While perusing an issue of Machine Design at work, a colleague read an article on the design of the equipment currently being prepared for America's return to the Moon. For him it supported the idea that the old moon landings were faked. On top of the oft cited conspiracy theories on the topic, the technological sophistication of the proposed equipment for the future endeavors and how many unknowns NASA is preparing for offered further evidence that the famed Apollo missions never happened.
I personally don't care. Maybe the moon landings were faked. It doesn't matter to me. What does matter is that I am not living in an orbital colony, working in space, and hanging out in a climate controlled zero gravity environment. That is all I really want. Because in a weightless climate controlled environment a culture of nudity would inevitably develop. Clothing is a human convention derived as a form of protection from variable conditions, adaptability through application of intelligence. Clothing would only be a burden in a zero gravity environment. The creativity and desire for personal expression found in humans would fuel fashion trends favoring body modification over apparel. Women free from the devastating effects of gravity would be able to fully celebrate the liberation of their endowments. There would also have to be exercise areas where half-G conditions exist lest the body deteriorate. Those same endowments bouncing with half the burden.
Floating tattooed boobies! That's what space migration is really all about. And scientific endeavor, human progress, blah, blah, blah...
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Occam's Razor leads me to suspect that if the government had a choice between a spending trillions of dollars on a scientificly dubious mission to send humans to the moon to plant a flag, or a couple million to build an elaborate soundstage to score a PR coup with the same effect, they'd go with the more expensive and wasteful of the options.
And I'll give up every last item I own, every last penny in my bank account and 401k, to get into space and see floating tattooed boobies.
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