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Lunoglyphs
Art the whole world can see. If they have a good telescope. | |
Humans have visited the moon and left parts of the moon landers, reflectors for bouncing lasers off, and a tiny statue. Not very impressive.
The Nazca Lines are beautiful, lasting, and can best be appreciated from the air. If something similar were created on the moon, it would be a lasting, visible
monument to human ingenuity. It'd have to be a bit bigger, of course, to stand a chance of being visible from Earth. Maxium telescope resolution of the Moon's surface from an telescope on Earth = tan( wavelength of visible light / telescope size) * (distance from the Earth to the Moon); my back-of-the-envelope calculations give 0.76km for a 30-cm telescope. So, we need to make the design perhaps 100km across to be interesting.
Maybe a remote-control plow could turn up fresher and therefore lighter regolith; maybe it would be more effective to build up giant hills over the course of years. This will require further study. Either way, we needn't worry about wind erosion.
Amatuer astonomers all over the world will have something else interesting to look at. And hey, maybe after we destroy the earth, alien civilizations will marvel at the skill and dedication of these mysterious, long-lost artists.
Remote control giant desert etch-a-sketch
Remote-Control_20Gi...ert_20Etch-a-Sketch
One possible tool for making the glyphs. Scaled up, of course. [gisho, May 27 2016]
Long-life_20Solar_2...ting_20Moon_20Sheep
[xenzag, May 27 2016]
Strandbeest
http://www.strandbeest.com/
Unbelievable, but true. [8th of 7, May 29 2016]
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This has already been done. Have you never
wondered how the rabbit got there? |
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Wasn't there some consortium about not defacing the moon? |
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Shame really, it's the ultimate sand castle competition ground. |
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Ooh yeah. Low gravity, no wind. Where's my bucket? |
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// Shame really, it's the ultimate sand castle competition
ground.// |
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Sure, it's a nice venue at first glance, but there's no
atmosphere. |
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What's more, the tide's gone out an awfully long way... |
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"The man who sold the moon" does have the main
character playing soft drinks makers bidding against each
other to allow/deny the other guy putting their sigil on
the moon, and in the Atrocity Archives the moon gains a
toothbrush moustache and a floppy brow... |
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Call me boring, but was going through some old Asimov
stories recently, and in one he definitely mentions the
name "Wheland".... |
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For mega-boring points, unless I'm very much mistaken
the stoner couple in X-file Season 3 Episode 22 are the
same stoner couple in X-file Season 10, Episode 3. I got
bored and pretty much ended up watching X-files end to
end, if you're wondering. |
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If you can get a reasonable 3D printer to your moon, you could build a Lunabeest ... |
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is there a visible sun to moon lagrange point? if there is you could put up a giant transparency that would look like it was on the moon yet be otherwise |
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For a good time google "Moon TV Jepsen" |
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