Category: astronomy

Hurry!  You can put down a deposit of only £4,400,000 (dollars, multiply by 1.39) for the first house on the Moon.  The price is only £44,525,536.42, and your monthly exoenses will be only £234,000 – mortgage, water, power, food, meteor protection, and average property markup of 27.61 percent.

So says a message received from Eve (and Adam?) today, March 30.  Postal and trash collection services, school and medical facilities, and council tax – oh, and oxygen – are not mentioned or may be in the small print.  The message must have got past the spam filter quicker than expected, being surely intended for tomorrow, April 1.

I agree that from the lonely luxury of my lunar mansion I would have the purest view of the starry universe, and of a gray desert.  Nevertheless, you couldn’t pay me to take up the offer, let alone ask me to pay the millions I don’t have.  I’d rather live amid air, trees, clouds, and all the hazes created by man and other biota, and forgive them for interfering with the sky.

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