Greenies: 'Stop NASA bombing the Moon!'
Eric Gisin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/07/stop_nasa_bombing_the_moon/
http://www.counterpunch.org/darksideofthemoon08212009.html
Surreal Green werewolves launch anti-LCROSS petition
By Lewis Page . Get more from this author
Posted in Space, 7th October 2009 13:28 GMT
Treehugging, possibly lycanthropic web-2.0 campaigners have launched a petition intended to "stop
NASA from bombing the Moon!".
The organisers of the petition claim that the space agency is turning unspoiled lunar wilderness
into a "firing range" for space weapons, and that US "imperialists" intend to colonise the moon
"without regard for ecosystems or indigenous peoples".
The petition refers to "NASA's LRCROSS plan to bomb the dark side of the moon", but it seems clear
that the authors - "the Chicago Surrealist Movement" - are on about the Lunar CRater Observation
and Sensing Satellite mission. LCROSS involves crashing a spent Centaur upper-stage rocket into the
Cabeus crater at the lunar south pole this Friday; the following LCROSS sniffer-probe will then
plummet through the resulting debris plume a couple of minutes later, transmitting readings back to
Earth until it too crashes into the Moon.
According to the Chicago Surrealist Movement, posting a petition at the "Care2" treehugger-petition
Web-2.0 portal, this is actually a space-based weapons test.
The excuse given is that this is an effort to find water deep under lunar surface. But it also
serves as a live-fire test exercise for US war strategists with an interest in the precision of
orbiting satellite weapons... in other words, the southern hemisphere of the Moon will be turned
into a firing range, making this mission one giant leap for the global reach of space warfare.
NASA does indeed say it is interested in the lunar antarctic craters for their possible ice
deposits, which would be of great value to future Moonbases. Quite apart from drinking water, the
possible polar icebergs would also furnish oxygen for breathing and ingredients for rocket fuel -
potentially far more cheaply than hauling it in from Earth.
But this is colonialism, according to the right-on petitioneers: and colonialism is Bad.
Historically, the purpose of exploration has always been the exploitation of resources and the
colonization of territory without regard for ecosystems or indigenous peoples, and clearly the Moon
is the next territory coveted by imperialists. This so-called "NASA experiment" is a hostile act of
aggression and a violent intrusion upon our closest and dearest celestial neighbor.
It isn't clear who the indigenous people of the Moon are, and given the apparent complete lack of
life there it also seems a bit of a stretch to say there's really any "ecosystem" present. But
there are always the Clangers to be considered.
Thus far the Care2 petition has only 560 digi-signatures, and it seems fairly clear that the
surreal(ist) campaign against NASA's unprovoked Moon-missile strike isn't exactly sweeping the
world. The campaigners suggest that there may be alternatives to mere protest, however. Elsewhere
on the web they offer a fuller version of their lunar-loony manifesto, in which among other things
they describe the Apollo moon landings as having been instigated by "a powerful syndicate of
military-industrial criminals". They also suggest direct action:
What can we as surrealists or lunatics or astrologers or naturalists or anarcho-primitivists or
Greens or werewolves or pagans or psychics or UFO groupies or other concerned members of the
general public do?
We must soothe the Moon, we bandage her. We implore other celestial bodies and entities to aid
her. We will not let her endure this crime or its grim aftermath alone.
We need to communicate to the Moon. Talk to her in our dreams, trances, or meditations, and
prepare her for this shock and wound as best we can. Hold her, send out imaginative protection to
her, and put our dream bodies out there in front of the bomb. Collectively, we can sabotage the
bombing or by imagining all manner of things going wrong, or encouraging the Moon to increase her
own magnetic shields. Sing to her. Give her back just a tiny portion of all that she has done for
us. We are all created from Moon dust.
What more, indeed, could any astrologer, werewolf etc be expected to do than that?
Great stuff. �
Bootnote
Thanks to commentard Sillyfellow for flagging the protests up.
I M @ good guy
wrote:
Don't laugh, all of us moon indigenous people
resent NASA causing all that dust.
James
Lunatic takes on a whole new meaning doesn't it?
Eric Gisin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/09/lcross_nutter_roundup/
'As a woman I feel violated'
By Lewis Page . Get more from this author
Nutjob Parade Those readers who've been following NASA's LCROSS lunar pole-prang mission, which saw
a brace of spacecraft crash into the Moon's south pole earlier today, will be aware that the effort
wasn't popular in all quarters.
In particular the self-styled "Chicago Surrealist Movement", claiming to speak for "surrealists,
lunatics, astrologers, naturalists, anarcho-primitivists, Greens, werewolves, pagans, psychics, UFO
groupies and other concerned members of the general public" launched an impassioned and beautifully
written appeal to "Stop NASA Bombing the Moon!", which we enjoyed so much we reported it earlier in
the week.
As a result we've had a good deal of feedback on the topic of moon assault, which we thought we'd
share with you while the world waits for the results of the crater strike.
First up is commentard Bill Fresher:
The moon is a huge water balloon. If they pop it with a bomb it'll burst, the water will fall
into Earth's atmosphere, heat up on entry and turn to steam, which will cook us all. Please stop
NASA.
He wasn't alone, either, with various observers backing the surrealists' possible belief that NASA
might inadvertently cause major havoc with their crater strike. This might seem to be impossible
given the bigness of the Moon, the smallness of the LCROSS, and the laws of physics - but there
were those who disagreed. Commentard Greenstar perhaps summed up this point of view best:
Think of the planets in terms of forming a sentence. The Earth is a noun. The moon is a verb. Its
very existance creates action in the tides, the weather, and possibly human mood. It's perfection
of rotation sets into play all the components that make it possible for life here to exist and yet
no life exists there. How is that possible? Wouldn't it seem logical for the earth to have a
reciprocal effect on the moon - but it doesn't. The laws of symbiosis don't apply. If the moon is
nothing more than a big rock then it can be cleaved like a big rock. Laws of mass and density don't
apply nor do they offer us protection from the idiots at NASA who have never watched a diamond
cutter. They are big boys with BIG toys and brains the size of a TRex AND are running the risk of
making us all extinct.
Many noted the traditional association of the Moon with femininity. An individual known as
"Jemmifer Scott" wrote in on this subject, saying:
as a woman i feel violated that NASA feel it's acceptable to bomb the moon.
i demand this is stopped. i think we should get an INJUNCTION against NASA.
And we received another splendid outburst from one "Martha Shepperd":
these are not treehuggers just consurrned citizens. the moon is not our property yet it helps us
sustain ourselves. we dont own the moon! Why aren't core tests done before blasting it? blasting
the moon could send it out of orbit which would kill us. Water would evaporate before being
detected anyway. Either way you have no right to jepardize my kid's fate. the core of the moon
could be ice and it would crack and send asteroids to us and throw the earth out of orbit. you do
NOT have the right to decide it I will take that chance!
But it was left to commentard Maty to ask the obvious question which had indeed already occurred to
us at Vulture Central as well:
There are members of the concerned general public who are not werewolves, pagans or
anarcho-primitives?
We here on the Reg luna-tic desk would suggest that no matter whether it finds water or not, LCROSS
has been a huge success in terms of entertainment. �
Entity
> Followup article to yesterday's post.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/09/lcross_nutter_roundup/
kT
Tell us more about your theory of radiative forcing, Eric.
Yes, Eric, you are indeed butt naked here.
Eric Gisin
"kT" <cos...@lifeform.org> wrote in message news:4TKzm.40200$Bl2....@newsfe14.iad...
J0nathan
"James" <king...@iglou.com> wrote in message
news:4ace82b1$0$11313$d94e...@news.iglou.com...
> Lunatic takes on a whole new meaning doesn't it?
Lunacy is the idea of spending some $300 billion dollars on
a temporary shelter for six on the Moon.
Orval Fairbairn
kT <cos...@lifeform.org> wrote:
> Eric Gisin wrote:
>
> > Tell about your life as a pedophile in Thailand, kT.
>
> You social conservative, republican libertarian, CNN Headline News, Fox
> News viewing wannabe congressmen sure are a bunch of pedophilophobes.
>
> Be sure to lock your door at night! There are Al Qaeda operatives and
> pedophiles hiding in the bushes in your YARD! They are EVERYWHERE!
>
I guess that "kT" must be a charter member of NAMBLA!
--
Remove _'s from email address to talk to me.
kT
I'm a charter member of 'I don't give a fuck what you retards think'.
You motherfuckers have destroyed the United States of America, and
you're still proud of it. Pedophilia is the least of your problems.
You've fucked your children for generations to come, why you should be
all bent out of shape just because someone else want to fuck them too?
David Spain
> What happens when you combine loony-left military conspiracies with new-age Lunar worship?
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/07/stop_nasa_bombing_the_moon/
> http://www.counterpunch.org/darksideofthemoon08212009.html
>
Ooops. Too late!
Dave