How much would I pay for the privilege of going on a trip to the moon?

For me, the answer is easy: “Not a Brass Razoo“. I have no desire whatsoever to go jumping off into space to go to the moon so that I could stand on the moon and look back to see Earth.

I am pretty happy being on earth and looking up at the moon, Thinking about the peace, tranquillity, silence, and eerie yet stately Majesty offered earthly viewers by the on Skype we behold.

In doing that, I often think about the lack of peace, the fighting between nations, the thirst for power and the crushing of people by those who are power-hungry, the immoral richness and the terrible poverty that exists in many places on earth.

I think about pollution and how humankind is sullying Earth – from the deepest depths of the oceans to our increasing junking of nearby space. I think about carbon emissions, the heating of the earth, the melting of snow caps, the growing frequency of significant bushfires in so many places around the world and so on.

When contemplating the moon, I think about it, Vasquez and the fact that it is not being trampled on, as it accommodates a burgeoning mass of people – far too many in far too few places on our globe that support life.

We have made a fair fist of desecrating Earth. Let’s leave the Moon alone.