Moon Bombing

[Wainkerr99]

Storm in a moon crater. I hope they get their payload. It would be cool if NASA could send a vessel, let it collect some dust after launching a missile or something, that would relaunch itself, flying back here to orbit Earth, to be intercepted by a shuttle.

Of course if India, China, Russia, Europe the US and other nations all worked together, there would be almost no limit to what we could achieve.

 

[Lungzyn]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

The space agency will broadcast the action live from the Moon, with coverage beginning Friday morning at 5:15 a.m. Central time. The first hour or so, pre-impact, will offer expert commentary, status reports from mission control, camera views from the spacecraft, and telemetry-based animations.

The actual impacts commence at 6:30 a.m.

 

[busenbust]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Coverage begins 5:15 am central time
Impacts commence 6:30 am

So I heard

Thanks L, really helpful :thumbsup:

 

[Galactic]

It's not going to hit where I am sitting up here, so I am cool with it.

 

[BigSwede]

It's not enough to destroy the earth....:thefinger

 

[feller469]

watched it live on NBC. let's just say, "less than thrilling." I understand what the mission is for. I just can't quite grasp how we can tell the make-up of a star light years away, can even tell how fast it is moving away from us, but can't use our technology to know just about every aspect of the moon. I.e., how dense it is, what comprises the strata, if there are any.

 

[BlueBalls]

Wow people are actually worried about this?

It's to do research to see if there is any water on the dark side of the moon. The only place on the moon where water would be able to conjugate without it being vaporised by the suns rays - due to the lack of atmosphere. Being that the moon has been hit several million times by asteroids and commets of varying sizes and shapes in the past I highly doubt something we can shoot into it is going to do anymore damage than has already been done.

The tides still seem to be rolling in do they not?

 

[jasonk282]

We just spent $79M crashing an empty hull into the moon, YEAH!!!!!!!!!

 

[tunsty]

Sometime tomorrow, an ***** farmer, out checking his ranch, will stumble upon the remains of what looks like a spacecraft.
The ***** army will come along, photograph it, take the remains away and say it was just a weather balloon. :thumbsup:

 

[Spleen]

Haha, eat that MOON!

 

[busenbust]

Anti-climax???

 

[feller469]

the dark side of the moon is only always dark to us. the same face of the moon faces us all the time. When it is a new moon (opposite a full moon) the "dark side" of the moon is completely facing the sun. There is no side of the moon that doesn't get sunlight. It is called the dark side because it is always dark from our perspective.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I hope it brings back moon cheese

 

[Evil]

watched it live on NBC. let's just say, "less than thrilling." I understand what the mission is for. I just can't quite grasp how we can tell the make-up of a star light years away, can even tell how fast it is moving away from us, but can't use our technology to know just about every aspect of the moon. I.e., how dense it is, what comprises the strata, if there are any.

Spectrometry. You can't measure what you can't see and it's hiding from us in that crater. So while it was a lame action sequence as long as they kicked up enough for the instruments it's success scientifically even if it does nothing to impress the masses that fund nasa.

 

[Lungzyn]

Did anyone else see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP64qqd88UI

How cruel

 

[habo9]

It was a non - event anyway a waste of money

 

[Lungzyn]

It was a non - event anyway a waste of money

It was a waste of money because you didnt get to see an awesome explosion?

 

[ezteban]

It was a waste of money because you didnt get to see an awesome explosion?

:1orglaugh Agreed ! Money lost for nothing !

 

[habo9]

Nope , because it would have been easier to send something up to drill into the ground and analyze it there and then , like they done with mars , this was just a shitty showpiece event to get NASA the funding they need and get people behind them or could there be more to it than that?

 

[bandanoantri]

I don't really understand why we are doing this. A bunch of money to produce a dust cloud so we can study it.

That's exactly why you're not working there...ha ha ha!