if i'm the only male member

Re:most expensive pixels ever

[WheresMyDingo]

oh forgot to say, i'd use it for my twitter postings

Space: 1999

[jetpack]

It better come damn close to being Moonbase Alpha [wikipedia.org] or I'm gonna be seriously pissed off!

Re:Build a

[icedcool]

Thats no moon...

Oh wait.

Don't forget!

[Jane Q. Public]

Once we get there, the first thing we have to do is kick out the natives!

What the hey. Why break a successful pattern?

I think there's good reason to go to the moon.

[Anonymous Coward]

Advertisement space...

Re:Build a ...

[rajkiran_g]

Would we then have people killing each other to get there?

Re:How about *nothing at all*?

[solitas]

Why do want to go to the moon? Because the Chinese are going?

Let's see... why did we want to go last time? Oh, because the Russians were going. Aha.

The British have already been there - in 1899 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film) [wikipedia.org] ).

It's on Turner Classic movies right now.

Re:The Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

Install a giant frickin' laser on it.

... And then shoop-da-whoop the whole earth. :D

Re:TFA is vacuous

[BPPG]

Hey, watch it - that's contagious! YAWN

See what you've started? YAWN

Re:Obvious

[davolfman]

Use the zero gravity to pretend to be ninjas.

Re:Um, education, not welfare

[call-me-kenneth]

How is free education not a hand-out?

Re:obvious

[DarthVain]

...and the blackjack.