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From: Alistair Tyrrell <abuse@tyrrells.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: ?Moon Landing Mission Profiles?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:10:49 -0000
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In article <0glovitdrp0ch6e3fm62095n0e256l13ps@4ax.com>, 
psperson@old.netcom.invalid says...
> 
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:03:02 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >xkcd: ?Moon Landing Mission Profiles?
> >     https://xkcd.com/2909/
> >
> >Explained at:
> > 
> >https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2909:_Moon_Landing_Mission_Profiles
> >
> >Moving the Moon closer would make a great space station and vacation spot.
> >
> >Until it broke up and then rained on the Earth for hundreds of years.
> 
> And the stepladder suggestion seems to presuppose that the Moon is
> both very close to the Earth and yet stationary relative to the Earth,
> which might be harder to achieve then just contracting the orbit.

Or do it from a small boat like they used to have in the 
old days - "The Distance of the Moon" by Italo Calvino, 
found in the collection Cosmicomics (highly recommended).