7:59 AM Mr. Brown
I was reading about the possibility of aliens on the Moon again.
8:02 AM Mr. Brown
8:51 AM Mr. Silver
I don't get aliens on the Moon.
8:51 AM Mr. Brown
Well there are only a few good reasons for us not going back.
1. We did not go to begin with.
2. Aliens told us to leave.
3. There is nothing there worth going back for.
8:52 AM Mr. Silver
I don't see any point for aliens being there.
8:55 AM Mr. Brown
The only reason for being there would be to watch us. Otherwise there is nothing there.
Or its a gas station.
Stop in, get some pancakes, fill up then head out.
LOL
8:56 AM Mr. Silver
"IHOP - Interstellar House of Pancakes"
8:56 AM Mr. Brown
lol
It all makes sense now. That’s why they are out of this world good!
8:57 AM Mr. Silver
“The Apollo guys tracked in a lot of dirt, made a mess with the syrup, shot off their mouths and started a fight. The manager told us to leave and not come back."
8:58 AM Mr. Brown
Stupid humans; they’re always dirty.
Such loudmouths too.
8:58 AM Mr. Silver
It all seems so pointless to sit up there, though, when they could just set up here.
8:59 AM Mr. Brown
Well, there could be something left up there. Like somebody was there, but not there when we went.
But there was really nothing for us to do there so we left and did not go back. Just a lot of rocks and dirt.
Nothing good for us on Earth there and not worth the effort to go back.
I believe in the ‘not worth the effort to go back” theory.
There was just nothing special up there like we thought there would be. No special elements or anything for us to mine.
9:01 AM Mr. Silver
"No cheese!"
12:03 PM Mr. Brown
Let’s change the color of the Moon; make it blue.
12:03 PM Mr. Silver
So "Once in a blue moon" would mean "Every night"
12:05 PM Mr. Brown
Currently we are all still going on the assumption that NASA is really not sending anybody else up there.
They could still be doing it in secret.
12:06 PM Mr. Blue
I don't think they could possibly send someone to the Moon secretly. Rockets aren't very quiet.
12:07 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah, but if they did not announce it as a lunar launch and just as a satellite one, we would not know the difference.
12:07 PM Mr. Silver
Money isn't really quiet either.
"We'd like to audit you on this 50 billion dollar hole in your accounts."
Not that NASA gets any serious money these days.
12:10 PM Mr. Silver
NASA - $18.7 billion, DARPA - $3.2 billion, Dept Of Defense - $680 billion (declared)
12:13 PM Mr. Brown
We should send some monkeys to the Moon.
12:15 PM Mr. Blue
Why would we send monkeys to the Moon, Mr. Brown?
12:15 PM Mr. Brown
Something to do.
LOL
12:15 PM Mr. Silver
It's very Disney.
12:15 PM Mr. Brown
Send them up, teach them how to get out of the capsule walk around a bit.
Just for fun.
12:16 PM Mr. Blue
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a bigger waste of money.
"Let's build a time machine and send Bob Saget to meet Charlemagne!"
"Or we could…we could send an egg into the future!"
12:16 PM Mr. Silver
"Houston. The chimps have finished expanding the jungle gym."
"Roger, Simian One. Proceed with Operation: Moon Antics. Release the bananas."
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
It *would* be funny if we found evidence of an advanced life form somewhere in the galaxy, and we’d sent chimps on the mission.
12:18 PM Mr. Brown
Yes.
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
"Hi! Here we are! We're from Earth! *throws feces*"
"Can we eat your faces?"
12:23 PM Mr. Brown
We could put a face on the Moon.
So we’d actually have The Man in the Moon.
12:25 PM Mr. Blue
It should be Steven Seagal's face.
12:27 PM Mr. Silver
Alfred E. Neuman’s? "What? Me Earthling?"
12:29 PM Mr. Blue
We should put something on the far side of the Moon, since that's what would be seen by another species.
Somehow convey "DON'T TREAD ON ME" in picture form.
12:31 PM Mr. Silver
"Beware of the Humans"
12:31 PM Mr. Brown
“Free Pancakes”
“Stop at our IHOP”
12:32 PM Mr. Blue
What about one of those outlines of a woman you see on mudflaps?
It would convey to all alien races that we are advanced enough to complete such a colossal undertaking, but still primitive enough that we subject 51% of our population to rampant sexism and gender discrimination.
12:41 PM Mr. Brown
Truthfully there is no reason to go to Mars either, but we are looking at doing it.
12:42 PM Mr. Blue
People made a lot of money off of the technology that we've developed for space travel.
12:42 PM Mr. Brown
I would rather spend time coming up with a way to get to something that is at least close to what Earth is like now.
12:42 PM Mr. Silver
A whole LOT of time....
That's the Moon/alien problem, of course.
12:43 PM Mr. Silver
Such aliens are either local, nigh immortal, totally converted to centuries of spacefaring, or can dimension hop.
Light speed is too slow.
12:45 PM Mr. Silver
I'm all in favor of not wasting any more time in space until we can ignore the D or the R or the T in D=R*T
1:07 PM Mr. Blue
1:08 PM Mr. Pink
That thing is serious.
1:08 PM Mr. Blue
If that's it in the picture, it looks practically new.
1:21 PM Mr. Silver
"We polished it for the camera and made sure the pins were tight with a hammer."
1:21 PM Mr. Brown
I wonder how many pictures from NASA probes that we are not allowed to see.
1:35 PM Mr. Blue
Why wouldn't be allowed to see them?
1:35 PM Mr. Silver
http://www.ramimassoud.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ancient-aliens-guy-350x306.png
2:19 PM Mr. Brown
I’m sure there are pictures the rover has sent back that NASA will not show us.
There are plenty of space pictures they will not show us.
2:20 PM Mr. Silver
“Blurry…camera strap in shot…is that your finger in front of the lens? We can’t show these to the public.”
2:34 PM Mr. Blue
I mean, evidence of an alien race, and a possible threat to our own species, would probably be the greatest thing to ever happen to mankind. Wars would end immediately.
2:36 PM Mr. Silver
Hehehe
Such faith in human nature, Mr. Blue. My faith in them is from the opposite direction, I'm afraid...
2:37 PM Mr. Blue
Well, I’m not saying it'd go smoothly. We'd still be bent on destruction; it's just that we'd be bent on destroying some threat from another world.
2:45 PM Mr. Brown
We would not unite until we know we all will die unless we fight together.
2:45 PM Mr. Silver
Good luck with that.
One thing Carl Sagan got right in "Contact"…the alien strategy for revealing themselves to Earth.
"Don't bother going to Earth...just send the entire plans and instructions for a vehicle, in multi-layered code, to the entire planet for a year, and see if they are smart enough to figure it out. If they’re not...F 'em."
2:49 PM Mr. Silver
Near the end of the book it was:
"Hey! Congratulations! You passed step #1 and might get in the club one day. Incidentally, the machine that brought you here only works once, we’re wiping the tapes, and no one will believe your reports. Test #2 in your application is figuring out how to get back here without any help."
2:53 PM Mr. Silver
(Incidentally, an international team went on that trip, not just "Elly" like in the movie version.)
2:58 PM Mr. Brown
3:03 PM Mr. Blue
Too much nonsense to sift through. Oh, I see, it's based on a novel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril
3:07 PM Mr. Silver
Yup
3:07 PM Mr. Brown
Yep, it’s the Vril stuff again. I keep running into that.
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
I was watching a thing on Nazi UFO stuff and the Vril came up:
"Uh...you documentary people know that was all made up, right?"
3:08 PM Mr. Gray
I saw that.
3:12 PM Mr. Blue
We say the same about Mormonism and Scientology.
That is: "You people know that was all made up, right?"
3:15 PM Mr. Brown
The story is that this race gave us vril energy to use to try to end our wars.
3:18 PM Mr. Blue
That’s it?
3:19 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah. They said we have war because of fighting over resources, so they wanted to get us an endless supply of super-versatile energy to stop the war.
3:21 PM Mr. Blue
Well, that was pretty stupid of them. Not unless they gave it to literally every single person on Earth.
3:21 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah. We are not smart enough to use it.
LOL
3:21 PM Mr. Brown
We made war machines instead.
3:22 PM Mr. Silver
Non-vril-powered ones.
3:22 PM Mr. Blue
Heh, yeah. We like war.
3:22 PM Mr. Blue
But we apparently don't like vril tech.
3:26 PM Mr. Silver
Hitler "Well...We could use this magic stuff that can harm, heal ,control the mind and provide endless power to win the war. But that would irritate Big Oil."
Vril "Woah...yeah...got a point. Nevermind."
Mr. Yellow
I am spending money.
It turns out I need to spend another $7000 today for a piece of equipment.
2:42 PM Mr. Silver
"Mr. Yellow...this entry for 'Techy stuff...you wouldn't understand.' for $7000 on this cash requisition. What is it for?"
"Techy stuff. You wouldn't understand."
"Ah. OK."
2:44 PM Mr. Yellow
sigh. Too bad my boss knows what all the requisitions are for.
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