“R2, where are you?” On the moon… Credit: NASA/Corbis/Ian O’Neill/Discovery News
Sometimes, all it takes is the slightest of hints before I start Photoshopping stuff on the Moon that shouldn’t be there.
We’ve seen the Banff crasher squirrel steal Buzz Aldrin’s thunder.
We’ve seen the Sarlacc monster gobble up the LCROSS booster.
(Meanwhile, on Mars, something odd happened to rover Spirit.)
And now! We have R2-D2 trundling across the lunar surface as the perfect Moon rover design for dodging levitating Moon dust. Don’t ask me, it’s SCIENCE!
(Note: The inspiration for R2-D2 was not my idea, blame Astronomy Now’s Keith Cooper for that stroke of genius. But the ‘shopping is totally my doing. I have a lot of time on my hands, apparently.)
Read more: Why R2-D2 Would be the PERFECT Moon Rover
