To be fair it's looking increasingly likely that it will be China and not the US that will be making actual moon bases.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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For sure. Maybe once every few months the US will contract spaceX to throw a tesla at the PRC's moon base just to be annoying.
like how they used to catapult rotting corpses into besieged enemy walls to spread pestilence. lol
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"Increasingly likely" is undercutting it.
haha yeah it's almost certain at this point
Pick one:
- How it looks
- What it looks like
FUCKING THANK YOU, this is one of my biggest unreasonable pet peeves.
People think normal people will be able to go to the moon base and it won't just be penthouses for the 1% to rule the Earth from somewhere that Mario's brother can't get to?
- only scientists
- urbanisation
Kinda the plot of Robinson's Mars trilogy.
Lol .... when we go to terraform a planet with a new atmosphere ...... it will immediately be just pollution that will cause runaway global warming.
*if America was the one doing the colonizing
I was imagining tunnels underground. Like lava tubes.
The Moonday Letters touches upon some of this in an interesting way.
Not exactly cyberpunk but very much with the bitter taste of lingering capitalism.
The meme creator forgot the nuclear power plant NASA is going to build
An Exxon gas station!? Really?
Was this picture made in 2005?
You're more likely to find a charging station with SGCC written on it if you're lucky,
because it'll more likely be 国家电网 as latin letters will have lost all status.
Kids these days don't even recognize the interstate pitstop hellzone meme smdh
Why is Diogenes in that picture lol