Posthuman Blues

NASA plans a permanent camp on the moon

An international team of astronauts will be living and working at a permanent moon base to be built at one of the resource-rich lunar poles within two decades, NASA announced Monday.

Earth's first off-world colonists will cruise the surface in a new generation lunar lander that will function like a low-gravity pickup truck, possibly journeying to the dark side to build the most ambitious collection of observatories ever constructed, NASA said.

The good news, of course, is that we're committing ourselves to what will almost certainly be a pivotal development in our unnecessarily prolonged effort to become a multi-planet species.

The bad news is that the LA Times seems to think the Moon has a "dark side."