Would you be willing...

Gazza22 · 30-08-2005 09:41AM

Nah, i don't like that much isolation

Think i'll stay here

Dizzyblabla · 30-08-2005 09:48AM

hummm.... it's not an easy one, will there be cute men?
I think I'd love it though, as long as there were solariums or something, living underground, I'd suffer from SAD something awful...

Pigman II · 30-08-2005 10:19AM

Hmmm, get paid money to leave this country ..... I dunno. Will there be any black africans there?

Santa Claus · 30-08-2005 10:33AM

Hmm, thr north pole is getting a bit cold these days and I'm a bit sick of all the tourists trying to find my workshop.
Would there be a native race of moon creatures that I could train up to replace my elves ??

simu · 30-08-2005 12:07PM

I would consider it, depending on whether property rights were included and the positions available in administering 'New Hibernia'.

Yes - you will be able to own some property and some people will be working as administrators.

hummm.... it's not an easy one, will there be cute men?
I think I'd love it though, as long as there were solariums or something, living underground, I'd suffer from SAD something awful...

Well, there should be a good number of eligible young men there and some are bound to be cute. Yes, there will be solariums and so on - people need some comforts in life!

Will there be any black africans there?

Well, it will be an Irish, EU-backed project open to EU citizens so there probably will be some black Africans with EU nationality there.

Would there be a native race of moon creatures that I could train up to replace my elves ??

I'm afraid not, Santa dear. But make sure you don't forget the moon kids on Christmas Eve!

Pigman II · 30-08-2005 12:17PM

simu wrote:

Well, it will be an Irish, EU-backed project open to EU citizens so there probably will be some black Africans with EU nationality there.

Oh go on then! Just as long as you can get them to promise to keep their hands of my wimmen whilst I'm piloting the rocket or taking a dump in zero gravity.

pickarooney · 30-08-2005 12:26PM

I think the question everyone wants answered is "will there be scangers".

I'm out - if I wanted to live somewhere flat, boring with no atmosphere and a strong likelihood of getting stoned I'd move to Holland.

Sleepy · 30-08-2005 12:50PM

Nyeh, count me in, the ark concept has always fascinated me!

simu · 30-08-2005 03:37PM

pickarooney wrote:

I think the question everyone wants answered is "will there be scangers".

Well, probably not as everyone will have to have usefull skills and be willing to work reasonably hard.

Zapho · 30-08-2005 03:50PM

i'm gonna take my grant (couldn't be more than 2 grand if its the Irish gov) and head over to the Sea of Tranquility to pick up some power converters!

ambro25 · 30-08-2005 03:57PM

I *might* be interested... but in addition to Son_of_Belial quite reasonable demands (minus the yacht, that's just wasteful and so nouveau riche), I'll also want (non-negotiable):

(i) short-term, something to drive around for fun, with motricity and power plant tuned to account for the gravity/no atmosphere environment, a bit better than the 'ole Rover.

(ii) longer-term, transmissible exclusive mining and property rights for an area of my choosing and of no less than a thousand square kms, in which I may domicile anyone and in respect of which I may legislate and issue passports at will

(iv) I know you've mentioned artificial grav', but I'm not going if there isn't an 'anti-grav' facility where one can sh*g in zero-G

Naturally, I ask much as I have such a breadth of skills to offer

Son_of_Belial · 30-08-2005 05:25PM

pickarooney wrote:

if I wanted to live somewhere flat, boring with no atmosphere and a strong likelihood of getting stoned I'd move to Holland.

LMAO!! Fvcking genius, dude! Btw Ambro, the yacht is non-negotiable. I even have the plans below:

Sleepy · 30-08-2005 05:33PM

ambro25 wrote:

(iv) I know you've mentioned artificial grav', but I'm not going if there isn't an 'anti-grav' facility where one can sh*g in zero-G

You might be glad of the artificial gravity... they've done research on this in NASA and apparently the only position possible in zero-G is the 69

Franky Boy · 30-08-2005 09:42PM

I'm pretty sure i'm good where I am.

murphaph · 30-08-2005 09:57PM

simu wrote:

Yes - it would be part of the EU like French overseas territories.

So there'd be a pic of the moon inset on the Euro notes

, the same as French Guyana and those islands (they're on there-take a look at the bottom LH corner of the map of europe on any euro banknote!) By the way-Malta will never be shown on new prints of the Euro (current series) cos it's too small, bless 'em

Da Bounca · 31-08-2005 01:26AM

How large a community?

ambro25 · 31-08-2005 07:42AM

Sleepy wrote:

You might be glad of the artificial gravity... they've done research on this in NASA and apparently the only position possible in zero-G is the 69

Where there's a will...

simu · 01-09-2005 12:42AM

Ambro25, you could try negotiating for all that stuff but there are others who would be willing to make the move for less, i'd imagine.

murphaph wrote:

So there'd be a pic of the moon inset on the Euro notes , the same as French Guyana and those islands

Oh yeah!

Da Bounca wrote:

How large a community?

2,000 to start off with.

CrazySka · 01-09-2005 01:16AM

id agree, then run off with the grant money, build a fortress on the aran islands and declare myself an independant nation.

Son_of_Belial · 01-09-2005 04:10AM

john_dub wrote:

id agree, then run off with the grant money, build a fortress on the aran islands and declare myself an independant nation.

Lol, then I'd happily come over with my RDF Inf Platoon and kick seven shades of shít out of you. Amphibious invasion, helicopter insertion, we'd mess you up good. What good is your fortress without air superiority or even decent anti-air defences? Ever seen the business end of a GPMG MAG or an 81mm mortar? I'ma kill you boy!

ambro25 · 01-09-2005 08:15AM

simu wrote:

Ambro25, you could try negotiating for all that stuff but there are others who would be willing to make the move for less, i'd imagine.

Read the post - it's not open to "negotiation", it all depends on whether you want the benefit of my extensive and nigh-on supernatural skills in your lunar colony, and whether you agree with the worth I am putting on my contributing same to your lunar effort... It's not because we're going to the Moon and physics will be all funked up, that base mechanics of a market economy do not apply anymore

Sleepy · 01-09-2005 10:54AM

I think we'll leave ambro25 at home simu, he seems a little... needy...

ambro25 · 01-09-2005 11:00AM

Sleepy wrote:

I think we'll leave ambro25 at home simu, he seems a little... needy...

...of unbounded power over my fellow human beings and mass adulation by same, certainly

Oh well - Your loss

Santa Claus · 01-09-2005 11:53AM

Would there be hover cars ? (I take it as moon residents the Irish goverment would exempt us from VRT on them!)

whiskeyman · 01-09-2005 12:58PM

Will there be an annual "Miss Moon" pageant?
Can I have back-stage passes if so?

simu · 01-09-2005 01:15PM

ambro25 wrote:

...of unbounded power over my fellow human beings and mass adulation by same, certainly

Oh well - Your loss

/sniffs

Would there be hover cars ?

No. Just ground vechicles used mostly for work but they might offer scenic tours from time to time.

Will there be an annual "Miss Moon" pageant?
Can I have back-stage passes if so?

Well, if the local community want to get together and set such a competition up, why not. It might be good for morale. Get involved in organising it and I'm sure you'll get to meet all the girls.

Sarky · 01-09-2005 07:04PM

Sleepy wrote:

You might be glad of the artificial gravity... they've done research on this in NASA and apparently the only position possible in zero-G is the 69

They can do some wonderful things with velcro straps these days.

so I've heard.

*cough*

Anyway, sign me up. Sounds like an adventure. What harm is there in working hard when you're part of the next step in humanity's future, making something off our home planet fit for civilisation? Hell, it'd almost be worth it for the view alone.

Not to mention racing moonbuggies and jetpack shenanigans on our time off...

4Xcut · 01-09-2005 07:53PM

grimloch wrote:

what with the lack of 'proper' gravity and so forth.

It is proper gravity, its just weaker due to the substaltially smaller mass of the moon in comparison to the earth.[Earth=5.9742*10^24, Moon=7.36*10^22] Through the entire universe gravity has a force of 6.7*10^-11N. It's effect is calculeted using the square of the distances and the product of the masses: F=Gm1m2/r^2. The fault of poor teaching of science in irish schools.

pickarooney · 01-09-2005 10:39PM

4Xcut wrote:

It is proper gravity, its just weaker due to the substaltially smaller mass of the moon in comparison to the earth.[Earth=5.9742*10^24, Moon=7.36*10^22] Through the entire universe gravity has a force of 6.7*10^-11N. It's effect is calculeted using the square of the distances and the product of the masses: F=Gm1m2/r^2. The fault of poor teaching of science in irish schools.

Sorry, no geeks.

4Xcut · 01-09-2005 10:51PM

yeah because you just so totally reek of coolness of like the hugest magnetutions

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