Posted on 10/09/2009 1:05:24 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON — Take that, moon!
But initial photos show that the moon didn't give the reaction to the double jabs that NASA expected. And the public definitely didn't get the live explosive views they may have anticipated from the mission called LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing
Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was supposed to kick up for scientists to study. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.
Click here for photos of Top 10 Moon Crashes.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
He wouldn’t have done it if there were any Taliban up there.
Has the moon hit back yet?
I’m guessing that it hit a more compacted surface than expected.
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Let us hypothesize for a moment that you have everything you could ever need on this hot, sticky speck of planet: Loads of love, great sex, good food, shelter, cash, affordable health care, good teeth, shiny car, kids who don't hate you, the works.
In short, your basic needs are more than met, your essential desires perfectly sated, the impulses that many say drive the human animal to do anything at all are, once and for all, finally quenched. In terms of everything we say we value as a culture and mouth-breathing biped, you want for nothing.
What would you do? Kick back and chill? Smile and order another drink? Are you all done? Is there anything else? Does it matter?
Recently I heard the tale of a classic Harvard study performed not long ago on some very happy rats to analyze this very scenario. What do you do when you don't really need to do anything at all?
The rats were placed in a first-class rat maze. They had all the conveniences a modern rodent could possibly desire: sexy mates, good grub, bitchin' rat toys, plasma TVs tuned to the Rancid Garbage Channel, you name it. Pure rat heaven all around, you might say.
Ah, but there was a catch. At the far end of the maze, the scientists built a little hallway with a small electrified grate on the floor that led to another, completely empty, room that the rats could not see otherwise. To get to this room, the rats would have to walk across the grate and endure a relatively painful, totally unnecessary jolt of hey, WTF?
The question: Would they do it? Would the happy, satisfied rats get painfully zapped for no clear reason? After all, they already had everything they could possibly need. Why go through torture for something unknown and seemingly superfluous?
You can guess what happened. After a few weeks of luxuriating in rat heaven, one by one the rats began to poke around the grate, and eventually every single one chose to endure the pain of crossing over, just to see what was on the other side (no word on subsequent legal settlements when the furious rats found nothing there, and filed suit).
So again we ponder: What are the energies at play here? What were the rats' deeper motivations? What lies beyond mere curiosity and the need to know? And why do we humans seem to have even more of it than the rats?
I read that not only did they find water, but it was also revealed that in a dark corner of the lunar region being studied, Nobel winning President Barak Obama’s long form Birth certificate was discovered.
No word yet on when NASA plans to mount a recovery mission to retrieve this historical document.
And the public definitely didn't get the live explosive views they may have anticipated..
Understatement of the millennium.
With all the build-up the ending was as anticlimactic as a Lindsay Lohan movie.
Fifteen seconds.
You know ... great minds and all that.
What was the carbon footprint of that rocket?
Why are we pre-emptively bombing the moon, when the moon didn’t attack us?
why did we spend so many millions on this? The money could have been spent on education, health care, fighting gang violence in Chicago, and getting Michelle new clothes for the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony.
See # 8 and the link there for full article....
All very pertinet questions. When the Moon strikes back we will get them all answered!
;-)
Doesn't the moon affect tides and earthquakes? Would that blast cause any changes on earth?
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