I have learned from a Congressman on double deep background that there is a frantic push under way to rename the Moon before Congress is officially handed over to the Democrats.. I’ve got to tell, that while I don’t agree with the choice of name I’m having trouble arguing against the reasoning behind the name change.
My conversation with the Congressman started of with a discussion on why the name of the Moon should be changed.
“We are the only planet in our Solar system to have an unnamed moon. I’m mean really; do you want to be the representative from NASA that explains to some intelligent life form that the name of our moon is Moon? I mean it’s like naming your dog, dog. It’s ridiculous. It’s, it’s embarrassing.”
With that matter settled the discussion progressed to the naming issue.
“Clearly it should be named after an American, after all we discover it”
“Discovered what sir?”
“What? The Moon of course.”
At this point I explained to the Congressman that the United States did not discover the moon.
“Well we landed on it, didn’t we?”
“Yes, sir we did”
“Alright then, we own it”
“Why don’t we move on Congressman?”
“It should be someone that …”
“Sir, I think I know where you are going with this. See, I fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport, work next to the Ronald Reagan building and live on 16th street which you tried to name Ronald Reagan Boulevard. I have a sneaking suspicion that you would like to change the name of the moon to Reagan.”
At this point the Senator started to look around the room furtively and then settled his eyes back on me.
“Well you’re wrong, but how does the Big Gipper strike you?”
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