50 ways to send something to the moon. Although it ended up more like 25 ways to send something to the moon and 25 ways to avoid sending something to the moon.
Mail it.
Where will the moon end up in 1 billion years? Invent time travel, put something there in the future, then send it back in time to today’s moon.
Rail gun.
Space elevator to get it to space, then nudge it. Assuming it can deal with the landing.
Giant slingshot. By which I mean spin, then release. This isn’t silly, there’s a serious startup doing it right now. (To get things to space, not the moon, but shouldn’t be very different.)
Space elevator, then give it a parachute, then nudge it to the moon.
Big cannon, with gunpowder.
Put it on a rocket. Rocket to take off & rocket to land.
Invent teleportation, and teleport it.
Does the thing really have to start on earth? Make it on the moon. Makes shipping much easier.
Compressed air cannon.
Land bridge, that’s connected to the moon but not the earth. It gets within a few miles of earth.
Big tree on earth. At the right time of day, its highest point gets close to the moon.
Earth is in such a big gravity well. Maybe make the thing on a moon like phobos (which I know from UT), then send it via one of these methods to the moon.
Make it in space, then drop it to the moon.
Is it digital? I hope it’s digital. Email it!
Send it through the IPFS. Because it’s digital.
Ok, it’s not digital. But it can be 3d-printed right? Email the design to an automated printer!
Seriously, you don’t want to physically send the thing to the moon. Start a manufactoring service on the moon. It taAlthough this turned more into 50 ways to avoid sending something to the moon.kes instructions to make something, and makes it, and ships it. All very automated. You send them a JSON file and some dollars and they make the thing.
Is it audio? Is it a song? Call them up and sing.
Why are you still trying to physically send it? Is it because you feel that if the thing is also on Earth, you haven’t really sent it to the moon after manufacturing it there? How about manufacturing it there, then destroying the copy on Earth? Is that satisfactory?
Ok maybe the thing is very expensive. Like a big diamond. Don’t send it on its own. You don’t need a dedicated rocket to send a diamond! Bulk shipments! Group it with the next hundred items.
Wait 50 years until we have better technology, then send it.
Get someone to inadvertently bring it to the moon. Like Musk is going there because he likes space, slip it in his pocket. Might need to pay a lunar pick-pocket to get it back after.
Convince a big company that they want to advertise the thing on the moon, and get them to foot the shipping bill.
Ok, maybe there is no manufacturing capabilities on the moon, and that’s why you’re so insistent on shipping this thing. Maybe it is the manufacturing facilities.
NANITES. Send nanites. Have them make the manufacturing facilities.
Take the thing, turn it into magical goop, and haphazardly slingshot the goop. Then tell the goop to return to its original form.
Invent AGI and ask it to ship the thing to the moon.
Magic. Literal magic. Wave your wand and speak in latin.
Does it really have to be the moon, or do you just need people to think its on the moon? Send it to a film set that looks like the moon.
Pay the moon people to say you sent it to them even though you didn’t.
Fake the moon transmissions to make it sound like the moon people got the thing even though they didn’t.
If it’s a plant, grow it on the moon.
If it’s a plant, send the seed, then grow it on the moon.
In general, instead of sending X, send a generator for X.
Ok I’m going to actually thing about how to get matter from Earth to the Moon again.
Strap a rocket on it.
Warp space so that the moon is 20 feet away, then toss it.
Turn its matter into energy, beam it via microwaves, then turn the energy back into matter.
Turn it into plasma, stream it over, turn it back.
Put it in a big bouncy ball, and toss that over (say with a slingshot or railgun as previously mentioned). Like we did with that mars rover.
Have a space station between the earth and moon, with long ropes (read: cararbon nanotube ropes). Lift it up one rope, and down the other.
Take a chunk out of the moon, and send it to earth. Then ship everything you want there.
Take a chunk out of the earth (say around a big factory city), and send it to the moon. Then ship from earth-chunk to moon-desination.
Right, physically moving a thing from one place to another. Back on track.
Space train.
I’m just now feeling out of ideas.
Regular slingshot. Like with big stretchy cables. With a big foamy spot for it to land.
Defeat gravity. Then use a gravity-ignoring spaceship with tiny little compressed-air jets.
Rocket, powered by nuclear explosions. Probably not good for the environment.
Big see-saw. When a shipment comes in from the moon, it lands on one end. It is on the other end, and gets flung to the moon.
Same idea for space elevator. For balance, an object from the earth and an object from the moon of the same weight are pulled in unison to meet at the middle, then lowered on the other side.
Really big fans. Fast enough to send the thing out of Earth’s gravity. Though that probably wouldn’t be good for the environment.
50 ways to send something to the moon. Although it ended up more like 25 ways to send something to the moon and 25 ways to avoid sending something to the moon.
Mail it.
Where will the moon end up in 1 billion years? Invent time travel, put something there in the future, then send it back in time to today’s moon.
Rail gun.
Space elevator to get it to space, then nudge it. Assuming it can deal with the landing.
Giant slingshot. By which I mean spin, then release. This isn’t silly, there’s a serious startup doing it right now. (To get things to space, not the moon, but shouldn’t be very different.)
Space elevator, then give it a parachute, then nudge it to the moon.
Big cannon, with gunpowder.
Put it on a rocket. Rocket to take off & rocket to land.
Invent teleportation, and teleport it.
Does the thing really have to start on earth? Make it on the moon. Makes shipping much easier.
Compressed air cannon.
Land bridge, that’s connected to the moon but not the earth. It gets within a few miles of earth.
Big tree on earth. At the right time of day, its highest point gets close to the moon.
Earth is in such a big gravity well. Maybe make the thing on a moon like phobos (which I know from UT), then send it via one of these methods to the moon.
Make it in space, then drop it to the moon.
Is it digital? I hope it’s digital. Email it!
Send it through the IPFS. Because it’s digital.
Ok, it’s not digital. But it can be 3d-printed right? Email the design to an automated printer!
Seriously, you don’t want to physically send the thing to the moon. Start a manufactoring service on the moon. It taAlthough this turned more into 50 ways to avoid sending something to the moon.kes instructions to make something, and makes it, and ships it. All very automated. You send them a JSON file and some dollars and they make the thing.
Is it audio? Is it a song? Call them up and sing.
Why are you still trying to physically send it? Is it because you feel that if the thing is also on Earth, you haven’t really sent it to the moon after manufacturing it there? How about manufacturing it there, then destroying the copy on Earth? Is that satisfactory?
Ok maybe the thing is very expensive. Like a big diamond. Don’t send it on its own. You don’t need a dedicated rocket to send a diamond! Bulk shipments! Group it with the next hundred items.
Wait 50 years until we have better technology, then send it.
Get someone to inadvertently bring it to the moon. Like Musk is going there because he likes space, slip it in his pocket. Might need to pay a lunar pick-pocket to get it back after.
Convince a big company that they want to advertise the thing on the moon, and get them to foot the shipping bill. Ok, maybe there is no manufacturing capabilities on the moon, and that’s why you’re so insistent on shipping this thing. Maybe it is the manufacturing facilities.
NANITES. Send nanites. Have them make the manufacturing facilities.
Take the thing, turn it into magical goop, and haphazardly slingshot the goop. Then tell the goop to return to its original form.
Invent AGI and ask it to ship the thing to the moon.
Magic. Literal magic. Wave your wand and speak in latin.
Does it really have to be the moon, or do you just need people to think its on the moon? Send it to a film set that looks like the moon.
Pay the moon people to say you sent it to them even though you didn’t.
Fake the moon transmissions to make it sound like the moon people got the thing even though they didn’t.
If it’s a plant, grow it on the moon.
If it’s a plant, send the seed, then grow it on the moon.
In general, instead of sending X, send a generator for X. Ok I’m going to actually thing about how to get matter from Earth to the Moon again.
Strap a rocket on it.
Warp space so that the moon is 20 feet away, then toss it.
Turn its matter into energy, beam it via microwaves, then turn the energy back into matter.
Turn it into plasma, stream it over, turn it back.
Put it in a big bouncy ball, and toss that over (say with a slingshot or railgun as previously mentioned). Like we did with that mars rover.
Have a space station between the earth and moon, with long ropes (read: cararbon nanotube ropes). Lift it up one rope, and down the other.
Take a chunk out of the moon, and send it to earth. Then ship everything you want there.
Take a chunk out of the earth (say around a big factory city), and send it to the moon. Then ship from earth-chunk to moon-desination. Right, physically moving a thing from one place to another. Back on track.
Space train. I’m just now feeling out of ideas.
Regular slingshot. Like with big stretchy cables. With a big foamy spot for it to land.
Defeat gravity. Then use a gravity-ignoring spaceship with tiny little compressed-air jets.
Rocket, powered by nuclear explosions. Probably not good for the environment.
Big see-saw. When a shipment comes in from the moon, it lands on one end. It is on the other end, and gets flung to the moon.
Same idea for space elevator. For balance, an object from the earth and an object from the moon of the same weight are pulled in unison to meet at the middle, then lowered on the other side.
Really big fans. Fast enough to send the thing out of Earth’s gravity. Though that probably wouldn’t be good for the environment.
Compressed air tube.