Project Moon Base (1953)

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We spent 6 seconds downloading 1,415 toots at 2026-02-03 23:56:15 EST from a total of 49 servers. We ended up with a set of 211 unique toots posted between Sun 7 Apr 2024 19:00 EDT and Mon 8 Apr 2024 00:03 EDT by 10 distinct fediverse accounts.

We tried to connect to 49 different servers, of which 49 (100.0%) succeeded and 0 (0.0%) failed.

The server mastodon.social contributed the most toots with 211 .

‘Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈’ (Lazarou@mastodon.social) tooted the most with 84 toots.

The top 3 boosted toots:

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 7 boosts.

In half an hour we're watching Project Moonbase (1953) for ! Alas, due to the way hashtags proliferate, the posts need to be public rather than unlisted for the whole thing to work¹, but fortunately Mastodon offers a timed mute feature that lets you disregard the entire hashtag for the full two hours!

(I still don't like that this makes it opt-out, but... I hope it's an OK compromise.)

MOON!!

BASE!!

¹: wiki.neuromatch.social/Monster - thank you again @jonny for documenting that so well

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 6 boosts.

had no idea Heinlein, who wrote the Project Moonbase screenplay, is the author of Starship Troopers

anyways his stories first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction; the OG publishers of sci-fi pulp fiction. you can find digital copies of their magazines on:

Project Gutenberg
gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf

and Archive.org
archive.org/search?query=astou

i love looking at the covers of these zines.

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 5 boosts.

so it looks like today's can also be had via archive.org

» Project MoonBase (1953) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org/details/ProjectMoo

The top 3 favourited toots:

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 13 favourites.

WAIT! WAAAAAAAAIT! HOW DID I MISS THEY WERE PART OF THE USA SPACE FORCE?!?!?! WE ARE INDEED FUCKING TRAPPED IN A HEINLEIN TIMELINE!!!

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 12 favourites.

These _names_. "Miss Prattle" is the tiresome old lady? "Colonel Briteys" is the young upstart pilot? Yeah, this was Heinlein all right.

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 11 favourites.

and as the male ship penetrates the female moon base...

The top 3 most-replied-to toots:

(Note: this really should exclude people who reply to themselves, it doesn’t do that well, yet)

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 3 replies.

had no idea Heinlein, who wrote the Project Moonbase screenplay, is the author of Starship Troopers

anyways his stories first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction; the OG publishers of sci-fi pulp fiction. you can find digital copies of their magazines on:

Project Gutenberg
gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf

and Archive.org
archive.org/search?query=astou

i love looking at the covers of these zines.

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 2 replies.

For sale: space booties, never pressurized

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 2 replies.

Are those sidearms? Are they carrying pistols on their belts? On a space mission, where a firearms discharge would at best render everyone in the vehicle instantly deaf, and at worst instantly depressurized?

@k8eb: "ah, _she_ doesn't get a chest belt. After all, what can you do about those... things??"

Activity Graph

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A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 7 Apr 2024. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 63.0 minutes long. There were 178 posts during the event with an average of 2.83 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 15:00 from the start with 5 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 6:00 from the start with 0 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

Wordcloud

Word cloud. See main page for actual description.

The word cloud for Sunday, 7 Apr 2024. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 1167 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: space: 29, moon: 22, bill: 13, men: 9, short: 7, shorts: 7, love: 7, little: 7, take: 7, women: 7, These words were excluded from the word cloud: movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, and the hashtag monsterdon.

Analysis of #monsterdon generated at Wed 4 Feb 2026 10:29 EST