Collier’s is famous for their extensive “Man Will Conquer Space Soon!” series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.
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🎵We’re whalers on the moon🎵
“encased in weird moon suits” interesting to choice of words
uh what are the shields and harpoons for?
The shields are thermocouples to generate solar power, in those days before photovoltaic cells – well, they’d just been patented a few months before and nobody had heard of them yet or even knew why they worked.
The poles are, I think, just trekking poles with gaffs on them to help with steep inclines.
oh good I thought they imagined they would be fighting the moon aliens
