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MOON
Hey, everybody! I'm sick!
Hence one more reason why I'm scrapin' bottom
on blog entry material. There was a total lunar eclipse last night, but I
missed it, more's the pity. Those who saw it report the moon turning a deep
shade of unearthly crimson. Whether this phenomena was followed by plagues
of frogs and the seas turning to blood was not reported, but, I think, can
reasonably be inferred.
You know, gravitational forces aside, if the
moon were completely gone, I don't think many people would sit up and notice,
not for a while, anyway. However, if it were merely marred, mutilated or
marked in some fashion, I'm willing to bet folks wouldn't be able to take
their eyes off of it. If somebody drew a happy face on it -- that'd be the
cause of numerous nighttime highway deaths. If it had a message on it --
something short, obviously, perhaps even a single word, such as "Here" or
"Fly," or even "Moon," people would immediately assume it was some sort of
viral marketing campaign, and the internet would be flooded with theorists.
Of course, it's only gonna be a matter of time
before somebody comes up with a high-powered laser device capable of projecting
such imagery onto the visible surface of the moon, and you can bet your
daughter's left braid that one of the first five images projected will be
a Nike swish, followed by the mermaid from Starbucks.
And it'll only be a few years after THAT that
the guerilla homebrew crowd will take matters into their own hands, leading
to the inevitable pirate projection of images of male genitalia into the
heavens.
On the other hand, how cool would it be to
have an old monster movie like "The Wolf Man" actually projected onto the
moon? You'd need a telescope, sure, but they could broadcast the audio over
NPR -- be a heck of a thing on a clear night. And, okay, sure, it would cause
hundreds of nighttime highway deaths. We can work on that.
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