Thread: NASA Bombing the Moon

What do you all think about NASA bombing the moon today at 7:30am? ...This has me a tad concerned...What right do we have to send a rocket to the moon,crash it and create a 5 mile crater there? I think this is way overstepping our rights as a nation...I mean there could be huge ramifications in this hunting expedition.

Your facts are a little off. Not as drastic as you think. No bomb or 5 mile crater.


By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer –
WASHINGTON – Two NASA spacecraft are barreling toward the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, about to crash into a lunar crater in a search for ice.
If all goes well, the impact will be beamed back live to Earth.
The first and much bigger crash is set for 7:31 a.m. EDT. That's when an empty rocket that weighs 2.2 tons should hit the crater Cabeus and create a minicrater about half the size of an Olympic pool. It should kick up a plume of lunar debris about six miles high.
The idea is to confirm the theory that water — a key resource if people are going to go back to the moon — is hidden below the barren moonscape.
Trailing behind the rocket is the lunar probe LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite and pronounced L-Cross, beaming back to Earth live pictures of the impact and the debris plume using color cameras. It will scour for ice, fly through the debris cloud and then just four minutes later take the fatal plunge itself, triggering a dust storm one-third the size of the first hit.
Telescopes around the world — including the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope — will aim their cameras at the big event to provide more views of the dust-up.
LCROSS and its bigger rocket stage launched together last June and only separated Thursday night, the last major milestone before the big crash.
The lunar minidemolition derby will be broadcast live on NASA television. Museums and observatories planned early morning events to show the crashes, which can be seen with backyard telescopes in the predawn darkness west of the Mississippi River. But the best place to watch the lunar action will be on the Internet, scientists said.
"It's going to be a muted shimmer of light," said Anthony Colaprete, an LCROSS scientist.
The LCROSS probe cost $79 million and was an add-on to a bigger NASA satellite now circling the moon.

I used the word bomb...meaning intensionally crash a rocket...Here is where I took the dimension.

Commentary: The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater as an alleged water-seeking and lunar colonization experiment.

Regardless of the dimensions...I do think it is drastic to intensionally send a 2-ton rocket at twice the speed of a bullet into a planet that is a vital part of our solar system to look for ice/water when we can't even breathe there.

I'm not trying to down play your concern. I see where you are coming from but, I don't see a problem with it. I would not be surprised if the find traces of water.

Can anyone say "hoax"? I just watched the live feed on the news, it cut out and kept switching from animation to infer read to "real" images. Even the news guy thought it was a joke.

I was waiting for someone to yell action

Im never surprized at what out government spends money on,how are we to benefit from this?,could this money have been spent in better ways right here in our own country

I think we have got more out of the space program than pissing away the money on some program , and believe me living in the Chicagoland area we know a thing or two about spending money.

Uh i dont think they found water but i think they put a super secret satelite station there and now every one will have to wear aluminum foil skull caps to prevent them from beaming the super secret mind control waves that the gov wants us all to be Nobel Peace prize winners. but we wont be able to get the money that is involved.

Originally Posted by knucklebuster2

Im never surprized at what out government spends money on,how are we to benefit from this?,could this money have been spent in better ways right here in our own country

no crap. those people are ignorant and dont even know it.

The search for water on other planets is key. Water will give the possibility to create oxygen on another planet. If large amounts of water exist on the moon, in theory, it would be possible to colonize the moon, at least to some degree

I know the Chinese are working on building a hotel on the moon

I suspect I will live to see the day this happens