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

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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.

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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.