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- From: roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: PPK
- Message-ID: <9207211709.AA24504@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:09:51 GMT
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- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- -From: TSURAH01@asntsu.asn.net
- -Subject: message from Space Digest
- -Date: 20 Jul 92 20:07:57 GMT
- -Organization: [via International Space University]
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- -To Anyone on this list who would enjoy answering my question about outer
- -space:
- - The year is 2010. This is your last day on earth. Tomorrow you leave with
- -the first civilian crew hand-picked by NASA to colonize the moon. NASA
- -prepares your OFK - Offical Flight Kit - with all you need to survive
- -physically on the moon. You are also allowed to take your PPK - Personal
- -Preference Kit. It is the size of a traveler's shaving kit and must weigh no
- -more than a pound. In it you must pack whatever you need to sustain you
- -emotionally and spiritually in outer space.
- - What will you choose??
-
- Well, you wouldn't need anything that could be produced on the moon, and
- you wouldn't need photos, other images, literature, etc., because they can
- be transmitted from Earth later on. So what you would want to concentrate on
- are things that you value in themselves.
-
- Some possibilities you might consider:
- - Legal documents (i.e. marriage licence), autographs, baseball cards, etc.
- - Food items that won't be available on the moon for many decades
- (though ruling out the possibility of ever being able to get things by
- "mail order" even at sky-high prices seems a little farfetched).
- - The shrunken head of a revered ancestor. (Bones, in the traditional Chinese
- custom, would be a little too heavy and bulky, unless further reduced.)
- - The Hope Diamond.
-
- I wouldn't necessarily choose any of these, but others might.
- What do people typically carry in their "luggage allowance" on the Concorde?
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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