NASA to bomb the Moon on Friday morning, watch from Earth

[WarDog]

AMPA BAY, FL - NASA plans to crash a rocket into the moon early Friday, blasting a huge hole in the lunar surface to search for hidden water.

The explosion, scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Florida time, is expected to visible with from Earth using amateur telescopes, according to NASA.

It's also expected to be aired live by NASA-TV and on www.nasa.gov/ntv.

According to NASA's website, the Centaur rocket will make impact at the Moon's south pole.

Scientists tell Scientific American Magazine that they expect the blast to be so powerful that a huge plume of debris will be ejected.

A spacecraft will fly through the debris plume, sending data back to Earth before crashing into the lunar surface and creating a second debris plume, according to NASA's website.

Why blast a hole in the moon? NASA wants to see if any water, ice or vapor is revealed in the cloud of debris. If there is, that might provide supplies for a future manned moonbase.

Friday's explosion is part of NASA's LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission looking for lunar water.

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[Kotin]

wouldn't that bomb vaporize any water they would find???

 

[justinc.1089]

So what?

I have friends on myspace that constantly post conspiracy theory stuff about the illuminati and such, and they're all absolutely freaking out about this.

But seriously, I don't get what the big deal is.

I think if it speeds up space exploration thats great, it just makes it quicker for us to be able to get off the earth and maybe make a better place to live. I mean there is nothing important on the moon at all. Its just a big rock pretty much, and I doubt NASA will even find any water with this experiment anyway.

I'm just glad NASA's not wasting their money on stuff thats not practical at all or not really related to what they're funded for. I mean with all the money they get they should have put a man on Mars by now.

 

[Kotin]

I'm just glad NASA's not wasting their money on stuff thats not practical at all or not really related to what they're funded for. I mean with all the money they get they should have put a man on Mars by now.

I seriously hope you are joking.. THAT IS ALL THEY DO!

 

[justinc.1089]

I seriously hope you are joking.. THAT IS ALL THEY DO!

Lol yeah for real. NASA is retarded. The whole point of NASA is supposedly space exploration, or at least thats what I think as far as I know, but yet they barely do anything significant with that. And floating in a tin can doesn't count as space exploration after the 45363th time you have done it in my opinion lol.

I think bombing the moon is a waste of money, because they're probably spending a crazy amount of money to do it, but I really don't care if the moon gets a hole blasted into it. It already has like a billion holes lol.

 

[awake]

The race to militarize space... what do you expect from the war complex. Wait till the story telling begins... Aliens, astriods, cosmic swine flu, man made galaxy warming...what ever... whip up panic and fear to get the people to accept more looting and theft.

 

[Elwar]

I guess it makes sense...we bomb Iraq for years and Al Quada gains a foothold there...

if we start bombing the moon...

 

[eOs]

america

yeah, we bomb the moon

 

[torchbearer]

its easier than sending someone there to dig a hole.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

wouldn't that bomb vaporize any water they would find???

It's not really a bomb, it's a kinetic payload. We did the same thing with a passing comet a few years ago.

And so begins Intergalactic War I, with the Greys...

For all those that think NASA is a waste of money, before NASA got their hands on them a first generation IC (integrated circuit), one would cost over $1,000. Afterwords, they were under $1. They came up with CCD's - what makes your digital camera and video camera work. Kevlar, mylar, scratch resistant lenses, windshield wipers, cordless power tools, freeze dried food, dialysis, breast cancer screening, all sorts of stuff. There is a short list of some of it here:

http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1752963.ece

How NASA helped invent Silicon Valley
http://news.cnet.com/How-NASA-helped-invent-Silicon-Valley/2009-11397_3-6211034.html


I know, many detractors will say private industry could have come up with that stuff. Well, it was specialized requirements that led to much of it's development - so private industry would have come up with SOME of it, EVENTUALLY! We wouldn't have almost all of it NOW! For what we would have, it would be pretty primitive - like electronics development. For the Luddites in the audience, how about practicing what you preach and get rid of anything based on IC's for a start. You can keep your radio and TV - so long as they run on tubes. I'll send you a slide rule and a mechanical pocket watch to help get you started.

We do owe a lot to NASA.

-t

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

It's not really a bomb, it's a kinetic payload. We did the same thing with a passing comet a few years ago.

And so begins Intergalactic War I, with the Greys...

For all those that think NASA is a waste of money, before NASA got their hands on them a first generation IC (integrated circuit), one would cost over $1,000. Afterwords, they were under $1. They came up with CCD's - what makes your digital camera and video camera work. Kevlar, mylar, scratch resistant lenses, windshield wipers, cordless power tools, freeze dried food, dialysis, breast cancer screening, all sorts of stuff. There is a short list of some of it here:

http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1752963.ece

How NASA helped invent Silicon Valley
http://news.cnet.com/How-NASA-helped-invent-Silicon-Valley/2009-11397_3-6211034.html


I know, many detractors will say private industry could have come up with that stuff. Well, it was specialized requirements that led to much of it's development - so private industry would have come up with SOME of it, EVENTUALLY! We wouldn't have almost all of it NOW! For what we would have, it would be pretty primitive - like electronics development. For the Luddites in the audience, how about practicing what you preach and get rid of anything based on IC's for a start. You can keep your radio and TV - so long as they run on tubes. I'll send you a slide rule and a mechanical pocket watch to help get you started.

We do owe a lot to NASA.

-t

YES!! They use their spaceships to bomb earth, I say its time for some payback!

 

[coyote_sprit]

We're going to rape the moon....

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

YES!! They use their spaceships to bomb earth, I say its time for some payback!

pssstt: It's really a false flag operation. We're going to use some advanced jamming and make it look like the rocket came from Iran, and...

-t

 

[mtj458]

It's not really a bomb, it's a kinetic payload. We did the same thing with a passing comet a few years ago.

And so begins Intergalactic War I, with the Greys...

For all those that think NASA is a waste of money, before NASA got their hands on them a first generation IC (integrated circuit), one would cost over $1,000. Afterwords, they were under $1. They came up with CCD's - what makes your digital camera and video camera work. Kevlar, mylar, scratch resistant lenses, windshield wipers, cordless power tools, freeze dried food, dialysis, breast cancer screening, all sorts of stuff. There is a short list of some of it here:

http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1752963.ece

How NASA helped invent Silicon Valley
http://news.cnet.com/How-NASA-helped-invent-Silicon-Valley/2009-11397_3-6211034.html


I know, many detractors will say private industry could have come up with that stuff. Well, it was specialized requirements that led to much of it's development - so private industry would have come up with SOME of it, EVENTUALLY! We wouldn't have almost all of it NOW! For what we would have, it would be pretty primitive - like electronics development. For the Luddites in the audience, how about practicing what you preach and get rid of anything based on IC's for a start. You can keep your radio and TV - so long as they run on tubes. I'll send you a slide rule and a mechanical pocket watch to help get you started.

We do owe a lot to NASA.

-t

Right, the only time government spending can benefit the economy is if technological advancements are made. Even though NASA probably wastes a lot of money, I think its still one of the few good causes that tax dollars go towards. I don't really see much room for private enterprise in the space business yet but NASA will become a problem once they start really limiting good private opportunities, which is basically guaranteed to happen over the next century.

 

[Dr.3D]

It's not really a bomb, it's a kinetic payload. We did the same thing with a passing comet a few years ago.

And so begins Intergalactic War I, with the Greys...

For all those that think NASA is a waste of money, before NASA got their hands on them a first generation IC (integrated circuit), one would cost over $1,000. Afterwords, they were under $1. They came up with CCD's - what makes your digital camera and video camera work. Kevlar, mylar, scratch resistant lenses, windshield wipers, cordless power tools, freeze dried food, dialysis, breast cancer screening, all sorts of stuff. There is a short list of some of it here:

http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1752963.ece

How NASA helped invent Silicon Valley
http://news.cnet.com/How-NASA-helped-invent-Silicon-Valley/2009-11397_3-6211034.html


I know, many detractors will say private industry could have come up with that stuff. Well, it was specialized requirements that led to much of it's development - so private industry would have come up with SOME of it, EVENTUALLY! We wouldn't have almost all of it NOW! For what we would have, it would be pretty primitive - like electronics development. For the Luddites in the audience, how about practicing what you preach and get rid of anything based on IC's for a start. You can keep your radio and TV - so long as they run on tubes. I'll send you a slide rule and a mechanical pocket watch to help get you started.

We do owe a lot to NASA.

-t

LOL, there are some who say all of those devices were reverse engineered from alien artifacts found in the '40s.

 

[Liberty Star]

Have we run out of places on earth to bomb that we now have to bomb other planets?
We must be the top bomber nation in the history of mankind, such aggressionists we are.

But we won't be bombing the sun because it has more explosive power than we do, just the poor unarmed planets like the moon.

 

[TinCanToNA]

Please, everyone, don't dangle your collective ignorance for all to see.

Selected snippets: "Wouldn't the bomb vaporize the water?" Yes, that's the point. If ice particles are part of the debris ejected, then that means the experiment found water.

If you don't think NASA does anything useful or hasn't done anything useful recently, then you do not have really been paying attention.

 

[RedLightning]

I think it'll be a complete waste of money, but other then that I don't really care.

 

[devil21]

General waste of money aside, there's no concern for possibly knocking the moon off its orbit? I can see this turning out badly over time.

"Honey look at that! The moon is so big tonite!" Reminds me of the scene in Bruce Almighty.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

General waste of money aside, there's no concern for possibly knocking the moon off its orbit? I can see this turning out badly over time.

"Honey look at that! The moon is so big tonite!" Reminds me of the scene in Bruce Almighty.

Somebody didn't take Physics 101...

try this - the mass range is in the ballpark... : take a bb gun and shoot it at a semi-tractor trailer or a loaded cement truck. Did you knock it off the highway?

-t