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NASA to Bomb the Moon? (LIVE)

WTF is this shit all about? More importantly who gave anyone permission to bomb the moon in the first place.



NASA to Bomb the Moon on Live TV


NASA is preparing to bomb the moon and you can watch if you get up early.

The space agency said it will slam two spacecraft into the moon at 7:30 a.m. EDT Friday in an effort to find water on the moon.

A spacecraft, called the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, will break into two parts and hit the moon a few minutes apart. First the Centaur upper stage rocket will hit the lunar crater Cabeus near the southern pole, sending a plume of debris about 6 miles above the moon. LCROSS then will fly through the debris, collecting and analyzing the debris, searching for signs of water ice before slamming into the moon at 5,000 miles per hour.

Amateur astronomers with the right equipment will be able to see the event from Earth, or you could just watch it on TV.

NASA is planning a live broadcast for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT, 3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and will stream the event live at www.nasa.gov/ntv .

Not everybody thinks bombing the moon is a good idea, however.

Some believe it is actually a space-based weapons test , and Lara Gardner, a writer from Portland, Maine, has started a blog called Do Not Bomb the Moon. She doesn't have any facts to back it up, but she says it is just wrong.

An artist's depiction of the LCROSS moon-smashing mission as the Shepherding Spacecraft (left) pulls free of the Centaur upper stage impactor.


http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/new...0091007_3913937

Some more info,

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gene...Crater%20Target

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3280346..._science-space/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558101,00.html

You really think they're going to bomb the moon you fucking nutjob?

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Originally posted by ziptnf You really think they're going to bomb the moon you fucking nutjob?

I'm sorry what the fuk are you babbling about?

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/

LCROSS Live Broadcast

LCROSS Lunar Impact
7:31 a.m. EDT/4:31 a.m. PDT
Friday Oct. 9

A live NASA TV Broadcast is planned for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.

The 1.5 hour broadcast includes:

* Live footage from spacecraft camera
* Real-time telemetry based animation
* Views of LCROSS Mission and Science Operations
* Broadcast commentary with expert guests
* Prepared video segments
* Views of the public impact viewing event at NASA Ames
* Possible live footage from the University of Hawaii, 88-inch telescope on Mauna Kea.

The live LCROSS Post-Impact News Conference will be 10 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. PDT on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/L...main/index.html

LCROSS


The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA, which is currently orbiting the Earth and is targeted for impact on the Moon early October 2009.[2] LCROSS is designed to watch as the launch vehicle's spent Centaur upper stage, with a nominal impact mass of 2,305 kg (5,081 lb), strikes the Cabeus crater[3] near the south pole of the Moon (projected impact at the lunar South Pole is currently: Oct 9, 2009 at 11:31:30 UTC). LCROSS was launched on June 18, 2009, together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years. Together, LCROSS and LRO form the vanguard of NASA's return to the Moon.[4]

Early in the morning on August 22, 2009, LCROSS ground controllers discovered an anomaly due to a sensor issue, the spacecraft burned through 309 pounds of fuel, resulting in more than half of remaining fuel at the time burned up. According to Dan Andrews, the LCROSS project manager, "Our estimates now are if we pretty much baseline the mission, meaning just accomplish the things that we have to (do) to get the job done with full mission success, we're still in the black on propellant, but not by a lot."[5]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS

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Originally posted by ziptnf You really think they're going to bomb the moon you fucking nutjob?

Nice quick edit idiot.

1. Your dumb ass should be the one banned here.

2. The fukers bombing the moon are the nut jobs.

Thanks.

Oh forgive me, culrot, for misinterpreting this thread with your other ridiculous conspiracy theory threads. Carry on

F*ck the moon. That bitch has had it coming for years.

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Originally posted by ziptnf Oh forgive me, culrot, for misinterpreting this thread with your other ridiculous conspiracy theory threads. Carry on

Next time read before you open your mouth you moron.

It just seems absurd, and this guy posts all kinds of conspiracy stuff and I jumped the gun. My bad, get the fuck over it.

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Originally posted by Capitalizt F*ck the moon. That bitch has had it coming for years.

LOL, yeah the moon does not do much for me either personally but I have to wonder why we as humans have to keep fuking with nature when nature is going to fuk us over right back x 100000000000.

Maybe nature has already started to fuk us right back?


Seriously, I know it will cost more to send someone up there and do real tests properly but bombing the the moon with a 5000LB bomb to verify for water seems a little fuking ridiculous.

Who the fuk is making these decisions? Larry and Moe?

and exactly what is the problem with the experiment? It's not like the small craft hitting the moon could throw the moon of it's trajectory causing the tides to change.

my response: so what? sounds pretty cool and if it wasn't so damn early i'd probably want to see it live.

IT'S A MOON CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!11

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Originally posted by jerZ07002 and exactly what is the problem with the experiment? It's not like the small craft hitting the moon could throw the moon of it's trajectory causing the tides to change. my response: so what? sounds pretty cool and if it wasn't so damn early i'd probably want to see it live.

Yeah it does sound cool but it does not mean we should do it. There are other avenues which are much less harmful and definitely less destructible then what is going to be done in 48 hours from now.

That's like saying we should throw all these pollutants in our oceans because it costs less then disposing of it properly. I am sure our children will thank us for poisoning them.

Save now = Pay later.

Big time.

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Originally posted by Krypton IT'S A MOON CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!11

Yeah and you, PKC and the zip retard should move fast to crater Cabeus for the best seats in our solar system for this Friday morning.

I heard the fireworks are going to be spectacular.

more cool space news..
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/...ring/index.html

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CNN) -- Scientists at NASA have discovered a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- one so large that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it.NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a massive, nearly invisible ring around Saturn. The ring's orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends outward another 7.4 million miles (12 million km). Its diameter is equivalent to 300 Saturns lined up side to side. And its entire volume can hold one billion Earths, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said late Tuesday. "This is one supersized ring," said Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Verbiscer and two others are authors of a paper about the discovery published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The obvious question: Why did it take scientists so long to discover something so massive? The ring is made up of ice and dust particles that are so far apart that "if you were to stand in the ring, you wouldn't even know it," Verbiscer said in a statement. Also, Saturn doesn't receive a lot of sunlight, and the rings don't reflect much visible light. But the cool dust -- about 80 Kelvin (minus 316 degrees Fahrenheit) -- glows with thermal radiation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, used to spot the ring, picked up on the heat. Don't Miss One of Saturn's moons, Phoebe, orbits within the ring. As Phoebe collides with comets, it kicks up planetary dust. Scientists believe the ice and dust particles that make up the ring stems from those collisions. The ring may also help explain an age-old mystery surrounding another of Saturn's moons: Iapetus. Astronomer Giovanni Cassini, who first spotted Iapetus in 1671, deduced the moon has a white and dark side -- akin to a yin-yang symbol. But scientists did not know why. The new ring orbits in the opposite direction to Iapetus. And, say researchers, it's possible that the moon's dark coloring is a result of the ring's dust particles splattering against Iapetus like bugs on a windshield. "Astronomers have long suspected that there is a connection between Saturn's outer moon Phoebe and the dark material on Iapetus," said Douglas Hamilton of the University of Maryland in College Park -- one of the three authors reporting on the findings in the journal Nature. "This new ring provided convincing evidence of that relationship."

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Originally posted by culorut Yeah and you, PKC and the zip retard should move fast to crater Cabeus for the best seats in our solar system for this Friday morning. I heard the fireworks are going to be spectacular.

You shouldn't be allowed to use the word "retard" in a sentence...

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Originally posted by Krypton You shouldn't be allowed to use the word "retard" in a sentence...

You should not be allowed on the internet.

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Originally posted by Capitalizt more cool space news.. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/...ring/index.html

I read about this in the morning also. Interesting stuff which brings about another question.

What if there is something invisible on the moon that we have not discovered yet but since NASA is going to bomb the shit out of it on Friday....

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Originally posted by culorut You should not be allowed on the internet.

If it's on Youtube, colorut believes it...

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Originally posted by Krypton If it's on Youtube, colorut believes it...

Have anything important to say regarding the topic idiot? If you have not bothered to read like zip this is coming straight from NASA.

Thanks for trying so hard and proving to everyone how much more of an idiot you are with every post. Using the same old lines and insults while not adding anything important to the thread or this forum.

As with all trolls you can not survive without attention. I will stop feeding you now, it's getting a little boring and there are much more important things to discuss then wasting time with idiots like you.

LCROSS launch, courtesy of Youtube. LOL

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Originally posted by culorut Have anything important to say regarding the topic idiot? If you have not bothered to read like zip this is coming straight from NASA. Thanks for trying so hard and proving to everyone how much more of an idiot you are with every post. Using the same old lines and insults while not adding anything important to the thread or this forum. As with all trolls you can not survive without attention. I will stop feeding you now, it's getting a little boring and there are much more important things to discuss then wasting time with idiots like you.

Aww have I struck a nerve? I did say something important in my extremely sarcastic "IT'S A MOON CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!11" comment. Essentially, you'r insinuation that this is a weapons test is completely unfounded rubbish.

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Originally posted by Krypton Aww have I struck a nerve? I did say something important in my extremely sarcastic "IT'S A MOON CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!11" comment. Essentially, you'r insinuation that this is a weapons test is completely unfounded rubbish.

Yes idiots posting garbage without reading first strike a nerve because you have no fuking clue about what you are talking about.

And no where did I state in my own words that this is a weapons test. The first article I posted suggested that others opposing the bombing think it might be. I am saying in my words that other avenues can be taken to test for water on the moon, without having to blow up our nearest neighbor in our universe. It is just not smart, period.

You can shut the fuk up now. Really.

lol, does cretinrot get dumber with each passing day?

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