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Funny stuff... and he's not joking about Bethel, either.

1 posted on 01/13/2004 1:02:37 PM PST by redpoll

I say that we round up all of our ILLEGAL ALIENS and send them to the moon. It would be interesting to see them try to make the "crossing" to get back here.

2 posted on 01/13/2004 1:07:02 PM PST by Howie66 (Lead, follow or git the hell out of the way!)

So, how soon can I move to Alaska?

3 posted on 01/13/2004 1:07:59 PM PST by Little Pig

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Ah to be inside again...

Seems like only yesterday, I was barely 18, living on the beach in Homer, working cannery/fishing/sawmill and whatever else I could do. I'll be back someday...
My kids still drool over some of the pictures I took way back then....

4 posted on 01/13/2004 1:10:07 PM PST by BallandPowder

Funny article. Agree that Alaskans have the gumption required to tackle this challenge. Californians would be looking for a Gold's Gym, nail salon or plastic surgeon within minutes after arrival on the moon, and there'd be major whining when they couldn't find one. It was a wonderful adventure living up there (Anchorage, not the moon) through the '70s and '80s. Real people. No whining. No prima donnas.

7 posted on 01/13/2004 1:22:06 PM PST by MayflowerMadam

The Moon couldn't be any more boring than Waco Texas!

8 posted on 01/13/2004 1:23:08 PM PST by Destructor

I see a couple of concerns though with sending Alaskans to the Moon.
First. They colonize the moon, and we all know how Alaskans LOVE to have their capital in a remote location.. They would move the Capital from Juneau to the moon, making all the work to get a highway built from Skagway to Juneau seem like a side street Pothole fill-in project.
Second. The proposed vehicle to get to and from the moon is the "Magnum" it's payload is only 80 tons.. 80 tons of Duct-tape.... would that be enough to last in between shipments?? After all Wasilla is the Duct-tape Capital of of the world according to 3M's last numbers.
Third. it would be an interesting race to see the 2012 Iditarod The First Great Race from Mare Imbrium to Eratosthenes.
Other than that, with enough beer those new fangled geodomes would look like Igloos..
Oh man... a thought just occured to me.. there are alotta dry towns out in the bush. would they make the moon dry as well??
Or With the anti-smokers making it illegal to smoke just about anywhere down here would they make the moon a nonsmoking moon?? I suppose smokers could just srep outside and light one up
;)

9 posted on 01/13/2004 2:53:01 PM PST by skyhntr (You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore- test pilot).)

"Funny stuff... and he's not joking about Bethel, either."

Or Chilkoot Charlie's. They used to put sawdust on the floors. I think it was to sop up the blood...

10 posted on 01/13/2004 3:13:56 PM PST by redhead (Les Français sont des singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage.)

Right up your alley, so to speak.

Enjoy!

13 posted on 01/13/2004 4:07:07 PM PST by petuniasevan (Eliminate government waste - No matter how much it costs!)

Why? Simple. Job opportunities.

Gov't construction projects. Perfect. The Alyeska Pipeline, TAPS, wasn't actually gov't, but next best thing to it.

14 posted on 01/13/2004 4:14:38 PM PST by RightWhale (How many technological objections will be raised?)

15 posted on 01/13/2004 10:19:26 PM PST by WhirlwindAttack (I thank you all for your prayers and help.)

Paging Astronaut Maurice Minnifield!

16 posted on 01/13/2004 10:30:59 PM PST by hunter112

The-Moon-Is-A-Harsh-Mistress bump!

17 posted on 01/14/2004 10:39:49 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)

Funny.

Lunar rovers can't catch a flat though since their tires are steel mesh.

19 posted on 01/17/2004 10:22:45 AM PST by Bogey78O (Why are we even having this debate?)

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