The man in the Moon - Thoughts on the Edge of the World

The picture above has always fascinated me and I decided a long time ago to write a short blog article about it.

Carlsberg won't be angry with me, although I neglected to obtain the rights, after all, this image has been haunting the internet as a screensaver since the moon landing and it is actually advertising.

As an engineer, however, I ask myself a few questions:

Who on earth approved the cooler as a payload and, most importantly, how do you drink through an astronaut's helmet? What thoughts might be going through the mind of the chilled-out astronaut right now? Is his CO² footprint OK, or will he have to balance his account again on his next cycling holiday in the Black Forest?

Corona should not be an issue without atmosphere, and a mask under the helmet makes no sense at all.

I think technical progress makes more people better off. Spreading panic, painting horror scenarios and restricting freedom, on the other hand, have never done anything positive and tend to serve a small minority whose intentions are dubious at best.

I don't think it's bad if there are different opinions on a subject. But when one side "owns" the truth and everything else is fake news, then the word "propaganda" comes to mind.

I don't believe that the earth will end tomorrow because of a climate catastrophe. However, I find it reprehensible that a teacher in one of our schools tells a 13-year-old girl that she shouldn't have children in this doomed world. Instead of children, we should rather do without such teachers.

I would be happy if a moon settlement were to be built on the moon in the next few years, far away from federal elections that showed that the mud hut and prohibition factions shout the loudest but do not represent the majority of people.

True, financing such a "climate-damaging project" becomes more difficult when all of a sudden unelected central bankers decide what is sustainable, what may and may not be financed. But it is the same bankers who tell us that flooding the markets with money has no effect on prices. He who lies once...

The days of Ludwig Erhard seem to be over, when it was still true that the real economy should take precedence over the financial economy.

But back to our moon station:

With the help of particle simulations, we as a company can determine where the aggressive lunar dust is deposited on the windows and what can be done about asteroids approaching the moon. An impact on Earth, on the other hand, can't be that bad. It is more important to know how to gender correctly and what other imaginary dangers need to be solved instead of worrying about real threats.

Impact or not, humans as a kind of "animal" no longer seem to be the crown of creation, and after all, birds survived the dinosaurs. But I digress!

Aerospace could do with a bit more simulation; compared to the current automotive industry, it is still light years, well, light seconds behind in terms of simulation. But for how much longer? Will the automotive industry die out in Germany or will aerospace step on the gas and catch up in terms of technology?

Questions about questions....