• ashen light, green baize, cognoscenti, ionosphere
• some celestial espionage
• Pauline Oliveros, Katie Peterson
• humblebrag, happenstance
• extant, nexus, less learnedly
• in the afternoon, the time of christ's death
• the full moon always rises around sunset. eaxing gibbous moons rise before sunset and waning gibbous moons rise after sunset and as a result can be seen in the morning sky before sunrise.
• substance of the soul being left on the moon - plutarch
• to descry new lands, rivers or mountains in her spotty globe - john milton
• in the full she appears like a tart that my cooke made me last weeke; here a vaine of bright stuffe, and there of darke, and so confusedlie all over" - william lower
• heights and cavities, roughness and smoothness
• bay of dew - sinus roris
• bay of rainbow - sinus iridium
• a principle of divine economy - god would not be wasteful in his creation
• about 17% of its surface is made up of dark, low lying plains called maria (sea), the plural for mare.
• other eden, demi paradise
• inclement
• like the sight of the moon from a kitchen window, unites the cosmic and domestic
• the moon appears to be the fruitfuller
• selenites - moon people
• micrographia, 1665
• powerful enough to melt worlds
• in winter, the full moon, opposite the sun, rises higher and stays up longer. above the arctic circle the winter moon can stay up for more than 24 hrs, just as the summer sun can
• chinese astrology divides the moon's path in 28 mansions
• a sound that became your body
• expelled backwards, the gases drive the projectile foreward.

rockets - expanding gases provided increasing kinetic energy more efficiently when confined by a metal barrel

• doubled-up cosmic dolly zoom
• aldous huxley - "speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure"
• harry truman signed the charter of the UN two days after bombing hiroshima and nagasaki
• a somewhat satanic thomas the tank engine
• in a rare stab of humor
• they do not feel the lunar temperature - they have their own. they do not breathe the moon or pee on it, or truly touch it
• the only experience on the moon in the flesh is after regaining the LM. they bring its dust and grit with them on their suits. they smell it in the air when the tiny volume of the LM repressurises and the helmets come off - it smells like gunpowder.
• buzz aldrin takes communion with bread and wine consecrated on another planet
• magnificent desolation
• boy that sun is bright. that's just like somebody shining a spotlight in your hand.
• you're right, tony. it ain't nothing much up here but a lot of rocks.
• if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we.. cyre cancer, or clean the air...or end poverty or curb inflation
• and what do you mean by we, white man?
• (the earth's) seawater has become sourer
• methane-emitting rice paddies
• a fit of playful tidy-mindedness
• undeniably fanciful
• theia, mother of selene
• people to look up in terror as a ceiling spread over their world
• like a child's cupped hands clapping in a bath
• litotically
• you can change angular momentum only with a torque. a force applied off-center to change the spin.
• planets do not sit up straight in their orbits, they lean over. the earth is slowly in the process of sitting up straighter. the effect this nodding has on the intensity of the planet;s seasons
• what would it have been for humans to play out their history under a unMooned sky
• moonlessness
• night would be a deeper thing, always dark and unchanging, its tides low and metronomic. the kneeling god drama of eclipse would be unknown
• reaching for the moon. crying for the moon. walking on the moon. drawing down the moon. they had all ben images of fantasy, or frustration
• a shot in the arm for prosperity