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Is the moon made of green cheese?

San Diego, California
As reported in the New York Times December 4, 2006: Scott Horowitz, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration, said crews of four astronauts would make weeklong missions to the Moon starting around 2020 (I will be 73). As more equipment was set up, human stays would eventually grow to 180 days, permanent staffing by 2024 (I will be 77). By 2027, officials said, a pressurized roving vehicle on the surface would take people on expeditions far from the base.

I can’t wait to see that! I was walking the beat as a Wells Fargo rent-a-cop in July 1969 when Neil Armstrong took one small step on the moon. Some of us thought humans would stay permanently shortly thereafter. Who knew it would take 51 more years!

So by 2030, say, when I’m 83 there will probably be Lunar vacations for maybe $100,000. But I won’t feel like pulling all those G’s and getting that too-frequent motion sickness that often comes with weighlessness, so it looks like I will neither walk nor ride on the moon. Not in this body.

But you go ahead. You’re young. If you kick in a hundred bucks every month from now till 2030, you’ll have invested a little over twenty-five thousand, but at 10% interest it would be worth over $100,000 by 2030 and that should get you there and back in style.

And in answer to the title question, check out this little observation:
http://www.planetfusion.co.uk/~pignut/cheese.html

posted by DanZ @ 6:03 PM