The inspiration …
A story …
“First right,” Jan waved the brochure, “This way, Stan!”
He reluctantly trailed behind her. They’d scrimped and saved for this vacation. Bragging rights would last for years, yet on the shuttle Jan talked of little else but this exhibit.
The room opened out, the ceiling soaring overhead, an honor guard at the far side window. As they approached Stan looked through the soldiers.
The suit with bones, the skull exposed in the helmet, then a hologram of a smiling face, cycling over and over.
“The Armstrongs got fucked,” Stan thought, “when they agreed to the interment of Neil at DisneyLuna.”
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Now, your turn.
“But I thought it was getting farther away.”
He sighed. “It was. That was before they had to blow apart all those asteroids. Remember the meteor showers? Well, the ones that hit the moon didn’t burn up because there’s no atmosphere. And over time the energy they imparted, and the mass they carried, added up. That’s why the moon rotates now, and when the tidal lock was broken the drag created by earth’s mass had the same effect on the moon that the moon had on the earth’s rotation billion of years ago. The moon slowed the earth’s rotation, just by being up there.”
“How long will it be before it hits the ground?”
“Several million years, if at all. The earth’s rotation is still affecting it, and it’s part of why the moon was getting farther away. Maybe it’ll reverse the process before it hits. But long before then the tidal effect will make most of the earth’s surface uninhabitable, and at some point there’ll be massive earthquakes and supervolcano eruptions. We’ll need to be long gone before that happens.”
“Wow. That makes sense.”
“So can we count on your vote, Senator?”
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This was a shocking but positive song back when people still understood satire and being subtlety chided or teased. In this age of literal outrage this is a hateful, evil and racist screed that would probably get an organization permanently thrown off of a campus. Oh well. It’s about a hundred words, ignoring this poor intro:
There ain’t no niggers in Heaven.
Not a single one.
You can walk the streets in safety
‘Cause God made every one.
You won’t ever see no niggers.
Your lips won’t say the word.
There ain’t no niggers in Heaven.
‘Cause the whole idea’s absurd.
The earth’s chock full of niggers.
And wops and heebs and fruits.
The Earth is stuffed with geezers
Bitches, faggots and yoots.
Limeys, krauts, and Fujis
But when your old life’s through,
You’ll find no niggers in in Heaven
Just God’s people, and you.
If you want to find heaven
Let heaven live in you.
Shades of the John Varley novel Steel Beach.
Fun fact: a half-circumference of the moon measures a distance a little shy of that between New Orleans and Anchorage.
The half-circumference of my moon measures a distance a little not-shy of that between Sheboygan and Green Bay.
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