Wino Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 This sounds crazy to me but NASA is bombing the lunar surface in order to search for water. Here is part of the story by Jean-Louis Santini Jean-louis Santini – Fri Oct 9 "WASHINGTON (AFP) – NASA sent two spacecrafts on Friday to crash into the lunar service in a dramatic bid to find water, an experiment that could be a stepping stone to building a permanent lunar base." Full Story at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091009/ts_afp/usspaceastronomymoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 I think they had better stop fucking with nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted October 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 I think they had better stop fucking with nature.Man has been fucking with "mother nature" for years. I don't think it is going to stop, now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 Unfortunately, I think you are right. "when will they ever learn?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 I think they thought Osama was hiding in the crater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaGo Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 There was no bombing of the moon. That whole thing was actually filmed in a heavily guarded studio at Disney World. The truth was, some senior NASA officials went down to Costa Rica for a "conference" and ended up binging on booze, coke, Ecstasy and hookers for damn near a month. When they got the bill, they realized they'd put it all on their government credit cards. This was just the plan they came up with the cover the costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 There was no bombing of the moon. That whole thing was actually filmed in a heavily guarded studio at Disney World. I heard Elvis attended - and he brought the donuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I thought he brought fried peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwiches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted October 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Maybe WannaGo is right. The news is the 6,000 mph probe that hit the moon went splat. No lunar cloud of dust and ice crystals, as expected. Hey it only cost about $79 million. I hope the boys had fun in Costa Rica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted October 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Now they are saying the $79 million experiment was a success. Here is the article. LOS ANGELES – NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said. New images show a mile-high plume of lunar debris from the Cabeus crater shortly after the space agency's Centaur rocket struck Oct. 9. "We were blown away by the data returned," Anthony Colaprete, the mission's chief scientist, said in a report Friday from the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., which managed the launch. "The team is working hard on the analysis, and the data appear to be of very high quality." In media coverage before the impact, many observers said they were disappointed at the lack of spectacle. But scientists said the mission was carried out for "a scientific purpose, not to put on a fireworks display for the public," said space consultant Alan Stern, a former NASA associate administrator for science. By creating the debris cloud, scientists were able to use the $79-million Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to sample and study the dust. The LCROSS itself crashed into the same crater four minutes after the Centaur's impact, right on schedule, while its companion spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, was flying in lunar orbit 50 miles above the site to gather still more data. But Michio Kaku, a professor at the City College of New York and host of "Sci Q Sundays" on the Science Channel, said NASA may be jumping the gun in calling the results "a smashing success," acting in response to public criticism of the mission. "To be a spectacular success, we had to find large quantities of underground ice," Kaku told The Associated Press Saturday. He said scientists still have more work to do to analyze the data for the presence of ice or water. "They got beautiful pictures of the event, but that's not why we spent $79 million," Kaku said. "Ice on the moon is more valuable than gold." The crashes created a man-made crater about one-fifth the size of a football field, Brown University geologist and LCROSS scientist Peter Schultz told The AP. Colaprete said it was too early to say what the plume contained but that several clues, including the temperature of the flash created by the crash, will help scientists find out in coming weeks. Finding significant amounts of water on the moon would be a major discovery, making eventual colonization easier than it would be if settlers had to transport water from Earth. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_shoot_the_moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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