LCROSS impact (NASA bombs Moon friday) (Live Thread)

10/9/09 | Bushbacker1

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Live stream:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[1_Rain_Drop]

Thank you for the explanation.

I find this disturbing, as if the moon has been violated.

[Alex Murphy]

About to bomb the moon!

And on the day Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, no less.....

[pgkdan]

They are looking for Dehydrated water

just add water and voila! You have water.

[Tzimisce]

...while we’re attacking an intergalactic body that did nothing too us, Obama is winning the prize for peace...

[GraceG]

I think we should implement a trillion dollar plan to send solar powered robotic bulldozers to the moon, they could re-surface the moon the so that from earth it would look like the “Death Star” from Star Wars, so when we look up at the moon we can all make the joke “That’s no moon!!! That’s a space station!”

It would actually be a better use of the money that the current rat holes we are throwing money into.

[jmcenanly]

Like this one?

[jmcenanly]

It was the end of the mission for the orbiting space craft, so they figured they'd end the mission on a 'bang' (crash the craft into the Moon) and see what other interesting things they can discover about the lunar surface.
Actually our 'bomb' is the empty Centaur upper stage, which was going to the Moon any way as it had the same velocity as the LRO satellite, which is now orbiting the Moon.NASA built a smaller 'shepherd' space craft to follow the empty stage down to the Lunar surface.

[a fool in paradise]

Obama: "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth moon shattering kaboom?!!!"

[rfp1234]

Bush’s fault!

[omega4179]

Unilateral war by Obama to celebrate his peace prize.

[omega4179]

The MOON was blocking Zeros view of URANUS so he had to blow it up.

[omega4179]

making the moon look like the Death star might actually scare off alien lifeforms.

[dr_who]

They should bomb the twist next. It might get them better publicity.

[Riley]

Can we nuke the whales next?

[SteamShovel]

U.S. Dept. of Moon

Who is the Moon Czar?

[BenLurkin]

WHere are the impact photos?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Had a camera FUBAR just before impact.

[BenLurkin]

How about the spectrography — was that the important data anyway?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

They said it was important, but haven’t heard of any results.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I am wondering if the seismographs left on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts picked up anything. The Moon should be ringing like a bell after the strike because it does not have any water to dampen out the seismic vibrations.