Best reason for rejecting a trip to the Moon (safety guaranteed)

Write-in: I fear the dark side.

One third (35%) think the UK Space Agency’s £371m budget should be reduced or cut entirely

And no doubt invested in updating our nuclear deterrents

Write-in: the man in the moon's already bagsied it

"Not enough to see/do" is the obvious choice here

I guess given the British's history of exploration this is for the best.

No full English breakfasts available.

read that last one as Eartha Kitt concerns. It is a bit of a con really - nothing to see but a huge lump of primordial earth - we've got plenty enuff of that to go around down here as well!

lol at people answering this question like the moon actually exists, gtfo rubes

the moon is totally real, it's space that's fake

Yes, I believe you’ve already said that elsewhere on the borad

i stand with eartha kitt

I believe the people we've sent into space so far have been generally, like, intelligent and resourceful and able to fix stuff and generally not make a hames of things should stuff go wrong (also able to make good soundbitey speeches from the surface)

can't see "am too dumb and useless to go into space" on the list though

seriously these were amazingly smart people crammed into a tiny space in conditions I probably couldn't put up with for more than an hour, hats off to 'em (don't take your hat off on the moon, bad idea)

Not flat enough

they never seem to mention in all these NASA moon landing programs on R4 this week that these astronauts wear Maximum Absorbency Garments aka nappies, and are literally shitting their kecks like overgrown space bairns!

I’m feeling all these reasons tbh

Particularly “would rather go someone on earth”, that someone presumably being eartha kitt

Pertinent to this thread:

Let's talk about peeing in space.

Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.

— Mary Robinette Kowal (@MaryRobinette) July 19, 2019

What about Farting in space? - It does not propel you. Astronauts have tried.

hah! great thread is that.

I'm sorry about the Eartha Kitt typo BUT not really because it had forced me into a consideration of the name Eartha and whether there are other Earthas (there are/were)

https://www.babynamespedia.com/a/wc/meaning/M/Mo/Moona.F.jpg

Not pictured are siblings joona and springa

id rather see professionals do it safely and return first

I think E Zola's poetic tribute to the moon is total drivel.

"the ghost of her wish wishes to wish"

get a fucking job writing Valentine's inscriptions at Carlton Cards man!

that is a great thread! but I think it is missing this one important transcript (or maybe it isn't, haven't read all the replies)

https://boingboing.net/2013/07/19/astronauts-debate-provenance-o.html

my vote = reject premise of guaranteed safety imo

just tell me there’s a 50/50 chance the tin can explodes & we can get on with it & light this candle (pretend i have an al shepard haircut while saying that & maybe chewing gum)

Lol exactly

Wow at that How To Go In Space thread. Very informative.

tbh whatever the reason Britain otm - you don’t go to the moon, that’s dumb - but if I were ever forced to make this pointless waste of time trip the only thing that would make it worse would be to get there and find a load of other fucking Brits on holiday

Beach resort at the Sea of Tranquility, knotted handkerchiefs on the head, saucy postcards, Germans got all the spots by the pool

space is boring

When it was much closer to the earth it must have looked quite amazing, even the average cam-phone would have made an eclipse look quite dramatic. And its gravitational pull would have probably caused tidal tsunamis on a daily basis? I think the early moon would have been much more interesting to visit, it had a weak atmosphere and some volcanic activity and the view of earth would have been much more interesting. It's just another floating corpse now!

It’s #relatable that way

calz is such a fkn lunar hipster smdh

‘oh i much preferred the moon’s earlier, more volcanically active work’, gtfo with that shit

you want the floating corpse on a stick you do

some of them moons around the gas giants are so dazzling and energetic, whereas we've got this dead rock that might have a bit of water + thin layer of potassium and lots of pock marks and craters that some have remained unchanged for a billion years maybe. It's shit on a stick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQZSQdGJujU

you want the shit on a stick on a stick you do

I suppose total eclipses are one of it's benefits. I was having a smoke outside some building during the '99 one and getting quite excited and some dampener said something like: big deal, it's getting dark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_on_the_Moon

including 96 bags of human waste - US - 1969 - 1972.

next ye'll tell us the sherpas had the landing site swept and ready

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The premise of guaranteed safety is a fairy tale and the sort of nonsense spewed by people selling something. Like a trip to the moon.

exactly

No explicit “it’s been done” option

"fear of flying" is reasonable. if you can't cope with a bit of turbulence over the channel then i'd understand your hesitance to strap yourself to a MuskRocket v4.3

i've got a better idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJ3LIA5LmA

whoops i didn't update the firmware you're going to mercury now

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The surface of the moon is gorgeous (I treasure my copy of Michael Light's Full Moon).

There are desert landscapes in the American Southwest like White Sands and Great Sand Dunes NPs which are very similarly gorgeous, which are still possible to visit for < $100 camping gear and < $200 fuel/fare from here, where one can sleep on the warm sands, stars above, without fear of suffocating because a valve got stuck.

space still fake btw:

space confirmed fake pic.twitter.com/36siPGN1o7

— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) May 31, 2020