One of the symbols of Sweden is the little red house (Stuga) with white borders around the windows and corners. This is an ubiquitous site all around the country and in particular in the countryside. Naturally houses come in many different colors but all the same the little red and white house is an image of the idyllic countryside.
Now a Swedish consortium is actively working to put a little red stuga on the moon. Luna Resort writes about their plan:
The project has united a manâ??s artistic ambitions with commercial market powers, political enterprises, scientific research and technical cutting edge competence with many different areas.
Luna Resort contributes to the placing of Sweden in the limelight, and to display there Swedish forces of initiative showing that Sweden stands for world class competence in high technology. Luna Resort will contain a number of integrated projects of technical and scientific purpose.
Through a little red cottage on the moon, humanity will have its first universal symbol for the possibility of a single man to realize his dreams, but above all a unified symbol for the commitment to our common planet.
Billions of people will see the images sent down to Earth of the little red cottage with white gables, symbolizing humanityâ??s first steps to inhabit space.
The moon has often been associated with madness in folklore and beliefs – the word lunatic comes from the Latin and from the stem “luna” which is moon. One idea for the connection with the moon and madness is the changes in the appearance of the moon and certain symptoms of mental disorder.
It seems that Swedes are not immune to moon-madness 🙂