On a lighter note: ‘Nude on the Moon’ may come true as selfies likely to be buried on the Moon

by | Nov 19, 2014 | exploration, On a Lighter Note | 0 comments

During the early 1960s, a slightly rude and risqué film called ‘Nude on the Moon’ was released. While that was a work of (near) nudist science fiction, it is now likely to become a reality – or, at least, indirectly.

For while the crowd-funded science mission, Lunar Mission One, has a very laudable scientific aim of examining core samples from a hole drilled up to 100m into it, many of the investors in the mission are going also to be allowed to put digital photographs in a “memory box” along with a DNA filament/strand of hair.  Both of these will be later put into the bored out lunar hole which will be sealed as a kind of time capsule, to be discovered and opened at a much later date.

Given the recent preponderance of individuals – especially celebrities -apparently willing take nude “selfies” (photographs of themselves naked, taken by themselves), surely it can only be a matter of time before someone puts a “nudie selfie” in their lunar memory box to be buried on the moon.

In your correspondent’s younger days, he would have been tempted to send one in/up/down of himself.  Just for posterity rather than any real vanity, you understand.  However too much time, and too many pies, has meant that your correspondent’s pert days are now, sadly, just a memory. He will thus leave such “nudie selfies” to the real heavenly bodies.

Likewise, given your correspondent’s thinning hair situation, especially his “solar panel” bald spot at the back, this writer will thus be keeping what is left of his greying hairs on his head for as long as he can.

(You can tell by now that your correspondent’s wife really “hit the jackpot” when she picked him.)

Mind you, the Lunar Mission One organisers were obviously asking for trouble themselves when they asked for hair samples. Some of the hair strands they receive might prove to be just a little too short and curly for comfort. 🙂

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