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http://www.lunarcc.org/

maybe the latter?

oh dear.

Good idea done badly.

I sincerely hope their colonisation skills are better than their web design skills.

Mind you, the merchandise is nice.

2016-001 Construction of space gun commences

intresting,

When I was much younger I ploughed a load of money (by my standards, not by a rich person's standards) into a project to build a brand new country by dumping concrete on some shallow sea somewhere. The plan was in place with rules for government, economy, immigration and everything. I signed up as a citizen-to-be and awaited my early-resident passport and regular updates.

It was all for real because I saw it on a web site, and this was circa 1993 / 94 before anything bad had appeared on the InterNet.

I'm still waiting...

So, this Luna City ... who do I need to send my money to? This time, I want a name.

You should meet my cousin in Nigeria

SandJ wrote:

When I was much younger I ploughed a load of money (by my standards, not by a rich person's standards) into a project to build a brand new country by dumping concrete on some shallow sea somewhere. The plan was in place with rules for government, economy, immigration and everything. I signed up as a citizen-to-be and awaited my early-resident passport and regular updates.

It was all for real because I saw it on a web site, and this was circa 1993 / 94 before anything bad had appeared on the InterNet.

I'm still waiting...

So, this Luna City ... who do I need to send my money to? This time, I want a name.

I'm guessing you haven’t learned your lesson? Scammers are good at lying, but when it's all said and done, that's all it is.

Be skeptical. Hold onto your money, and don't invest 'till they have something concrete (pun intended) to show to the press.

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

SandJ wrote:

So, this Luna City ... who do I need to send my money to? This time, I want a name.

I'm guessing you haven’t learned your lesson? Scammers are good at lying, but when it's all said and done, that's all it is.

Be skeptical. Hold onto your money, and don't invest 'till they have something concrete (pun intended) to show to the press.

I was trying to be funny.

In my younger days I trusted everyone.

Now I'm older, wiser, cynical and poorer.

Thargoid wrote:

And when you get there, all tired and grumpy and don't fancy cooking dinner...

You could always dial-out for pizza

How stupid is that? This is no doubt to capitalize on the release of that apollo 18 movie. Making a pizza on the moon requires all the food ingredients of modern society be already produced there. They will be the last thing to be on the moon after a self sustaining colony is already there. Like the early settlers of north america, colonists of the moon will have a one way ticket. Unlike them however, lunar colonists will have to be highly intelligent and creative jack of all trade types that can do everything that needs to be done to survive in an airless dump with no life that requires technology to survive. The skill set will be enormous and 90% of people are not up to that task.

Just wanting to go and having money will not be enough. If on the other hand you get a knock on the door by a couple of government types who say your the classic underacheiving loner that can stand the isolation of a one way trip and they want to give you 5 years of basic skill training and send you there, by all means take the opportunity to get off of this rock, if only to leave a corpse for posterity where it shouldn't be.

Thargoid wrote:

And when you get there, all tired and grumpy and don't fancy cooking dinner...

You could always dial-out for pizza

Time for a Pizza Station OXP, with YAH ads to match...

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

If on the other hand you get a knock on the door by a couple of government types who say your the classic underacheiving loner that can stand the isolation of a one way trip and they want to give you 5 years of basic skill training and send you there, by all means take the opportunity to get off of this rock, if only to leave a corpse for posterity where it shouldn't be.

If I'd read that 35 years ago, I'd have made it my life's ambition.

SandJ wrote:

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

If on the other hand you get a knock on the door by a couple of government types who say your the classic underacheiving loner that can stand the isolation of a one way trip and they want to give you 5 years of basic skill training and send you there, by all means take the opportunity to get off of this rock, if only to leave a corpse for posterity where it shouldn't be.

If I'd read that 35 years ago, I'd have made it my life's ambition.

Hehe! But underacheivers have no ambition, thus the title of underacheiver. Most underacheivers are usually so on the surface based on society's crude measuring stick of money, power and fame. Underneath many are artists and intellectuals who only accomplish things of interest to fill the need to express thier creative passions, solely for thier own amusement and if others find it useful then so much the better.

Even if you had made it your life's ambition 35 years ago it would only have increased your chance of going to the moon slightly. If the black budget of the United States(30 to 50 $billion/year) had been spent on moon colonization every year since the last moon landing, you would have been able to go, I'm sure. It was out of your hands no matter what. On the other hand, as soon as rocket parts become as cheap and reliable as the average family sedan, underacheivers will own the place. Nothing motivates the underachiever like the actual realistic possibility of acheiving their dream or passion.