 What is a significant irony in the successful colonization of the moon?
The meteor, a pebble, a little larger than a match head, traveled through space and time since it came into being. The light from the star that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first lungfish ventured from the sea. In its last instant, the meteor fell on the Moon. The shadow line between day and night could be seen from the Moon to be drifting across Australia. Evans, who had no watch, thought of the time as a quarter after Australia. Once he followed a stampede to Yellow Crater, where he thought for a while that he had a fortune in chromium. Evans was about three hundred miles east of Williamson Town, the site of the first landing on the Moon. When the meteor pierced the turbine, the water in the condenser began to boil. This was to allow the air-conditioning system to function properly, and to prevent air loss in case of the highly improbable meteor damage. Morning to him had no meaning at all, but he thought in the strictest sense that it would be morning on the Moon for another week. The solar furnace was a rough parabola of mirrors used to focus the sun's heat on anything that it was desirable to heat. It was used mostly, from sun-up to sun-down, to supplement the nuclear power plant. "Meteor shower," Cowalczk answered, "and that's not half of it. Nearly all of these had been made millions of years ago, but here and there, the rim of a crater covered part of a footprint, clear evidence that it was a recent one. After the sun rose, Evans returned to the lava cave that he had been exploring when the meteor hit. All of these needed water to form, and their existence on the Moon puzzled him for a while. The sun rose to the meridian slowly. The shadow line crept around until Earth was nearly dark, and then the rim of light appeared on the opposite side. For a while Earth was a dark disk in a thin halo, and then the light came to be a crescent, and the line of dawn began to move around Earth. The continents drifted across the dark disk and into the crescent. The people on Earth saw the full moon set about the same time that the sun rose. He made trips from and to the Moon about once a month, carrying supplies in and metal and ores out. That's from here to Earth, of course.
 Earth needs materials from the moon to survive, while the moon needs materials from the Earth
 Earth needs materials from the moon to survive, while the moon needs materials from the Earth  The government is just as ineffective on the moon as it is on Earth  Moon inhabitants are less free on the moon than they used to be on Earth  The greed of humankind is destroying the newly colonized moon just as it is destroying Earth