Mati_Roy answers Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon

[Mati_Roy]

I didn’t read others’ answers before answering.

My favorite from my list are 1, 30, and 39

First things first

1. Create this LessWrong post

Bring object to the Moon

1. elevator

2. vertical hyperloop

3. stairs XD

4. wormhole

5. attach magnet on object and on both celestial object

6. artificial gravity

7. astro-catapult

8. nuclear-fusion rocket

9. nuclear-fission rocket

10. chemical reaction rocket

11. solar energy rocket

12. orbiting asteroid

13. light a giant candle going from the Moon to Earth, put the object on it, and wait for the candle to burn down

Bring object information to the Moon

1. disassembled and send structural information with photons

2. disassembled and send through particle accelerator

3. disassembled and send through electric wire

4. disassembled and send with gravitons

5. make a giant QR code on Earth surface for Moon-based people to scan with a telescope

Bring the Moon to the object

1. bring the Moon on Earth through a wormhole

2. bring the Moon on Earth using gravity

3. bring the Moon on Earth by disassembling it in smaller pieces, and reassembling it on Earth

Bring the Moon information to the object

1. anthropic(?) capture: simulate the moon on Earth

Meta: create incentives for other humans to do it

1. fund a prize for bring things on the moon

2. advocate the government to create a road to the moon

Meta: create incentives for non-humans to do it

1. make a deal with simulators

2. make a deal with superintelligent aliens

3. pre-commit to acausal trade

Meta: create other minds to do it

1. breed human until they can fly in space

2. breed interstellar non-human animals to do it

3. create AIs that will solve the problem

4. genetic engineering to create smart humans to solve the problem

5. have children, and train them for the task

Meta: wait

1. wait for random quantum fluctuation to bring the object there

2. wait long enough until the Moon is now on Earth

3. wait for someone else to do it

Other: genius

1. create an object big enough that it will be both on Earth and on the Moon

2. send a non-existing object

3. create a quantum coin that makes you do something different in each branch in such a way that you do all possible actions; one of them is likely to send something on the Moon.

Make no sense

1. blow strongly on it

2. use wishful thinking

3. use non-violent communication to share your feelings to the object

4. threaten the object

5. offer to fulfill the objects deepest desires

6. ask a monkey to do it

7. sing a song while dancing

8. walk in a straight line until you stumble upon the Moon

9. create a time paradox if no objects gets to the Moon

10. pray that Rick & Morty show up and get them to help you

11. use more nukes… make Earth uninhabitable so people go on the Moon

[gogishvilli]

14 is really creative, 19 is hilarious!

[Mati_Roy]

thanks!:) I was inspired by 14 because I had one in my field of vision ^_^ ; 19, yeah XD

[frontier64]

I also had a candle in my field of view and a very strong belief that it could somehow help get me to the moon. There’s something powerful about candles.

[Mati_Roy]

fun fact: “spark plug” and “candle” is the same word in French ^_^

[Mati_Roy]

ideas I got from reading others’ list:

• lower the Moon’s orbit so you can reach it with your arm