Another Full Moon? Only One?

 Is the sky the Limit? (When it comes to the Moon?

For all of recorded history even some we didn’t record and post to “Tick-Tock” (not spelled that way  I know  or YouTube or as a reel on the Gram, humans have been gazing into the night sky and particularly at the Moon.  We “Earthlings” have sent some people up there to get some rocks, take a modified golf cart for a spin, and, of course smack a few chip shots.  Oh, and let’s not forget posing for MTV which no longer shows music videos which again is a little odd since “Music” and Video” are two of the words “MTV” stands for.  However, let’s not get all wound up about that since the cereal Grape Nuts has been around longer than MTV and it has never had grapes or nuts in it.  

Okay Back to the Moon

…and that’s exactly where it seems we want to send people and a whole lot of stuff because from there we think we can get to Mars.  That could be since two of the richest persons on Earth have. Decided to spend money and get a little more from the government of the U.S. to work toward that.It is sort of a cool idea and since the U.S. is racing china to get back to the moon first it will probably happen, yet recent history and attempts have shown us it”ain’t easy pal.”   The unmanned or “un-pronoun—ed “ lander finding the moon tipped over because it sort of landed with one foot in a hole and since we didn’t build it like one of those clowns you can punch and it never falls down there it sits like the brand new bike somebody didn’t put the kickstand on.  So we went 25,000 miles and didn’t stick the landing.  That’s not all…. The “new” launch and booster rockets we want to use to send large payloads to the moon haven’t done so hot either.  Both significant tests have ended in….. love this phrase so read it carefully….

“Rapid unscheduled disassembly”  

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out they took off and then blew up. 

To say the least it’s not guaranteed that this all happens like we have planned and that brings us to the “Seeking Peace and Joy of it all”

As a human race we are going to invest a lot of time, energy, dreaming, and money to get back to the moon. When we think about it, of course, we would.  Some folks would say go for it because we want to see if Pink Floyd gave us the definitive  treatise on “the dark side of the moon, or is there a store of riches left to be uncovered?  Also, there are a lot of folks very afraid that we are pretty much wrecking the Earth and we need unescape plan.  So the moon has both fear and curiosity going for it.  One might wonder if the super rich really need their names connected with all this because the billions and billions used to do this surely couldn’t be used to insure better shelter,  food, education, transportation, oh and even recreation for the folks here on this planet? The let’s shoot the moon crowd might argue that “it’s about the future man” and it is a human thing to focus on and worry  about what could happen because what’s happening here and now can get a little intense. Having said that, if people get joy from working toward the hope of knowing the moon, and if that is a dream that let’s them explore a purpose for mankind and. Not just for themselves, well that's a worthy enterprise—you see how I built in that “Trek” word?

It’s a balancing act when we dream about a future and try to stay in the moment.  It’s probably a good thing our focus on “the moon” is being played out from earth which only has one moon.  After all the solar system has 292 or so discovered moons and if we were launching from Mars we’d have to decide between 2. Moons and if from Jupiter or Saturn it would be a choice of over 90 and in that case there might always be “a bad moon rising?” 

To sum up… well heading to the moon is the literal definition of shooting at something in the dark and yet using our best guesses and for that let’s strap some brave souls to thousands of tons of explosives and lightt’em up.  We can also take a moment to figure out how to balance dreams for far away with dreams for right now and right here.  Go outside tonight and think about what the world will be like  when there repeople out there looking back here wondering about you and then maybe we will finally understand that the greatest mysteries almost always emerge from the universe within?