Why start a blog about the moon? Surely there are more important things to write about - reducing climate change, improving human nutrition, creating more green spaces, helping the elderly. These are all important and amazing things are happening in these areas and many others. People are looking beyond fixing, changing and improving and starting to think about what is really possible.
What inspires and excites me about living on the moon is that it will take new thinking and new possibilities. We are lucky to have our spaceship moon. No other rocky planet has a moon like ours. It's a perfect place to observe the universe, explore low gravity and launch space probes to other planets.
A year ago I had a thought: What would it be like to host an Olympic Games on the moon? I decided to write a short story called 'Being on the Moon' set to take place 100 year from now. I really enjoyed thinking what it would be like to live up there and had fun basing characters in the story on the team mates I worked with over the past year on Landmark Education’s Team, Management and Leadership Program.Then after completing the story I had another thought: Why 2112? Why not 2032? What was I waiting for? Maybe I could get to visit the moon myself.
What would it take to have a settlement on the moon in the next 20 years?. Astronomers, science fiction writers, entrepreneurs, please post your thoughts! Is my idea of a care home on the moon so far-fetched? Where elderly people can enjoy easy mobility and have some fun in their lives. Following the hugely successful Hubble Telescope wouldn't the moon be a perfect place to build a new large telescope to observe new planets outside our solar system? Then if we did encounter extra terrestrial life we might be better able to get into communication. Any thoughts, any ideas?
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