The Dilemma of Survival in “The Silent Sea”
Barrenness, abundance, and water as life and resource
What if the moon’s Mare Tranquillitatis, the Sea of Tranquility — the huge dark spot on the moon’s northern hemisphere, and famously Apollo 11’s landing site — turns out to be a literal sea?
The moon’s seas are not actual seas, but barren, lower altitude plains that look like…