mOOn platOOn’s Future Space Lunar New Years

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The Bottom Line: This is a blog about mOOn platOOn, by Steve Games. Working in Hollywood but outside the bounds of studio controls, it’s a dream to create a movie – a TV series – a video game, books, interactive website and toys, and this is the beginning.

Unless We Destroy Ourselves, Tomorrow Means Radical Change

We’re about to undergo a metamorphosis that make the butterfly’s appear modest…

As astroengineers, we’ll inhabit countless mountain-stones and engineered worlds orbiting the Solar System’s planets. All natural bodies will be transformed into Earth-Like surfaces with allowances for planetoid core variables, substance variances, solar proximity, gravity and other unique factors. Titan, Triton, Europa, even irradiated Io will be geared toward settlement conditions.

Mars, Miranda, Rhea and Ganymede can host Earth settlers while leaving such treasured environments as the deep interiors of the water worlds of Jupiter nearly untouched, preserving the realms therein where dwells idiomatic “life” that, even once discovered, cannot be communicated with. The surfaces of all, along with Callisto, Dione, even Pluto and Charon will be made life-friendly while the interiors of the worlds will remain – at least temporarily – isolated.

Even Venus and Mercury’s surfaces shall be tamed. Our own Moon, from sentiment, will be a legally protected natural environment – but heavily populated by astropomorphs (humanoid space dwellers), nonetheless.

Once one generation of humans adapts to space, population growth will be exponential. Unforeseeable changes will take place concerning birth and child development. And there will not be a great rush of Earth dwellers that will want to join their space cousins. Life aboard artificial worlds or upon technically maintained planetary “safe” zones on other planets does not sound worthwhile in the individual long run.

There will be an entire new generation, and presumably more to follow, who first see Earth from afar, who grow up as space travelers, who shudder at the idea of living constantly in Earth-normal gravity and air. Every decade they will multiply, until they surprise everyone – even themselves! - with their superior proliferation.

- OO

It Came From Out Of The Script

What Women Will Want On The Moon

Where does it all begin? Life on the Moon and in space! But if it’s going to work for us, it has to be psychologically healthy as well as physically. In her contribution, celestialspace2001 delineates many aspects that concern the first settlers, the people who lived and worked on the Moon between 1980 and 1988, and called themselves mOOn platOOn….

If life on the moon is going to be bearable, we’re going to have to make it a home. Where are the Queer Eye Guys when we need them?

Let’s start with gravity, light, and psychology. First, we LIKE the moon gravity. It’s only 1/6th the pull of gravity and that means LESS SAGGING! HOORAY! Less sagging of the boobs – for those of you who have them “sigh” (mine are best described as small but shapely – and even “perky” under perfect conditions). I’m getting a boob job. Anyway we’ll enjoy less sagging of the jowls, the arm flaps, the butt (the only fat on my body) and anything else that can sag. And perkier boobs of all sizes  Also lighter hair weight / bigger top-do’s / longer ponytails / bigger hair / slower hair-flip speed / buoyant long-hair swirling / delayed reaction hair-whips. THE BAD NEWS: no effect on cellulite (GRRR) cause it’s pushed out from within. DAMN! (tho not my problem YET)

Clothing materials will behave differently when they weigh only 1/6th as much as they do now. Heavier materials will be used in everyday clothes. Denim will be popular for all manner of things. Lighter materials will practically float around you – gossamer, satin, chiffon, tulle – so they’ll be used decoratively and for special effects. We need wool. That means sheep. Importing wool constantly will be an expensive pain, so we getBaa Baa Adam and Black Sheep Eve and go from there. Maybe we can clone wool by then (that’s MY idea – patent pending!)

Cooking, because gravity and pressure affect the magical chemistry of flavor and texture. Ever cooked high in the mountains? In a plane at 35,000 feet altitude? At sea level? In a submarine at 5 fathoms? Proper utensils, cookware, ovens, stoves, microwaves, pantries, freezers, refrigerators, and dinnerware must be considered. Many foods that we’vebeen keeping in refrigerators for the last hundred years will be chemically preserved instead. Even milk could stay fresh un-refrigerated and the only things that would need to be cold would be by choice and preference. Have you heard about the M&Ms that don’tmelt? And alcohol will have stranger effects because our circulations apparently will tend to pool liquids and chemicals toward the torso more so (hee hee) than on Earth. Probably means less alcohol content for safety. Ultra-light wines, transparent beers, gaseous liquors, sometimes sniffed only.

Smoking (for those of youse who indulge) will be okay but the more smokeless the better because of enclosed conditions and second-hand fallout. The solution? Smoke-spots. There are spots where smokers can stand, clearly marked, without polluting the general air or harming anyone else, that will be drafted by air jets, directed by wind flow andpiped directly to the complex’s recycling lungs. Residue tars can be used for making adhesive materials. Hopefully tobacco and marijuana will have all harmful ingredients bred out of them before we start growing them on the Moon.

Child safety, because toys will have new boundaries and re-boundaries, a new fragility due to your child’s increased relative strength (temper tantrums may become dangerous – it’s superbaby!) that will be able to smash a tricycle against the ceiling, and because of their (the toys’) own increased power. A water rocket might kill someone. Also, kids can jump higher on the Moon. Childproofing is now a nightmare. Now we’re talkingchild management by design.

Body conditioning, because our muscles and bones aren’t getting the same workout that we got on Earth. We’re not even getting the same workout that we got vacuuming. Or walking. The answer? Instead of working out with 15 pound weights, we’ll need them to be 90 pounds. But we still want them small. We’ll need metal-based workout shoes,“gravity boots” – a little style, please – gravity belts, bracelets, anklets, garters – heck, we need “gravity accessories.” Heavier-than-normal stuff to give us the resistance we need to maintain tone, shape and strength without having to work out 5 hours a day. Also, sonar techniques of bone regeneration are on the horizon and we’ll probably even be able to grow back missing teeth soon.

Appliances, with considerations of water availability and type for washing clothing and dishes. I expect Maytag to be on top of this, they’d better be doing something up on the International Space Station now. Who's folding your underwear?

Gardening, because what is life without real jacarandas, California poppies and honeysuckle? I want my lavender plants. And trees. No trees, no me. That means apples, oranges, bananas and anything else unless we discover that for some reason kiwis can’t grow in Clavius Crater. Berries, too. Lots of vines. We need seeds and soil. I think we only need a few Earth nutrients to mix with the Moon dirt that’s already here. But we need some really effective artificial grow lights. We have to get through two weeks of darkness every month.

Nature, because, like I mentioned, we have to get through two weeks of darkness every month out here on the Moon. Now, for Mariah Carey that would be a break, but for most of us – I LIKE SUNSHINE! I like walking through the woods with the wind on my face (cliché alert!). I like skies of blue, clouds of white – not TWO WEEKS of the sacred night. We’re talking tanning booths, mood enhancers, sun lamps, sun simulators, anything to make a difference between morning and night. Maybe a huge mirror should be built at one of those stable gravity points between Earth and the Moon and used to slowly beam extra sunlight to the dark sides every day. Just watch out for hotfoots.

Running water – has to be somewhere and flowing like a river. A river runs through it, or else. Engineers, recyclers, security experts and chemists – get to work!

Books – we still can’t curl up with a computer screen, but how about illuminated pages that glow in the dark for easy reading?

Perfume – of course. Channel # 5 required.

Pets – the Moon WILL be cat-friendly. It will also be dog-friendly. No flea problems because we can wipe them out in a closed environment. I only hope that we don’t discover that fleas somehow saved us from extinction. Allergy cures are on the way!!!!! I promise!!!!!

Candles – of course. Unless they find out too much oxygen is “wasted” – in which case candle-simulators are required. They better look AND smell good.

Sweets – candy, gentlemen, we will not be denied. Need I say “chocolate?”

Spode China – just a little each, because it will remind us of who we are.

Movie Theatres – cool ones, not like the Multiplex at the mall, but theatres that can show movies, plays, pageants, seminars and feel like comfortable social environments, along the line of coffee houses or libraries. We should have those on Earth right now.

Shoes – forever. You design them, you ship them, we’ll buy them. Justbe smart and remember all of the issues mentioned above that are relevant.Okay, I know I haven’t covered everything, but won’t you help? What haven’t I mentioned or pointed out that is going to help make our house on the Moon a home?

If I Were Casting Now

The part of mOOn platOOn the series’ TV character celestialspace2001, a fiery redhead with willful independence and bravado: Nell Rebowe (please google along with actresses, redheads)

mOOn platOOn Byproducts

The Naked Professor: The United States Must Claim The Moon

Regardless of predictable protests from the established nations and corporate interests of the second and third worlds, the first world must continue its territorial expansion for the manifest destiny of all humanity.  Our logical extension?  The Moon.

A vast nation needs a vast mission.

The Moon's surface square mileage is comparable to that of Africa.  Average gravity on the Moon is roughly one-sixth that of Earth.  A man weighing 240 pounds in Paris will only weigh 40 pounds in Copernicus Crater. The Chinese will be landing on the Moon. The Japanese are planning bases. European interests are looking at lunar colonies, and you can bet your stock market that private enterprise is eyeballing lunar real estate.

Its surface dust insulates the Moon so well that temperatures at a depth of 3 feet or so consistently register about -46 0F. Up on top, temperatures can reach a sizzling 212 0F (86 0C), and get as cold as -245 0F (-104 0C). Vast amounts of natural resources such as silicon, aluminum, manganese, titanium, calcium and iron are within easy reach just below the surface.  We have technology today that can process and transport these resources to commercial markets on Earth. Before long, this part will be owned by so-and-so, and that part by such-and-such, until one part comes under dispute.  And then guess what?  You’ve got war.

There eventually will be people running the Moon.  There is a waning opportunity at this point in history to make those people Americans.  It will either be us, if we act soon, or a “united nations” of disunited expectations leading to conflict and grief.

Surrounding the Moon are five strategic gravity “lakes” where Earth and Moon share equal influence on any space stations or artificial worlds that might be placed there. We must control these five strategic locations as well as the Moon and its immediate space.

The Department of Offense

We will have to be prepared to defend ourselves.  Our African-sized world-state will have a far vaster shore than any Earthly continent. The importance of lunar geography, gravity and vacuum on the effects of nuclear weapons, directed energy beams, chemical attacks, biological invasions, and conventional weapon effects are of primary consideration.

For example, there are no environmental components on the Moon to allow shock waves, intense heat balls or the development of violent winds from a nuclear detonation.  Nuclear weapons will have to be aimed with pinpoint accuracy at their intended victims who live on the Moon.

Greater danger will arise from the threat of charged-particle beams and high-powered microwave weapons.  Charged-particle beams can pass through shielded exteriors – such as the hulls of ships and the domes of habitats – and effect fuels, electronics and biology that dwell inside.  Resistant materials will be necessary for covering valuable and sensitive things.

Self-enclosed terraspheres invite biological and chemical attacks, unhampered by Earth-based concerns like weather and terrain.  By necessity, there will be re-circulation of air and recycling of water vulnerable to fast-acting subliminal agents.  Warning systems capable of detecting the slightest trace of dangerous elements, combined with quickly-available medical treatments, will be everywhere.

In case an invading force lands on the Moon, we’ll develop recoilless artillery and straight-line / ricochet projectile trajectory systems driven by rocket-propelled engines and battery-powered motors.  They will be operated by remote-control from shielded bases.

Yet to be concerned with defense does not mean to live in a defensive psychological state.  Our daily efforts will be the flourishing of life, and how it can be done, and why it should go forth into the greater universe.

We need air, food, and water, regulated temperatures, humidity and pressures, and careful consideration of light, noise and vibrations, all while sheltered from radiation.  We need ways to sterilize, eject or recycle the waste everyone will be expelling in the form of feces, urine, perspiration, internal gases, carbon dioxide, and other exhaled vapors.

Anatomy 201

Lower gravity may impair response times, precision movement and cause dehydration when the brain orders organs to discharge fluids and they pool slightly in the chest. Blood may thicken reducing fresh nutrients and oxygen.  Reduced weights may cause muscles and bones to lose mass.  In the full-scale forward thrust of the monumental effort to meet these challenges, more jobs will open up on all levels of the global marketplace than any war efforts have ever generated.

We must take pre-emptive steps to provide familiar day and night cycles where there are none, and arrange work-rest schedules based on individual performance to offset the potential pitfalls of emotional instability, fatigue, and shortened attention spans.  We’ll have to be on the look-out for impaired vital functions such as heartbeat, pulse, brain activity, body temperature, and metabolism.  In our intense studies of the bodies of changing humans, pets, parasites, plants and microscopic life, we will, perhaps, unlock the doors to unknown secrets of life.

The technologies perfected in the process of lunar integration will be easier to execute in space, but will certainly apply to opening the now-hostile reaches of our own planet, where one day it may not be so strange at all that a city lives happily at the South Pole, or that a metropolis exists at the bottom of the sea.

An economy now driven by war and its prevailing industries will switch to creation instead of destruction, to focusing on the sustenance and blossoming of life instead of the number of casualties it can sustain.

mOOn platOOn Issues

THE SOLAR SYSTEM SOCIETY

Introduction To The Terraformed Solar System

A SithBorg Doctrine

Drafted from the swirling haze of conjecture, flavored with just a pinch of the fantastic:there will be a concoction capable of transforming any barren ball of spherical gravity into an earth-similar biometry. The astronomical equivalent to suddenly infusing your brain with the knowledge of a competent intellect.

The Terraformation Bomb will be an eruptive life-giving force that will populate a dead area as quickly as quarkular weapons will disrupt a continent, stripping it bare of all organics. I know, I'm way ahead of you, as usual.

As Minister Of Conflict, I bequeath to you the following terraformed worlds for future occupation. You can mix it up as much as you want, but these groups should control the following worlds, probably in something close to this order, listed by order of establishment:

symbols:

E = Earth System

J = Jupiter System

S = Saturn System

U = Uranus System

N = Neptune System

The Moon 3,476 km (E)

The United States 2021

Mars 6,800 km

China / North Korea 2044

Ganymede 5,200 km (J)

India 2057

Callisto 4,800 km (J)

African Nationals 2059

Tethys 1,060 km (S)

Canada / Mexico 2069

Dione 1,120 km (S)

The Vatican 2071

Titan 5,150 km (S)

Pakistan 2074

Rhea 1,550 km (S)

Palestine 2075

Iapetus 1,460 km (S)

South American Coalition 2076

Umbriel 1,190 km (U)

Islamic Sunni 2081

Triton 2,720 km (N)

Russia 2084

Oberon 1,550 km (U)

Israel 2086

Ariel 1,160 km (U)

Islamic Shiite 2088

Titania 1,610 km (U)

Japan 2089

Let the bickering begin. Still, the smallest of these is bigger than some Earth continents. And so, by 2090 all war-generating property disputes can be settled. The technology will be there, if not the political will. Sure, it's a bit of a stretch. But once, so was a human flying. Or a man on the moon. Or a diet that worked. That is, a diet that works as long as your body works, too. Now leave the computer, make contact with reality, get up and exercise! Morons.