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"How high are the light towers?” Axel interrupted. "Well, high enough. I have to find something against which to compare them. Let's see...hey, there are some of those tractor tread-marks everywhere. If I guess these are about a foot wide, well, then, let's see, if | compute as correctly as I can, well..." | paused, looking at Axel. He was not smiling. "Yes?" He arched his eyebrows. "Well, tall—about or let's say over a hundred feet. But?" "Well, you won't like this, I guess. I see, or at leas think I see, well...some actual lights. They are giving of a green light... I see two rows of them, yes, sort of like lights at football arenas, high up, banks of them. Up on towers of some kind..." I gave up here. "Well, Axel, | can't be on the Moon. guess I have to apologize; I seem to be getting somewhere here on Earth." Axel stared at me fora moment. He was not smiling or looking sympathetic or tolerant. I thought it was al over with. But’ what?" Axel asked, leaning forward. 1 swallowed hard, and almost chickened out at this point. "Well, I think I got a glimpse of the crater's edge. On it I think I saw a very large tower, very high that is.” "Yes?" "You're sure you see lights, actual lights?" he finally asked. "Well, I see lights! But how can they be on the Moon?" Axel had a pencil in his hand, which he was twirling around and around. His not-smile developed into a frown. "Shit," he finally uttered, and broke the pencil in half. . nn - 3-5 trorrr Te ee Satellite Aiea Moon?" "Yes! Big, really big." Axel had a pencil in his hand, which he was twirling "How big?" around and around. His not-smile developed into a I swallowed again. "Well, if | compare it to something frown. "Shit," he finally uttered, and broke the pencil in | am familiar with in New York, about as high as the half. Secretariat building at the I was quite surprised and fully United Nations—which has expected him to stand up and thirty-nine floors in it." leave the room in dismay at my " Axel narrowed his lips. "You remote-viewing flub. But he did Am I, then, to assume can see that, then?" not. this stuff really is on But this, as I took it, was a "Lights, huh? You are sure you oo question Axel was asking saw lights?" the Moon? If So, this IS himself more than me. "Well, yes. But not on the more than a Moon base, Again the silence. | decided Moon, surely. How could they + oe tt to again assume whatever be on the Moon?" Isnt It, Axel? initiative | could. Axel stared at me, saying "Am I, then, to assume this nothing. stuff really is on the Moon? If I can be quite dense, | so, this is more than a Moon suppose, but something started twanging aroundin the __ base, isn't it, Axel?" denseness. Again no answer. So I continued: “But this stuff is I blinked at Axel. "You mean...," | began, somewhat big. Does NASA or the Soviet space program have the uncertain as to what to say. | realized | had to select my capabilities of getting such large stuff onto the Moon? | words carefully. "Am I to think these lights are actually hought everyone was having trouble just getting a on the Moon?" couple of guys and a dog into orbit. I thought the only There was no answer forthcoming from Axel. | pressed hing we got on the Moon was a flag planted in some onward. "Have the Russians built a Moon base or crater somewhere." something? Is that what I am supposed to be remote- As | talked myself through all this, a certain glimmer viewing?” Again, no answer. began to dawn in the recesses of my mental darkness. | We sat and stared at each other for a longish period, | suddenly stopped speaking. he not willing to commit. After a moment of this I stared incredulously at Axel. "You mean, am | to confrontation, | decided to reassume the initiative. assume this stuff is...not ours? Not made on Earth?" "Maybe you should give me that coordinate-ordinate Axel raised his eyebrows, trying to grin. "Quite a again." surprise, isn't it," he said. I had a sense he was trying Once back in the glow of the greenish lights, 1 now not to be emotional. seemed to have the courage to begin really looking. Surprise? To say the least! I was completely "Well, the light seems diffused somehow, as if there isa | dumbfounded to the degree that I had begun taking very lot of fog...no, it's dust...dust! Floating in the air.” short breaths, getting dizzy thereby. I paused, then continued: "Yet there is no air on the "I take it you would like a break before we continue,” Moon, is there? There is noise of some kind, like a Axel ventured. thumping. I can see one of the light towers better now. What | really needed was a recovery couch. In fact, | Hey, it seems built of some very narrow struts of some _ still get breathless even as I write these very words now. kind, thin like pencils. Like some sort of pre-fab stuff It's one thing to read about UFOs and stuff in the papers right out of Buckminster Fuller's stuff." or in books. It is another to hear rumors about the "Am I, then, to assume this stuff really i ison nN I7 more than a Moon base, isn't it, Axel?" Surprise? To say the least! I was completely dumbfounded to the degree that I had begun taking very short breaths, getting dizzy thereby. "I take it you would like a break before we continue,” Axel ventured. What | really needed was a recovery couch. In fact, | still get breathless even as I write these very words now. It's one thing to read about UFOs and stuff in the papers or in books. It is another to hear rumors about the 58 * NEXUS the Moon? If 50, this is AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com