Saturday, July 16, 2011

Sleeping near the fishes

I write this as I drift off to sleep.
It was fun today, I explored all the nooks and crannies I could untill I couldn't walk any farther and I really don't have time to explain it all to you! I guess as I encounter them in my training or daily life I'll write about them but I can tell you my favorite parts. Right behind the laboratory they have, believe it or not, an extremely large fish tank. A self sustaining fish tank. It is an almost perfect mini Eco system that produces just slightly more fish than needed, and guess where the fish go, yum. I don't know the names of all the fish and plants but I do know (from asking the caretaker) that's it's also the moon stations septic system. The plants in there are designed to absorb more nitrogen and methane than needed so we can pump our waste into there and it will be filtered, a multipurpose tank. Veiwing purposes, food, filtration and science.
My other favorite part is the..

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

We are finally going to the moon

Oh yeah! I'm writing this from the shuttle! I'm very excited as you can tell by my excessive exclamation marks!
We launched just a few minutes ago and I have a limited time to write this because we aren't allowed to use our logs when within a certain radius of the atmosphere. I think it messes with them.
It's a calm ride now but if I had tried to write this log about 2 minutes ago the tablet would have smashed into my face. I never knew how intense those G's would bec(for the non-astronaut, one G is equal to the weight of the earths atmospheric pressure. If there is 5 G's that is 5 times the earths pressure on your body).
The fellow astronauts that didn't pass the test for G's were put into a coma like sleep so they wouldn't freak out or vomit, the pilot said they should wake up shortly afterwe leave the atmosphere.
That might be fun too though because they're going to be all sleepy and stuff.
I have to go because I have to put the logger back in the special case while going into orbit but I'll try to post right after I get onto the moon.
How much do you want to bet those guys they knocked out start blabbing nonsense when they wake up?
Teen out.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Do read the do-not list

Today we got to finally go through pretraining and as long as nothing dumb happens we'll be on our way to the moon for real training soon.
Yesterday though after we had used up all the games we could think of with nothing to see and not much room to move we finally got released and since the "delays" weren't solved yet we were escorted to hotel rooms with room mates of the same gender, mine snored.
Nothing besides pretraining to talk about so I guess I'll go back to that. Since its only pretraining we didn't learn any complex stuff just the functions of our suit and all the Do's. We didn't learn the don'ts because literally everything not on the do list was a don't.
after learning about the space suit we went through an antigravity course. A couple of us at a time got locked in a large chamber and after a few seconds we started floating. When I jumped I banged my head since you don't stop, this was one of those "learn from your mistakes" courses so we were allowed a good amount of time and then they motioned for us to get near the ground and we slowly felt the gravity returning.
The girl in the chamber with me and two other guys fell over when they turned the gravity back on. Why are girls so different, it's annoying.
Teen out.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

(Not) Enough time

The supervisors decided we had enough time to log everything we wanted too and set up some folders so they ordered us all to go home and while packing think of one last thing we wanted to write. I want to make a list of everything I'm bringing so I'm writing this for two reasons. Reason number one, I'm bored and I already finished packing. Number two, I put the list in a more obscure folder so I'm putting this note in my main folder so I can find that, just in case.
Listen future me that has potentially forgotten. A list of my junk to keep track of is in folder "miscellaneous" under "moon baggage" got it? You better because I want all my stuff!
Anyway, I guess this my last log for at least a couple hundred years from the orphanage. See you in a long long time if ever my house... You never really qualified as a home unfortunately.
Teen out.

Editors note: for some reason the post coming directly after this is missing... I don't know why or how to get it back into place, to read it go HERE 

A new space log

They gave us space logs and told us that we should write all our thoughts and memories in them incase we forget some things while in cryogenic freeze. I don't want to remember my memories so I'm going to only write my daily thoughts. I think another reason they gave these to us was because a lot of the time there's nothing else to do and they want us to stay sane.
I don't have many feelings about the trip to training except I'm glad I'm getting away from my feelings on earth. Maybe I should write about why I'm going and who's sending me so I can remember things like that. I don't think I'd like it if I didn't remember why I was in a lunar space base.
Well this "experiment" is being funded by the government and it's for previous astronauts and orphans only. The previously experienced astronauts are going straight to "the mission" which I'm unsure what it actually is. All I know is that the orphans are going to the moon to be trained.
The option to go was offered to all the orphans in certain states. The only requirements were that you were at least 15 and didn't plan on coming back within a few lifetimes. Yeah, I said lifetimes.
Well I can't really think of any more thoughts at the moment so I guess in going to end this log.
Teen out.