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I am currently studying computer graphic and have a design assessment coming up. My idea is based on a fictional company offering tourist trip to the moon (luxury - low risk space travel). Unfortunitly I don't know all that much about astronomy but am facinated anyway. Im looking for ideas... anything really ... what we might see on our trip .... catch sayings etc. I just wanna pick ur brains. All comments most welcome.
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Your assignment is to create an advertisement poster for this trip to the moon?

Well if it's going to be "luxury low-risk" travel to the moon I'd imagine your fictional company exists in the far-off future. All those pesky problems that currently prevent long-term space exploration would have been long-since solved; therefore you can pretty much let your imagination take over.

Traditional travel advertisements aim to be aesthetically pleasing; I would think a lunar trip would be illustrated by the adventure, the beauty and sophistication of the spacecraft, the complexity of the lunar base. Perhaps the ship landing with the base in the background. Or even better, astro-tourists in the foreground watching an incoming ship landing at the base in the background.

If you haven't seen it, the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey might give you some visual ideas.

[Edit: I see now that your request is more than 3 years old and somebody just resurrected it today, so your project was over and done with long ago, but what the heck.]

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We are lounging around a table under a Cinzano umbrella at a resort inside the expansive crater Copernicus, looking west at one of the central mountain peaks with the sun at our backs. It is day 9 of the current lunation, so the risen sun at Copernicus' longitude is still low; the central peak, shown with exaggerated height and slope to begin with, casts a huge shadow off into the distance while the tips of shadows cast by the crater walls behind us are visible to our left and right. The brightly lit cliffs of the far crater walls in front of us line the horizon while the brightly lit central peaks dominate the middle of our view. In reality Copernicus is big enough that the far walls are probably over the horizon, but artistic license rules the day. Ships from Earth take off and land at a complex between us and the nearest peak, while the peak itself is bustling with sites of tourism and commerce. In the distance but still within the crater we can see a mining facility, an agricultural dome, a solar power distribution plant, and the skeleton of an incipient transportation network. Earth is almost directly above but slightly behind us and so is not part of this view (sorry).

The Sheraton Luna is the Perfect Place to Relax and Watch the Future Grow.

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View from overhead when the shadows are shorter:



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Jimmy Breslin wrote:Too much research is the enemy of good fiction.

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You must post a .jpg of your final product for us to see.

What might you find on the moon? Fresh Loco baked cookies and muffins. We'll be raising funds through bake sales for our landing on Pluto.

Try this one:
"You're traveling through another dimension..." (NAH)

Come visit the historic Apollo 11 landing site. Stay for 6 funfilled days in Crater Collins, at 2.4K accross it is one of the largest dome projects to date. Stay in one of our Crater Rim luxury suites overlooking the crater floor. Swim in our low gravity pool. Or just sit for hours in the sun soaking in the view of Earth to the West. No need to worry about those harmful UV rays either, Our dome is Tripple skinned and tripple layered filled with a 15' thickness of crystal clear water to block UV.
Or, if you are so inclined, take Flying Lessons. You'll don wings that will allow you to really fly (since you will only weigh 1/6th normal, this will be loads of fun) and soar. First time?, We'll teach you how. Spend hours spelunking the natural caves in the area. (At least they will look natural to you) Who knows, you might find a Moon Man down there.

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzzz

How do you get 12 dimensions?.


Has anybody read "Zapped"?

Imagine a honeymoon suite on the moon. Zero gravity. Wow! Big globs of wine floating around for one to insert a straw into. We ought to tell the whales who use their foreheads to make those Tiger stripes.

Loco wrote:... Zero gravity. ...

Zero gravity on the moon? You'd best dig out your old copy of Dick and Jane Go To the Moon and review the pertinent details. A test will be given.

Rob

rstevenson wrote:

Loco wrote:... Zero gravity. ...

Zero gravity on the moon? You'd best dig out your old copy of Dick and Jane Go To the Moon and review the pertinent details. A test will be given.

Rob

I meant a honeymoon suite equipped with an anti-gravity field .. what kind of dimwit do you think I am!

Loco wrote: .. what kind of dimwit do you think I am!

You don't want to open up that topic for discussion, do you?

Rob

Loco wrote:I meant a honeymoon suite equipped with an anti-gravity field

Oh That old chest Nut.. (anti gravity bubble) Did any body invent one yet?

Mark

rstevenson wrote:

Loco wrote: .. what kind of dimwit do you think I am!

You don't want to open up that topic for discussion, do you?

Rob

Play your hand for all it's worth, Bluffer.

mark swain wrote:

Loco wrote:I meant a honeymoon suite equipped with an anti-gravity field

Oh That old chest Nut.. (anti gravity bubble) Did any body invent one yet?

Mark

Ia've got one floating around here someplace .. hard to keep it tethered.