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
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2026
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The touching story of one man's search for himself... and he finds himself freaking everywhere...
"You were right Jeff, airing the moon base is indeeed a bad idea, my mistake."
Oh man, I kinda forgot this movie existed
Not until the current leadership is gone.
Wait! This gives me an idea how to kill two birds with one stone.
Just don't send Gordo. And also no ants!
Fair, but do we then not get super-sweet white M-16's?
I'm behind, so far Gordo went to a psychiatrist here.
Then I will say no more about events themselves. The show itself can be up and down, but it's always worth the ride, IMHO.
Sure is! I saw the first episode many years back, it was good, but it was kinda slow. For some reason I forgot about it and now it popped up again. And now I can't stop watching.
It's a sad state when my first thought going on a mission like this would be "but what if the politics change and I get stranded there?"
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SpaceX credits. Redemption not guaranteed
My parents to me one second after hearing about Jonny Kim: "why u no astronaut yet?"
(I'm Asian)
Lowercase "Nasa"?
NASAL
I mean, Markiplier loves space. He'd probably enlist.
I'd only weigh 46lbs on the moon 😃
I hope my legs don't break, walking on the moon.
Holy fuck that's my wallpaper
Fuck that idea with a rusty cactus.
The moon sucks. Sure, it’s pretty from here but living there would be super dangerous.
I've got some bad news for you. Living on Earth is also dangerous... although I will admit at least here you can go outside.
Almost every place on Earth is easier to live in than any place on the Moon.
Speaking about physical conditions and not political circumstances.
Colonizing everything from the Antarctic to the North Pole is more plausible than settling the Moon. Including oceans.
But the Moon is nice (not talking about regolith that erodes solid materials like diamond dust) compared to the ideas of inhabited space stations in Lagrange points.
My personal favorite is the idea of a colony someplace with gravity and melted water, but chemical makeup of many Solar system bodies is unclear and I'm not sufficiently learned. But that, provided the ability to regularly supply that and communicate with that, could really spawn a self-supporting colony that can survive on its own. Eventually. After Earth turns into something resembling Coruscant or Trantor.
The atmosphere and magnetosphere are really important to me.
No way