You've got telescopes. You can see more than the Great Wall of China. You can measure the moving coastlines like someone on a train watching the landscape gliding by, imagining themselves a tireless runner, leaping hedges, trees and houses, or in your case, oceans, continents. The night reveals much more, like turning a light on, like x-ray. You can choose a city to focus on. It's almost New Year's Day or it's already been for hours. For one whole day you can watch the flare of fireworks in the darkness as cities come alight and, in the distance, the brighter sway of sunlight sweeping in over the horizon. On the moon who knows what time it is, what day or year or month? What's to celebrate? What slow tides are moved by the earth in all those dried up seas?