Recap & Review
A coffee shop on the moon is one of those images that politely hands you a stack of jokes and says, “Please don’t drop all of these at once.” You’ve got NASA. You’ve got Starbucks. You’ve got atmosphere (or… not). You’ve got humanity’s greatest achievement quietly ruined by a burnt espresso. And that’s why this contest was fun. The image itself is clean and simple, but it’s loaded with cultural shortcuts—space race heroics, corporate sameness,…
Winner
The coffee's great but the shop lacks atmosphere
Votes: 14
Finalists
Grounds control to Major Foam
Votes: 18
One giant leap for coffee grind.
Votes: 12
Shoot for the moon, land among the Starbucks
Votes: 7
Try our new dark side roast
Votes: 6
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Tips
There are coffee shops everywhere now. Every corner. Every airport terminal. Every bookstore that also sells plants and tote bags. So it was only a matter of time before one opened on the moon. The gravity is low, the rent is probably astronomical, and somehow the barista still looks like they’ve been up since 4 a.m. Earth problems didn’t disappear when we left Earth—they just floated a little. And that’s…