14 DAY TRIAL // The man in the moon might be an optical illusion but, should the folks behind the Moonhouse project have their way, our planet's satellite could soon accommodate for one very real house.
Led by artist Mikael Genberg, these folks are now looking to raise funds to send a robotic red house able to assemble itself to the moon, Space tells us.
All in all, the Moonhouse project needs to raise $15 million over the course of the following 185 days to successfully implement this initiative, the same source tells us.
When taking into account the distance between our planet and its satellite, artist Mikael Genberg estimates that each and every dollar (€0.73) people will agree to donate will bring the house 82 feet (25 meters) closer to the moon.
Some might argue that the idea to send a robotic, self-assembling house to the moon is crazy-talk. However, the people behind the Moonhouse project appear to have everything figured out.
Thus, they hope that their house will hitch a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in late 2015. The house will travel to our planet's satellite in the form of a package no bigger than a shoebox, and unfold and assemble itself once it reaches its destination.
When all is said and done, the house will stand about 8 feet (approximately 2.5 meters) tall, looking all pretty with its red walls and its white corners, as shown in the picture above.
In case anyone was wondering, the Moonhouse project does not want to put a house on the moon hoping aliens might find it appealing and decide to spend their next holiday in this luxury resort.
On the contrary, this red house on the moon is intended to be an art installation. The first art installation to have ever been set in place on the surface of Earth's good, old satellite, to be more precise.
“We're going build a house there for real, but it's all about breaking boundaries of what we think is possible to do together because this project is all about doing something together that should really be impossible.”
“But together, we can go together and make things. When we actually do this, I think that we will have done something that nobody ever could expect us to do,” artist Mikael Genberg has commented on this project in a recent interview.
Head over to themoonhouse.com to learn more about this project, maybe even spare a few dollars and help bring the red house a few feet closer to its destination.