Put 3D printer on moon, print the things you want on the moon
Bring the moon to us
Not original idea: Use a battery-powered rocket that expels water instead of exhaust
Use a nuclear bomb, contained within a very robust containment, and point the firey end down
Use a magnetic vehicle, and create a very strong EM field to push the vehicle away from earth
Not original idea: Use a space yeeter (Rotating object in orbit which has a tether, a vehicle in low orbit attatches to tether, and the space yeeter’s angular momentum brings the vehicle to a much higher altitude)
Take the object to a very high place (Burj Khalifa? Mt Everest? A Burj built on top of Everest [Burj Everista]?), then launch the vehicle using a railgun, and only start burning fuel once its launched
Use some mechanism (or series of mechanisms) that catches other vehicles that are entering orbit from space, and redirects their kinetic energy to bring outgoing vehicles to space
Create a wormhole that links Moon’s surface to Earth’s surface
Breed birds, testing how high altitudes they can reach, and their ability to survive in low pressures, changing what we breed for (pure max height? height sustained for a certain amount of time? maximum upgoing velocity? Low oxygen performance? etc) when birds reach a plateau in performance, and see if we can breed birds that can get to space
If I want to get an object to the moon, I should just give it to the Artemis astronauts when they launch
Create so much gas (probably N2 with appropriate levels of O2, or whatever is convenient to create enough) that the Earth’s atmosphere extends to the Moon, and fly an airplane up to the moon
Start from north pole, and ride the Earth’s magnetic field into space
Create a multi-piece space elevator, which starts with a very high structure attached to Earth, which terminates above the atmosphere, then it transitions vehicles to an orbiting object which occasionally gets close enough to receive vehicles, the vehicles then climb that object, which then passes off vehicles to another orbiting object. Since each piece is smaller than a full-size space elevator, it won’t have to withstand the same stresses the space elevator would
Absurd: Create a strong-force colour field, and have a colour-charged vehicle which gets propelled by the colour field
Launch the object into low-earth orbit, wait for an asteroid to come nearby, manuever the object such that it crashes into the asteroid in such a way, that the momentum of the object is cancelled out relative to the Moon, so the Moon’s gravity can pull it in
Ask the object to please go to the Moon
Like the battery-powered water syringe, except instead of using batteries, we use nuclear power
Hack the universe’s source code, so that gravity is 10x weaker
Get recruited as an astronaut, go on a mission to the moon, and bring the object with me
Pay SpaceX to put my object on the moon
Redefine the word “Moon” to actually refer to my basement
Get so, so, so buff, that I can do a jump squat, and land on the moon (Aka the “Chuck Norris manuever”)
Search deep in my soul, discover the reasons why I want to get this object on the moon, and realize that I never actually ever wanted to get it to the moon in the first place (Aka the “Bhudda manuever”)
Create an airplane whose wings can become so big (and lightweight), that it can generate lift simply by interacting with solar wind
Publish a blog post encouraging people to come up with ways to get my object on the Moon
Take inspiration from Breath of the Wild speedrunners, and use Stasis to freeze a metal cube in place, whack it with an industrial-grade whacker a billion times, get inside the cube, wait for the stasis to wear off, and get launched at absurd speeds in the direction of the Moon (Edit: apparently the new meta [involves shield surfing, precisely timed super attacks, and archery-based time warping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVIcwXponM&t=8m06s), so we’ll do that instead)
Take inspiration from Orcas, which start underwater, then launch into the air. Likewise, we will start from the air like a regular airplane, and once we have maximum height and altitude obtainable with a plane, we will launch the rocket phase
Develop a chemical substance which has a higher specific energy (Joules per kilogram) than hydrolox fuel
Get bitten by a spider, then use my newfound superpowers to fly to the moon
Ironman suit that can go to space
Hold a moondance, and by worshipping and honoring the moon, the moon god will allow us to visit and bring our object to the moon
Eat so much black pepper and wasabi, that I sneeze so hard I get launched to the moon
Imagine myself and the object already being on the moon. If I imagine it hard enough, it will become true
Remove the atmosphere of the Earth, so I can launch rockets without having to get through the atmosphere
Start with the object already in space, far from Earth’s gravitational influence—then manuever the object towards the Moon
Print out a picture of the object, and bring that to space. This way, we don’t have to waste precious capacity on the physical object itself
Not original: Use a railgun. On top of Burj Everista. (Edit: I didn’t realize I had already mentioned a railgun in #7 when introducing Burj Everista)
Use EM field particle manipulation, so that the atoms and nucleons on the Moon arrange themselves into the shape of the object
Build a giant factory on the Moon, and manufacture the object there (variation on idea #1)
Discover that the universe actually has a hidden four-spatial-dimensional structure underlying it, and build a pathway utilizing the fourth dimension
Build a very, very, very powerful trebuchet on the Earth, powerful enough to launch an object to the moon
Create a dense cloud of space debris between the Earth and Moon, and climb the space debris as if you were climbing El Capitan
Like idea #14, build a multi-piece series of structures in successively higher orbits leading to the Moon. But this time, it’s like a little track that the vehicles can ride on like a road
Like idea #14, except each piece propels the vehicle like a maglev train
Like idea #14, except there are no vehicles (beyond transer from one structure to the next). People will climb up each piece like they climb stairs
Put rockets on the Earth, and make the Earth accelerate so fast, that it gets far away from you (and the moon) before you can fall back to it, so now the only gravity acting on you is from the moon
Photoshop a picture of you standing on the moon, and post it on the internet, so everybody thinks you actually got there
It’s a rocket, except instead of simply propelling fuel exhaust downwards (to obtain equal and opposite momentum), it launches packages back towards earth. This technique is called the “Jeff Bezos manuever”
Kidnap Santa Claus, and use his magic reindeer to get to the moon
This was pretty fun, though man, it took quite a bit to come up with all 50. Some of them are maybe plausible, some of them for sure are not
50 Ways to the Moon
Put 3D printer on moon, print the things you want on the moon
Bring the moon to us
Not original idea: Use a battery-powered rocket that expels water instead of exhaust
Use a nuclear bomb, contained within a very robust containment, and point the firey end down
Use a magnetic vehicle, and create a very strong EM field to push the vehicle away from earth
Not original idea: Use a space yeeter (Rotating object in orbit which has a tether, a vehicle in low orbit attatches to tether, and the space yeeter’s angular momentum brings the vehicle to a much higher altitude)
Take the object to a very high place (Burj Khalifa? Mt Everest? A Burj built on top of Everest [Burj Everista]?), then launch the vehicle using a railgun, and only start burning fuel once its launched
Use some mechanism (or series of mechanisms) that catches other vehicles that are entering orbit from space, and redirects their kinetic energy to bring outgoing vehicles to space
Create a wormhole that links Moon’s surface to Earth’s surface
Breed birds, testing how high altitudes they can reach, and their ability to survive in low pressures, changing what we breed for (pure max height? height sustained for a certain amount of time? maximum upgoing velocity? Low oxygen performance? etc) when birds reach a plateau in performance, and see if we can breed birds that can get to space
If I want to get an object to the moon, I should just give it to the Artemis astronauts when they launch
Create so much gas (probably N2 with appropriate levels of O2, or whatever is convenient to create enough) that the Earth’s atmosphere extends to the Moon, and fly an airplane up to the moon
Start from north pole, and ride the Earth’s magnetic field into space
Create a multi-piece space elevator, which starts with a very high structure attached to Earth, which terminates above the atmosphere, then it transitions vehicles to an orbiting object which occasionally gets close enough to receive vehicles, the vehicles then climb that object, which then passes off vehicles to another orbiting object. Since each piece is smaller than a full-size space elevator, it won’t have to withstand the same stresses the space elevator would
Absurd: Create a strong-force colour field, and have a colour-charged vehicle which gets propelled by the colour field
Launch the object into low-earth orbit, wait for an asteroid to come nearby, manuever the object such that it crashes into the asteroid in such a way, that the momentum of the object is cancelled out relative to the Moon, so the Moon’s gravity can pull it in
Ask the object to please go to the Moon
Like the battery-powered water syringe, except instead of using batteries, we use nuclear power
Hack the universe’s source code, so that gravity is 10x weaker
Get recruited as an astronaut, go on a mission to the moon, and bring the object with me
Pay SpaceX to put my object on the moon
Redefine the word “Moon” to actually refer to my basement
Get so, so, so buff, that I can do a jump squat, and land on the moon (Aka the “Chuck Norris manuever”)
Search deep in my soul, discover the reasons why I want to get this object on the moon, and realize that I never actually ever wanted to get it to the moon in the first place (Aka the “Bhudda manuever”)
Create an airplane whose wings can become so big (and lightweight), that it can generate lift simply by interacting with solar wind
Publish a blog post encouraging people to come up with ways to get my object on the Moon
Take inspiration from Breath of the Wild speedrunners, and use Stasis to freeze a metal cube in place, whack it with an industrial-grade whacker a billion times, get inside the cube, wait for the stasis to wear off, and get launched at absurd speeds in the direction of the Moon (Edit: apparently the new meta [involves shield surfing, precisely timed super attacks, and archery-based time warping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVIcwXponM&t=8m06s), so we’ll do that instead)
Take inspiration from Orcas, which start underwater, then launch into the air. Likewise, we will start from the air like a regular airplane, and once we have maximum height and altitude obtainable with a plane, we will launch the rocket phase
Develop a chemical substance which has a higher specific energy (Joules per kilogram) than hydrolox fuel
Get bitten by a spider, then use my newfound superpowers to fly to the moon
Ironman suit that can go to space
Hold a moondance, and by worshipping and honoring the moon, the moon god will allow us to visit and bring our object to the moon
Eat so much black pepper and wasabi, that I sneeze so hard I get launched to the moon
Imagine myself and the object already being on the moon. If I imagine it hard enough, it will become true
Remove the atmosphere of the Earth, so I can launch rockets without having to get through the atmosphere
Start with the object already in space, far from Earth’s gravitational influence—then manuever the object towards the Moon
Print out a picture of the object, and bring that to space. This way, we don’t have to waste precious capacity on the physical object itself
Not original: Use a railgun. On top of Burj Everista. (Edit: I didn’t realize I had already mentioned a railgun in #7 when introducing Burj Everista)
Use EM field particle manipulation, so that the atoms and nucleons on the Moon arrange themselves into the shape of the object
Build a giant factory on the Moon, and manufacture the object there (variation on idea #1)
Discover that the universe actually has a hidden four-spatial-dimensional structure underlying it, and build a pathway utilizing the fourth dimension
Build a very, very, very powerful trebuchet on the Earth, powerful enough to launch an object to the moon
Create a dense cloud of space debris between the Earth and Moon, and climb the space debris as if you were climbing El Capitan
Like idea #14, build a multi-piece series of structures in successively higher orbits leading to the Moon. But this time, it’s like a little track that the vehicles can ride on like a road
Like idea #14, except each piece propels the vehicle like a maglev train
Like idea #14, except there are no vehicles (beyond transer from one structure to the next). People will climb up each piece like they climb stairs
Put rockets on the Earth, and make the Earth accelerate so fast, that it gets far away from you (and the moon) before you can fall back to it, so now the only gravity acting on you is from the moon
Photoshop a picture of you standing on the moon, and post it on the internet, so everybody thinks you actually got there
It’s a rocket, except instead of simply propelling fuel exhaust downwards (to obtain equal and opposite momentum), it launches packages back towards earth. This technique is called the “Jeff Bezos manuever”
Kidnap Santa Claus, and use his magic reindeer to get to the moon
This was pretty fun, though man, it took quite a bit to come up with all 50. Some of them are maybe plausible, some of them for sure are not
Kudos for persevering! #43 and #47 are pretty cool, along with many others :)