Shootin' the moon.....literally

NASA is wasting 79 million of our dollars to crash a freaking rocket into the moon Friday morning. They are doing this because.....

wait for it....

because they want to see if there are ice crystals in the dust cloud that is sure to be raised from a freaking rocket crashing into the moon at 6,000 mph. I wondered just how long it will take for man to destroy every freaking thing they come into contact with. What difference does it make if there is ice in the dust. Are you gonna bring some moon ice back to make the worlds most expensive Gin and Tonic? I wonder how long it'll be before NASA says "well, we keep crasihing crap into the moon and we aint findin' no ice. Let's just start sending rockets full of garbage. I mean, Jersey is full up."
I'm surprised I'm this ticked.

I think it's a spent rocket or satellite of some sort, right? It's not like they're just launching one there to stir up moon dust and ice...right? I hope...

At least that's what I vaguely remember.

I've been wrong a few times though (just ask my ex...she'll tell you about all of it)

Clem

Actually..it's important to know if the moon has water on it. That's one less thing we have to get out of the gravity well if we are to ever colonize it.

Colonizing the moon is an important step in reaching the rest of the galaxy. If we can launch ships from the moon we don't have to launch from at the bottom of the gravity well that is earth.

Also, keep in mind...the Earth is fragile. We should spread our eggs across many baskets before something cataclysmic happens here.

Yes, the rocket was already up there from another mission.

Xceler8x wrote: We should spread our eggs across many baskets before something cataclysmic happens here.

Wouldn't it be ironic if our moon were to break into several large bits and come crashing into earth killing most of us as a result of our blasting the berkeley out if it?

I would laugh HA HA!

Stuff like this makes me love where I work (we's blowin' up the moonz).

EastCoastMojo wrote:

Xceler8x wrote: We should spread our eggs across many baskets before something cataclysmic happens here.

Wouldn't it be ironic if our moon were to break into several large bits and come crashing into earth killing most of us as a result of our blasting the berkeley out if it? I would laugh HA HA!

It's been done.

http://www.teevee.net/2002/06/anime-for-the-rest-of-us.html

Some time in the far future, Earth is an asteroid-pocked wreck. A mysterious cataclysm shattered the Moon. Humanity has escaped to colonies throughout the solar system and beyond, creating a lawless frontier where criminals run free -- and bounty hunters nicknamed "cowboys" hunt them down.

I know people get upset when they hear about all the millions NASA spends on missions.. but in the governmental overview... NASA's budget is miniscule. If it were half that of the military, we would have colonised mars by now.

And yes, finding water on the moon would be a great first step to putting a base or a colony out there

Cowboy Bebop was an incredible anime. Wish I could have seen all if it in sequence (damn adult swim keeping me up so late!)

WEEEEZ BLOWWIN UP DA MOOONZ

Snowdoggie wrote: Humanity has escaped to colonies throughout the solar system and beyond, creating a lawless frontier where criminals run free -- and bounty hunters nicknamed "cowboys" hunt them down.

You mean Ceylons ofcourse.

Really do we need more reason for the rest of the world to be mad at us?

Volksroddin wrote: Really do we need more reason for the rest of the world to be mad at us?

How odd, that doesn't bother me a bit...

The Sun WILL run out of fuel. No ifs about it. Spending so little on space exploration and tech is foolish. The timeframe of it doesn't matter, either. The more we prepare, the better chance we have. You know it.

The airforce spends more money in space than nasa does...

Seriously NASA is kicking some major ass on its tiny budget. Especially considering that it still stuck with the albatross of the space shuttle. The sooner they let us get orion up and running the better...

There's gotta be better ways to do it though. It seems like man is just a giant bully. We tend to slash and burn everything then, when it's too late we think "uh, maybe we could have done it differently" but don't stop the slashing and burning.

PHeller wrote: Cowboy Bebop was an incredible anime. Wish I could have seen all if it in sequence (damn adult swim keeping me up so late!) WEEEEZ BLOWWIN UP DA MOOONZ

O/T

If you dont mind it in original Japanese with subtitles.. http://www.animeseason.com/cowboy-bebop/

OR, if you want dubs and are willing to brave annoying popups and ads http://www.kumby.com/category/cowboy-bebop-episodes

Now, back to your regularly scheduled lunar destruction!

BobOfTheFuture wrote: The Sun WILL run out of fuel. No ifs about it. Spending so little on space exploration and tech is foolish. The timeframe of it doesn't matter, either. The more we prepare, the better chance we have. You know it.

No escaping entropy... but the really good news is we will probably be extinct before it kills us.

Apexcarver wrote:

PHeller wrote: Cowboy Bebop was an incredible anime. Wish I could have seen all if it in sequence (damn adult swim keeping me up so late!) WEEEEZ BLOWWIN UP DA MOOONZ

O/T If you dont mind it in original Japanese with subtitles.. http://www.animeseason.com/cowboy-bebop/ OR, if you want dubs and are willing to brave annoying popups and ads http://www.kumby.com/category/cowboy-bebop-episodes Now, back to your regularly scheduled lunar destruction!

^^Awesome, thanks! So far I've only caught the occasional episode when it's been on tv.

Back on topic: I'm sure the NASA folk know exactly what they're doing, and I'm just a schmo on a car-forum, but couldn't they achieve the same thing with an unmanned probe? Maybe with a drill.

We jus' like blowin' E36 M3 up, that's all.

First Chairface Chippendale, then Omnipotus, now NASA. The moon can't catch a break. I just hope we don't piss off Ignignokt and Err.

Hi Dr Boost,

The soil samples from all six Apollo landings contained significant levels of Helium 3.

This is of extraordinary importance as Helium 3 is the only known substance that can be used as fuel in a fusion reactor that won’t scour its lining. Fusion > fission as far less radiation is created during the process.

So, water = rocket fuel = economical way to get Helium 3 to Earth = practical, low radiation source of energy to power the planet for generations to come.

walterj wrote:

Snowdoggie wrote: Humanity has escaped to colonies throughout the solar system and beyond, creating a lawless frontier where criminals run free -- and bounty hunters nicknamed "cowboys" hunt them down.

You mean Ceylons ofcourse.

Leave Sri Lanka out of this.

DrBoost wrote: There's gotta be better ways to do it though. It seems like man is just a giant bully. We tend to slash and burn everything then, when it's too late we think "uh, maybe we could have done it differently" but don't stop the slashing and burning.

I know! Think of The Moon's FEELINGS!

16vCorey wrote: First Chairface Chippendale, then Omnipotus, now NASA. The moon can't catch a break. I just hope we don't piss off Ignignokt and Err.

You just did not reference The Tick and Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the same post.

I bow to you sir. Bow to you.

Xceler8x wrote:

DrBoost wrote: There's gotta be better ways to do it though. It seems like man is just a giant bully. We tend to slash and burn everything then, when it's too late we think "uh, maybe we could have done it differently" but don't stop the slashing and burning.

I know! Think of The Moon's FEELINGS!

Yeah, and the rain forests, the many aminals we've driven to extinction and so on. I don't see us ever using the moon as a jumping off point for other (pointless) exploration. I see it being the largest, remotest garbage dump ever. I mean, they are already crashing garbage rockets into it. How long until we have 14 kazillion Starbucks cups up there.

DrBoost wrote:

Xceler8x wrote: I know! Think of The Moon's FEELINGS!

Yeah, and the rain forests, the many aminals we've driven to extinction and so on. I don't see us ever using the moon as a jumping off point for other (pointless) exploration. I see it being the largest, remotest garbage dump ever. I mean, they are already crashing garbage rockets into it. How long until we have 14 kazillion Starbucks cups up there.

First off. I was really just kidding. Sorry if I offended. That was truly not my intent.

See your point about trashing up the moon. We've got a lot of garbage orbiting the earth so that's a valid concern. I can only hope that since we're more enlightened about ecological impact, than we were in the 50's and 60's, that we'll take it more seriously..than say global warming..and do something about it. I.E. not gunk up the moon as we colonize it.

I do hope we colonize the moon for reasons I stated above. We need to explore the galaxy. We need to colonize. The Earth is but one basket. Put all our eggs in one basket and we're asking for the Dinosaur's fate. Extinction.

I'm all for space exploration and spending gobs and gobs and gobs of money to do it. To do anything else is pennywise, pound foolish.

Isn't the moon neutral territory?

Are we really allowed to bomb the moon now?

Maybe this will finally piss off the moon men and they will come to earth and probe every last one of us in retaliation.

Shawn