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.
culorut
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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.
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.
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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."
Krypton
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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...;)
culorut
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Originally posted by Krypton
You shouldn't be allowed to use the word "retard" in a sentence...;)
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 out of it on Friday....
Krypton
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Originally posted by culorut
You should not be allowed on the internet.
If it's on Youtube, colorut believes it...:haha:
culorut
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Originally posted by Krypton
If it's on Youtube, colorut believes it...:haha:
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.
culorut
LCROSS launch, courtesy of Youtube. LOL
Krypton
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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.
culorut
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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.
