Fifty years ago, in July 1969, NASA put Apollo 11’s lunar module called the Eagle, and human footprints, on the moon. The moon is an average of 238,855 miles from earth. Mars, depending on its orbital time, fluctuates between 34 million to 62 million miles from earth.
 
Because Mars is the closest planet to Earthlings and has such deep fictional meaning from the earliest of observers – it’s become a focal technological challenge for wealthy businesses. But, as you know, we’re living a science Revolution and with an existential threat of losing the earth through human enterprise. Mars travel only sounds exotic. Staring at the moon provides a feeling of peace which we all long for. Scientists here on earth, specifically geneticists, if they’re firmly evolutionists, are thinking about re-engineering DNA that would enable humans to survive in increasing environmental chaos facing our planet. Talk about a long-shot!
 
I have a new idea. We have rockets, fuel, data, historical research from previous space journeys, nuclear energy, mammoth telescopes and satellites, very smart astronomers, astrophysicists, quantum computers and all that – but we are still stuck on earth.
 
Let’s put it all together, think counter-intuitively and move the moon to exist at least ½ the distance from Mother Earth. That’s right, move the Moon to relatively 119,427 miles from earth. That way, we don’t have to re-engineer human’s DNA which sounds much harder, even divine. We should plan now. We’re technologists, inventors, doers with imaginative powers. The Chinese are exploring the dark side, the USA has been on the bright side, the International Space Station is circling earth. But we’re still stuck on a warming earth.
 
Scientists warn us we need an alt-planet. Could it be the answer is staring back at us each night?  Move the moon closer to earth so we can inhabit it.  We are living in times of scientific Revolution – so give us a damn good Revolution!

Robert Waters, 2019
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