Bob Schwartz

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July 8, 2025

Moon + Clouds @ Sunset

Are these photos “real”?

Sometimes our discussions these days sound less like analysis by scientists and philosophers and more like a bunch of people sitting around stoned and asking “What is reality, man?”

In this case, that is the moon and those are clouds and the sun was setting (though the moon was not rising and the sun was not setting; the earth was turning). The light fell on a camera sensor and the data was recorded on a memory card. I know all this because I was there and experienced it.

And yet if you or I asked an AI image generator to create this exact picture, or something close, it could. In fact, if you thought the cloud formations were not quite right or if you wanted more and different colors than the sunset created, you could get that.

So what is reality, man?

A great question. And an amazing sky.

© 2025 by Bob Schwartz

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June 22, 2013

Celebrity Colony on the Moon

Melies - A Trip to the Moon
The success of Celebrity Colony on the Moon, a follow-up to NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, is guaranteed, based on a few premises:

Celebrities are the only people able to take advantage of private space travel.
Celebrities like to increase their celebrity and to do things other people can’t.
People want to see some celebrities sent far away—even to the moon.

In Celebrity Colony on the Moon, celebrities will demonstrate their knowledge of space and science, and their ability to settle a frontier colony. People will vote based on these and other factors—including the desire to see particular celebrities housed in a lunar outpost.

Donald Trump will of course host the show. While he will not be official commander of the mission, he will travel along with the colonists. The demand to see him 238,900 miles away will be overwhelming.

It is expected that NBC will soon begin considering which celebrities might be sent to the moon, in the name of exploration and ratings. Nominations are now open.

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