Orbiter crashing into the moon

SanFrancisco Examiner ^ | June 10, 11:45 AM | Satya Harvey

[jmcenanly]

There is a Japanese lunar orbiter named Kaguya that is scheduled to crash into the moon today at about 2:30 pm ET. Scientists hope to learn something about the moon’s composition by observing the debris that is kicked up.

In many traditions, including astrology, the moon represents the feminine. It is the yin, the intuitive, the emotions. Women are connected to the moon by their menstrual cycles while they are fertile, and all beings, including the earth herself, are affected by the pull of the tides.

Purposefully crashing something into the moon just to watch what happens is akin to a schoolboy cutting up a live frog to see what makes it jump. It is an example of the domination of the left-brained rational scientific approach over the intuitive.

Did these scientists talk to the moon? Tell her what they were doing? Ask her permission? Show her respect?

When we are connected into the web of life, we know that what we do to one part is what we do to all. Gaining knowledge by destruction is an empty victory.

[jmcenanly]

In most papers , the astrology column is simply generic fortune cookie messages on the comics page. I wasn't surprise that it would be the San Francisco Examiner that would give Madame Trelawney her own column. Does she say "Pardon me", if she stubs her toe on the sidewalk?
A Picture of Earth, as seen from the Kayuga probe.

[SJSAMPLE]

Unbelievable.
They’re crashing it into the moon to see what elements it kicks up.

We did it about ten years ago, to see if any water crystals would kick up.

I thought the lefties were ushering in “the return of science”?

[Marie2]

“I thought the lefties were ushering in “the return of science”?”

That’s the line. What they really want is a return to paganism.

[Bigg Red]

This is really from The Onion, right?

[evets]

Woman in the moon?

[Lurker]

Ask her permission?

Of course they asked. And when the moon said nothing the scientists took her silence as consent.

[editor-surveyor]

Obviously unnecessary, since we have lunar soil here on Earth to study.

And we already know that the layer of dust is at the cm level.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Safrguns]

>>> Women are connected to the moon by their menstrual cycles while they are fertile...

Induced PMS???

[editor-surveyor]

"And when the moon said nothing the scientists took her silence as consent."

A moon can say no with her eyes....

[piytar]

Wow, so this is what passes for “thinking” now in CA? No wonder why the state is a wreck...

[Republic]

Thanks for the photo...gosh our earth is beautiful when viewed from space. WOW!

[Arthur McGowan]

You don’t understand. “Science” is “killing babies.”

Want to make any bets as to whether Madame LaZonga considers killing 50 million babies as much of an attack on the “web of life” as crashing a satellite into the Moon?

[piytar]

And BTW, Ms. Moonbat, I don’t think the Japanese really give a s### about what you think of their eeevvvvviiiillllll left-brained (ie, rational) thinking...

(Directed toward the SF Examiner “journalist,” not the Freeper poster, of course.)

[Rio]

Plenty of fun comments follow the article. Such as:

• After I read this I became wracked with guilt for not asking my driveway gravel permission before parking my car on it. I wonder if the sound of my tires on the road is actually the asphalt screaming? I wanted to jump off the bridge, but haven't heard back from the river if it's okay yet. Bloody looney!

[steve-b]

Obviously unnecessary, since we have lunar soil here on Earth to study.

Oil drilling is obviously unnecessary, since we already have oil wells.

Gah, every time the level of stupidity on the Internet seems to have reached rock bottom, it gets out a jackhammer and starts digging.

[VaRepublican]

I really want to say something witty but you already know you re right. and no I don’t want to make any bets on that.

[KarlInOhio]

Did these scientists talk to the moon? Tell her what they were doing? Ask her permission? Show her respect?

NASA will send the moon flowers and a card. Maybe even take her out for a nice dinner tomorrow.

[jmcenanly]

We're about to do it again. Twice. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft are being sent to the Moon on June 17, the former to map the Moon, the second to crash into a shaded crater to look for water.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html

[Moose4]

To the author: IT’S A DEAD PLANETOID, YOU DINGBAT. A ball of rock and dirt with no atmosphere, much like your probable sex life!

Liberals think Christians are somehow loopy and insane, but they think moon-worshipping astrologer biddies are mainstream!

}:-)4