Comments | winnowill2: NASA's mission to bomb the Moon: Scientific American

winnowill2

NASA's mission to bomb the Moon: Scientific American

Oct 06, 2009 17:53

Dear NASA:

Be careful, please? Remember that this is how General Zod and his companions were freed in Superman 2. I don't think anyone will be very happy if they turn up here on Saturday, especially since Chris Reeve is no longer with us.

NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from ( Read more... )

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Comments 5

timely_musing October 7 2009, 16:37:11 UTC

The article is dated June 17...maybe they already did it?

winnowill2 October 7 2009, 16:39:38 UTC

No, if you read the whole article, you get this: Finally, it will send the missile into the Moon at twice the speed of a bullet on October 8. It will impact on Friday.

timely_musing October 7 2009, 16:48:47 UTC

Weird, I read the whole article outloud to my husband, but somehow blanked that part out!

davew0071 October 7 2009, 23:15:40 UTC

What's the point of all this?

Is Osama bin Laden hiding there, or what?

winnowill2 October 7 2009, 23:30:58 UTC

Obama's trying to prove that he's NOT afraid to be aggressive against our enemies, the moonbats. ;-)

No, from the way I understand it, the idea is that the "bomb" will kick up big clouds of dust, in which NASA may be able to find water vapor.