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...there really money to be made on the moon? TransOrbital president Dennis Laurie believes the $20 million moon shot can generate $50 million in revenues by selling advertising (leave your business card on the moon for about $2,500), carrying scientific experiments and producing the most detailed lunar maps and videos ever. "Creating new industries on the moon is very cost-intensive," says Laurie, "so the key is finding ways that existing business translates effectively to the moon." The lack of a lunar atmosphere, for example, would add thousands of years to the life of data storage. And who knows...
...humor to make life tolerable. With its menagerie of losers leavened by twisted romance, Hollywood Hong Kong is a lighter film, literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white shines from the modern apartments of nearby Hollywood Plaza. That's where the enterprising, Shanghai girl Tong Tong (Zhou Xun) lives, dreaming of the real Hollywood, before she jolts the Chus into life, then sets them burning...
Although he found the jazz scene difficult to break into, he was eventually able to perform frequently as part of Lunar, an acid jazz group he formed with other musicians he met there...
...best picture the world has ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says...
...questions about the forces at work early in the universe and their relevance to the cosmos today, but the power of a photograph can have an impact broader than science. During Project Apollo, an astronaut took a picture of the frail, blue-and-white Earth rising above a desolate lunar landscape, and suddenly people realized just where they were. Some perspectives changed, and that photo helped take the environmental movement into the mainstream. So when the first rays of light have crossed the universe and reached our souls, who can say what they will illuminate...