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Zerolive
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Bombing the MOON
#11211307 - 10/08/09 09:46 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasas-mission-to-bomb-the-moon-2009-06
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NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in the lunar surface at twice the speed of a bullet.
The missile, a Centaur rocket, will be steered by a shepherding spacecraft that will guide it towards its target - a crater close to the Moon's south pole.
Scientists expect the blast to be so powerful that a huge plume of debris will be ejected.
The attack on the Moon is not a declaration of war or act of wanton vandalism. Space scientists want to see if any water ice or vapour is revealed in the cloud of debris.
Though the Moon mostly a dry airless desert, they believe ice could be trapped in crater shadows near the south pole which never receive any sunlight. If so it could provide vital supplies for a manned moonbase.
Last year, British scientists identified regions where water might be found on the Moon and estimated that there could be enough to fill one of Europe's largest reservoirs.
The spacecraft will not head straight for the Moon. First it will orbit the Earth a number of times while its precise target is identified. Finally, it will send the missile into the Moon at twice the speed of a bullet on October 8.
The shepherding spacecraft will follow close behind, taking pictures and analysing the ejected debris as it looks for evidence of water. It has just four minutes to do this before it crashes into the Moon itself, producing a spectacular explosion that should be visible in amateur astronomers' telescopes.
It is a busy time for Moon crashes. Last week Japan's Kaguya probe collided with the Moon at the end of its own mission.
The LCROSS mission - it stands for Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite - will launch on an Atlas V rocket together with another spacecraft, called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The orbiter will circle the Moon for at least a year searching for potential landing sites for astronauts when they return there in the next decade. It will also look for suitable materials that might support a colony.
The dual mission was due to blast off today but was delayed to make way for the shuttle Endeavour. However, another hydrogen leak means that the shuttle launch has now been delayed until next month.
*If need be move to w.e board it should be, i just thought the pub would be good enough*
Just to add my 2 cents, the words "Bomb"+"moon" is the same as "Ebola"+"AIDS", just not something i find necessarily useful or even called for. please do share your thoughts on what type of drugs the committee was on to have reached this conclusion
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Edited by Zerolive (10/08/09 09:50 PM)
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c0sm0nautt
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: Zerolive]
#11211314 - 10/08/09 09:48 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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The moon hates our freedom.
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: Zerolive]
#11211318 - 10/08/09 09:48 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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coaster already did this post but yea WTF is my vote
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c0sm0nautt
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Duh there is water on the moon. India's first spacecraft found the water already. What are they trying to prove?
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: Zerolive]
#11211333 - 10/08/09 09:50 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not really bombing the moon, just trying to get a goo idea of the composition of the surface layers.
Not like anything is alive up there....
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: InSane804]
#11211337 - 10/08/09 09:50 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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are you fucking kidding me how many of these threads are there gonna be
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ThirdEyeOpening said:
Not like anything is alive up there....
What about ETs?
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: laserpig]
#11211346 - 10/08/09 09:51 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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laserpig said: are you fucking kidding me how many of these threads are there gonna be
didnt see any others, lack of looking tho. so just vote an speak your mind a bit or piss off, your choice
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ThirdEyeOpening
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Not like anything is alive up there....
What about ETs?
I say we bomb his house then, see what hes hiding.
Besides all ET did was eat shit and sleep.
Oh and his fingers glow...
Thats why i want to know whats in his house.
Glowing fingers at will = win!
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Waste of our tax payer dollars! Gerr gerr!
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: Zerolive]
#11211410 - 10/08/09 09:59 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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The spacecraft will not head straight for the Moon. First it will orbit the Earth a number of times while its precise target is identified. Finally, it will malfunction and send the missile into the Iran at twice the speed of a bullet on October 8.
wtf? it's a conspiracy.
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ThirdEyeOpening
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Millions for a space craft thats going to crash, yea ill call that waste.
Finding out if the moon is feasible for a fuleing depot in the future.. not waste.
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Not like anything is alive up there....
What about ETs?
Yeah, I heard there are alien bases mining the dark side of the moon.
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Probably more in the Billions. But that's Okay: The Moon, the Next Frontier. I'm gonna build a log cabin on the moon!
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Zerolive
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i just think we could be spending the $ on converting to solar, natural gass, hydroponics an all kinds of Green style sources.
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NASA is intelligent they know what they're doing I have looked at a summary of what this mission actually entails and it is a well-conceived, legitimate scientific undertaking. Phrasing it as "bombing" is just about the worst kind of sensationalist distortion of words, and personally I'm tired of hearing mouth-breathers who can't be bothered to google what the fuck they're talking about yammer on about all their misinformed bullshit -- like "moon bombing."
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: laserpig]
#11211457 - 10/08/09 10:05 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i did my research, i still think its a bad idea. again the whole really wtf for lets cure cancer FINALLY and HUGE DEFICIT comes to mind but i guess your one track mind cant keep up
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: laserpig]
#11211481 - 10/08/09 10:07 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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laserpig said: Phrasing it as "bombing" is just about the worst kind of sensationalist distortion of words.
Well they're shooting a rocket into the moon, so I don't think the phrase "bombing" is too far off.
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: laserpig]
#11211485 - 10/08/09 10:07 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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did you read my edit of the quote? lol.
it's called a joke.
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Re: Bombing the MOON [Re: Zerolive]
#11211499 - 10/08/09 10:09 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Zerolive said: i did my research, i still think its a bad idea. again the whole really wtf for lets cure cancer FINALLY and HUGE DEFICIT comes to mind but i guess your one track mind cant keep up
NASA didnt make the deficit..
And i bet you cant name what NASA has done for your life with out googling it...
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