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Xceler8x
Xceler8x GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/9/09 9:15 a.m.

The moon has been staring at us for millions of years! It's about time we put the smack down on it! I mean we sent a handful of our certified bad arses to drill holes, hit golf balls of it, and drive all over it's face to show it we meant business! You'd think the Moon would get the message! Now, no more kid gloves. We're firing missiles!

GET ME DR STRANGELOVE!

RX Reven'
RX Reven' GRM+ Memberand Reader
10/9/09 9:18 a.m.

The Moon sucks; its top soil which is known as Regolith smells like sulfur, is highly abrasive, & is probably as harmful to humans as asbestos…a protective layer of Starbucks cups would be a major improvement.

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/9/09 9:38 a.m.

But won't all that trash make the cheese taste funny?

jwc38
jwc38 New Reader
10/9/09 9:41 a.m.

"mooon PAUNCH!" -NASA

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/9/09 9:41 a.m.

if Moon cheese tasted good.. we would already be harvesting it

jwc38
jwc38 New Reader
10/9/09 9:47 a.m.
NY Times said: slammed into the bottom of a crater at 5,600 miles per hour, excavating about 350 metric tons of the moon and leaving behind a hole about 65feet wide, 13 feet deep.
NY Times said: LCROSS is a companion, $79 million mission to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, sharing the same rocket into space in June. The mission designers took advantage of what would have otherwise been space junk — the rocket’s 2.2-ton, second stage — and turned it into a projectile to hit the Moon, shepherded by a car-size spacecraft.

2.2 ton, car sized object traveling at 5600 mph

RossD
RossD HalfDork
10/9/09 10:01 a.m.
DrBoost wrote:
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.

I find its a thin line between Darwinism and man purposely wiping out plants and animals. If the Dinosaurs ate a little mammal to extinction, most would say "survival of the fittest"; but when we do it, its called a travisty. I'm all about going to the moon and exploiting everything it has to offer and moving on to the next planetary body. I'll let people go and try and save the whales but when the comet is coming to smash into the earth I'm not letting those people onto the rocket bound to the moon. Survival of the fittest.

Xceler8x
Xceler8x GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/9/09 12:01 p.m.

Nasa finally posted some pics of that moon shot. I think the moon is mad at us now.

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/9/09 1:21 p.m.

I was waiting for that one

My coworker's girlfriend just took this phone call at work. Seriously. Those damn liberals just knocked the moon right out of the night time! Butch McCain is our local weatherman, and possibly a part-time superhero based on his name.

Me: 11 News. Idiot Woman: Yes, can you ask Butch McCain to explain during the weather tonight why I can see the moon right now? Me: Umm. Idiot Woman: Yeah, I can see the moon. And it's the middle of the day and I want to know why. Me: Uhh. Idiot Woman: I mean, my husband says it's because they shot a rocket at it. But I was hoping Butch could tell me if that's true. Me: You want to know why you can see it in the middle of the day? Idiot Woman: Yes. I've never seen it in the middle of the day before. Me: I don't believe that's an unusual occurrence. In a nutshell, it has to do with the moon phase, the location of the moon, sun and earth in relationship to each other. Sometimes you can see it during the day, sometimes you can't... but I've seen it during the day a lot of times. I think you can look it up on the Internet or any book about the moon phases. Idiot Woman: Oh, really? I've never seen it before. Well, thanks. I guess... (click)
DrBoost
DrBoost HalfDork
10/9/09 1:24 p.m.
Xceler8x wrote:
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.

No offence taken. I just can't type my feelings very well. No worries.

DrBoost
DrBoost HalfDork
10/9/09 1:33 p.m.
RossD wrote: I find its a thin line between Darwinism and man purposely wiping out plants and animals. If the Dinosaurs ate a little mammal to extinction, most would say "survival of the fittest"; but when we do it, its called a travisty. I'm all about going to the moon and exploiting everything it has to offer and moving on to the next planetary body. I'll let people go and try and save the whales but when the comet is coming to smash into the earth I'm not letting those people onto the rocket bound to the moon. Survival of the fittest.

The dinosaurs eating some mammal to extinction is very different from man cutting down rainforsts at the rate of thousands of acres every few minutes, then stripping the land with short term farming so it can no longer be a rain forest and is no longer good as a farm. This is simply bad management of our resourses and there is no reason to believe we won't do the same thing to the next rock we inhabit.
Heck, if we were renters we'd have been evicted by now.

ansonivan
ansonivan Reader
10/10/09 10:51 a.m.

PHeller
PHeller HalfDork
10/10/09 3:04 p.m.
JeepinMatt
JeepinMatt Reader
10/10/09 3:23 p.m.

The moon had it coming.

JeepinMatt
JeepinMatt Reader
10/10/09 3:25 p.m.
DrBoost wrote: 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.

Witty reply: But we already have one of those, it's called (insert city to be insulted)

I could make a remark about New Jersey. I won't, but I pretty much just did

ClemSparks
ClemSparks SuperDork
10/12/09 12:04 p.m.

I, for one, am just very relieved that The Moon has not decided to launch a counter-offensive and return fire!

...yet...

Clem

slefain
slefain Dork
10/12/09 2:16 p.m.
Trans_Maro wrote: 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

There must have been some brown people there (the George Carlin war theory).

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