If you were chosen to go to the moon....

[Hartmann]

My telescope
A laptop for web cam, stars charts and maps, Camera
A rover

i could imagine a clear sky with no city lights, no visible dust, no turbulence...wow :thumbup:

 

[Spicer]

I'd take a Phillies hat, my lacrosse stick, and my ipod so I could listen to Dark Side of the Moon...

 

[ThatGuy]

I'd take a *Yankees* hat, my lacrosse stick, and my ipod so I could listen to Dark Side of the Moon...

I fixed it! :lol:

I would take a camera, a box, and my old desktop computer.

The camera for the obvious,
the box so I can take some moon back with me,
And my old computer because...
http://s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc127/TheRejected_1/?action=view&current=OfficeSpacePrinter.flv (explicit)

 

[Star Voyager]

I'd actually love to bring my girlfriend. Too bad she's afraid of heights :lol:!

 

[jinglesassy]

yeah propose after landing on the lunar surface :rofl:

 

[Ark]

I'd actually love to bring my girlfriend. Too bad she's afraid of heights :lol:!

"Look, honey, we're 200,000 miles above ground!"

"..."

 

[Star Voyager]

I tried taking her flying once and she nearly turned white when I asked her if she wanted to go .

 

[Sky Captain]

Okay, that's it. I'm bringing a rifle, too.

Don't want to miss out on the first off-planet range meet.

Careful with guns. Since there is no atmosphere and orbital velocity is low there is slight chance that bullet orbits the Moon and hits you.

 

[C3PO]

3 things? :hmm:

• Oxygen
• Water
• Food

And I wouldn't spend much time reading books.

 

[Andy44]

Let me add a Yankees hat to go with my rifle.

So when I get to the moon I have a good target.

Go Phils.

 

[ThatGuy]

Let me add a Yankees hat to go with my rifle.

So when I get to the moon I have a good target.

Go Phils.

Yankees for the WIN!

 

[Belisarius]

A funny post related to this topic in Emails From Crazy People, though here it's Mars not the Moon the crazy person wants to visit.

http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/2009/10/31/i-want-to-make-an-alein-too/

 

[T.Neo]

Careful with guns. Since there is no atmosphere and orbital velocity is low there is slight chance that bullet orbits the Moon and hits you.

That depends on if the muzzle velocity of the weapon.

AFAIK most rifles have a muzzle velocity of 700-900 m/s.

Lunar orbital velocity is 1500 m/s.

If it managed to attain an orbit, it'd probably crash into a mountain before it circled around the planet.

 

[RisingFury]

AFAIK most rifles have a muzzle velocity of 700-900 m/s.

In Earth's atmosphere........

 

[Ghostrider]

In Earth's atmosphere........

It would only be marginally higher in a vacuum, and the big difference afterwards is that the bullet would not slow due to atmospheric drag. Of course there would be some drop due to gravity pulling the bullet down but the round would retain most of its original kinetic energy throughout the flight.

Ricochets would be murderous indeed...

 

[kneejo]

i would not think about wha to do on the moon, since I'd be there only for a short period of time. I'd try to take something against the boredom on the long flight going there and back. A laptop with wireless internet hooked up to the deepspace antenna, my favourite online multiplayer games and a couple ounces of you-know-what.. and some extra carbon filters to keep the cabin-air relatively breathable.. space... ahh..

 

[The 2-Belo]

1) I'm pretty sure the consensus is on "a camera" as the first thing we'd choose to bring with us, but allow me to get specific here and go for "the best high-definition video camera unit available". If you think Kaguya looked great from dozens of miles up in orbit, imagine having one of those babies on the lunar surface with free EVAs to play with?

2) A ground vehicle. I'm not getting stuck walking around a LM for all that time with nothing to do but lope around nearby craters; I want to cover some serious mileage. And since this is a short-term stay I'll forego the later concept vehicles and just take an old Apollo-era rover, which remains the Ultimate 4x4 (you can't get any more "off-road" than the Moon).

3) I want to travel 200,000 miles across the emptiness of space; make a soft landing on Earth's only satellite; egress from the spacecraft; travel about 25km out into the lonely expanse of lunar dust where no human has ever ventured -- indeed, where there hasn't been any activity of any kind, except for the occasional micrometeroid impact, for literally two billion years; reach into a utility pack on the side of my PLSS; and, while standing in the silent lunar vacuum that is as old as time itself, gently deposit...


... a Smurf doll.

 

[jinglesassy]

1)

... a Smurf doll.

good one :lol:

 

[daniash]

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[Unstung]

As long as there's a window in the craft and a camera (Along with all the required instruments/equipment).