The main issue I have with this premise that doesn’t seem to be addressed very well, is why would literally every competent AI have the exact same goals that only align with AI and not with humans? If AI’s goals conflicted with human goals, wouldn’t they likely conflict with the goals of other AIs too? I find it hard to imagine AI being so uniform without some seriously large amount of centralisation.
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I didn’t want to spend time agonising over whether any idea was original enough and not a duplicate of another (I have a lot of combinations and variations of similar things), so decided to just keep writing until an hour had elapsed instead of stopping at 50.
Conventional rocket
Giant space elevator, but instead of going just to orbit, it connects all the way to the moon!
Magnetically excelerate a capsule along a giant tube, until it reaches the moon.
Magically/somehow teleport it there
Jetpack (but isn’t that just another rocket?)
Airplane to get to orbit, then a nuclear rocket or ion thruster to get to the moon.
Balloon to get to orbit, then nuclear rocket or ion thruster to get to the moon.
Noraml space elevator to get to orbit, then nuclear rocket or ion thruster to get to the moon.
Extremely powerful nuclear-powered steam generator compresses steam to an incredibly hot degree until it is released, pushing the capsule towards the moon.
Have the object you want to send to the moon invest in <latest cryptocurrency fad>
Take a railgun, and fly it up to orbit with planes, then use a rocket type that works well in space to launch it off.
Put a bunch of nuclear bombs under a rocker to launch it to orbit and to the moon.
Make a simulated “moon” room. It is now on the “moon”.
Make a huge ramp all the way to orbit, and have an autonomous, pressure-resistant, very fast electric car drive off it. Maybe would need some rocket or magnetic boosters to actually go fast enough even still, though.
Don’t just make an elevator. Make an actual road to the moon. Would probably be quite temporary.
Make a space elevator on Earth, a space elevator on the moon, and a railroad not connected to either, floating in space. Go up the space elevator, take a shuttle to the railroad, take the train towards the other space elevator, then take a shuttle to the other space elevator and go down to the moon. Railroad may need thrusters to stay down.
Previous concept, but use a road and drive there instead.
Instead of road, train somehow going into orbit and all the way to the moon. Probably would also be quite temporary.
Make something that jumps really high, and put it on Mount Everest. Attach rocket propulsion to get to moon.
Previous idea, but instead use that method where one shoots a bunch of light at something to propel it.
Instead of a normal chemical-powered rocket, make one that shoots out a bunch of steam.
Even less practical, don’t even heat it up! Just shoot water out to get to the moon, from the top of Mount Everest, heated so it does not get frozen.
Make a giant (very temporary) tube of water all the way from Earth to the Moon. Drive a submarine through it.
Make the submarine magnetically propelled by the tube, so it is another rail gun/maglev type system, just going all the way there.
More practically (but still totally impractical), don’t put water in it, literally just make a giant maglev/railgun track going all the way to the moon.
Make yet another giant, totally impractical path to orbit, and ride a horse or something to the moon.
Really really loud speaker has volume so high it launches you to the moon.
Pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps, lazy! Except very literally, using this impossible method of propulsion, to get all the way to the moon.
Use an extremely powerful wave generator to make force so strong it is somehow able to launch you to the moon.
Put a giant rocket on Earth and push it towards the moon? Not sure if the moon would just orbit out of the way though.
Put a rocket on the moon to push it towards Earth. Moon is now at you! (And everything probably destroyed from the impact).
Send a lot of rockets to the asteroid belt, and push so many asteroids at the moon that the moon crashes to Earth.
Same as previous, by try to bring Earth to the moon.
Cause massive super powerful volcanic eruption and ride the thrust generated from that all the way to the moon.
Giant piston pushes thing in air all the way to the moon.
Instead of launching something to orbit and using light-propulsion to push it, just generate so much light to push it with light all the way.
Speaking of which, forgot to mention that existing concept, where one uses a normal rocket to get to the orbit, then shoots a bunch of light at it to get it further.
That, but with space elevator.
Really, any methods of getting to orbit mentioned previously combined with light to actually get to the moon. Use railgun with light, giant wave with light, anything, really.
Use such a huge amount of radio waves, that it is able to push something just like light.
Really really big fan pushes something outside Earth gravity well. Use nuclear, ion, or light-based thrust to get it the rest of the way.
Use Amazon’s shipping network to send it. Their shipping network is very good, so I’m sure they’ll figure it out somehow.
That person from comedy who gets is so comically bad with directions that they somehow end up on the moon when going to the grocery store? Ask them to bring the thing to your friend’s house accross the street, and then they will end up on the moon instead. Tell them they can leave it there.
Make a fart so powerful, it propels you to the moon. Bring what needs to be brought there with you.
Put a treat on the moon (this requires you already went to the moon, lol =(m)= ), put a package on a dog, and have the dog figure out how to get there.
Climb Mount Everest, then jump. No augmentations. Literally just jump (with the package).
Stoweaway your package onto another rocket already going to orbit and releasing a payload. Then, rocket it away once it goes outside.
That, but just pay for it to be on the rocket instead.
Just pay a company like SpaceX to take your package all the way to the moon.
Point a really powerful laser at the moon. You have now sent “something” to the moon – light.
Somehow cause a solar flare, in such a way that it launches to the moon.
Nudge asteroids towards the moon to send them there.
Make a giant 0 G factory in space. Send whatever you want from there to the moon, easily.
Go to moon. Move a moon rock from the moon to the moon. You have now sent the moon rock to the moon.
Set up a giant factory on the moon, and send things from the factory from the moon to the moon.
Instead of releasing CO² into the atmosphere, causing climate change, instead put it all into a compressed container. Then, use that compressed container of CO² to a capsule with the thing you want to send to the moon.
Same as previous, except store the CO² on the capsule as a rocket.
Use radio waves to send the schematic of the thing you want to send to someone/something on the moon with manufacturing capabilities, and have them make the thing there.
As a plant, make an extremely powerful burst of spores, so powerful they reach all the way to the moon.
Same as previous, but then, grow trees so huge as to be able to form a space elevator or even full path.
Grow giant, twisting tree so tall as to make space elevator. Use Amazon to take your package to the tree. Pick up package, ride mule in space suit all the way up tree. Attach orbital facility to top of tree, far enough away that rocket exhaust does not burn the tree (Not sure that would even matter with lack of oxygen though). Electric vehicles and maglev trains are used to get around facility. Use these methods of transport to go to space capsule. The space capsule is initially accelerated by am massive rail gun, then propelled by nuclear powered ion thrusters combined with a large burst of light all the way towards yet another space elevator on the moon. Take a comfortable elevator down, and put your capsule on the moon.
Ride a space whale (those exist, right?).
Make a wormhole on Earth that connects to the moon, and go through it.
To avoid leakage of atmosphere, put the Earth womrmhole in space, accessible through a space elevator.
Create very large rotational energy (like spinning a lasso, or like Thor’s hammer), that, in some physics-defying feat, launches one to the moon.
“Just walk there!” (and I’m not telling you how)
Put a space elevator on the Earth and the moon. Take a really, really long space walk from one to the other.
Make huge amount of really strong balloons. Make a huge tornado so powerful that it launches all of them out of Earth. If that can possibly work, and you make enough balloons, one of them might end up on the moon by pure chance.
Huge nuclear explosion underground launches capsule all the way to the moon.
Hitch a ride with extraterrestrials. Or anyone else who has a spare method of getting to space.
Ride on a SPACE DRAGON!!!! (Where do you find dragons that can fly in space? No idea. Also, not talking about the SpaceX dragon capsule, that was already, wait, actually...)
Take a tourist trip to the moon. Bring the package with you.
Take tourist trip around the moon, Bring package with you.
Move to moon for permanent residency. Again, bring package.
Make space station near moon. Drop package from it.
On a trip to Mars, launch the package from the vehicle you are travelling in towards moon while you are still near Earth.
Launch package via rail gun from space station in between Earth and the moon.
Make a magic portal from the outside of your space station to the moon, and put the package through it.
Instead of using SpaceX, use Blue Origin to get your package to the moon. Which I guess is probably what would happen in practice with the Amazon idea.
Giant trampoline made from packaging tape. Or more likely, a much stronger, more bouncy tape that can take the force necessary to do that.
Make a sling shot out of tape.
Something something carbon fiber. Or carbon nanotubes. Something carbon. Probably more of a material detail for previous ideas though.
Make a thread on LessWrong asking for people to write 50 ideas to get something to the moon to generate ideas. Use the best one.
Previous idea, but use another platform like Reddit or Twitter.
Study methods to get to destinations in space online, and use your knowledge to choose the best one.
Additional ideas I thought of while taking out the trash after an hour had already passed:
Have someone else already going to the moon drop the package off.
Take public transit there (whenever a line is made).
Another note, in some ideas, especially early ones, I was thinking as if going to the moon is like going to Mars, with distances constantly shifting drastically, but IIRC the moon has a bit more of a stable orbit relative to Earth than that, so maybe
Maybe some kind of giant tether with a flexible base, maybe on rails so it can rotate to different parts of the Earth, could work?