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NASA/Ames ready to explode one of the coolest space missions ever (Crash into moon)
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| Jun 15, 2009
| Mike Swift
Posted on 06/16/2009 1:39:29 PM PDT by decimon
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What could go wrong?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:39:30 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
I think they are attacking an alien outpost there.
:)
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:41:48 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: decimon
Is this a good idea?
What if it broke up into zillions of pieces and fell to earth with cometary impact?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:41:59 PM PDT
by
Sophia777
To: Sophia777
What if it broke up into zillions of pieces and fell to earth with cometary impact?They're shooting for one of the poles so I figure they'll set the moon spinning.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:45:25 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: driftdiver
Earth fires the first shot. The shot will be directed by Obama’s Earth versus Moon Czar.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:45:43 PM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:46:50 PM PDT
by
Rio
(Don't make me come over there....)
To: decimon
Wasn't this a poorly made 1970's sci-fi program? Doesn't the moon explode breaking away from Earth's orbit and hurtling through space?
Quick, someone find out where Marin Balsam is.
To: OrioleFan
Shouldn’t we meet without preconditions first?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:49:10 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: decimon
One of the coolest aspects is that it will make goofy moonbats cry over the violence of it.
Besides, the moon obstructs my view of Venus.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:50:30 PM PDT
by
dead
To: decimon
Six mile high explosion to see whether or not there’s water? Cool. This sounds exactly like something those Mythbuster guys would have come up with.
To: Rio
Actually we had a plan in 1865 or so. Or you could say the French did, depending on where you place Jules Vern.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:53:55 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: dead
"One of the coolest aspects is that it will make goofy moonbats cry over the violence of it. Besides, the moon obstructs my view of Venus."
Lol at that.
To: decimon
Its already been done. There was even a live thread.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:55:16 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: decimon
Meanwhile, on a planet nearby ...
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:55:25 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Rio
We already crashed a vehicle into the moon over ten years ago.
The only difference is that the vehicle is purpose-built this time.
USA for teh win!!!
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:55:30 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: cripplecreek
Its already been done. There was even a live thread.The mission is over?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:59:29 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SJSAMPLE
We’ve crashed lots of them, some on purpose, others not. Rangers 7-9 were “hard landing” photographic missions. Surveyors 2 and 4 were designed for soft landings but had glitches that made them go splat. Starting with Apollo 13, the spent S-IVB stage was targeted for lunar impact to provide seismic signals for the ALSEP seismometers.
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posted on
06/16/2009 2:06:46 PM PDT
by
chimera
To: decimon
They’re going to the moon for water? I got ya water right here. I’ll sell it to ya. You pay me, and I’ll tell you where to pick it up.
[after the sucker pays TheOldLady] The surface of the earth is 75% water. Go for it.
Oh wait. I know, I know! The water on the moon is lighter than the water here, so the molecular bond is weaker. That will make it easier to separate the oxygen from the hydrogen. Right?
So even though it will cost about a bazillion trillion gazillion dollars to get the light water from the moon, it will still be cheaper to separate the gases. Right?
Right?
To: SJSAMPLE
In July 1964, Ranger 7 impacted the moon sending back thousands of pictures on its way in. A few more successful Ranger flights followed.
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posted on
06/16/2009 2:18:16 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
To: Big_Monkey
Wasn't this a poorly made 1970's sci-fi program? Doesn't the moon explode breaking away from Earth's orbit and hurtling through space?I remember that one. But I think it was a big chunk of the earth- about half of Africa IIRC, that broke away and went into orbit as a second moon.
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posted on
06/16/2009 2:21:44 PM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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