From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:54:25 GMT, Michael Ikeda    
   wrote:   
      
   >"Michael F. Stemper"  wrote in   
   >news:10d17j2$25a2l$1@dont-email.me:    
   >   
   >> On 18/10/2025 17.39, Michael Ikeda wrote:   
   >>> "Michael F. Stemper"  wrote in   
   >>> news:10d0t9q$22g9q$1@dont-email.me:   
   >>>> On 10/10/2025 09.10, James Nicoll wrote:   
   >>>>> Five Extremely Convincing Reasons We Should Build Armed Bases   
   >>>>> on the Moon   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I mean, what could possibly go wrong?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://reactormag.com/five-extremely-convincing-reasons-we-sh   
   >>>>> ou ld-build-armed-bases-on-the-moon/   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Pierre Boulle had two opposing sides unwittingly building   
   >>>> lunar bases quite close to each other in "The Lunians"[1].   
   >>>> It's seen from both sides, as they gradually learn each   
   >>>> others' languages and explain their societies. Each is   
   >>>> impressed by how the other manages their affairs.   
   >>    
   >>> Don't recall the title or author but I remember a story where   
   >>> the personnel of a top secret U.S. Air Force base on the Moon   
   >>> realize that there is another base nearby.  Eventually they   
   >>> send someone to scout the mysterious base.  He returns with the   
   >>> news that the mysterious base is a top secret U.S. Navy base.   
   >>>    
   >>> (It's possible that I'm misremembering the service branches.)   
   >>    
   >> Yeah, I think that it was the Army and the Navy. This story came   
   >> to my mind after my previous post. I don't remember the title,   
   >> either.    
   >>    
   >> YASID, anybody?   
   >>    
   >   
   >Found the story.  "Project Hush" by William Tenn.  Appears in the    
   >anthology "50 Short Science Fiction Tales" (edited by Isaac Asimov    
   >and Geoff Conklin).  Based on the copyright info it looks like the    
   >story first appeared in 1954 in Galaxy.   
   >   
   >And, yes, it was actually the Army and the Navy.     
      
   In 1954 it would be.   
      
   The Air Force existed, but the country was still in memory mode from   
   WWII, when the AF was still part of the Army.   
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