1. Today I finished reading Our Moon. The last two chapters focused on the Apollo program and beyond. These chapters looked at how the rocks the astronauts brought back to Earth have helped scientists better understand the geological history of the moon, which, in turn, informs our understanding of the geological history of Earth.
Rebecca Boyd also focused on the impact seeing Earth from outer space had on the astronauts and the kind of perspectives seeing pictures of Earth from so far away could potentially have on us here at home, with emphasis on how borderless Earth looks from afar and how nearly unimaginably miniscule Earth is in relation to the vastness of the space it occupies.
2. But for entrepreneurs, wealthy people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, the moon is not valuable for the geologic history it helps us understand nor does it have the spiritual value it has held for millennia for cultures worldwide.
No, it's a place to colonize, mine, and exploit.
The merging of science and scientific discovery with the development of wealth always complicates things.
The moon is no exception.
3. If we were to be given a READY evacuation order, after today, we are ready. If we were given a SET order, we could have the car loaded in under ten minutes and then we'd be ready to GO.
I have a couple of small things still to attend to -- things we'd be fine without -- but, on the whole, this project I've been slowly working on is in very good shape.
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