Nah, it’s way easier to send a satellite to take a look.

It’s impossible to secretly launch enough payloads to build a moonbase in the first place. Every launch has to pass through low earth orbit and rockets are shiny. There are too many eyes on the sky to go unnoticed. Even then, there’d be radio chatter between the Earth and Moon, and satellite redirection from the far side. You can encrypt radio signals, but they can’t hide.

Wish I could. I have a company work truck, and I need to dramatically downsize my personal vehicle.

Shit tons. Mostly in the nerdier jobs.

Yeah, viral zombies won’t last long in the southwest. I ought to be good with just shutters on the house.

Lots of food is gonna rot.

Interestingly, galaxies at the edge of our ability to perceive are in fact receding away from us at velocities greater than the speed of light.