NASA recently sent human astronauts around the moon. They, and also China, plan to establish a base on the moon where humans can live for extended periods. This made me wonder what kind of facilities will be built on the moon for the resident humans. They will need oxygen and living quarters and so on. There will be attempts to mine usable resources from the moon. But even astronauts can’t spend all their time working. I am sure that one of the first non-essential facilities for downtime will be a place which serves coffee.
That got me
thinking about names for the first coffee shop to open on the moon. If I can get the name right, perhaps I can
copyright it and then sell it to Elon
Musk. So here are some ideas I came up
with:
1 – Coffee Lunatic
A lunatic
is a crazy person. So the name suggests
something like, “Crazy for Coffee”. And
Luna is, of course, an alternative name for the moon. The word lunatic comes from the folk belief
that the full moon makes people crazy.
Think of werewolves who change by the light of the full moon.
2 – Need a Buzz?
A buzz can
mean a burst of energy or excitement.
You might say, “I get a buzz from playing music.” Buzz was also the nickname of the astronaut
who was the second person to walk on the surface of the moon.
3 – Bean Up Here Long?
Have you
been up here on the moon for a long time?
Would you like some coffee beans?
Okay, this was not my best effort.
4 – Fly Me to the Moon Café
This refers
to a song sung by, amongst others, Frank Sinatra.
5 – Blue Moonday
“Blue
Monday” is the phenomenon of feeling unhappy on Monday morning when you have to
start the working week. You might need a
strong cup of coffee to fight the Monday blues on Earth. Living on a cold, dead rock is probably going
to be challenging for anyone living on a moon base too. So if you’re feeling down, why not head over
to Blue Moonday for a nice cup of coffee.
This really
is how I spend my days – thinking of names for imaginary coffee shops.
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