Posted on 06/11/2009 7:45:25 AM PDT by 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.
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At least it got good mileage on its way to the moon.
When we did it the first time, certain “native” American groups took offense, claiming posession of the moon as a religious object/deity.
I’m all for securing American Indian gravesites, remains and artifacts, but if they wanted a legitemate claim on the moon, they should’ve gotten there first.
To be fair to the inhabitants of CA, I’ve read 2 pages of comments and have not seen one that defends this astrologer’s nonsense. The common refrain appears to be “Lady, you’re a loony!”
I get to, on occasion, to watch the real-time video from Earth pointed cameras from the ISS. Daylight passes are mesmerizing. I even possess a video from low Earth orbit of the last total eclipse. Current video from ISS is very degraded, but still good enough for internet streaming. Some day the Human Spaceflight managers at NASA JSC will tumble to the value of streaming ISS video and order it be done. I keep pushing on that rope to no avail.
The NappyOne
That was a great comment.
The author is insane.
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I recall hearing that talking to my plants makes them grow better too.
We haven’t even colonized it and already it’s our garbage dump, man doesn’t deserve any more territory ....
Madame LaZonga?
Toss it a quarter and tell it to crawl back into it's hole.
Stretch and agenda kudos.
No, this is just from some twisted leftist freak...The same type that inhabit *your* area.
I'm in CA and we've built an optical observatory on the property, where we obtain digital images of deep space objects such as distant galaxies and binary systems (Star system orbiting around their common center of mass). We've set it up were it can be remotely operated from computers within the home.
Suggesting everyone here as an idiot liberal would be like people in Cal saying everyone in your state is a bloated, slack jawed hick.
Let me know if you like to see some of the images, I'll be happy to show ya.
bttt
If he was.. he’s not anymore.
He usually takes off after crashes
Hey, wait a minute - nobody told me they were going to destroy the moon. Bastards!
Madame Trelawney is, to be charitable, a bit overheated on the issue. If she ever found out about the CIA strip mines on the far side she'd have apoplexy. Fortunately it's unlikely that she reads FR...
Already done told her once.
What do you tell a moon with two black ey...Oh, you stole my fire. never mind.
bttt
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