Our New Deathkingdom

[Dave Monroe]

Moon hole might be suitable for colony
January 1, 2010 1:03 p.m. EST


(CNN) -- Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound
nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival
if they just lived in a hole.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/01/01/moon.lava.hole/index.html

   "Its the cycle over now, and a new one ready to begin?  Will our
new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be the Moon?"

--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Pt. IV, p. 723