Nasa to bomb moon

[Kaido]

A+ for title :thumbsup:

 

[shiner]

Didn't Jules Verne do this like 144 years ago?

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: techs
Dumb. Everyone knows the Nazis are hiding on the other side of the moon.

Fixed.

Fixed again.

 

[Platypus]

They should hire Chairface Chippendale to help.

 

[thegimp03]

Looking forward to seeing pictures of this...

 

[Juddog]

Originally posted by: thegimp03
Looking forward to seeing pictures of this...

The cloud of particles will supposedly be big enough to see with an amateur grade telescope.

 

[Brovane]

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: Quintox

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
I've already heard some ignorant hippy fucks whining that would shouldn't do this. Their argument seems to be that the Earth and moon are in some perfectly delicate balance and a bomb will send the moon careening into space and leave us SOL. I don't think they quite grasp the size differential between the moon and the bomb.

:laugh:

One of the hippie teachers at my wife's school was preaching about this. i poked her on the arm and told her that's quite a bit more relative force than what the moon would experience. do these people not realize the HUGE FUCKING CRATERS already there? previous bombing attempts, perhaps? :laugh:

Not to mention the moon gets hit all the time with Meteors that are larger than what NASA is going to hit it with. How do they think all the craters on the moon got there to begin with?

 

[Krazy4Real]

Hopefully I remember to watch Nasa's feed. It should be interesting to watch.

 

[techs]

This is clearly designed to wipe out the supposed landing site of one of the Apollo missions and is the first of many, so when we return to moon we won't know the moon landings were faked.

/tinfoilhat

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
I've already heard some ignorant hippy fucks whining that would shouldn't do this. Their argument seems to be that the Earth and moon are in some perfectly delicate balance and a bomb will send the moon careening into space and leave us SOL. I don't think they quite grasp the size differential between the moon and the bomb.

I think the... "Hitting a freight train with a BB gun" analogy would be accurate here.

 

[sunzt]

Originally posted by: rh71
They reported it's going to cost tax payers $79mil to do this.

From another forum http://forums.somethingawful.c...d.php?threadid=3211578

LCROSS is relatively cheap, actually, as far as space tech goes.

The LRO+LCROSS combined mission cost $583 million; $504 million of that being the LRO satellite (which is pretty much the most in-depth lunar mapping ever done, at incredible resolutions (it's even able to identify rather visibly the old Apollo landers)), and the remaining $79 million being the LCROSS.

Seeing as how it costs upwards of $10,000 per pound to launch anything into space, it's all in all not that bad.

Heck, I think even SpaceX's "low-cost" Falcon 9e is gonna charge at the very least $80-100 million to launch anything into a TLI (trans lunar injection) orbit and that's without a payload!

Getting to the Moon isn't cheap just so you know... laws of physics and the mass equation...

 

[Goosemaster]

SAY CHEESE!

 

[Homerboy]

Life imitates art.

Mr. Show

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

I was listening to a local radio show on my way to class and they started talking about this.

The host stated that this is really a nuclear weapons test, that is testing a new bomb that doesn't throw up a radioactive cloud. Then we will be able to use this new bomb to take out N Korea, and M.E. countries that we don't like without the radiation risk to our allies/Israel. I, for one, am excited for our new non-radioactive nuclear weaponry possessing overlords.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
I was listening to a local radio show on my way to class and they started talking about this.

The host stated that this is really a nuclear weapons test, that is testing a new bomb that doesn't throw up a radioactive cloud. Then we will be able to use this new bomb to take out N Korea, and M.E. countries that we don't like without the radiation risk to our allies/Israel. I, for one, am excited for our new non-radioactive nuclear weaponry possessing overlords.

Was the host's name "Art Bell"?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
I was listening to a local radio show on my way to class and they started talking about this.

The host stated that this is really a nuclear weapons test, that is testing a new bomb that doesn't throw up a radioactive cloud. Then we will be able to use this new bomb to take out N Korea, and M.E. countries that we don't like without the radiation risk to our allies/Israel. I, for one, am excited for our new non-radioactive nuclear weaponry possessing overlords.

Was the host's name "Art Bell"?

No, Maxwell on 100.7 WMMS in Cleveland

 

[bob4432]

maybe the moon is why the brooms stand by themselves?

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2340801&enterthread=y

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: Brovane

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: Quintox

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
I've already heard some ignorant hippy fucks whining that would shouldn't do this. Their argument seems to be that the Earth and moon are in some perfectly delicate balance and a bomb will send the moon careening into space and leave us SOL. I don't think they quite grasp the size differential between the moon and the bomb.

:laugh:

One of the hippie teachers at my wife's school was preaching about this. i poked her on the arm and told her that's quite a bit more relative force than what the moon would experience. do these people not realize the HUGE FUCKING CRATERS already there? previous bombing attempts, perhaps? :laugh:

Not to mention the moon gets hit all the time with Meteors that are larger than what NASA is going to hit it with. How do they think all the craters on the moon got there to begin with?

They don't.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: techs
This is clearly designed to wipe out the supposed landing site of one of the Apollo missions and is the first of many, so when we return to moon we won't know the moon landings were faked.

/tinfoilhat

kind of what ran through my mind too if i let the tinfoil side out of its box. i was like, hmmm, maybe the moon landings were faked and since now the chinese or whoever is going to actually go there, they would really see....who knows

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
I, for one, am excited for our new non-radioactive nuclear weaponry possessing overlords.

oh hey, that's us!