Monday's Missives

• I wonder how many sit coms and movies have used the old gag of a tourist handing their camera off to a local to take a picture of them in front of a landmark and the guy runs off with the camera? A Mr. Bean episode was just on that used it and with some thought I think I could come up with specific other shows, but I know I've seen it multiple times.



• If money were no object I'd: have the worlds largest privately owned library of autographed books.



• The lunar space colony lunacy being talked about shows just how unimaginative we really are. The politicians using that idea want to sound bold, friendly to science, tech savvy and give the country a goal to unite under. There are more pressing problems in space (our odd lack of understanding of the sun being a big one). It's as if- the US, after solving all her other problems decides to build a gazillion dollar gerbil habitat on a moon. I think we'd be amazed how much better off we'd be if made and sold more things in the private sector and cut down on waste and fraud in the public sector and minded our own beeswax a bit more.



• Yes, somebody will have to go at some point to extract helium when we finally pull our heads out and figure out how to use fusion to produce energy, but that won't require a full on colony and to whatever extent it's colonised for that purpose it should be multinational. Regardless- we'll have to pull our heads out first.



• Anyway, what will we do about the Nazis that have been living on the dark side of the moon for the past 70 years?



• I mean really, think about it- Space Nazis!



• Shudder...