Just to get away...

[lithera]

I'm going to start a colony on the moon.

Ever since high school I had this Heinlein-ish idea of a moon colony full of smart, well rounded people.

I should make a new list of people I want to bring with me.

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[torquemada.livejournal.com]

If it's Heinleinish, that means they're taking every opportunity to fill each other's orifices and spout platitudes.

I hope you've got some space-mops!

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Not that side of Heinlein. The sort of elitist utopian parts...

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Oh, Heinlein's earlier period, before he got creepy. That's just fine then.

[innocentsinner.livejournal.com]

Will this colony have a computer named Mycroft? If so, I'm in.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

It's possible.

Maybe at some point.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

Of course! Assuming I'm there, I would INSIST on a computer named Mycroft.

My dad said once that his idea of an "ideal retirement job" would be janitor on a moonbase. He'd do any job ... as long as he got there.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

most likely, every single person there would have a computer named Mycroft just hoping that theirs will be the real one.

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[seanb.livejournal.com]

Then we just have to network them together!

Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things?

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

There should only be one. Just one big computer.

That might be a rule. All computers named Mycroft must become one computer.

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[seanb.livejournal.com]

Can we have a magnetic catapult, too? I promise not to throw rocks at Earth until they REALLY deserve it...

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Maybe later. At first we'd have to concentrate on the surviving part. We could always plan for one at some point.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

What about Minerva and Athena? (Yeah, yeah, I've never read tMiaHM)

I would so be all over a moon colony. Or a Mars colony.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Of course. Minerva and Athena are just as important.

Mars is harder to get to.

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[seanb.livejournal.com]

Well, they came along a few thousand years later, but they eventually woke Mike up by "slipping him into bed" with Athena, sometime after the end of tCwWtW.

Kat's a second-gen gamer. I'm a second-gen Heinlein junkie.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about the later becoming people bits. Sure there could be a computer named Mycroft.

But there should only be one.

[gehn.livejournal.com]

ooh, ooh, can i come!??!?

I'm REALLY good at being elitist!!

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Sure!

You'll fill the zombie, minion and diva slots. *grins*

[gehn.livejournal.com]

A three-fer! Sweeeet.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Hey! I thought you said this was early Heinlein! ;)

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

But he's my zombie minion.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

Well, "All You Zombies" was a fairly early short story, and Hazel definitely had a diva personality in "The Rolling Stones".

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

Can we get rid of the rule making it impossible to return to earth if you've been there for a few months?

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

I haven't made any rules yet. So it's not a rule.

[skidspoppe.livejournal.com]

If I'm invited, I'm in. And hey, have you seen this

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

I'd head about it but I'd never actaully looked. I should buy some.

[sgoilear.livejournal.com]

Is this a remake of Moonraker? Do we get to kill all the "non-perfect" people on earth with a species-selective poison made from a tropical plant? ;)

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

No, no.

I don't want to kill everyone on Earth. I just don't want to have to deal with them making policy and any number of other things.

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

[grymor.livejournal.com]

I want to be on a moonbase! I'll even do crazy dangerouse menial surface work if thats all thats open...

[arithon.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a Mars colony man, myself. But the moon gets me off of Earth, so I'll put in my application.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

All good. I figure we can practice on the Moon for anywhere else. At least a little.

[warpdragon.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer Mars (like a lot of people, apparently), but I don't consider myself well-rounded. I'll stay behind and provide logistical support though.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

If you wish... You could do reporter stuff.