h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Following the Australian Big Brothers challenege to destroy lunar (http://www.bigbrother.3mobile.com.au/news/article_407.asp) I think we should take up arms against this menace!!!

Which menace, Tim or the moon?

There's an Australian Big Brother? You mean the contagion hasn't been contained?

Oh how I fear for the future of our race.

Tim's a lege, he started off as a nerd and then went completly mad!!!

Well the thing is Roymondo, Aussie BB05 was much more interesting than the UK version. There was chariot racing, intruders, flooding and alsorts!!!

I feel it most certainly time that we took our vengence upon that alabaster ret*rd in the sky... He has given us werewolves, dangerous tides and women with PMT.
However I urge that we have patience.
Bush has vowed to take America back to the moon and then on to Mars...

SO I think we should wait until the last USian has been shuttled up to the lunar surface before we deternate a nuclear stock pile and send the moon hurtling off to the galactic core.

Or...we could blow up the moon while the tourists are on the way, that'll be a good one for the insurance companies!!!

Nah, wanton carnage is more of a laugh...

Hate to buck the trend here but I think the Moon is good. There have been some good songs about it and it helps us by being a barrier to all those incoming asteroids/meteors. Why pick on the Moon? Where would all the Moths fly to? Who would employ all those folks who study it? What would I howl at? How would we see in the dark? How would an eclipse work without it? Let it be.

Few points:

i) No there hasn't
ii) Because it's there
iii) Street lamps
iv) The council
v) See answer 'iii'
vi) See above
vii) No moon, no eclipse

Right

Firstly, Bark At The Moon is a good song.

Secondly, I like the way that tide thing works and feel safe in the knowledge that the Moon is protecting me from things flying through space.

Thirdly, the street lamps where I live leave a lot to be desired - they're orange for a start and only work during daylight hours except on the third Saturday of every month when the operate from tea time to bed time.

Fourthly, the local council has no vacancies for moon watchers as it is full of clock watchers.

Fifthly, moths have rights too you know - I think you are being very mothist.

Sixthly, see thirdly.

Seventhly, to loose the eclipse would be a tragedy and waste of one of lifes great coincidences the fact that the Moon is exactly the right distance from the earth and sun to create such a spectacle is proof of a higher being and the interconnectedness of all things.

I think your plan is a mistake and we will all suffer if you persist with this foolishness.

Save the Moon.

just passing through.

We have a moon, too much smog to see it where i live, also Bark at the Moon excellent (ozzy), isnt that also where the clangers live

I think Clangers were on a Moon far far away, but it is conceivable that they have relatives on our moon.

I don't think we should risk destroying the Moon given the possiblity of wiping out those little wooley thinkers.

I'm sure that I read somewhere that Clangers are an endangered species and I could probably resort to law enforcement to put a stop to this plot once and for all but I'll bide my time to see if common sense prevails!!!!

Yea you are right, the clangers are from a moon far far away, but will probably move to our moon as illegal immigrants and get oxygen benefit from the dss.
Also what soup does the soup dragon actually make, i hope its cream of tomato

I think its chicken and was used for medicinal purposes when baby clanger got sick.

A bit weird I thought - considering the soup dragon does in fact resemble a chicken????

Maybe its one of the great mis-translations of the 20th century, perhaps she is in fact the soup chicken and brews dragon soup for medicinal reasons????

Either way if they are on a little woollen ship on the way to our Moon to visit with their cousins I hope they brought the soup dragon with them as I believe she is the last of her kind in this dimension. This means the plot to destroy the Moon would indeed be thwarted for the foreseeable future!!!!!

Am feeling scared now, what if the clangers are real and not just some BBC 1970's kids prog that was on for 5 minutes at about 5:30pm before the news.... not so scared now cause they are sweet.

Clangers welcome to the moon, but dont eat all the cheese there

The Clangers was indeed a mid seventies kids show but it was based on facts known only to the government.

Its aim was to make the generation growing up with Clangers aware and open to the prospect of life on moons far far away.....

I guess it worked pretty well too...just look at all those abductions in The States. Although in fairness to Clangers I don't believe they have ever participated in any of that abduction or experimental stuff. I think its fair to say that Clangers have only ever experimented with space hardware which has fallen their way and as they are incredibly small in real life I don't believe their migration to our Moon will pose any real threat.

Fear not!!!

Fizz, excellent answer, i will sleep easy tonight now, thanks

Even if we destroy Luna, we've still got kawithy!!!

Hardly counts as a Moon now does it?

Cruithne's just a bit of debris from the creation if I recall and hardly big enough to sustain a Clanger colony!!

Why don't you destroy it - now thats what I call a solution.

We've rarely seen it, thousands of years on its spaced out orbit - so blast it and let all that pent up anger out on this lost rock which will have no repercussions for earthlings or clangers.

PPPLLLLEEEEAAAAASSSEEEE save our Moon???

I like the moon... just the other day I was sitting outside commenting on the beauty of the way it hangs in the sky in exactly the way a brick doesn't. The next day The Lord took it away to avoid me getting overexcited... but I prayed to He who giveth and taketh away to put the moon back, and behold, the next night it was there!

Maybe I'm just a lunatic!

Save the moon!