Comments on: Space 199NOW

Space 199NOW

Astro Zombie — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:49:24 -0800

We could wait for NASA to build that permanent moon base they keep promising. Or we could just turn our apartments on earth into our own moon bases, space ships, or spy pads.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:30:57 -0800

It's what a moon base would look like if by moon you mean my apartment and by base you mean I had design disease of the furniture type. (I like this "design disease" idea, it covers all sorts of foolishness.) The Star Trek house, on the other hand, is about the most awesome thing I've ever seen. Just need to get the computer panels working.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:52:30 -0800

It's what a moon base would look like... Just add purple hair.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:24:48 -0800

Looking at the Star Trek home's SCIENCE control panel, it's clear that all descendants of Jakob Nielsen, Donald Norman, and Edward Tufte were killed off in WWIII, their books burned to ash, and their data files EMP'd. OTOH, Microsoft Galactic revenues (in 1000s of Federation credit$) now exceed the number of electrons in the known universe.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:41:15 -0800

Or maybe NASA is full of crap and there's a fully operational mining colony, equipped with fusion reactors and alien technology, humming away on the moon right now. John Lear's Moon Pictures on ATS Lunar Strip Mine in John Lear's Moon Photos?? (...or maybe not.)

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:53:01 -0800

"Moon base" is not far from what I'm going for in my apartment. Everything I buy is white, it's all panel lighting, glass and brushed metal.

By: MapGuy

MapGuy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:56:43 -0800

Dude... My wife is gone for a week. I am totally remodeling.

By: retronic

retronic — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:04:27 -0800

Previously on the Blue.

By: everichon

everichon — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:15:19 -0800

The 1999 house is sa-weet. I covet.

By: scatman

scatman — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:06:09 -0800

As a huge 1999 fan, I suppose I covet too. Odd thing is, it seems like it would get fatiguing to actually live in this place. Funny that.

By: PHINC

PHINC — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:55:02 -0800

The Germans landed on the Moon as early as probably 1942

By: dansdata

dansdata — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:07:54 -0800

The best explanation I've heard for Star Trek's bizarre computer interfaces is that 21st century humans are just too stupid to understand the amazing logic that lies in the human-machine interfaces of the 24th century.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:06:35 -0800

Any sufficently advanced technology is ...