Could someone please explain to me why we are sending up a probe to purposely impact the moon?
Seriously? The point of this mission is to slam a probe in to the moon’s surface for the purpose of spewing a huge dust cloud hundreds of kilometers in to the atmosphere so that scientists can study whether or not there is water deep under the moon’s surface.
LCROSS = Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
Still – I have to wonder – just what is the real benefit of learning whether or not there is minute molecules of water buried deep beneath the surface of the moon. Obviously, if there was life sustaining water on the moon, it would have been found already.
Given the fact that the moon dictates our climate, our global stability, and helps to keep us in a geosynchronous orbit around the sun – why the hell would we even consider slamming anything in to it? I believe this is another case of scientists doing shit just because they can without thinking about the potential consequences.
Science junkies our there are all giddy about this grand slam coming up on Friday. What the hell? Are you guys freakin nuts? Hey, I got news for you geniuses – the moon is made out of cheese you nutjobs. If you go slamming shit in to the moon there are three possible things that are going to happen
1 – LCROSS is just going to slam into that ball of cheese and dig in deep with no side effect at all
2 – LCROSS is going to send a shitload of gouda in to the atmosphere sending much of it hurtling to earth. Have you ever smelled burnt cheese? That stuff is gonna hit the atmosphere and start smelling up this planet like crazy.
3 – LCROSS is gonna knock that big ball of cheese slightly off its orbit – which is gonna really piss of the man in the moon. If you piss him off and knock him off his rocker – he’s gonna start some serious big assed tidal waves on this planet.
So – after three years and $79 million – your grand plan is to slam this probe on the surface for just 4 minutes worth of data – with the byproduct being slamming $79 million worth of equipment funded by taxpayers to smithereens?
Sure – a great use of taxpayer dollars in today’s economy. Don’t come running to me when man in the moon decides to come down and kick all your asses!
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October 8th, 2009 at 1:24 am
I don’t have problem with testing for water on the moon and all that but now is not the time for such things because we simply cannot afford to do these things. Unless NASA is trying to create a new unpolluted planet for Al Gore to live on.
Reply to Cracked World
October 8th, 2009 at 3:23 am
To the moon, Alice! To the moon!
Reply to vulcanhammer
October 8th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Man, What the hell is up with NASA. Didn’t we send men to the moon 40 years ago with equipment that was less impressive than my cell phone? Why haven’t they done sh!t since then?
Reply to Evan
October 9th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
@Cracked – Bingo!
@VH – Why I oughta….
@Evan – you would think so. So far the greatest contribution from the space program has been Tang – er – no, not that “tang”
Reply to The BoBo
October 17th, 2009 at 3:01 am
The moon embarrassed us by housing a strange artifact we didn’t create, so we needed to blow it up, so our politicians could say they never knew about it. At least that is what I hear from NASA insiders.
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Reply to Jeff
October 17th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Oops, forgot to name names…see Project Camelot’s recent interview with Bob Dean.
Reply to Jeff
October 18th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@Jeff – very interesting take on that. I’ll check it out.
Reply to The BoBo
November 25th, 2009 at 7:17 am
we needed to explode it to show it whos boss
Reply to Mindflex
November 25th, 2009 at 7:18 am
shouldve blown it up twice
Reply to Kymera