Moon-Eyed, We Return With a Real Icebreaker
NASA's Craft, Booster Shot To Crash Into Polar Crater
October 9, 2009

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"America is returning to the moon -- violently. A rocket booster and a small spacecraft will crash into the moon Friday morning at 5,600 mph. The Earth's satellite will have two new craters. Conspiracy theorists are not happy about the 'bombing' of the moon. They say it's probably a military test. Naturally there's a 'Do Not Bomb the Moon' Web site. There is no bomb, actually. But that's beside the point: The important thing is that this is a star turn for the moon. The moon has been rather boring in recent years even by the standards of lifeless wastelands. No astronauts have visited. There's never any weather. There are no volcanoes. Our moon lacks the kind of typhoons that drop methane rain on Saturn's Titan. No one has ever accused the moon of harboring a subsurface ocean like some of Jupiter's moons. Carl Sagan never countenanced the possibility that the moon is artificial, as he did, briefly, with the Martian moon Phobos."

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"NASA thinks there could be water, in the form of ice, lurking at the lunar poles. The space agency is eager to see what will spew from a cold, dark crater at the moon's south pole when the rocket booster and spacecraft crash early Friday morning. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is a science mission, but it's also a show, a demolition derby that will attract the gaze of the Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes on land around the world."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/08/AR2009100803408.html

Interesting. We'll see what happens.

10/8/2009 9:15:15 PM

awesome

10/8/2009 9:19:32 PM

Dammit I thought this thread would be about hearts strategy[u]

10/8/2009 10:13:16 PM

Obama should focus on Afghanistan before expanding the conflict to natural satellites that pose no real threat.

10/8/2009 10:23:04 PM

theres also enough H3 on the moon to power america forever via fusion.

10/8/2009 11:56:13 PM

Maybe they'll find that burger that guy kicked up there.

10/9/2009 7:46:34 AM

All reports so far indicate mission success. But then again when the mission is to just crash into the moon, it isn't that difficult.

10/9/2009 9:13:40 AM

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"theres also enough H3 on the moon to power america forever via fusion."

NASA also states that the Mitsubishi Eclipse is the most powerful car in the WORLD.

it can run on 'H3' and reach speeds in excess of 5,600 MPH.

10/9/2009 11:09:24 AM

^iswydt

10/9/2009 5:16:44 PM

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"Obama should focus on Afghanistan before expanding the conflict to natural satellites that pose no real threat."

lol

10/10/2009 1:25:31 PM

^^^HAHAHAHAHA

10/10/2009 2:02:30 PM

Nasa's moon shot: LCROSS plume wilts
Nasa disappointed as LCROSS fails to produce the large plume of debris needed to prove water exists on lunar surface



The LCROSS moon impact lit the public's imagination, but the scientists have been disappointed with the results. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/09/nasa-moon-lcross-plumage-fails

10/12/2009 12:04:41 AM

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/10/nasas_moon_bombing_highfive_fa.php

10/12/2009 1:01:13 AM

^ LOL!

10/12/2009 1:30:14 AM