- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Inspired by this;
IOTL, the Apollo 11 crew were quarantined for 21 days upon their return, in case they had contracted 'moon germs'. But what if they had, and had died in quarantine?
Of course, this is something of a fantastical premise, requiring a POD billions of years in the past but lets work on assumptions of quantum mechanics, that all possibilities are simultaneously occurring until they are observed. IOTL, we observed the Moon to be sterile and lifeless, ITTL they very much do not.
What would the repercussions of this be? There would be the obvious trauma of the 'one giant leap' falling into a black hole of disease - but what of the realisation that yes, there is life on other worlds, even worlds as hostile and seemingly inimical to life as the Moon. Assuming that the Apollo missions abruptly end after 11, what happens next for NASA, and for that matter other countries space programmes?
And to be a little more esoteric, how might the rest of the Solar System be different - at this point we had already observed Venus to be Literally Hell, Mercury isn't tidally locked and Mars doesn't have canals, but what else might there be if life is possible on the Moon?
IOTL, the Apollo 11 crew were quarantined for 21 days upon their return, in case they had contracted 'moon germs'. But what if they had, and had died in quarantine?
Of course, this is something of a fantastical premise, requiring a POD billions of years in the past but lets work on assumptions of quantum mechanics, that all possibilities are simultaneously occurring until they are observed. IOTL, we observed the Moon to be sterile and lifeless, ITTL they very much do not.
What would the repercussions of this be? There would be the obvious trauma of the 'one giant leap' falling into a black hole of disease - but what of the realisation that yes, there is life on other worlds, even worlds as hostile and seemingly inimical to life as the Moon. Assuming that the Apollo missions abruptly end after 11, what happens next for NASA, and for that matter other countries space programmes?
And to be a little more esoteric, how might the rest of the Solar System be different - at this point we had already observed Venus to be Literally Hell, Mercury isn't tidally locked and Mars doesn't have canals, but what else might there be if life is possible on the Moon?