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An international lunar base could be achieved, with like, a really good hit pop song that brings world peace (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago by loldog191@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
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k im like really high but are there more realistic ways of steering our history towards international cooperation to create a moon base with scientists from around the world, like a lunar ISS but that welcomes all nationalities. imagine the combined efforts of the american and chinese space administrations working together; scientists from japan to iran, india to south america, coordinating. i also think there should be more space laws, cuz our low earth orbit is getting trashed. maybe lasers could be used to form junkyard rings around our planet.

but i know that it's inevitable that no matter what laws there are, tourist traps and a mall will be built by neil armstrong's footprints. but i want that future where people can get an overpriced t-shirt saying something corny like "The Eagle Has Landed" with a greenscreened photo of themselves standing beside the lunar module.

anyways like, how would lyrics to a world peace song go?

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[–] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

We Are The Moon

[–] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

submitted for the international space goodwill playlist: Satellite by Bebe Rexha and Snoop "Gay people scare me" Dogg

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

the base needs a greenhouse to grow moon marijuana

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Moonbase Salvia

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

cool i learned that the moon is gay and hollow, and that a lunar restaurant would hold a captive customer base

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re such a Debbie downer bruh

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sometimes life feels like a rollercoaster, but the track is in a superposition state where i'm simultaneously being pushed up and falling down and turning right and left, and all at different angles.

but as long as we all help one another, we can make each other feel like we're on a smooth train ride together, comfortably going to where we need to be.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hit pop song plays while every culture brings its best fried dough and desserts game. Hell yeah, world peace could be so simple

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

we need our top food scientists on this pronto

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pshh, make it a potluck!!!

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can I get French fries? How does grease work in space?

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

there's no buoyancy without gravity, so the steam evaporating from the fry creates an insulating bubble-blanket that stops it from cooking properly:

Gravity Effects on French Fry Cooking https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0963996922013072

so the fryer has to be on a centrifuge, but it's better to spin at 3g than 1g cuz it fries faster and forms a crispier crust.

the steam bubbles get pulled away faster in the increased buoyancy, so there's more heat transfer. past 3g's though, steam bubbles start forming inside the french fry to make hollow holes that could potentially explode during cooking. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0963996913005929

i dont know if this is useful information that you'll ever use

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

An Aussie rapper made a song about America's real life plan for the moon...

It's kind of upbeat:

Wake up, wake up, do you know where you are?

1969, welcome to the future

Tonight a rocket full of nukes and three heroic men

Travel to the moon to blow it up just to prove we can

Yeah, tonight we're blowing up the moon

Tonight we show the whole world just how smart we are

Tonight we prove it doesn't matter how fast you run

In the arms race when you're the one that's holding on that starter gun (bam!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VbrL65_RBo

[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

i like the part with the mood lights and falling confetti