Maybe one day this will be our view of the moon? (x post from r/futurology)

stillnotking · 1 day

Hello 2012 people,

Hope you're enjoying your flying cars and remembering to take your food pills! Can't wait to meet you!

Sincerely,
The 1950s

bachrock37 · 1 day

According to Star Trek, I believe that would be New Berlin. Apparently we will be living there in 57 years.

classic__schmosby · 1 day

From what I've heard we will most likely colonize the poles, as they will see a steadier temperature.

fubes2000 · 1 day

Futurology is superstition and hokum.

Futuronomy is where the real science happens.

Grabthelifeyouwant · 1 day

New Zealand is on the moon?

metarinka · 1 day

Hopefully by then we will be using something more efficient than sodium vapor lights.

I predict that in my lifetime sodium vapor lights will fall out of use in the united states and people will reminisce over the golden-hued nightscapes.

krenzo · 2012-09-17T01:32:35-07:00

Actually, thanks to time travel, we know this is what our view of the moon will be.

mcstafford · 1 day

That image really tweaked me for a moment there. I have never really considered that level of population to be likely, despite absolutely loving The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

cutthroattrick · 1 day

I feel like people are not understanding the awesomeness that is this image.

Whether or not it is possible, it is still an amazing thought. Yet we will never know what is to come in the far future.

Gabetheoptimist · 1 day

Nope. A large population on the moon would be impractical and wouldn't be worth the expenses. It's basically a very hot and extremely cold desert with no atmosphere that you have to spend billions of dollars to move resources 384,400 km to and from.

In the future It might be good for research or just a tourism place for the extremely wealthy but that will probably be it.

...that was oddly pessimistic.

Roo_Rocket · 2012-09-17T05:31:52-07:00

That's no moon, it's a space station!

learntofart · 1 day

Isn't the moon just a barren rock though? I can't imagine having to live there being anything desirable. I mean, the novelty of "Yeah bitch, living on the moooooon" can't last an entire lifetime of having to resort to living in a contained environment, completely dependent of outside sources and under constant threat of imminent death upon any sizable malfunction. Given from what I understand, the moon doesn't have an impacting atmosphere, it wouldn't even do a proper job at thwarting debris, making living there even more of a gamble. Maybe I'm just overthinking it.

salg622 · 1 day

Made me think...

fogburner · 1 day

First thought, "that would be cool."

COXIMUS · 1 day

Only $1 million for a trip to the moon... I've started my fund

The_guy_behind_you · 1 day

People with ocd are gonna be pissed

Chiefzakk · 1 day

That would be a spectacular sight

realyfckingsarcastic · 2012-09-17T10:46:13+00:00

More likely it will be a giant McDonald's logo.

fagalisk3 · 2012-09-17T11:01:24+00:00

Why would you ever want to live on the moon? Dirty, cold, shitty, no trees, nothing even to mine, except helium 3 and dirt. I can understand putting radio telescopes on the far side, but as for the rest of it, ew.

second_hand_condom · 2012-09-17T11:07:22+00:00

Heil Kortzfleisch!

Potater757 · 2012-09-17T11:23:31+00:00

Not without Gingrich. (I'm with Newt, 2012).

Danny_Bomber · 2012-09-17T05:40:20-07:00

Who spilled mustard on the moon?

trainsacrossthesea · 1 day

"Our" view? I doubt it. Somebody's, someday? I like to think so.

moshbeard · 2012-09-17T09:36:44+00:00

You know what, I've never even considered this. It gives me a strange mix of emotions, on one hand it'll be pretty spectacular to look at the sky and realise we've come so far that we're not just stuck on this little planet any more but on the other hand it'll be quite sad to see we've began to ruin the rest of the universe too.

dunfy · 2012-09-17T01:07:11-07:00

I really hope I get to see this in my life time.

little_gnora · 1 day

I very much so doubt it, but it's a stunning thought.

plutonn · 2012-09-17T08:01:58+00:00

I am fully erect.

simjanes2k · 2012-09-17T01:19:56-07:00

Shit, I hope I have a nice view of Earth from there. Maybe my dim-witted and/or poor friends can wave at me from their hometown back on Earth.

rekgreen · 1 day

Wow, awesome.

ITSxDARE · 2012-09-17T08:43:28+00:00

THAT WOULD BE FUCKING AWESOME

Zermerus · 2012-09-17T02:25:27-07:00

Wait until Handsome Jack shows up...

manbeartruck · 2012-09-17T09:40:34+00:00

now I'm sad because I know nothing like this will happen in my lifetime.

IanMc90 · 2012-09-17T09:44:47+00:00

That's no moon...

MindSecurity · 2012-09-17T09:54:35+00:00

2012: When everything is made out of corn or China.

ThisisIp · 2012-09-17T03:01:45-07:00

I just got a science boner

howfun · 2012-09-17T03:03:15-07:00

http://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=GR78L89A

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS Written by Robert Heinlein

Mannex · 2012-09-17T03:04:30-07:00

I always scoff at the supposed wonders that science proposes to offer but I even have to admit this would be baller

argv_minus_one · 2012-09-17T10:10:07+00:00

That would be so awesome.

nicePenguin · 2012-09-17T10:27:08+00:00

That Moon is way too big / too close to earth

stuartcho · 2012-09-17T10:40:20+00:00

Breathtaking

philmoskowitz · 2012-09-17T03:46:52-07:00

We're too busy protecting the corporate production roadmap so that revenue streams are protected to ever make any real progress anymore. Out of context concepts and real groundbreaking ideas are quashed in some way or another.

We'll never be ready for that incoming meteor that's coming to kill us.

Newshoe · 2012-09-17T10:53:25+00:00

We're whalers on the Moon
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune

Fhwqhgads · 2012-09-17T04:17:19-07:00

Maybe if we had built on Neil Armstrong's achievement and kept going there regularly we'd have something up there by now. But it's been 40 years since anyone's been there.

BeatsbyChrisBrown · 2012-09-17T11:27:15+00:00

Thought it was gonna have "CHA" on it...see if anyone gets this reference...

Frankeh · 2012-09-17T11:31:17+00:00

Very unlikely. There's shit all up there.

stry8993 · 2012-09-17T11:34:12+00:00

You'll like this then!!! The Time Machine - 2002 - Moon Scene and this too http://youtu.be/kiCHjfXP9_M sorry for the cheesy music, not my vid.

herpesboy · 2012-09-17T04:36:30-07:00

with out bullets i'll have to result to STABBING!

DeltaTeam · 2012-09-17T11:41:03+00:00

Those stars

speaktodragons · 2012-09-17T04:41:50-07:00

This would be a better goal for the US than continually screwing around in the middle east.

PizzaGood · 2012-09-17T11:48:28+00:00

While I share the hope that we'll someday get off this rock (it's my biggest hope for the species)...

Hopefully by the time we get to the moon we won't be wasting power lighting up the sky like that.

It makes me sad to see "earth at night" posters - light pollution is ugly.

Doubly so on the moon - in order to shield against radiation there, we'll be living underground. There won't be any reason to have lights on the surface other than landing guidance.

bananaskates · 2012-09-17T11:53:05+00:00

I hope so, because it would be awesome. Almost as awesome as if I was looking back the other way.

Stall0ne · 2012-09-17T11:54:02+00:00

All your base are belong to us!

conkyflsm · 2012-09-17T12:03:14+00:00

Is the moon on fucking fire?! Why would you want this?!

Nihilgeist · 2012-09-17T05:03:52-07:00

Certainly not in our lifetimes.

mickygeeofNT · 2012-09-17T12:17:22+00:00

Is that a city or nuclear waste?

skepsis420 · 2012-09-17T05:21:56-07:00

seems so pointless to colonize the moon......earth not good enough?

the_man_downunder · 2012-09-17T12:25:24+00:00

Ahh.. Isn't the scale of that roughly equivalent to a structure the size of Italy?

mjm8218 · 2012-09-17T05:29:33-07:00

I hope light pollution will be much better controlled by then.

psych00range · 2012-09-17T12:30:11+00:00

would be sick..one question how do you get electricity, running water and natural gas on the moon to sustain that much life? i mean you could use solar power but not everything can be run on solar power yet.

saucysteak · 2012-09-17T05:32:08-07:00

And to think people laughed at Newt Gingrich when he proposed this idea.

rikashiku · 2012-09-17T12:38:25+00:00

Is it me, or does that look kinda like New Zealand?

Stevenup7002 · 2012-09-17T12:54:32+00:00

Well I hope the lights won't be so... yellow. It looks as if someone sneezed on the moon.

Jrook · 2012-09-17T06:00:50-07:00

Oh yeah great just what we need. giant moon boogers

Tearill · 2012-09-17T06:11:28-07:00

I hope not.

strik3r2k8 · 2012-09-17T13:28:35+00:00

Then they discover an unknown material that seeps through the suits and causes a sickness that spreads. Communication is lost with the colony, thousands of people are cut off. A team is sent there to investigate only to be greeted by the horrifying creatures who live underground and carry a parasite they they are immune to but killed off the colonists.

And now that I think of it, I had to change it from "creatures that were once the colonists" to "creatures that carried a disease that killed off the colonists" in order for it not to sound like Dead Space, but now it sounds like "Apollo 18 Pt2"..

worldofoz · 2012-09-17T13:28:38+00:00

Oh I hope not...

criticalnegation · 2012-09-17T06:29:08-07:00

the whole thorium thing has me thinking about this a lot...there are thorium deposits on the moon, thus local sources of energy.

StormMind · 2012-09-17T06:36:42-07:00

Cocoon

Juandough · 2012-09-17T06:39:49-07:00

I bet it will have giant LED signs for advertising....

ShitOnMyFartingBoner · 2012-09-17T06:41:28-07:00

Nah, probably not.

bttheolgee · 2012-09-17T06:48:55-07:00

NEWT'S ANSWER FOR AMERICA

joho0 · 2012-09-17T13:49:41+00:00

Is that the glow of radioactive fallout left over from the First Lunar War?

bilateralchicken · 2012-09-17T13:53:16+00:00

That looks like some Twilight Princess shit right there.

VWBusMan · 2012-09-17T13:53:54+00:00

There is hope for the Chinese overpopulation problem...

darknite311 · 2012-09-17T13:56:00+00:00

Doubtfull unless we alter the moons gravity levels to something more suitable for us to live with.

Ztiller · 2012-09-17T14:05:59+00:00

What furstrates me the most is that we have the technology for this. But (understandably) nobody is willing to spend the resources on it.

pontusky · 2012-09-17T07:14:58-07:00

Its actually not impossible to terraform mars

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