Spacing out the darker side of the moon

 The “Darker” Side of the Moon

So… those among you who are real music history  experts will find mistakes here.  Some of them are probably  important, yet read for the spirit of this okay?  

Today, or someday that looked a lot like today except it was 50 years ago—holy crap  this entry is featuring something that. Was  a half century  ago which is like  a high school senior writing about something that happened before the depression, the invention of television, smart phones, YouTube, the internet, and yes even before shopping malls remember them?  So if there are some slippery inaccuracies  put them in the same category  as things we don’t know about dinosaurs and get over it.

anyway about fifty year  ago today more or less the Dark Side of the Moon climbed  up the billboard chart and well it kind of stayed there not for a week or three but for  930 some weeks it has appeared  in the top 200.  Now these were non-consecutive, but this still merits a ‘stop and think about it” moment.  That’s 18 years… so if Dark Side hit the charts when your child’s was born in 2006 it would still be there.  

also Dark Side. Has sold  over 45 million copies and some of the money it made was used to finance Monty Python’s classic  “Holy Grail.”   Some other things most people don’t know… it was recorded  at Abby road.. yep that place where some quartet  from Liverpool was known to do some fooling around.  Also  unlike  a lot of efforts today the entire content of the work was performed live on the road before the studio albums  was pressed.   

However… this entry. Isn’t really about the music…it’s about the moon.  

The moon  and the things we use to put things into space have  been in the news in recent days due to the fact that Japanese  mission to deliver stuff to the moon crashed  instead of landed there and a privateers test rocket experienced a malfunction  and blew apart  in the sky.   Now … here’s what has. To make folks wonder … why are we giving so much attention to the rockets that blew up instead of the new pile of trash  we just put on the moon?   Well maybe there’s an answer..

There’s already  a all kinds of stuff  we have left up there.  

Okay we left a flag or two.  There are some golf balls up there.. We have of course left some moon cars up there because they don’t have a place in the trunk for a big subwoofer  and no cup holders  or heated seats.  

We needed to reduce the weight of lunar landers in order to relaunch and meet the mother ships so astronauts  tossed  all kinds of stuff  some of which had meaning..like a  bible left on the dash of one of the moon cars, however some of the stuff I’m not sure  we should be very proud of.  

Like… 96 sealed bags of astronaught crap.. Yes there is moon poop and we left it there.  Now in order to  see this in context we pick oup  our own pet dog crap and dispose of it  in a civilized way… So how do we justify leaving  bags of stuff all over the night sky?  Well NASA  actually has claimed they might go pick up these bags at some later date in order to study  it.    Don’t you want to hear that conversation?    “No Eugene, you stay  here for second….…Thomas and Claire are going to study the geologic samples and Harmony is looking at the atmospheric data… we’ve got 96 bags of 100 year old diarrhea  sitting on the table  in your lab and the world needs to know  how space impacts the digestion of Tang and freeze-dried burritos.” 

Okay.. with the crash of the Japanese  hauler there is  about 400,000 tons of stuff  that mankind has left on the moon.  Are we really ever going to go back and are we going to clean up this stuff?  Will we wreck our own planet enough  so that we absolutely have to use the moon and if we really think that maybe we should send some things up there worth going back to get.   Here are some suggestions..

Let’s send  a hundred hundred new and classic cars  (they weigh about 4 tons). So guys would stare up there and Elise ways to get  a 68 Charger or a 73 Corvette.  

How about we send 165,000 cases of beer … some folks will go to almost any limit to get beer.  

or maybe before we send anything.. we should stop and think about why… 

Did we plant that flag up there to say ….. we own the moon or did we do it to say… we let our curiosity drive our science and our human need to  seek new knowledge?    If we can be proud of seeking new knowledge and wisdom can we take a bit  of time everyday to seek that right here  on earth?  And while we’re. Doing that  can we help each other seek some peace and joy too?  … or are resigned to have a bad moon risin’?  (With a bag of crap to stare  at tonight?