NASA's mission to bomb the Moon
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NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in the lunar surface at twice the speed of a bullet.
The missile, a Centaur rocket, will be steered by a shepherding spacecraft that will guide it towards its target - a crater close to the Moon's south pole.
Scientists expect the blast to be so powerful that a huge plume of debris will be ejected.
The attack on the Moon is not a declaration of war or act of wanton vandalism. Space scientists want to see if any water ice or vapour is revealed in the cloud of debris.
Though the Moon mostly a dry airless desert, they believe ice could be trapped in crater shadows near the south pole which never receive any sunlight. If so it could provide vital supplies for a manned moonbase.
Last year, British scientists identified regions where water might be found on the Moon and estimated that there could be enough to fill one of Europe's largest reservoirs.
The spacecraft will not head straight for the Moon. First it will orbit the Earth a number of times while its precise target is identified. Finally, it will send the missile into the Moon at twice the speed of a bullet on October 8.
The shepherding spacecraft will follow close behind, taking pictures and analysing the ejected debris as it looks for evidence of water. It has just four minutes to do this before it crashes into the Moon itself, producing a spectacular explosion that should be visible in amateur astronomers' telescopes.
It is a busy time for Moon crashes. Last week Japan's Kaguya probe collided with the Moon at the end of its own mission.
The LCROSS mission - it stands for Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite - will launch on an Atlas V rocket together with another spacecraft, called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The orbiter will circle the Moon for at least a year searching for potential landing sites for astronauts when they return there in the next decade. It will also look for suitable materials that might support a colony.
The dual mission was due to blast off today but was delayed to make way for the shuttle Endeavour. However, another hydrogen leak means that the shuttle launch has now been delayed until next month.
Picture: An artist's impression of LCROSS missile being fired at the Moon. (NASA).
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Add CommentI do not think that they should be bombing the moon for any thing even if it is for water it is not like that if the earth runs our of water where going to go to outer space to get water... NO we will just find a way to get water. but do we realy need to know if water is there we know the moon does not have any thing living on it. so we should just leave the moon to do its job and light up the nights sky like it does to day.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt sounds like a game! Funny but may be useful!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAmerica is not satisfied its war on earth and its inhabitants. It is waging war on space now. Killing human has become too routine and boring for America, it wants to kill the space. Good luck Americans; And you still complain that most of you cant afford medicines.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm no scientest so maybe it's just me. But by blasting the moon with such magnitude put the moon in danger of shifting orbit? If it does we won't have to worry about global warming.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe effect on this planets wether due to a shift in the moon's orbit will be that of omega proportions.
good point - i think human mankind is crossing its limit. we can't just take nature for granted - nature will fight back!!! If it's fighting back with global warming and floods and earthquakes owing to our pollution, it will do worse if we play with space objects... let's not forget that the entire oceans are effected by Moon re: high and low tides. If moon looses orbit or gravity etc. from these explosions then it can affet the water levels in our oceans at some point. Nature is slow but not stupid - it knows how to balance. It got rid of Dinasours, so why can't it not get rid of humans
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this@InFoRsOmEsCiEnCe456: Seriously? The article clearly states the reason for looking for water, and it's got nothing to do with a "need" on Earth. It's for human use in a potential future moon base. Transporting water from Earth to the Moon is expensive. If there was already water there, you can get there much less expensively.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this@m1rv9n41v5: thank you for your brilliant insight. Could you please explain why this is stupid? Did you not understand why they're looking for water?
@kocol: This will produce a seriously small blast, comparatively speaking. The amount of energy necessary to do what you think is going to happen would need be thousands of times higher than this.
Let me put it into perspective using an example in one of Sagan's books. He describes how Galileo used a gravity slingshot maneuver to increase its speed. It flew toward the horizon of Jupiter which caused it to increase speed. It then narrowly missed the planet and was flung by the enormous amount of momentum deeper into the solar system. Due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, this "stealing" of energy from Jupiter wasn't free. Galileo did have an effect on the orbit of Jupiter: in 5 billion years, the Jovian Giant will be one second behind where it should be in its orbit. Given that scale, perhaps you can extrapolate the amount of effect this is going to have on the moon.
Another example: in 2005, an 800 pound impacter was fired at a comet and the collision had NO effect on the orbit of this small object which was only about the size of Manhattan.
With all the war, poverty, international debt thats going on, why spend all that money to see if something exists on a planet we cannot live on? How much use can resources be from the moon? Either way, the earth is screwed bcuz of idiot, money grubbing, power hungry bass terds that run the place.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI doubt that the real reason is to look for water. Its the U.S.A. we're talking about here,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy can't we as a species just leave sh*t alone? Good grief.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCarl Sagan wanted to Nuke the Moon in 1958 to see if they could stir up 'organic particles'
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://utenti.lycos.it/paoloulivi/nuke.html
Well cooler heads prevailed but they were serious
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this2012 It is a great time to be human. There are many galactic changes coming to our solar system within the coming years, including planetary alignment, the discovery of the Planet Nibiru, inter-dimensional travel, extra-terrestial alien encounters, and the earth polar shift.
Our ancient ancestors of Egypt and Mexico left us evidence of their belief in these things as well.
There are many theorist and scientists who believe a world catastrophe will occur in 2012.
Me and my Staff LucArtStudio (Italy) instead we believe that 2012 will be a glorious time to be human on Planet Earth. It will be a new Era based on a new awareness of life. Based on being and not on having. Me and my staff we show this phenomenon through the current news, video and writings.
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Please stop wasting tax payer dollars with lame promises of great.... what ever. Do this. NASA folks find real jobs, excuse me, careers that actually add value. Lets face it, we don't need anymore big breakthrough that provide us with wonderful discoveries such as Tang.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWell It does make sense to me to find water on the moon. We should already have a permanent base there by now. Water could be recycled for human use, or a way for fuel (hydrogen) for the base or maybe even as a step to Mars.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI feel excited again, like in the 60's with the Apollo program. Yes there are a multitude if issues right here on earth, but the need we have to explore should never be lost.
Tomorrow NASA apologize to the people of Iran
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisfor accidentally turning Tehran into a Giant Crater !
Yeah, what if a chunk of the moon breaks off and falls to Earth like it did in the The Time Machine movie that came out a few years back, based on H.G. Wells book. It would be a disaster.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisScience just needs to leave some things alone.
Or blow a chunk off of the moon and it falls onto Earth just like what happened in The Time Machine movie that was made a few years back based on H.G. Wells book of the same name.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisScience needs to just leave some things along.
Did'nt Mr. Show do a bit on this?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOh ya, here it is:http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1c81d0df12/mr-show-america-blows-up-the-moon-from-thaffner
The moon may be hollow, so what will happen if it manages to enter its core?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTypically we humans need to explode something just to see what happens!
Don't forget NASA is run by the military so one wonders what the real reason behind this operation is:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDestroying alien bases?
Or intimidating the Chinese or other players in the moon game so the US can claim exclusive ownership?
Not very bright. Water vapor evaporates instantly in a vaccuum. The heat of the explosion will instantly evaporate any water. Looking for water? I don't think this was thought out very well. Either that or NASA is taking a stance that we are all idiots. Ressession, depression, bailouts... What a waste of my tax dollars. Why is the McDonald project, on the moon to monitor its position in space being cancelled right when we are going to shoot it with two megatons of explosives? Nasa, I am sorely dissapointed. I think this is a simple minded mining expedition. Which major conglomorate will own the rights to moon mining?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMany possible scenarios may arise. With one-sixth of Earth's gravity, a missile travelling at twice the speed of a bullet may have only one-third of the impact it would on Earth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf ice exists in the extreme cold of the Moon's south pole, it may be so hard and brittle that an extremely huge explosion blasts ice shards and rock far more greatly than is able to be estimated/calculated. As extreme temperature exchange occurs from exposure to sunlight without any atmospheric protection, large masses of water and dust may disperse resulting in unknown consequences which could alter the entire delicate balance of its orbit, with potentially disastrous results here on Earth. For all we know, a designed explosive impact (as opposed to normal meteor impacts without explosive design) in a polar region may upset the balance so greatly that we lose the Moon.
Keeping in mind the tidal influence of the Moon on Earth, remember also that our own bodies are composed of the same percentage of water. Our emotional/water bodies are in tune with the moon, it is in fact where the term 'lunatic' is derived from, luna meaning moon. What if this sudden disturbance sends everyone (and everything) living on Earth crazy?
What if advanced aliens really do have bases on the moon - will they regard this as an act of war and do the Earth a favour and destroy all mankind?
What if, at the end of the day, the results are indeterminable and it results in a very expensive failure? Is it worth the expense? I bet a billion starving kids would beg to differ.
Isn't it easier to recycle all the water on a moonbase that was flown in from earth? Solar cells only work on the sunny side of the moon, you know. On the dark side of the moon one has to fly in many heavy electricity batteries, so what is the point? Or is NASA planning a nuclear reactor as well? The Russian cosmonauts could survive in their space base for a year, recycling water and using solar cells.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis NASA plan is more insane than PinkFloyd's Dark Side of the Moon album.
They must STOP, NASA doesn't have the right to modify the Moon or to test weapons on the Moon
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is INSANE!!!! We do NOT know what impact this bombing will have on the Moon or on the Solar System for crying out loud!!! Let's just say that if... just if ... there are actually other civilizations out there on the Moon, inside the Moon, or on other planets in the solar system... let's just consider that it is a possibility even though we don't know... we may be literally causing a Star Wars kind of situation and what will we say... "we were looking for water so we bombed the Moon"??????????? Or let's just say that the Moon's orbit is more important to the Solar System than what we know or anticipate!!!! We may end life on this planet way before we thought possible!! This is very dangerous stupidity!!!!!!! Hopefully they'll find water somewhere out there so I can move out of this planet where decisions are made out of greed by the most stupid representatives of the human race!!! Suggestion: Ask the people... LISTEN to the human race!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey cant get 2 the moon so they try to destroy it. SOAR LOSERS!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiskovavla, that is the most intelligent response to this article, so far. You are correct, recycling water is very important. If we do find water, it will have to be recycled. Why is it so important for NASA to find water? That is such a minor issue. You are also correct about the battery issue. Where will they find power on the dark side of the moon? The only other important factor is breathable oxygen. No matter where you put the base you need to truck in air. How much will that cost? The plan to grow plants for food and air is ridiculous. Also would have to be on the sunny side. How many contractors are needed to build a moon base? Where do you house them, feed them, etc. What does that cost the taxpayers? What is the purpose of the base anyway? Scientific testing? Of what, and why? Who is the insurance company for all this construction? What does that policy cost, to insure contractors on the moon? How many shuttle flights will it take to bring them up and down? How many will be trained? What does that job pay? Will it be another no bid contract? Does Shaw group or Haliburton get that job? I really don't want my taxes paying for this ridiculous mission. Lets all be serious here. Astronauts will not build a moon base. Robots will not build a moon base. Taxpayers will be forced to pay for contract labor. NASA needs to be stopped. I admit, Hubbel telescope has interesting pictures, but the rest of everything NASA has done... I think they need to be completely shut down. What a gross misappropriation of taxpayer dollars, and for what? US military dominance of space. No, thank you. Placing and repairing sattelites for large corperations. No, thank you. I ask all readers of this article to blog, twitter, email, and call your state and national representatives as well as NASA to stop this insane mission. Save the whales... no - Save the Moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDon't you think we should give the Moon a Break?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOk i would like to say that yes i disagree with this project. But i really want to say stop tweaking to most of the people posting here.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFirst they do not mention the actual size/magnitude of the explosive they are sending, only that it can be seen by amatuers. Next, i doubt we as a world, have a bomb strong enough that could shift the moon, or explode massive chunks out of it. For the person who refrenced HG Wells The Time Machine, the moon collapsed because it was heavily "mined."
The best conspiracy theory we have on this site is the one based on military expectations. the aricle itself reparted that the satilite will be orbiting the planet for over a year. So that means a missle base that is circling the planet. with one missle. close but still weak. Once again, this plan is far from nessacary, but also, people think before you respond to this crap.
Let's see - how can we find out if the ice is receding at the South Pole? I know - let's bomb the place!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBigfoot in the Bayou? Dinosaurs in Africa? Let's bomb the suckers!
Bin Laden might be somewhere in Afghanistan/Pakistan? Bombs away!
One of our guys's is lost in the desert and likely dying of thirst? Well, a bomb run shouldn't just help find him but also locate a likely water source for him!
All of which is to say, surely, if you're looking for an extrememly scarce commodity, you don't do the one thing likely to evaporate it completely out of existence - so what if it proves water was once there? It won't be there any more!
This looks much more like a wrecking crew blasting away randomly into the side of a mountain in the hope of discovering materials that'll make it worth their while carving out the rest of the mountain.
"Bombing" the moon is just a supposedly clever headline. They aren't dropping military munitions on the moon. The reason to determine if there is water on the moon is not to discover an alternate water supply for the earth as some commentators appear to be thinking. It is to determine if there is a native supply of water on the moon to supply future long-term manned missions to the moon. A critical step to future exploration of the solar system. And no Kocol, there is no danger of the moon's orbit being shifted. The impact is not that great in comparison to the mass of the moon, and certainly far less than the asteroids that have smacked into the moon numerous times causing all those great big craters you can see on the face of the planetoid at night [likewise without shifting its orbit].
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow, when I wrote my last comment I had only read a few postings, but now I've read more and I start to wonder if you are all insane and did any of you pay even a littel bit of attention to 1) the actual text of the article and/or 2) the science classes you had in high school and College? I'm hoping I'm just the fall guy for some take off on the Onion, but i'm thinking you people are serious with these comments.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNASA is not using an explosive. It is not a weapons test. It is not evidence of the militarization of space. It is not a modification of the moon. They are crashing a hardened vehicle into the surface to cause a relatively small spurt of material to be ejected into space so its composition can be studied by way of spectrographic analysis [remember that bit in high school when they explained that different atoms return different colors in a spectrograph?]. This has been done before - a couple of times in fact, and it will do no harm to the moon. I again refer to all the great big asteroid craters all over its surface as evidence that a much smaller few hundred pound probe won't do very much to the moon.
This is a straight forward scientific test to determine the viability of long-term missions on the moon. Such missions will need water for drinking, environmental controls, waste handling, developing fuel cell batteries, etc. Water is very heavy. Eight pounds per gallon. Currently the cost of putting 1 lbs of anything into space is tens of thousands of dollars. A long term mission to the moon, supporting several astronauts, would need alot of water -- even with all the intensive recycling NASA is actually famous for -- and thus every supply mission would be hugely expensive if all that water had to be carried from earth. If a water source(s) could be found on the moon and you could build your base right next to it, you dramatically increase both the possibility of pulling off the mission in the first place and the chance the mission will succeed over time. No conspiracy. no space war. It's very basic and has been discussed in the scientific literature for years.
This is the stupidest idea I have ever heard of. These are the "greatest minds of our generation." Yeah right.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisVery well said!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWho gives americans the right to do this with the planet's moon? I think they are destroying the planet and now the universe? The moon belongs to the whole world not just to NASA.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWho gives americans the right to do this with the planet's moon? I think they are destroying the planet and now the universe? The moon belongs to the whole world not just to NASA.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswith your definition of a real job, nothing is real at all. I'm assuming you mean; Value: contributing to the society. Think of the millions of other jobs out there that add less value than NASA. Sports is a great example. It has great value, it teaches us things. It shows everyone examples of body/mind perfection. Now think of what NASA contributes to the world. it adds valuable technologies. The world we know would never exist without NASA's contributions in insperation, recognition in science and technology. (FIRST's philosophy) You can't count the number of people that were inspired by our space program. Now lets talk a little about true value. In order to stay "human" we need to look past our everyday lives. We need to grow, change and improve. Space is the final fronteer, and without it, we would become like Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 or without curiosity we would become like the unchanging people in Wall-e. Both of these show us what we can turn into. The meaning of life is to question evey aspect of it. Socrates pointed this out a long time ago,"The unexamined life is not worth living." and i believe living like that is hardly life or humane at all.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthings are never as they appear! hmmm, what's really goin on?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisANY IDEAS??
any chance to construct a base to accomodate the "chosen few" when good ol' earth is a wasteland?? one thing for sure it's not to look for H2O!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm very werried about the moon-men that may live on the moon. If NASA thinks theres water, then there also might be life, and that life might be the moon-men.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFirst we kill people on our planet, and then we kill the moon-men. And that is a serius problem!!
Go NASA! Most of the comments here are ridiculous. First, the US, evil monster as it is, is not going to bomb the moon. If you think that, you need to re-evaluate your reasoning. Second, if the US did want to bomb the moon, it would not send it off its axis and cause global warming problems for the Earth. I can't even begin with that one. Third, even if this fails, the technology and data which NASA learns from it will help it in later attempts and may eventually impact our lives as well. If we want to go to the moon in 2109, we have to be underway in 2009.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisScience, ladies and gentlemen, lets give it a big round of applause.
This is a perfect thing to do. The humans on earth need to look foward to something better like a project like this... Imagine all the possibilities if it were successful... you think people will be concentrating on War and thinking negatively about economy during and after this? (No they won't not as much)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe need to expand ourselves as humans, this is a perfect way of doing it. Nothing bad can happen, the moon is always hit but meteors and astroids... this will not cause damage to the earth, this will not ruin the moon!!! All we are doing is creating another meteor impact when we want, so that we can analyze it!
The only risk is... if that missle is armed and swings around the earth a couple of times, then something goes wrong??? ooooh boy.
What I believe everyone can agree on is; we need high paying jobs and we need to stop paying big bucks for energy. Now is the time to exploit space power and resources. Sunlight is available in high Earth orbit 24/7, 365 days a year. We have had the technology since the late 60’s to transmit via microwave all the energy we could ever use, to Earth, from orbit. The material for constructing the space end of the system is available on the near Earth asteroids and the Moon. We the people need the government to fund the project just as the government funded World War II. Our survival as a people with liberty was threatened by mad men with weapons during WWII. Today our survival is threatened by mad men with oil. If we as a people shrink from the task at hand we will lose our liberty.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNo. The moon is hit everyday by asteroids packing a much bigger punch than this rocket. It will not do any damage to the moon or its orbit.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is not stupidity... this is purposeful cataclysmic events to be set in motion. Scientists are well aware of the Earth's reliance of the moon in paths of rotations around the sun in our solar system. The ecological effects will be devastating to the Earth's cycles as we know it and Scientists know it and those who intend to do this have been informed by scientists of this fact.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswow, the incompetance....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOk so its not a missile...no we are not sending an armada into space to control moon people
Those large craters were made by extremely large pieces of matter that carry much larger magnitudes than NASA's mission
Yes, it is expensive...and thats why NASA has a budget
...baffling
Nate C and pwbnyc, please continue to blog here despite the ridiculous responses from the peanut gallory. I get tired of reading the fantastical ravings and far out conspiracy theories of the chicken-hearted. It's reassuring to read the occasional educated blog here at SA. Had I known they were going to be so few and far between, I wouldn't have bought a subscription.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDepressingly uninformed comments aside, this sounds like it will be good science. I'm interested to see what the results are.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIs Nasa so stupid they can't come up with a better way to test for water than to bomb a celestial body? Give me my tax money back!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSurly every launch of a rocket is bad for the earths atmosphere because it must take some ozone away with it which cant be good and just to see if theres water on the moon, to do what, crazy!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTheyre just finding things to do to keep themselves in a job I think what a waste of taxpayers money!
If we look on the ozone layer as a protective membrane from the suns rays then rockets can be seen as viruses that weaken and attack it from inside.
Its just a thought but it could be true because similar to the effects of a bullet hitting an apple it takes a lot of juices with it and thats at ground zero, hope Im wrong mind you!
Surly every launch of a rocket is bad for the earth’s atmosphere because it must take some ozone away with it which cant be good and just to see if there’s water on the moon, to do what, crazy!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey’re just finding things to do to keep themselves in a job I think what a waste of taxpayers money!
If we look on the ozone layer as a protective membrane from the suns rays then rockets can be seen as viruses that weaken and attack it from inside.
It’s just a thought but it could be true because similar to the effects of a bullet hitting an apple it takes a lot of juices with it and that’s at ground zero, hope I’m wrong mind you!
Surly every launch of a rocket is bad for the earth’s atmosphere because it must take some ozone away with it which cant be good and just to see if there’s water on the moon, to do what, crazy!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey’re just finding things to do to keep themselves in a job I think what a waste of taxpayers money!
If we look on the ozone layer as a protective membrane from the suns rays then rockets can be seen as viruses that weaken and attack it from inside.
It’s just a thought but it could be true because similar to the effects of a bullet hitting an apple it takes a lot of juices with it and that’s at ground zero, hope I’m wrong mind you!
Is that humanity's only way of dealing with what they don't understand? With violence and acts of war? And really acts of war against what? What do they expect to see or analyze from this distance in a PLUME of material? Water vapor that may or may not be there? That may or may not remain viable for analysis? This is how they spend our tax dollars in this time of economic collapse. Pathetic!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBlasting on Moon surface may prove to be a retake of human life emerging on Earth surface of 'colonisers from outer space'. I have have NO doubt in me that WATER (in whatever form is available that shall be a boon for 'human colonisers'.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWho am I, from *know NOT to what I have gone through*, is:
"I am a former IAF engineer, struck by post-Partitioned India as a child [Profile: http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_vip-brief.pdf] - having developed *several formats for A World Calendar, the simplistic being - remove the day July 31st and shift THIS day as February 29th during all years, to make 4*91-days i.e. 364 day format, leaving 1.242189669781 day for [Leap Day/Leap Week Plans] and change 100-year Rule to 128-year Rule for a Leap Day. Alternately, Leap Weeks can be added once every sixth year, choosing year start at: [(Y2000-80) i.e. 1920+/- 128], so Era can start at Year Zero '0000'. Please see:
<http://www.brijvij.com/bb_metro-contrbn.2007.pdf> and a plan for Leap Weeks on 'Divide Six(6) Plan' using 3*(896-yr/159 LWks); 834-yr/148 LWks and/ or their combination for BEST Mean Year & Mean Lunation. Interesting results are obtained, using TITHI/Phase value =138Weeks/965 (closer to 2Lunation/59th); please see:
http://www.brijvij.com/bb_harappaTithi-Cycles.pdf "
Moon colonising may be several centuries hence, while need for A World Calendar has remained a topic that has evaded mankind, at least since 10-day Papal Bull and my interpretation of Mohenjo-Daro Indus site and 19-year Harappan Lunar(Tithi) Calendar, that now is called the Metonic cycle.
Please feel free to go to my Home Page (not updated since long) or write for elucidating.
Brij Bhushan Vij <metricvij@hotmail.com> 20090625
Creating a base on the moon would eliminate many problems assosiated with the earth's gravity. First the invention of the telescope raised our understanding of cosmos. Second we raised a fog of earth's atmosphere and gained information that sparked many technologies even in the public sector. The only step we have not aquired is a base on another planet or moon, which will allow another giant leap in information and technologies. On the moon they can create energy and use that energy to extract Water, the only element needed to harbor a long term mission. However I do not understand how Nasa is dealing with solar winds? Does the dark side of the moon actually provide shielding for instruments or is the moon at all shielded by the earth magnetic shield?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thispwbnyc had some good coments.
The moon is to be bombed because there is good evidence that an advanced civilization lives beneath the surface. The U.S. goal is to eliminate that civilization.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe photo database I have collected which comprise NASA pictures altered and defaced demonstrate absolutely that the Moon is peopled with humans and other races. It is much smaller than NASA alleges, much closer, much more fragile; hollow, barely covered with enough elements to protect its peoples. Bombing indiscriminately is a human rights crime; and somehow it doesn't surprise me that the USSA will bomb a place they APPARENTLY know nothing about, first hand. See my Facebook or Slide MOON Albums. There are people there.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat NASA is doing--bombing indiscriminately-- is a human rights crime because our Moon is settled and inhabited with peoples of different races. Everything NASA SAYS about the Moon is false. It is much smaller, hollow, much closer, much more fragile, a space station--than NASA's DOGMA allows. I have been collecting NASA database photos and UN-altering these for about a year; and let me tell you. Life is all over our Moon! NASA must not just bomb them!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisits not americans blasting the moon its a pare of scientists,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisstop blaming america you pease of shit thats like saying it isnt george bushes fault were in this god forsaken war its every single american in the united states its ilogical to say that lahmad, i didnt agree with that war or blasting the moon with explosives and im american so i jus proved you wrong
now read my sarcastic remark
(my sarcasm here :yeah you shure are right:my sarcasm here)
In a way it's not what we do (bomb the moon) but our attitude.certainly there are other ways of detecting water.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOf course! ASK.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDuh.
first the stupidity of artificiall gravity with centrifugal energy, now this when will everyone see that nasa has been on stupid mode for a while now.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn "Dark Mission" by Richard C. Hoagland he asserts that when NASA dropped a bomb on the Moon it rang like a bell for an extended period of time making one think that it was either partially or mostly hollow. There were supposedly "anomalies" there AND on the Dark Side and rumor has it the Astronauts were "ushered" away and it is interesting that we've never been back...if we were ever there in the first place. NASA is a highly secretive and occult Agency of the DOD and is quite known to be steeped in symbolism and Masonic subterfuge. I wouldn't trust their Cover Story on a bet. Their actions concerning the Mars Photos left something to be desired, and they certainly weren't very forthcoming being as the U.S Taxpayers footed the bill!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIs this a cool thing to bomb on an unknown space at moon ?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisexperiments can be done only for research purpouse but dropping an 1.5 ton of explosive at a certain place could cause change of the orbital positions or if any radioactive changes occurs in the reflection of sunlight it would only affect humans or if there in any explosive or unknown on non-found reactive materials by nature on moon in a large amount it might also cause immense destruction
In an iterview armstrong told that when he landed on the moon he saw some gaijantic shadows or figures that could be aliens [ I DONT KNOW HOW FAR THIS IS TRUE BUT IT WAS MENTIONED IN A WEEKLY ARTICLE ON ] and this could be like making a war aginst them so i think the only way to explore or research is only by search by satellites or by unmanned robots to be sent and searched but not by bombing and causing destruction
America also plays a leading role in global warmng issue and now it might make the world to be in dark on the night or may even cause the end of the world
"America is not satisfied its war on earth and its inhabitants. It is waging war on space now. Killing human has become too routine and boring for America, it wants to kill the space. Good luck Americans; And you still complain that most of you cant afford medicines."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI don't believe Americans are the target. Au contraire, I believe it is the moon. Did you not read the article? Japan just did this last week, and they have affordable health care, Confucism and Buddhism, and haven't tried to kill humans and earth (except for that whole Nanking thing, but who's counting?) You're anti American rant is trite, unfounded, and boring. Tell me what country you live in and I'll tell my boys at NASA to send an LCROSS to explore for water in your hometown.
In the meantime, all inevitable future exploration will be through space so America will be on the cutting edge of this. History is being made. All that we can hope for is that we as humans find a way to consume resources here on Earth in a responsible and respectful way and that we can replenish what we use. We're working on it so give us a break. We're technological adolescents and have many more growing pains to come; don't take the easy route and point your haughty, cocky finger at America.
How about a new Moon-landing mission, and start digging and drilling?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOwww moon-landings are not that easy anymore?
Give me a break, but this smells like Tax-payers funded vandalism.
We the people understand, having seen effects on Iraq and Afghanistan JUST WHAT this bombing implies. It implies the people who run NASA are Not-Sees.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDuring the cold war USA made "Man On The Moon",
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisnow they afraid of China so they must show the military power.
... at night watching the Moon I will feel guilty.
"OMG, they're bombing the poor defenseless moon rocks!"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPeople. Please. Understand what "spectroscopy" means. Also understand that the Moon is BIG. I know, it looks like a dinky little circle in the sky, but it's a big big thing that's been bombarded with random chunks of rock for billions of years. The impact of our little rocket is not even going to rate a yawn by cosmic standards. But it will help us learn something new about the Moon.
Time to kill space that will show those sand people lets blow up the moon not end the war or something help full lets take what controls the tides on Earth and watch it explode. Dumbass NASA just buy fireworks like everyone else.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat is so smart NASA lets all just gather around and watch what controls Earth's tides explode. Why can't NASA buy fireworks like everyone else.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://www.holyconservancy.org/images/MOON/MOONOwonder2.png
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFor 14 months I have studied NASA Apollo photos. The Moon is settled and populated. What business do we have, bombing it?
So we've got space probes that can detect water on mars but we don't have probes to detect water on the moon eh?..This sounds like a plan to get us all in deeper trouble.Have the nutbags at Nasa gone insane!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou NASA people are fools. We do not need anything from space. Everything we need to survive is right here on Earth, at least until you decided to destroy our planet with all your rockets busting through the atmosphere breaking down the ozone layers and thus extremely altering our season, global warming, etc. This time However, you have to go screwing up our tidal functions or possibly our gravitational hold. What is wrong with you people? Sick ..just sick individual trying to be GOD...well wake up..not going to happen in your life time.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo how about sparing the rest of us your stupidity.
I'm a former Xerox tech, and for 14 months I've been trying to share my work to increase visibility of detail (in NASA photos) with NASA staff. I'm retired. They just ignore Reality. It's as if I don't exist, and their photos are held up as authoritative; but phony as $3 bills, so filled with alterations to scale, contrast, hue and skew. Pure counterfeit, NASA photos. And they ignore it. Not-See dogma parading as knowledge.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe level of this conversation is a little scary....do any of you people know anything about science?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat IS THERE About a Living HABITAT ... that NASA can't recognize, comprehend and acknowledge? I don't get their insistence that our Moon is desolate. That conclusion doesn't square with their own Moon photos. Enclosed the link for
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOur Moon in color and highlighted. SEE?? Activity! Caverns! Architecture!
http://www.holyconservancy.org/images/MOON/MoonBy2A.pn
OK, how does this seem like a good idea to anyone? And who gave NASA permission to bomb anything? Is Obama the new world order leader and dictator that he can make decisions that potentially could endanger the whole world? There are scientific documentations that proclaim the effect of the moon on the earth's gravitational pull, as well as controlling the tides of the ocean. What about a huge dust cloud and solar flares? What happens if the moons gravity, which is far less than ours, cannot sustain such a blast to its interior and it severs off chunks of asteroids? Wouldn't they be pulled into our atmosphere easily? What if the density of the moon is reduced by pieces blasting off? What would happen to us in terms of tidal waves and tsunamis? There are prophecies of a huge asteroid hitting the earth and devestating it. I used to watch Carl Sagin talk about it on PBS. There are also end of time prophecies where the moon is supposedly turned to blood and the sun scorches the earth. Tidal waves are supposed to occur. The hours of the days are supposed to be shortened. Not that these prophesies are factual, but
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiscouldn't a blast like this potentially enable prophesies like these to occur?
The thing that is most concerning to me was the urgency to get the Space shuttle of the ground in June for this mission. Why such a hurry? The "sattelite" will orbit our planet then slingshot to the moon and orbit it for several months. This couldn't be delayed a week or two? Lots of things do not add up with this mission so it leaves educated laymen like myself wondering WTF!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt boggles the mind as to how so many people willfully wear their ignorance proudly.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am discouraged by how many people so willfully wear their ignorance on their sleeve.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat about the Alien Lunar Base? If they hit that thing then we're all in a hear of trouble.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm just worried about them hitting the Alien Lunar Base, I mean wont that spell trouble for all of us if that happens?
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That's how foolish people think nowadays...because they have the power to explore everything, they take also the chance to destroy everything!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat do they think they are? GODS?!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat do they think they are? GODS?!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm not sure considering the moons role in balancing our gravity that it is a good idea but regarding some of the comments here, its not based on the concern of us running out of water, it's about whether there would be enough water on the moon to set the it up as in intermediary base that could support a colony (probably scientist) and to make hydrogen from. It takes in our primitive methods of propulsion too much energy just to get out of our own gravity so to only have to get to the moon, regroup and blast off from there to destinations outward, even unmanned for awhile, it makes sense. I guess risk is the inherent price of exploration and progress.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think this sounds CRAZY! It doesn't even make sense. Whatever water might be there will be evaporated in the explosion. The risk to our planet is so great, is that even taken into consideration? Do we the people of the planet get a vote? I vote no!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOr maybe its to blast the sight of those supposed moon landings, with Japan gearing up to map the moon using hi-res photography the lie would be out, so what better than to stage a so called experiment to hide the lie, oh look we accidently blew up the area where we landed in the late 60's!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisdont forget the vanallen belt,nasa set a chimp to the moon
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisand came back fried
don't forget the vanallen belt,its our safety from radiation
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisso the ? is did they go to the moon?
Our Brothers and Sister wont let us Bomb the Moon. Its an artificial satelite, actually a spacecraft and a home to livings aliens/humanoids. Just like they tried to send a test nuclear bomb into space a lil while ago and a UFO shot beams of light at it and knocked it back down, that will happen again. Water has been discovered up there already and NASA is far ahead of what they are making the unenlightened people believe. Why not send another mission from earth to the moon? Because we *humans* were told not to come back because we are up to no good. Thats why they want to bomb instead. dont be fooled people. know the truth!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOur Brothers and Sister wont let us Bomb the Moon. Its an artificial satelite, actually a spacecraft and a home to livings aliens/humanoids. Just like they tried to send a test nuclear bomb into space a lil while ago and a UFO shot beams of light at it and knocked it back down, that will happen again. Water has been discovered up there already and NASA is far ahead of what they are making the unenlightened people believe. Why not send another mission from earth to the moon? Because we *humans* were told not to come back because we are up to no good. Thats why they want to bomb instead. dont be fooled people. know the truth!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi do not think that it is necessary to blast the moon to search for water.leave our dear moon alone.dont disfigure earth's natural satellite.we need the moon to light up our nights.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow can Scientific American report this plan as a news "item" without noting what kind of explosive NASA will be using on the moon? Where is the journalism tradition of Walter Cronkite when you really need it?!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWTF! PROTEST THIS STUPIDITY!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSAVE THE MOON!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSAVE THE MOON!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSAVE THE MOON@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSAVE THE MOON!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSave the moon!
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDamn fools! 1. You have to ask grandmother moon of you are to visit her....n not take from her or make her sick n things like this! For another she has pull on her daughter mother earth as all mothers n daughters do n mothers help their daughters cleanse n heal....doing so will effect the tides n life within those waters n the winged ones n those that live from the sky like the medicine plants n night blooming plants from the moons nurturing....so much will be effected! n you better watch Mars will bring about a change after this then too cuz he is her warrior....for he takes so many great blows for her. This will effect her balance temporarly or pulls....what ever you wish to call it. She will get it back but that slight for that short time will effect all others....damn fools! Her water is hers....not anyone elses. Her rocks is hers....enough is enough....people can stand against Nasa n others like them n force them to answer to n ask the ppls of the world 1st....look at all the trash in space they've been leaving also! Idiots! n to think we're the only ones out there....to think of only themselves n not of our childrens children n so on....to not think of all the other innocents n pure ones.....in these acts n even thoughts they aren't even thinking of self or this wouldn't be. One who is a danger to self or another would be locked up in a mental ward n sent to the court for a chapter 51. Think it's high time they were locked up n chaptered! They are a danger to themselves n generations of other on every beings level. They don't even think of the effects this will have on other beings also outside of our n inside of our system! As with everything it is a circle....what one does or fails to do comes back around for it is a circle as all of creation.....even within to the tiniest as dna....n those that stnad with them are within their circle n when coming around comes they will be hit to! oooo these damn morons! Heartless bastards destroying Creators creation.....who does that but pure evil. Who gambles with the innocent but pure evil! Creator gifted humans voices n legs to stand....use them! We are NOT mindless spineless drones! Science will always be searching like a drunk with a void.....because science cuts out the most important part.....the spirit.....they will search for what they thow away n try to disprove it. Sounds like a crazy fool....I don't follow or stand by n premit that kind of crazy....does this world?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe all have the same Mother mother earth n we all have the same father father sky n we all have the same creator but we each have languages n call him by another name....we each have a way n foods n medicines n songs n so on that creates a balance from within the earth to within ourselves to dna n spirit n to the sky n so on....even our bodies reject foods that isn't related to our culture n if not you have chemical imballances n so on....this is beautiful the creation n the wisdom of it all....to mesh it all is like taking all the colors n mixing them n you have space b4 creation here....that blackish....but here it is not that when you have as it was gifted from our creator.....the rainbow of balance.....we cannot allow them to futher on destorying n disecting creation....think about it.Creator put a piece of himself in all of his creation.....what does that voice within you say? If you disect something doesn't that kill it or make it die. Who kills this Creations must be evil. Where do you stand.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat various objects have been purposely crashing on the Moon for decades is apparently lost on most people. The first one was Luna 2, in September of 1959.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat asteroids have been crashing on the Moon for billions of years is also apparently lost on most people.
From the comments, it's obvious that the brutality of an impact on the Moon stirs some strong emotions. Youngsters are used to seeing gently rolling rovers drilling delicately on the surface of Mars to find traces of ancient water. It has to do with distance. If we were able to watch the effect from here, I'm pretty sure we would have started bombing Mars long ago.
First, they know all about the water on the moon, because I know the son of the person who found water in the first moon rocks that was returned in the 60's
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSecond, I suspect it will not go off. And that is because I truly buy into the fact the moon is actually a hollowed out planet which was turned into an extraterrestial base which is used as a staging point to visit and control this planet.
And finally, since NASA already know these things, I wonder what kind of technology exists in this bomb, that they think it will not be capable of being disabled, sounds very suspicious to me, there is more on the go here than we are being told. but since most of the people do not believe ET's exist, but since I am a ET contact I must believe, they will not consider this.
how much money is this going to cost and what is the true motive? Idont buy nasa s lies. what ever happened to telling the truth? How stupid do they think we are? Abort Houston we have a problem
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thissounds like crap to me. More lies from the united states government. when is enough enough. How much is this going to cost tax payers. Its not even a good lie they need a better pr person.Nasa over funded under supervised
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo when aliens bomb the Earth looking for the compound element Z7234.3, would we see it as an act of war or just one of thier experiments?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFYI to those of you who think the dark side of the moon is dark... IT ISN'T it get's light just the same! Don't believe me? Try googling it...plenty of photographs of that side, clearly lit... Astronomy 101 that it is NOT dark any more than the side that faces us.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHey, the Japanese beat us to it and just bombed the moon. Well, they were trying to land but the end result is the same.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthere is absolutely no reason to bomb the moon. whether science or god created us & the moon we have no right. all we are is animals on this earth were just a little more sophisticated. we didn't create the moon therefore we have no legitimate reason to take action like that...what if it screws up our tides & causes problems in the wave patterns...what if it creates chemicals that could fall to the earth & kill us...we don't know...and sometimes its better that we don't...bomb the moon are you kidding me??? who even gives anybody the right to do so...there inst one man on the face of this planet that has the power to make that judgment. get real nasa....take a valume & relax...don't hurt your brain conjuring up these convoluted plans
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthere is absolutely no reason to bomb the moon. whether science or god created us & the moon we have no right. all we are is animals on this earth were just a little more sophisticated. we didn't create the moon therefore we have no legitimate reason to take action like that...what if it screws up our tides & causes problems in the wave patterns...what if it creates chemicals that could fall to the earth & kill us...we don't know...and sometimes its better that we don't...bomb the moon are you kidding me??? who even gives anybody the right to do so...there inst one man on the face of this planet that has the power to make that judgment. get real nasa....take a valume & relax...don't hurt your brain conjuring up these convoluted plans
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthere is absolutely no reason to bomb the moon. whether science or god created us & the moon we have no right. all we are is animals on this earth were just a little more sophisticated. we didn't create the moon therefore we have no legitimate reason to take action like that...what if it screws up our tides & causes problems in the wave patterns...what if it creates chemicals that could fall to the earth & kill us...we don't know...and sometimes its better that we don't...bomb the moon are you kidding me??? who even gives anybody the right to do so...there inst one man on the face of this planet that has the power to make that judgment. get real nasa....take a valume & relax...don't hurt your brain conjuring up these convoluted plans
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMore on the mission:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/overview/index.html
Map of suspected water deposits:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/searchforwater/index.html
Oddly enough, they don't mention the whole Mother Earth - Daughter Moon thing, or the notion that the Moon is very small and very close and hollow and contains little green gods who will be angered by this profanity and hurl pieces of precious radioactive cheese at us.
Oddly enough, NASA is bombing a small inhabited orb. Inhabited by human beings just like ourselves.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://www.holyconservancy.org/images/MOON/astrokraainl03.png . So who's going to sue for human rights violations, after the Oct 9th bombing?
@EmilyCragg:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm not sure what that photo collage (http://www.holyconservancy.org/images/MOON/astrokraainl03.png
) is supposed to demonstrate. But if there really were humans living on the Moon, I am sure their civilization would be sufficiently advanced that they could defend themselves against asteroids and empty Centaur rocket stages.
Didn't anyone over there at NASA read H.G. Wells???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBOMBING THE MOON
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis is what i would expect from nasa and the us military,what are you people thinking,you have instruments like the one on MRO around mars,your able to look deep underground for water,its not enough our out of control world is to bomb each other but now we want to bomb the moon.
Pardon me, I was under the impression this was SCIENTIFIC American? This is a simple experiment, with pretty obvious hoped-for results of great consequence to future exploration. Out of all the stories and articles in this magazine, this is one of the most straighforward to describe and understand. Yet this comment thread just boggles me.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAlien or human lunar civilizations? Tidal shifts and asteroidal chunks? Displacing the orbit? The "dark" side? Right to "wage war" on a celestial orb? Government conspiracies? On and on and on ... I want my tax money back from every public school attendee here. This thread is more disheartening than the tenured "science teacher" who taught my daughter "astrology" rather than the "dry, old stuff of astronomy." That old slogan is true: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
Perhaps what is fast (30 month timetable) and cheap (reported 79 million) is not always what is best.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiscompletely idiotic! how dare anybody deface something that doesnt belong to anyone, this doesnt just concern a minor few people it concerns the earth.. i cant remember been given a vote on whether or not the bombing of the moon should be allowed. if anything bad happens then let it lay on their heads!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCompletely idiotic, how dare anyone from anywhere even consider defacing the moon, is it not enough that we've wrecked the earth that we must move onto a different planet. And as for the other comments i wholefully agree, any forth comings should be held accountable NASA and the goverment that backs it should be hopeful that nothing bad happens.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWTF? Even if they find water... What is the point? What if it sets off the balance of the poles? That could create tidal waves here on earth. We don't need another planet yet, we can barely take care of the one that we do have.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMy little brother said it best when he e-mailed me this article with the following description: "fucking unbelievable retards"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishe'll do the job no questions asked :)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswe're Earthlings, let's blow up Earth things!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI can't believe that the citizens of this country are just standing by and allowing this to happen. Doesn't anyone even care that the gov. is destroying our world and now our moon?!? This is just senseless and moronic to go to the moon to "look for water" and use missiles to do it.. This is truly a low point in our history. Now we can tell our children and grandchildren that our greedy government was so corrupt that, it wasn't satisfied with just destroying the earth, it had to go mess up our moon as well. Oh well... what can ya do..
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThese are silly statements when you say "Americans." The people can do nothing about what NASA does. This is the scientists and the government. We have no say so. You should quit blaming all of the people here for things we have no control over and many don't agree with either.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis is the most idiotic thing i have ever heard - you stupid scientists watch what happens when you thrust your phalli into the great moon mother this is disgusting
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI don't think this rocket will do anything to the moon or it's orbit people! The moon isn't small after all! It wouldn't be any different than the thousands of pieces of debris that hits it every year! Imagine a rocket hitting our desert, even a nuclear bomb hitting our desert just like in the 60's.....it made a big crater and that was it! The moon will be just fine.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey should leave the moon alone! It is how God intended, and messing with it, may bring about problems they will definitely regret.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthey should leave the moon alone! It is how God intended, and messing with it could bring about problems they will definitely regret.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is a serious article? Really? They would not bomb the moon just for water... if this is really happening it's because they are testing precision long range bombing from a satellite in orbit. Please don't judge all Americans by the actions of those who make the news. Many of us are actually peaceful, loving individuals.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thislike we need to bomb the moon don't we have more inportant
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthings to take care of like making sure that all the world can have 3 meals of good food a day ?
This is not rocket science..it's caveman mentality. How can we put a stop to this indecency?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe have no idea the effects of one small act on Earth, everything we do has a mirror effect. I say before exploring space we should figure out how to live on this planet first. It's about intention. Let the moon be.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIahmad Your post is extremely stereotypical. There are tons of Americans who do not want war, you think just because our government is corrupt that means all Americans want war. Wake up and smell the revolution man.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is really going to piss off the aliens.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSO WE ARE GOING TO BOMB THE MOON, THE MOST SENSITIVE SATELLITE THAT GOVERNS THE EARTHS TIDES AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR.HMMM A LOT OF CRANKY WOMEN AND SUNAMIS.THANKS VERY MUCH NASA.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAmerica is now waiting for the moon dwellers to send a missile back.Odds are it wont make it to the moon............
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWell start getting ready for the countdown! Not sure what will really happen, but Ancient prophecies do talk about the earth, moon, and stars passing away!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI wonder if this is the beginning of all sorrows. Thanks President Bush for destroying the solar system!
LCROSS will guide an empty Centaur rocket weighing two tons toward its target. The rocket will crash into the crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater - perhaps as large as 5 miles wide.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe probe is only a 2-ton kinetic weapon. The bomb dropped at Nagasaki was a 21 kiloton nuclear weapon. Tsar Bomba was a 50 megaton bomb tested by Soviet Russia on October 30, 1961. The shock wave from this bomb circled the Earth three times. (I'm only using these bombs as a comparative reference) There's no real magnitude to this bomb whatsoever. The moon gets hit by space stuff all the time, some as big as the probe that will be used to "bomb" the moon, and the moon is doing just fine. In fact, the moon is inching away from us slowly every year by about one inch.
The mass of the moon is 7.347 7 � 10^22 kg. To completely throw the moon off its current orbit would take an astounding amount of energy, much more than a measly 2-ton weapon.
When an article uses the word "bomb" like this article and a few others, it seems to spark sensationalism and controversy for the sake of readership. Please do some research and look up other sources for information.
BOMB the MOON ! I thought NASA was full of smart people. Hey , I'm not a military general, but I could see that Shock n Awe and driving into Baghdad was not going to win hearts and minds and was going to end up in an endless mess the moment the news was announced. I guess you guys can't see the obvious. Bad idea. Bad Bad Bad.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI don't think this is right. We're spending so much money, millions of dollars, to blow up the moon, when there's so much right here on Earth to blow up! Mt. Everest, The North Pole, etc. We're Earthlings, let's blow up Earth things!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLike that Ashton Kutcher movie.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAll fine and dandy until the moon people see it as an act of war and wipe us all out.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'll miss my doggy :(
lmao! Thanks! I laughed so hard at all of this, I really needed it after the day I had. You're the best.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMarvelous. What a great discovery if there is ice, and the only thing holding the moon together IS the ice.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMarvelous. What a great discovery if there is ice, and the only thing holding the moon together IS the ice.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisClearly humanity, at least some portion of us, has not yet learned the damages done by violent, senseless acts of destruction. Have we not done enough damage to our precious Earth, while continuing to wreak ever more damage to her day-by-day - and now to be bombing the Moon. How is it that such a decision was made by some select few who assume the rest of humanity is not allowed any say in this destructive decision? I know it was my decision to incarnate on this planet at this time in history, yet there are many times I wish I lived where there were far more enlightened beings than appear to be here.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMan is a virus on the planet. Our moon has served man by producing food and water. What do we do, (crazy fucks) but bomb her.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNot to shit on anybodys perade but as some 1 said before about the moon going out of orbit. They are proper scientists the best of the best. they dont just let anybody bomb the moon.. more then 1 person has to agree on these sort of things.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi myself would just leave the damn moon alone but im not a scientist. Im sure they have there reasons. who knows what they'll find mabey even some day the moon will be somewhere rich ppls go on holidays?
they are not bombing the moon this is simply a study to determine whether there is water there. though the moon looks small and delicate in the sky it is actually a little more than one quarter of the diameter of the earth (about 3500km), and sending a small rocket into it`s south pole to eject some debris will cause no more damage to the moon than a small crater. as there is little gravity on the moon and no atmosphere.. in debris not collected will simply drift off into space. much larger objects from space have hit the moon and every day more than a metric tonne of meteorite hits the surface of the moon at much higher velocities. we've even crashed spaceships into it on several different occasions. (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/28apr_skyisfalling.htm)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis is simply the equivalent of a timed meteorite impact that will allow us to collect the debris.
THE SKY IS NOT FALLING!!!
it`s too bad that perversions of the truth like this blind the general public to important advances in human knowledge and scientific achievement.
ALARMISTS!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is a very exciting study that might allow us to know the origin of the moon and shed some light on how it came to be captured by earths orbit allowing it to contribute greatly to the probability of life evolving on our planet.
we are not bombing the moon.
this is simply a study to determine whether there is water there. though the moon looks small and delicate in the sky it is actually a little more than one quarter of the diameter of the earth (about 3500km), and sending a small rocket into it`s south pole to eject some debris will cause no more damage to the moon than a small crater. as there is little gravity on the moon and no atmosphere.. in debris not collected will simply drift off into space. much larger objects from space have hit the moon and every day more than a metric tonne of meteorite hits the surface of the moon. (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/28apr_skyisfalling.htm)
this is simply the equivalent of a timed meteorite impact that will allow us to collect the debris.
THE SKY IS NOT FALLING!!!
it`s too bad that perversions of the truth like this blind the general public to important advances in human knowledge and scientific achievement.
America: In bombs we trust
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI notice that anyone who dislikes the idea is an alarmist. Well, I guess I am an alarmist. I think that bombing the moon is totally insane. Besides the money could be better spent here. We are in an economic crisis if you will get your head out of the ivory clouds.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBombing the moon is a terrible idea. STOP!!!!! NO!!!!! Wait!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDON'T BOMB THE MOON!!! ISN'T THERE ANYTHING SACRED ANYMORE? Wwe already know that life isn't sustainable in practicality on the moon naturally, it doesn't even have a high enough level of oxygen to to be lived on (1%) without manufacturing it. Have we become bored and unhappy with destroying our own planet that we have to go and find an alternate target? And naturally this alternative has to be the thing thats closest to us.. The Moon. Earthlings have a sacred special relationship with the Lunar Lady and she already has dry skin and enough craters in her face that have scarred so let's not put that under the microscope too. REALISTICALLY: Who would want to live there permanently without wanting to return to Earth our real mother?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis is not about determining whether life is sustainable on the moon... obviously it is not and no sane person would ever state otherwise: there is too little gravity there to hold an atmosphere. fortunately this is not the purpose of this study. this study is not going to affect the moon in any significant way. the moon is quite large (it has a diameter of nearly 3500 km, or more than one quarter of the diameter of the earth.) and sturdy in her orbit. more than a metric tonne of meteorite strikes the lunar surface every day at much higher velocities than we are looking at in this study without having the slightest effect on her orbit. we have even crash landed spacecraft on her in the past. this is not out of the ordinary. in fact it may help us to understand the origins of "our lunar lady" she's been there for a long time, much longer than we've been around, and has survived far greater meteorite impacts in the past. she will most likely be here long after we are gone, despite our best efforts to "blow her up".
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthe language and tone of this article give a false impression that stimulates an alarmist attitude in people not educated enough or open minded enough to see that without this kind of carefully thought out study, and without the desire to further understand the corner of the universe that we just happen to be able to perceive to such a great extent for the flash of time that we are lucky enough to have, we would not be in the position we are in and able to understand and appreciate Nature as we are able to currently. with science Humankind has the ability help make many people's lives better through accumulated and applied knowledge, and pursuit of that knowledge if it is to help us to the greatest extent, must continue on all frontiers. not of course without the kind of rational discussion that does occur within the scientific community, and should be occurring in forums such as this.
we should be excited that there are people out there willing to try to work out and explain this for us, and continue to push the limits of our understanding of the natural world in the hopes of using that understanding to promote a better life for the future of our common existence.
I notice that the people here who object to this study do so on the grounds that it violates some sort of aesthetic sensibility they have that they've based on some sort irrationally sacred symbolic or metaphoric ideology. The rhetoric they employ simply reeks of theological undertones, and their arguments have no experimental or scientific basis and are really outside of the realm of their own understanding. They insist on waving their arms in the air and shouting STOP! yet they don't understand that this is not an attack on any of their delusions, and no harm will come of anything as it has been carefully thought out and performed with great precision. This is the definition of alarmism. You are being alarmist. Tomorrow your "grandmother moon" will be right where she's been for billions of years and you will all be space dust!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNASA NEEDS TO LEAVE ALONE WHAT GOD PUT THERE FOR YOU AND ME....THEY ARE ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY BUSINESS ARE RIGHT TO BE OUTERSPACE...I HOPE GOD PUTS A STOP TO IT...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is sick. This is really really disturbingly not sane. Did anyone actually read any of those sci-fi books where we went too far and messed up this habitat permanently?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSeriously, use your fucking heads guys, protest this and get your act together.
The moon controls the tides by it's precise gravity, if we change the mass of the moon, we change our earth's gravitational feilds dreastically.
This is really fucking sick. Everyone on earth should be aware of this, and it's being quietly swept asside. This is by far the greatest threat to the planet we have ever posed.
Be ashamed, all of us, every one.
well this is just stupid. wt if something goes wrong hmm? bye bye moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow on earth can you think of doing this????
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe are killing our earth, so you now want to start on the moon and destroy how solar system that works so well without humans interferring.
Please do not do this!!!!
Is it like the Japanese conducting research on minky whales. Has anyone seen the results of their research.
Or is just greed and how who thinks they are the most powerfull.
How on earth can you do this. The moon affects all of is. Is this another research program like the Japanese with hunting minky whales?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOr just male egos seeing who has the biggest bomb and thinks that they have the most power.
Who gave Nasa permission to bomb the moon? The people didn't.
Save the money and use it to help the millions of homeless and starving people!!
Please don't bomb our moon ,out of 9 planet including Pluto Jupiter as 63 moons and earth has only one moon if you wont to text whether there is water in the moon why can't you try another planet moon? please consider the atmospheric risks if you wont to do so? please reply NASA
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisout 195 moon, earth only have one, think about it GBENGA OMOTAYO omotayo_gbenga@yahoo.co.uk
The moon is connected to the earth's tides, weather and most importantly to the residents of the earth -- what are they thinking -- or is anyone thinking? What are our options to STOP THIS!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBombing the Moon is probably the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life, The people in charge of this most stupid act should be put in some either prison or more likely NUT HOUSE, sorry for the nuts to have to be forced to live with these morons......I want my tax money back!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAnd the rest of the world is ok with this? I AM NOT!!!! Who did they ask if this was an OK thing to do, This earth is 78% water, if you would quit screwing it up, we would not need water from the moon, That money could of been much better spent fixing problems here on OUR Earth, YOU IDIOTS.....
WOW..... Really now that these MORONS are stupid enough to come up with this plan, there is no possable way that they ever put a man on the moon, or they would of put another one there to go look......Man on the moon my A--
I Move to cut any and all funding to nasa OFF well,,,, there really is no intellegent life on this planet....Yep I am Pissed
Boys with big toys; always got to have control over something don't they and since the scientists have mostly messed up the earth with plutonium and bombs and missiles not to mention GMO's and genetic engineering this is just another tinkering to them who wish they were gods.....and aren't. God have discernment and this is just about power and control.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYet another case of: Boys with large toys asserting their ability to dominate something. Now that they've messed up the Earth with plutonium, nuclear bombs, vast piles of non-recyclable trash, GMO's and genetic engineering, these guys are pushing their dominator theories into something they don't own but act as if they do. Who gave them permission to do this? I sure didn't and I live on planet Earth, too.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPatriarchy lives because these scientist have a need to control out of fear and insecurity. If they were conscious in their scientific endeavors they would be focusing on cleaning up the problems they have created here on Earth, not looking another innocent victim--our Moon--to tinker with. Ah, wanting to play like the gods but not having their intelligence of discernment. When will we learn...
Wanton bombing: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the moon. The Americans have bloody f...ing run amuck. They have lost all sense of proportion and what's important...like saving the planet. It's not difficult to predict the demise of an empire based on such senseless programs like this which are about money and funding. Follow the money trail.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisA few thoughts come to mind.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy are not we humanoids asked whether we want to disturb the possibly fragile ecosphere ( hey that might be a new word) of the moon ?
What if there are underground inhabitants who might be annoyed about a seeming invasion and send a missile or two in our direction ?
But what power there is in rocket fuel !
it is intended to travel at twice the speed of a bullet !
What is rocket fuel ?
Just water.
Or more precisely; Hydrogen burning in Oxygen.
Isn't it obvious that this cheap powerful fuel should be used across the world to produce electricity etc ?
So,let me get this right,NASA is going to bomb the moon with a rocket.What about the astronauts that HAVE been to the moon and HAVE signed affidavits that say there ARE BASES(alien(we are the aliens there)that Aldrin and the rest who HAVE been there will testify of.WHAT IS THE REAL REASON WHY THEY WANT TO BOMB THE MOON;IS IT TO BLOW THEY ONES WHO ARE EITHER FROM OR HAVE BASES THERE APART?OR IS IT TO START AN INTERSTELLAR WAR WITH BEINGS THAT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO BOTHER OR TO IMPOSE UPON.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo,let me get this right,NASA is going to bomb the moon with a rocket.What about the astronauts that HAVE been to the moon and HAVE signed affidavits that say there ARE BASES(alien(we are the aliens there)that Aldrin and the rest who HAVE been there will testify of.WHAT IS THE REAL REASON WHY THEY WANT TO BOMB THE MOON;IS IT TO BLOW THEY ONES WHO ARE EITHER FROM OR HAVE BASES THERE APART?OR IS IT TO START AN INTERSTELLAR WAR WITH BEINGS THAT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO BOTHER OR TO IMPOSE UPON.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am totally appaled to even think that our gov't is thinking of doing this as we have NO right to blow parts of the moon apart and to KNOW that the astronauts that HAVE bben to the moon had seen bases of what we call aliens(when we are the aliens on the moon).what the heel are they(US Government going to try and do next?WE NEED TO GET UP AND STAND UP ALL TOGETHER AND SAY HELL NO WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO GO ON..TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO STOP THIS.OCT.09 2009 IS IN A FEW DAYS.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon is an orbit, which protects the earth, born some time thousands of years where she started a new life land, the example of putting to destroy the moon, can not harm the earth by a single hair that move the moon will affect all of us around the earth, man destroys nature, we must preserve our orbit the moon and our earth life.
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La luna es una orbita, que proteje a la tierra, por algo de nacio de tiempo de miles de a�os donde empezo nueva vida la tierra, ese ejemplo de poner a destruir la luna, no puede da�ar la tierra, por un solo pelo que lo mueva la luna nos afectara a todos de nuestro alrededor de la tierra, el hombre destruye a la naturaleza, tenemos que conservar nuestro orbital la luna y nuestra vida tierra.
The moon is an orbit, which protects the earth, born some time thousands of years where she started a new life land, the example of putting to destroy the moon, can not harm the earth by a single hair that move the moon will affect all of us around the earth, man destroys nature, we must preserve our orbit the moon and our earth life.
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La luna es una orbita, que proteje a la tierra, por algo de nacio de tiempo de miles de años donde empezo nueva vida la tierra, ese ejemplo de poner a destruir la luna, no puede dañar la tierra, por un solo pelo que lo mueva la luna nos afectara a todos de nuestro alrededor de la tierra, el hombre destruye a la naturaleza, tenemos que conservar nuestro orbital la luna y nuestra vida tierra.
Paul, I'd like to bring to your attention that NASA has never described the centaur rocket stage that will hit the moon as a "Missile" or that it will "blast a hole" in the moon's surface.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSome people reading this article have found these terms alarming and have even planned pseudo-science documentaries around such language claiming that NASA is firing a two ton nuke at the moon.
I think SciAm should be more responsible in the approach to reporting space news in this fashion and avoid such sensationalist terms, especially when dealing with a public that is potentially ill advised in matters of space exploration and sometimes may not posess critical thinking or research skills and will not check NASA's site or any third part astronomy site to discover it is simply a spent rocket stage, not a nuke or bomb.
While terms like "Missile" and "Bomb" likely work better to convey an idea to the public; while being a hot button term, literally your article may get more clicks from it.
Please do not try and hype or stir up a certain event simply to appear to be more exciting, controversial or threatening. Governments themselves will attest to the detrimental nature of this tactic
half way through wars for instance. Not a great idea.
Thanks.
Jorge. The centaur rocket booster probably weighs in at about the same as a midsize SUV with all its fuel gone, probably around 3-4000lbs. I'm pretty sure larger things have hit the moon it its recent history, say 200 years ago to present ? anybody have some data on that ?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPoint is, its a pimple on the ass of an elephant; its not going to change its orbit ONE LITTLE BIT.
So India has been able to discover there is water on the moon without having to bomb it and for only $80 mill. Source http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h6uIHbXDQoZdMQept8kGCrnlNncQ
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy didn't NASA wait for this information before deciding to spend $579 mill to bomb the moon? Easy, NASA's hidden agenda is to test whether they have the ability to engage in space warfare. This is despite the fact they are a party to the the U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits non-peaceful activities on the moon. Article IV states, “The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden.”
There other objective is to collect data to enable them to colonise the moon. This is also a breach of the U.N. Outer Sapce Treaty Article II which states: “Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”
Yet again the US is acting unilaterally and in breach of U.N. Treaties in their never ending quest to dominate and exploit everything in the universe. Mars is next. So now that we know there is water on the moon, NASA can't use the excuse that LCROSS is a scientific experiment and they have no reason to bomb the moon anymore.
I hope they are taken to court for violation of the U.N. Outer Space Treaty.
Almost every channel is showing a news that chandra yan has helped to find out water on the moon. May be this
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisis good news but one more news is being seen that NASA is going to create a blast at the the point where
water is found.
Perhaps NASA is less sensitive but moon is not as, Moon has it's magnetic values too week and it is orbiting to earth
at ninty degree. Means, moon is combing earth's magnetic field each moment. Now, moon's low but highly sensitive
magnetic poles if, gets disburbed and changes its original place than it can create a big trouble to earth's environment
and may cause big damage of tsunamy or earth quake which will be more dangerous then ever. Istead of creating a
blast, NASA can send just some sample of dry copper sulphate which is white in colour. In case of presence of water
it will get blue as naturally copper sulphate contains five time more water in its structure and it is true at any temparature
even at - 400 or + 90 degree. This is not a bad dream but a very sentive warnig to the people of the world.
Um...Is it just me, or does no one else realize that we depend on our moon to regulate the tides of the ocean? With our shore lines already compromised by melting ice caps, are really going to use our money to destroy ourselves in this way too? Being human is so frustrating sometimes!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisUm...Is it just me, or does no one else realize that we depend on our moon to regulate the tides of the ocean? With our shore lines already compromised by melting ice caps, are really going to use our money to destroy ourselves in this way too? Being human is so frustrating sometimes!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisUm...Is it just me, or does no one else realize that we depend on our moon to regulate the tides of the ocean? With our shore lines already compromised by melting ice caps, are really going to use our money to destroy ourselves in this way too? Being human is so frustrating sometimes!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisUm...Is it just me, or does no one else realize that we depend on our moon to regulate the tides of the ocean? With our shore lines already compromised by melting ice caps, are really going to use our money to destroy ourselves in this way too? Being human is so frustrating sometimes!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWOW!!! Who says we have the right to do this???? I think it is the most selfish, thing humanity has done, and like it or not we are all the ones to suffer
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWHO SAYS WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THIS???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe have destroyed out own planet enough, this is one of the most selfish thing humanity could possibly do, and like it or not if something goes wrong we will all suffer.
Why do we need a Moon base??? Lets take care of our own planet and the planet will take care of us.
I think we must wait and see what's going on after bombing. if it doesn't work and maybe cause some danges to moon and the earth, then we will do strict actions. but I am optimist. in the world war 2 no one could convinced politicians not to use atomic bombs, but after that disaster in japan now thhere are better understanding of that abusage.
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But it is illegal to bomb the moon. We are not at war with the moon. It is a violation of the UN Outer Space Treaty to test weapons in space. The US is a party to this treaty. The treaty also says that if anything goes wrong, NASA can be sued for damages. ISRO has already discovered there is water on the moon, without having to bomb it. Why do you (peimanmaxim) support the "Shoot first and ask questions later", that is the SOP of the US?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWTF? what disrespect for our beautiful moon! Who is sponsering this?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is insane!! Doesn't NASA know that if the mess with the moon they will mess with our survival? We need the moon to live on this Earth. Have they lost their freaking heads??!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswell brothers and sisters, first of all the amount of information, of what is done by our government and not only the known government and those "unknown" secret societies, that is received by the general public is like a grain of sand on a given beach. This information is thrown out there just to entertain and distract our minds of the reality behind the curtain, behind the curtain behind \another curtain. Second of all there is a manned base on moon already in "the dark side of the moon". And what can i say about outer space exploration besides that we are looking in the wrong direction, instead of healing our home and leave in peace with our own "families", yes i said families our planet, brothers and sisters we are all one, is a universal law, this is the holographic nature of our universe. But no.. we dont care about our inner problems let them be, but at the end we should find a place where the leading "race" of the humanity can escape and start over. Big words that wont fit in distracted little minds. We are to them like little lab mouses, throw a little piece of cheese and they will drive crazy! And imagine what image we display out there... in the outer space, you people thinks that nobody is watching us, nobody observes our evilness and our hostile way of being? ... think twice and open your mind starting with opening ur eyes and watch your truly surroundings!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy is it that where ever we go, we manage to bomb it and destroy the eco system. We don't know what kind of 'life' exists there! Just because we don't consider it life as we know it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist on another vibrational level. Karma's a real meanny when we do things against the law of nature. We best be aware of this and deal with it whenever we get the double whammy that we will be doling out to ourselves by doing this.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat are they thinking!?! this is deadly ,there bombing the moon and then large meteor's that will most likely catch in earths orbit are going to bombard our planet putting our live's in jeopardy and doing catastrophic damage. how about they just do drill samples...it involves no damage or worries to our planet.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey already found water in the dirt of the moon. This is not it. It is horrible that they are going to bomb OUR MOON!!!!! Who do they think they are?! Who did they ask????? NASA is not even a government body! WTH
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswe're earthlings, bomb earth things!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe're earthlings, bomb earth things!
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI hope they play Wagner's ride of the valkyries when we bomb the moon. Its about time too, because the moon has been peeing me off lately.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI hope they send lahmad there when they do bomb it, like to see that on the live feed.
We bomb the moooon We bomb the mooon We bomb the mooooooon!
Are you retarded?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBoohoo my feeling are hurt. <sniff sniff>
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm selling bumper stickers on friday that say "Bomb the Moon!"
This will prove once and for all that the moon is indeed not made out of cheese.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAll your moon base now belong to us
BOOM!
Isn't the moon a natural resource like a national park that everyone can enjoy? What if something goes wrong and chunk of the moon breaks off and hits the earth and we all die. Isn't anyone else questioning the stupidity of this venture? We don't have enough orbiting debris, we have to make more? The moon is pretty much pristine. What about a remote drilling platform? That's we search for water on Earth. Explosives are used for oil and other stuff . Meteorites have been pounding the moon for centuries. We have our own natural orbiting satellite and we don't have a space colony yet? NASA used to imply imaginative and innovative not blunt force waste of money, or worse.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThere is no man-made global warming, in fact, global warming hasn't been occurring for the past 10 years. The Earth has been slowly warming for the past 20,000 years; since the end of the last Ice Age. Man-made global warming is the greatest hoax in history. Perpetrators of this hoax went into panic mode when the global mean temperature actually slightly decreased during the most recent decade of measurement, so now they call it "climate change". And of course, everybody knows, and sees, climate change, because it happens every year! But more importantly, any newsworthy weather event, broadcast on all the TV stations, is blamed on "climate change"! Wake up people. The climate change propagandists are out to ruin the world. (well, actually, they just want to ruin the "evil" United States)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI vote for bombing Jupiter next. Thinks it such a big hot shot with all its gases and what not. And if it wasn't so far out of the way I'd bomb Uranus too!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey aren't at war with the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf there is water on the moon, it can be converted to oxygen, which means there can be a manned observation post there. That way they can study the Earth, and the rest of out universe without the refraction of the atmosphere interfering with the minute details that are important. Science should not be expected to stand still until everyone on Earth gets their houses in order, if that were the case we would still be in caves.
there no danger in this tiny "bomb" shifting the moon's orbit. we have detonated nuclear weapons on earth and not had the orbit shift.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisKnock a chunk off and destroy the Earth? are you for real? It is merely a missile to cause some subsurface disruption, to be analyzed to see if there is water there. Disturb the subterranean life forms, and cause them to fire a missile back at us? Are you people for real? It is an exploration! When the debris fly up, they will be able to be analyzed, and that will be it. If there is water, of any kind, it can be converted into oxygen to provide an artificial atmosphere for life. Can you stop dragging your knuckles on the floor long enough to realize the potential of this, not only for space exploration, but the benefits it can provide for our own planet? Science can not sit back and wait for the slowest in the class to catch up, the brightest and the best are always the ones that lead.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGo see
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There you will learn more than this little media blurb is telling you about what we are, and what we are not, doing on the Moon.
There seem to be a lot of people here who are without a clue. "Shift the moon's orbit"? "kill the space"? Such abysmal ignorance does not bode well for the future of man....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy are we bombing the Moon monkeys? Is it because Obama-monkey is ashamed of his relatives? We should leave them alone in their Moon caves, or else they will come out and attack us with their feces the next time we land there.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisby blasting the moon with such magnitude put the moon in danger of shifting orbit?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAbsolutely not. I would think these scietist/engineers have thought this through and would take trillions of these rockets
to make any sort of impact.
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I've never seen such a large collection of dumb and uniformed commenters in my life, seriously folks. I think there was one or two exceptions, but the rest of you need to watch some Star Trek TNG before commenting on space topics. ;)
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAbsolutely not. I would think these scietist/engineers have thought this through and would take trillions of these rockets
to make any sort of impact.
Kim Murphy
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Moon Monkies? Thats just dumb. We are bombing the moon to keep it from falling into the hands of the Chinese Army. I mean they already have the Panama Canal and they want the moon too! You just wait and see, then they'll come for our women.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMoon Monkies? Thats just dumb. We are bombing the moon to keep it from falling into the hands of the Chinese Army. I mean they already have the Panama Canal and they want the moon too! You just wait and see, then they'll come for our women.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisnooooooo...the Moon monkeys...they come here to Earth at night in their crafts, and they anally-probe many of our grandparents with their rods, so we are going to bomb their Moon caves to seal them inside the Moon. The chinese Moon gooks have nothing to do with it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAll these comments must be by the same person. If not, god help us all. Are there really people out here this stupid?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey are not bombing the moon for water, this is a front story for the real reason. There is an extra terrestrial presence on the moon. Do not trust NASA (Never A Straight Answer). The real space program has much deeper intentions.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey are not bombing the moon for water, this is a front story. There is an extra terrestrial presence on the moon. Do not trust NASA. The real space program has much deeper intentions.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAfter Reading many of these comments I am convinced that we are doomed. The lack of scientific education and the overwhelming lack of common sense is shocking.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisShocking is the key word. It has to be the same person or a bunch of 5th graders.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLets see...An orbiter launches a precise strike on a mountain slope for the purpose of "discovering water" on the moon. How about this...US has tested the potential for for precision strikes on planetary bodies from space. Ahhh now it makes sense. Star Wars is back.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGet your filthy paws off me you damn dirty moon monkey!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe lack of knowledge in these Comments are... astounding to say the least. Launching a small projectile at the moon wouldn't shift its orbit in the slightest... that's almost like shooting the Epcot sphere with a BB gun and predicting that it will careen into the next county. And for people thinking we are declaring war on the moon... go register yourself in an insane asylum. PLEASE. We are launching a projectile at the moon to see if any water ice is thrown into the air, so that we can use said ice to possibly give water to a future moon colony. The idiocy of these comments is unnerving.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat if there are no pressures to vacate the ice held within? why would they think doing this with a vacuum like space would allow the ice to drain or spew from a hole we create unless there is a gravitational pull that would actually attract the ice from the hole? I guess I've seen too many armageddon movies, what if the interior of the moon is ice, wouldn't the bomb create crack large enough to interfere with it's normal orbital cycle like KOCOL says? Maybe I'm just thinking about it too much, that's why I don't get paid like a scientist...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat if there are no pressures to vacate the ice held within? why would they think doing this with a vacuum like space would allow the ice to drain or spew from a hole we create unless there is a gravitational pull that would actually attract the ice from the hole? I guess I've seen too many armageddon movies, what if the interior of the moon is ice, wouldn't the bomb create crack large enough to interfere with it's normal orbital cycle like KOCOL says? Maybe I'm just thinking about it too much, that's why I don't get paid like a scientist...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOn the front its a NASA experiment, but really, the US is conducting weapons test.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm glad NASA is finally found out where Osama is hiding.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOn the front its a NASA experiment, but really the US is conducting weapons test such as orbital strikes. Think about it...As if they need to look for water there.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI wonder if NASA could loan me a couple of million dollars, they are hemmoraging more money than we can imagine.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis foolhardiness could cause the Moon to explode and disintegrate into millions of huge chunks of rubble that will rain down upon the Earth and kill billions of us or destroy the Earth entirely, because the inside of the Moon is made of uranium and dynamite. You crazy NASA bastards.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis was probably part of the Obama Stimulus package to keep all those people working. Have to give all those brainy people something to do. After all if it trickles down from the government then it isn't considered Reaganomics.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am really embarrassed to be on the same planet as these idiots who think we're destroying the moon with what amounts to an SUV launched from a catapult. I am also now in favor of bringing back the state run loony bins and locking up the people who have links to pictures of the moon and say "LOOK THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE LIVING INSIDE SEE THE PROOF!!!!" meanwhile it's just a plain old picture of the moon that looks as it has for millions of years. Come on people, TAKE YOUR MEDS, you're scaring the children. In the meantime. Go NASA Go! If "bombing" a nutter with an SUV would make the world a better place, I'd say "Go for it!"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe left human sewage on the Moon during the Apollo missions. This gigantic blast could launch some of it back at us, only now its infected with deadly lunar viruses that will wipe us all out.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow. Just... Wow. Did you people ever finish the 4th grade? I agree with an earlier poster... If all you alarmists went to public school for this education, then I want a tax refund. And if you're home schooled, well, then it shows. My Mom was a great mother, and an excellent baker of cookies. She couldn't tell me the difference between a red shift and the Doppler effect if her life depended on it. That's why I went to SCHOOL.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDid any of you actually go to NASA's website and read the purpose of this activity? Sometimes I think you should have to pass a quiz on the topic before posting.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf they find water on the moon they will be able to send folks there for longer periods of time since they won't have to worry about transporting water there. Have you ever seent the list of the 100's of inventions that have improved our lives here on earth as a result of space exploration?
as I read most of the comments here I can see clearly now why US students rank so poorly among the rest of the world. Didn't any of you fools watch Star Trek?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswe're bombing the secret alien base hidden on the dark side of the moon. I read it somewhere on the internet a couple of months ago. prepare for interstellar war. Illegal aliens are welcome, but space aliens? Take a hike E.T.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI still don't understand how the moon changes its shape every month, from round to crescent shaped. Weird. and why does ti glow? is it on fire? how can it burn? there's no oxygen. must be nuclear reactions making it glow.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiskocol,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisyou are a dumb as they come. Why not spend your time learning to spell
YOU HAVE ALL GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAre most of you really this stupid? Can any of you really fathom just how big the moon really is? This is the problem with people and I am ashamed and in disbelief that humans can even think that a rocket from earth can do anything to the moons orbit. You dumb idiots! Do any of you really know how many trees are on this planet? Most of you are screaming "humans are killing the trees off" "SAVE THEM". HAHA . 99.9% cant even count how many trees are in a given valley they are staring at with their own eyes!
LMAO bombing the moon is an act of American war on space? haha I don't think so! Most of the people posting on here didn't even pass the 4th grade OBVIOUSLY!
The moon is so large that our biggest bomb that ALL of the world countries could put together would barely make a dust plume see from earth with a telescope. And on top of that, Nasa is not sending a bomb to hit the moon just a projectile the size of a small car.... haha those of you who think this could do anything to the moons orbit is obsurdly stupid and undereducated. Cmon people of earth, show everyone how stupid you are by posting here your stupidity and undereducated rants. I swear, people can be so nieve sometimes and be so afraid of what their 4th grade, pot smoking neighbors tell them and then spread the rumor like its science. HAHAHA I have read so many paranoia claims of moon distruction and bombing, orbit shattering, moon life bombing, tax payer waste of money, America "BOMBING" the moon, the moon controls our tides why bomb it, the moon is hollow.
For any of you all that is frightened that this is going to mean or do anything other than progress humanity is very VERY foolish and VERY VERY small minded. I mean real small minded. If you really feel scared or bothered then you all will never EVER get the full effects this planet or humanity can offer you. I am sorry but most of you posting here are very pitiful indeed. I really feel sad that so many can be so narrow minded and still live a fruitful exsistance here on earth.
I am ashamed to be human only in this aspect. How did we all evolve this far with so many stupid people here thinking we are going to harm anything with this experiment.
OMG people! I am no where near the brightest person on this planet and I know for a fact this is going to be another step into human evolution WITHOUT HARMING ANYONE OR ANYTHING. not even our tax budget. I payed for this moon mission too.
There is a huge life out here for all those people who are undereducated and mindless
kocol,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI thinks you should get ahold of them nasa guys and inform them of this danger. I think you may be onto somethun hear
"Bombing" the moon is just a colorful way to describe it. I feel sorry for the writers because they have to worry about the reactions like this. You are so confused! Do you think that scientists who look for polar bears are looking for a source of fur coats? "Maybe they should go to a sporting goods store instead." Thanks for you input. Now go back to watching Sponge Bob.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthe moon's glow is a result of first generation CFL bulbs that were installed over the moon's surface by successive APOLLO missions in the late 60's and early 70's. There are hidden solar panels and batteries on the moon which power the CFLs. This was done in an attempt to minimize the cost of placing streetlights throught the USA. The moon's cycles are a result of having to recharge the batteries following the power drain of a full moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisseriously.
my previous comment was for commentor, Poon, btw.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisda moon gonna explode and hit us, and the whole solar system will be thrown off kilter and the planets will go flying off in wild directions. DOOMSDAY
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat a bunch of idiots... It's science! This will answer some basic questions about the moon. There is no danger to the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTo my fellow posters that pity the morons that have revealed their colossal ignorance on this forum: we must hope that they are NOT the majority in the US or the rest of the world.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt matters not that we exhort that this will have no effect whatsoever on the "ecosphere" of the moon. Nothing we can tell these fools will prevent them from believing that the "peoples of the moon" or "the alien bases" will suffer because of this experiment. Let them believe that America has "declared war on the moon".
If the posts that have caused my jaw to lock in the open position due to their immense ignorance and/or stupidity are a sign that they are the majority of the human race, well...
The asteroid is overdue!
the moon aliens are going to get mad at us for dropping a bomb on them, and they will come here and violate us at night when we're asleep, with anal probings
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisUhh why would blasting the moon put it's orbit danger? It gets hit all the time, naturally by comets!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisEvery dollar spent on space exploration equals eight dollars in revenue. Think GPS, cell phones and satellite TV. Exploration is necessary and rewarding. This is a small impact by a rocket that will be televised. People need to stop trying to make something out of nothing, especially when your comments have no validity.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf you think NASA is going to the huge expense of launching a missile to bomb the moon "to see if there's water there," I've got a nice bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you ...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this(Read Patricia Cori's "No More Secrets. No More Lies" for the truth.)
Wait a minute. I smell an ulterior motive here. They're not looking for H2O - they're looking for Helium-3. The moon is supposedly loaded with the stuff. When fused w/deuterium it gives HUGE amounts of energy off. (1 kg of helium-3 burned with 0.67 kg of deuterium gives us about 19 megawatt-years of energy output.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey plan to extract HE-3 to fix our oil dependance by building fusion reactors which will produce cheap abundant electricity. We'll all be on 100% electricity in a couple decades and the Arabs can go F--- themselves!
So, we will find out if there *was* water.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt seems like they could have come up with a less invasive way of determining the same information without wasting what little water there may be there.
.kocol at 05:45 AM on 06/19/09
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisno, you're definately not a scientist. "shifting orbit?" Please pick up a physics book or two; and secondly observe the natural world. The rocket will have far less chance of knocking the moon out of orbit than a .22 can knock over a building, or better yet than the same .22 shifting Mount Everest.
Water is extremely usful in space travel, but it is a very heavy reource to luanch into space. It is useful for drinking for human survival. It can also be used as protection against radiation and extreme cold. The have been vrey practical space ship designs using water in the hull to protect the ship. Also their is hydrogen fuel cells , etc...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWater could solve many, many space travel probelms. and it is reuseable.
After reading more comments - it is a shame there are so many uninformed, uneducated people responding to what could have been a good discussion. I am sorry I put my earlier message in.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThere are way too many crazy people on this board. Do you hide under your covers in fear that CERN will create black holes to suck up the earth too? This isn't abovetopsecret.com
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOk, am I the only person who thinks this is the stupidest idea ever! Now, I know how the apolocalypse starts...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is pure Lunarcy!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHowever, I am looking forward to all the moon-themed TV shows leading up to the event. Sounds like a fun week. Thanks NASA!
With NASA's record lately I would be very nervous, I think the explosion is going to knock the moon off its orbit and will come crashing down to Earth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWith NASA's record lately I would be very nervous, I think the explosion is going to knock the moon off its orbit and will come crashing down to Earth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHarley-g,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThanks for the comments. I agree, this should be an exciting, fun and informative discussion. We live in the perfect age for the whole world being able to participate in an event of this magnitude. Hopefully, we will do a lot more scientific exploration of this type.
I can't believe I'm reading comments like these. I assumed Scientific American readers were intelligent - at least intelligent laypersons, if not technically savvy. Please, Scientific American, filter comments to include only those those that show evidence of IQs higher than 50.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDo we not have more pressing issues in life to deal with than bombing the moon? Sounds like a bunch of boys playing with toys - now they are just grown up - PHYSICALLY, anyway.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSTUPID waste of taxpayer dollars, during the worst financial time possible. Tell the ppl without homes how much is being spent on PLAYING with their toys... Lets bomb the moon cause we want to know IF there's water... Please!
This is a totally different angle.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat a loss for human kind, when finally what were once considered sacred heavanly bcdies in Christian and still Islamic cosmology are insulted like this. As if the Moon really was all about cheese or shit or dirt.
The same materalistic mentality and scientific world view which brought us bulldozers and atomic war now attempts to throw garbage at the Moon, in the insame name of Modern Science. What hypocracy!!
One billion Muslims around the world consider this an act of absolute blasphemy.
The Christians may have traded their respect for the Heavens in for materialism, but the Muslims and Buddhists etc have not yet.
maybe they should stop holding a rock in the sky sacred?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSully, you missed my mid paragraph point, it's prcislly that lack of respect for sacred natural objects, or for the sacred period, that allowed Renneassiance European power-brokers to abuse nature's powers to attempt domination over nature and thus over other humans, aka Sir Francis Bacon the occultist. This has lead to treatment of the Earth and its systems and inhabitatns as mere fodder in Modern Man's "Progress", which has yielded the present spate of slow-ecological disasters leaning toward the big one. This same lack of respect has led to this train of events. We are now trying to come to grips with our suicidal devestating treatment of the Earth or Nature while at the same time stuck in a time warp with regard to usless experiements about to be enacted on a distant ball of reflective matter too far away to do anything about should we witness the water plume we are looking for.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey are drilling in the wrong place. The moon always faces us. Any comets which contain water hit the back side of the moon, or come to Earth. Thats why we have oceans. They need to look on the 'dark' side of the moon for water, which is where the water comets hit.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBy forcing humanity to live on one world, a large cosmic impact could destroy us all. If we diversify our biological holdings by going to the moon or even Mars, then not only do we give humanity a better chance to survive, we can learn so much about so many different areas that it could change us forever.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon is a dead rock, if there is abundant water there, then the risk of Earth over population is finished. We simply move as many as want to to the moon. Yes, it will be extremely difficult and expensive at first. We will have to create new technologies, but we've done that before and can do it again.
Let's remember that the moon weighs about 81 billion tons. It would take a huge impact to alter it's orbit. Our small probe will be the equivalent of a drop of water in the ocean.
Oh Lord please tell me that these comments are some sort of practical joke. Please dont let it be true that these comments are from real people and they actually believe this nonsense. If these comments are for real for the first time in my life I am truly worried about the survival of the human race because we are just too stupid to live. I have never seen such a collection of idiots in all my life. Do you people really believe what you have been saying?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMother moon?
Break off chunks and destroy the earth?
Destroy are tides
The moon provides are food and water?
Destroy the people living there
Destroy the atmosphere
Why do we need moon water we have enough here
And my personal favorite, George Bush is destroying the solar system
Now I finally do believe the human race will be destroyed in 2012, because we cannot possibly live much longer with this many idiots breeding. How in the world do you people actually manage to get dressed in the morning?
I suppose I should try to explain about the mass of the moon and how they arent actually bombing the moon but are just firing an empty rocket into it or I could try to explain how the moon doesnt have an atmosphere or anyone living on it, or that the reason we want to know if there is water there is to provide resources for a permanent base. I could try to explain all of that but I am not going to waste my time. It is evident that the majority of the worlds populations are just plain too stupid to comprehend such thoughts.
I am worried, very very worried&&&Mommy, help me, I see stupid people
Who is the Eienstien that wants to bomb the moon? Everyone knows the moon is a vital link to earths survival. Any destruction of the moon could jepordize our own existance. The negatives far out way the positives. I hope someone in power is smart enough to rethink this stupid idea to bomb the moon. Give me a break.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisand it was those "Renaissance European power-brokers" who helped lead us out of the Dark Ages and into a far more healthy, wealthy and wiser world. Additionally, it was their advancements that freed humanity from a hand-to-mouth existence thereby allowing us to pursue arts, sciences and compassion for our fellow man. Sure, we still have difficulties today caring about the rights and well-being of others but we are miles beyond anything they could have imagined 700 years ago. Nature didn't care too much for us while she was murdering 1/3 of the population of Europe with the bubonic plague. It was the advancements in science which began with the Renaissance which allowed us to exert ourselves over nature and thereby continuing our survival as a species. Science is not to blame for the destruction of the environment, especially not now that we know better. Short-sightedness is our problem today. The same problem which plagued our ancestors centuries ago. I don't believe God looks down upon humanity and is angered by our use of logic and reason. Quite the opposite. If we wasted the gifts bestowed upon us by the Creator - that He would find the far greater sin.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisA rocket hitting the moon at 2x the speed of a bullet will do NOTHING to the orbit of the moon and is likely to be a mere blip to the objects which have bombarded the moon over the past 4,000,000,000 years or so
Maybe we should bomb Iran to see if there is water there too.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow did any of you ever come upon a scientific article? I'm stunned at the amount and level of cluelessness.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon has craters because it is hit often by rocks and space debri. Do you really think this missle is THAT strong? We've dropped millions of tons of bombs on earth and our orbit hasn't changed. Think things through ffs.
Kill space? He had be joking.
I suggest some reading on space exploration on the NASA.com and why we try to understand the universe and how the knowledge benefits us.
Is this a directed energy weapons test in disguise? If the module will continue to orbit the moon for a year or so, could this be the permanent installation of a space doomsday weapon -- perhaps an electromagnetic particle beam directed energy weapon?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisprobably not.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSincerely,
Occam's Razor
I just HOPE they don't shoot back...that will CHANGE things I believe....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIran has water???? let's bomb them to find out....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow much are we WASTING as our USA Dollar Drops today
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWash DC is MAD... CRAZY they need an INTERVENTION.
Is this going to be one of those UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow much are we WASTING as our USA Dollar Drops today
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWash DC is MAD... CRAZY they need an INTERVENTION.
If they do shoot back will we be green cheesed???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis is one big mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone grab your supplies cause all hell will break loose. trust me.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWE ARE SO DOOMED
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes...............................we Americans are taking over outerspace starting with the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe're not really looking for water though, We're looking for GOLD, Silver, and other precious materials....................like cheese. So get used to it..............loser's.
Guys seriously are you stupid. Quit wasting Americans money to blow up the moon which WE NEED. Please stop this stupidity
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNASA should be worrying about the air and space on this planet instead of trying to upset the balance of some other planetary body and the schedule of earth's tides. Talk about a bureaucratic waste of money. There are so many issues facing the earth - all those wonderful minds at NASA should be working to solve our problems, not trying to escape them. You'll always want to go home again!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou have got to be kidding, doesn't the moon control the tides in our oceans..Come on Im just a country girl from Missouri and I don't think this is a bright idea and our government is spending 79 million dollars to possibly end our existance as we know it...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPeople, relax. It's not actually a bomb, it's basically a gigantic brick the size of an SUV or so. The moon's not going to shift in its orbit, it's not even going to flinch, and anything that gets dislodged won't have enough energy to hit Earth. Also, there are no civilizations on the moon. We've been there. We've looked.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAlso, there is no 'dark side' of the Moon. The moon has the same face pointed to the Earth, but the moon has a day/night cycle just like Earth. There's a FAR side of the moon, but not a permanently dark side. Also, we've seen the far side, there's nothing there.
Relax, everyone. There's nothing sinister about this.
Cheers,
Someone who knows something about celestial mechanics.
Putting the moon in danger by firing a missle into it? You don't suppose the scientists figured this out? It's not nuclear, doesn't even have a warhead! It's just a rocket. The idea is to see if there is water to support life SENT to the moon. As for those "moonbats" that think we want to wage war on the moon -- well, refer to the previous "moonbat" comment. Some of you really need to get a life. Go home to your wife and kids -- I am. Bye!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTwo words...... Green jobs. You people are fools!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI believe they want to see if water exists on the moon to determine if a lunar base might eventually be established there, much like the International Space Station today. If people lived/worked on the moon, it would be easier to get their water locally rather than having to ship it up via rocket. The mission is not intended to find another water source for the earth or to blast the moon for no reason.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy is this not reflected on either snopes.com or factcheck.org? I have not found mention of it at nasa.gov either. VERY FRUSTRATING!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy has this event not be confirmed/discounted on either factcheck.org or snopes.com? No mention whatsoever! Very strange and frustrating. It's all over the web, but cannot be found at nasa.gov either!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen was the funding for this approved?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen was the funding for this approved?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSince the moon belongs to the USA anyway, we should totally nuke it? What a fantastic show we could give the world. On the next full moon I say we launch! We could study the moon and get rid of our nuclear waste.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is bullshit. ...Messing with her can mess with her orbit and may effect Earth greatly! The Moon effects the Earth in so many ways they are connected ...Maybe that is why 2012 might be it for us. ...Imagine?!? Sometimes NASA are just ignorant assholes. ...I'm sorry, I can't mince words here. ... This does upset me greatly. ...Is nothing sacred?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPS- Who gets to decide this. This is something that affects ALL of us. Yet I get an -e-mail forward 3 days before the scheduled event. Where is our liberties. They are waning by the minute. ... Again. This is bullshit!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon doesnt light up the sky, the sun does. And they aren't gonna use the water on Earth. They'll keep it on the moon so that if they build a base there the astronauts and scientists will have a water supply.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisToo bad I have to look looney in tearing down the Glorious Edifice of Modern Humanity, but here goes.
If we came out of the Dark Ages into a more healthy, wealthy and wiser world, how come it comes at the cost of our life support systems, which all harkens back to those primitive substances called clean soil, clean water, and clean air, which are pretty basic components of life? How come our climate appears to be exerting a more turbulent involvement in extreme weather events, despite whatever cyclical spate may deemed its cause? How come all the staid edifices of European, or Oriental culture, art, civilizational structures such as palaces, cathedrals, mosques, city gates, intricate art are no longer able to be replicated in our modern temperament for haste, utilitarianism, efficiency, economization which seems to indicate that weve actually LOST our aptitude for luxury, arts, literature, high culture etc!! When has a building worthy of being called a piece of art been built in the modern world, one that draws tourists the way 1000+ year old structures of the so-called Dark Ages draw hordes of tourists to Rothenberg, Oxford, Chartes, Granada, Isfahan, Angkor Wat, Great Wall, etc?. I cannot believe that the poverty rate, the illiteracy rate, the starvation rate, the cultural stupidity rate, the linguistically mute rate is less now than it was during the High Christian and Islamic-Buddhist-Hindu Middle Ages. We are losing our ability to quote Dante, Shakespeare, Emerson, the absolute gem-origins of our modern European languages, with every passing year, how is that Progress! We kill mountains of human flesh with weapons of mass horror-atomic, dismembering, vaporizing, convulsating etc, flashing our quarrels mindlessly across all sectors of human society during our Advanced Wars whereas battle in the supposed Dark Ages was done with humane weapons directed at men only, at an honest arms length, metering human not technological strength and resolve, keeping clear of women children, for real needs, not ideological experimentation of the last few murderous centuries. While the Black Death swept across partially-Renaissance Europe reeking in disdain for bodily cleanliness, hygienically-conscious Muslim metropolises such as Cordoba, Granada etc in the same land mass and Timbuktu in Heathen Black Muslim Africa displayed schools, orphanages, universities, public baths and fountains and waterways, gas-lighted streets, water fountain lifts and self-reciprocating pumps and gadgets of all kinds, spice, fruit, veg, meat, gem, fine textiles, carpet, falconry, art and coin markets, sciences of algebra, optics, astronomy et al. China the same. What was there in the supposed Dark Ages that threatened the extinction of the human species compared to the apparent ability for human pressure today to burst the support capacity of the Planet? We did not learn how to control Mother Nature to save ourselves, weve merely succeeded in refining our ability to insult Her to the point where She may react on a grand scale. The monumental hubris in view of some Glorious Utopianism which rests on the gilded Throne of Modern Science has blinded you Sully into not being able to see that Modern Man has in fact DEGENERATED into the present obvious state of miserable and near-suicidal affairs. Too much use and reliance upon rationality and reason makes us infernal and cyclically stupid, that is, the Intellect of the Middle Age Cosmological formulations of the view of the World, of the Greater World, of the Origin and End of the world in which we find ourselves has been jettisoned by modern Enlightened Man who thinks his own mere brain is sufficient to carry on whatever Path was set before Mankind, he being the WASP lucky enough to be the torch bearer of Vain Modernisms stupendous breakthrough. As for Christianitys greatest nemesis, there is such a thing as Eastern Intellectuality, dormant in the overrun Muslim lands for some centuries, which may very well have a say in the entire spectrum of Mans near-future affairs. After all, 60% of the Quran concerns visible Nature, whether it be water, soil, earth, mountain, valley, desert, streams, sand, storms, wind or the Heavenly Bodies of the celestial ramparts.
F$#%$%CK THAT. It WILL shift the orbit... and i can tell u how I know. Granted the moon is moving away from Earth at I believe 3 miles per year. Or maybe 3 ft. Either way, I saw a special on this asteroid that is supposed to possibly collide with earth in 2010. Or it has to hit that keyhole and then NASA will know if it will hit earth or just fly by. But they discussed that if they hit the asteroid with a small highly dense object at approximately the speed of a bullet. It will alter the asteroid's orbit enough to miss hitting earth. Funny thing is, if the moons orbit is changed it will not have the PERFECT BALANCE THAT it does today. It is amazing how it rotates exactly in such a way that the same side always faces us and causes our waves and in turn our wind. Hitting it could cause typhoons, hurricanes, death destruction etc... depends on how lucky the new world order "Elite" are. But if i know anything, (which i don't) the almighty creator will fix everything, either that or try something new. We'll hafta see.
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#%$%CK THAT. It WILL shift the orbit... and i can tell u how I know. Granted the moon is moving away from Earth at I believe 3 miles per year. Or maybe 3 ft. Either way, I saw a special on this asteroid that is supposed to possibly collide with earth in 2010. Or it has to hit that keyhole and then NASA will know if it will hit earth or just fly by. But they discussed that if they hit the asteroid with a small highly dense object at approximately the speed of a bullet. It will alter the asteroid's orbit enough to miss hitting earth. Funny thing is, if the moons orbit is changed it will not have the PERFECT BALANCE THAT it does today. It is amazing how it rotates exactly in such a way that the same side always faces us and causes our waves and in turn our wind. Hitting it could cause typhoons, hurricanes, death destruction etc... depends on how lucky the new world order "Elite" are. But if i know anything, (which i don't) the almighty creator will fix everything, either that or try something new. We'll hafta see.
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#%$%CK THAT. It WILL shift the orbit... and i can tell u how I know. Granted the moon is moving away from Earth at I believe 3 miles per year. Or maybe 3 ft. Either way, I saw a special on this asteroid that is supposed to possibly collide with earth in 2010. Or it has to hit that keyhole and then NASA will know if it will hit earth or just fly by. But they discussed that if they hit the asteroid with a small highly dense object at approximately the speed of a bullet. It will alter the asteroid's orbit enough to miss hitting earth. Funny thing is, if the moons orbit is changed it will not have the PERFECT BALANCE THAT it does today. It is amazing how it rotates exactly in such a way that the same side always faces us and causes our waves and in turn our wind. Hitting it could cause typhoons, hurricanes, death destruction etc... depends on how lucky the new world order "Elite" are. But if i know anything, (which i don't) the almighty creator will fix everything, either that or try something new. We'll hafta see.
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I really wish you would leave the moon alone...and the planet too for that matter. There are many sensitive things you may mess up -- like women's cycles and emotionsand the tides.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYOU HAVE ALL GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAre most of you really this stupid? Can any of you really fathom just how big the moon really is? This is the problem with people and I am ashamed and in disbelief that humans can even think that a rocket from earth can do anything to the moons orbit. You dumb idiots! Do any of you really know how many trees are on this planet? Most of you are screaming "humans are killing the trees off" "SAVE THEM". HAHA . 99.9% cant even count how many trees are in a given valley they are staring at with their own eyes!
LMAO bombing the moon is an act of American war on space? haha I don't think so! Most of the people posting on here didn't even pass the 4th grade OBVIOUSLY!
The moon is so large that our biggest bomb that ALL of the world countries could put together would barely make a dust plume see from earth with a telescope. And on top of that, Nasa is not sending a bomb to hit the moon just a projectile the size of a small car.... haha those of you who think this could do anything to the moons orbit is obsurdly stupid and undereducated. Cmon people of earth, show everyone how stupid you are by posting here your stupidity and undereducated rants. I swear, people can be so nieve sometimes and be so afraid of what their 4th grade, pot smoking neighbors tell them and then spread the rumor like its science. HAHAHA I have read so many paranoia claims of moon distruction and bombing, orbit shattering, moon life bombing, tax payer waste of money, America "BOMBING" the moon, the moon controls our tides why bomb it, the moon is hollow.
For any of you all that is frightened that this is going to mean or do anything other than progress humanity is very VERY foolish and VERY VERY small minded. I mean real small minded. If you really feel scared or bothered then you all will never EVER get the full effects this planet or humanity can offer you. I am sorry but most of you posting here are very pitiful indeed. I really feel sad that so many can be so narrow minded and still live a fruitful exsistance here on earth.
I am ashamed to be human only in this aspect. How did we all evolve this far with so many stupid people here thinking we are going to harm anything with this experiment.
OMG people! I am no where near the brightest person on this planet and I know for a fact this is going to be another step into human evolution WITHOUT HARMING ANYONE OR ANYTHING. not even our tax budget. I payed for this moon mission too.
There is a huge life out here for all those people who are undereducated and mindless
Is it not enough that our earth is in serious trouble with all the digging and blasting and devastation....now the moon...and they say it's about water...crap...are we going to believe more lies....it's all about MONEY again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes your No! scientist, the moon has had impacts from space way in excess of anything we could possibly throw and not had its orbit shifted
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou should be required to provide proof of having passed 4th grade science before being allowed to post here. Knock the moon out of its orbit? LOL you might as well try to knock over Everest with a ping-pong ball! Try to destroy a glacier with a 30-06! Moon-men? 2 megatons? My god, these comments have to be part of a deleted crowd scene from the Simpsons movie.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is insane! Do we even know what the repercussions
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thismight be from such an endeavor. The moon controls our
tidal flow. What happens if it's knock off it's orbit?
I guess we should dig out all of our life preservers, just in case!
This is insane! Do we even know what the repercussions
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thismight be from such an endeavor. The moon controls our
tidal flow. What happens if it's knock off it's orbit?
I guess we should dig out all of our life preservers, just in case!
This is insane! Do we even know what the repercussions
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thismight be from such an endeavor. The moon controls our
tidal flow. What happens if it's knock off it's orbit?
I guess we should dig out all of our life preservers, just in case!
Haven't you been paying attention? You don't need a 30-06
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisto destroy a glacier; they're being destroyed as we speak.
Melting into the ocean from global warming. Why is it some
of you people can be such haters? Throwing insults at other's
opinions. Those that call names and make judgements are
truly the ones that are uneducated & uninformed. I'm not a
scientist, maybe there is no risk here. But do we know that for
sure? Why not just send a probe there to explore and look
for water. That, to me would seem more logical and conclusive.
Dear Godfathers, the Grandmothers do not give you permission to bomb our moon. Your ignorant pride is gobsmacking, Once again stupid curiousity is about to blast past all sense and knowledge of where your military daftness has led us upon Earth does not encourage confidence in your further invasion of our Heavens. May your bomb fizzle out before it reaches your target and good sense strike you all without warning. Love Lilian
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOh my Lord, please forgive these scientist for what they are about to do. As I read in one of the other comments, please let the moon just do it's job God intended it to do. By bombing or exploding it just to satisfy your curiousity if there is any existing water, might delete out what God gave to us, the moon! Well, it's kind of late, tomorrow is the 8th of October, God please protect us for what they have done.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYA ALI MUDDAD How is this an attack on Islam? As far as I know, the Islamic God is Allah. Not the Moon. How can you possibly make this, an admittedly dangerous and unneeded mission, about religious persocution? I swear, next all of the minorities in the world are going to say it's racist to bomb the moon. Allah be with you, YA ALI MUDDAD. It is my sincerest hope that He grants you the wisdom you lack.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm uneducated and uninformed? Have you read anything about LCROSS? (rhetorical question, of course you haven't) First of all, it's NOT A BOMB. It's an impactor. A rocket, 1/8 the size of some of the Apollo stuff that has hit the moon, shot into the floor of a crater. A 30-06 bullet has a muzzle velocity of 2910 ft/s, which translates to .887 km/s. The impactor is twice that fast, which equals 1.77 km/s, has a mass of 2305kg, the same as a loaded-to-the-max Audi A6, and will make a crater about 2o METERS wide. Meteor Crater in Arizona is estimated to have been caused by a 50-meter-wide iron-rich meteor weighing 100,000 tons striking the desert at more than 11 kilometers per second. Meteor Crater is ONLY 1.1 km wide. Cabeus, NASA's target, is 98 km wide! If whatever huge object that made Cabeus in first place didn't knock the Moon out of its orbit, this little chunk of metal certainly won't. Secondly, NASA is not the military. Thirdly, the Moon is not made of green cheese, hollow, or full of Moon Men. And lastly, global warming is a hoax with an agenda, as even its most rabid spokesmen admit!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements" (for the poor dumb people, interprets Cowcharge) "and make little mention of any doubts..." - Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.” - Dr David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University
"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience." - Al Gore, Climate Change activist
"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
Before you call anyone uneducated and uninformed, and help spread fear with your Chicken Little rantings, please do a little research. You owe it to yourself, and those who would believe you alarmist misinformation.
Also, can someone PLEASE tell me why every other country makes this about "American Hubris" or what have you? I will be the first to say as a very proud American woman that, yes The United States has displayed hubris on many occasions but, honestly this is ridiculous. This is not about our hubris or thinking we run the entire world. Or some misguided thought that our President is a God, or anything like that. Also, this does not violate the UN Outer Space Treaty. I read it. This is not a declaration of war is falls under the realm of Scientific Exploration.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhile I am not a fan of this idea, stop making is about things it has to nothing to do with.
even if america is bombing the moon we are still the greatest country on this earth
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thislook here Iahmad got one song for ya to listen to called critical acclaim by avenged sevenfold! america is the man! and noone can stick it to the man! WOOT
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat if the Moonies retaliate?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSpiff
you guys are IDIOTS!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLEAVE THE MOON ALONE!!!! WE CAN AFFECT THE MOONS INFLUENCE ON THE EARTH WEATHER AND WAVES. ONLY A HUMAN WITH THE BRAIN OF AN ANT WOULD PROPOSE DISTURBING THE MOON WITH A BLAST. THE MOON SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE HUMPTY DUMPTY. GOD MADE THE MOON AND HUMAN PEA BRAINED SCIENTISTS ARE PLAYING WITH A CELESTIAL BODY.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf NASA wanted to know if there was water on the moon then don't you think they would just land and Drill on the moon for water that makes alot more since unless there was some reason they couldn't land on the moon or in some peoples case they never did before; dont get me wrong i sincerely believe that we've been to the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSHAME
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAm I alone in thinking that this is a very bad idea??? Humans mostly do things if there is a chance to profit from it....they must have found gold.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisshifting the moons orbit? about 30 seconds of research would prove that idiotic theory wrong. the force of this impact hits the moon about once a week. as for the obama bashing... do you really think this was designed and planned in the last 9 months? get real! it takes years upon years to design/develop a mission like this. where has our common sense gone? poor america....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow did NASA get by breaking the laws of the international space treaty by bombing the moon? The USA signed a treaty in 1967 to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening. Does this represent a criminal act? Does NASA believe itself to be above the law?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the stupidest thing I ever heard of! We should be able to vote on things like this! This act can put the world at danger. It's worse than terrorism!!!!!! Wake up world!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the stupidest thing I ever heard of! We should be able to vote on things like this! This act can put the world at danger. It's worse than terrorism!!!!!! WAKE UP WORLD!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the stupidest thing I ever heard of! We should be able to vote on things like this! This act can put the world at danger. It's worse than terrorism!!!! WAKE UP WORLD!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOk, Now is the time to face it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe the Americans (superior race) have found the real oil source. Much more oil than Saddam ever thought of having. and it's on the moon. We are now at full war with the moonerainians and we will dominate.
Face it paladaikicastan, and other stupid countries still throwing rocks at each other since the dark ages.
I can't believe all you idiots have been fighting hundreds of years over stupid religion.
We the Americans have been there and done that in 30 years with the mormons, Learned and it's all settled now. We all live in peace on the same dirt. Now we are fighting much more intelligent wars, Something that has a foundation. (like oil so we can stay warm) while you idiots freeze your butts off 2000 years later.. hahaha
This rocket is going to do nothing but advance American humans further away from your stupid religious wars that obviously is never going to end. 2000 years is long enough. We are going to just find a way off this planet and leave you rag heads here to fight the rest of your wars in our rubbish we leave behind. So yea you have every right to be mad and try to create panic among all the alarmist to try and stop this "ADVANCEMENT IN CIVILATION". I would be making up all kinds of hoopla if I was scared I was going to be left behind.
So you idiots keep throwing rocks at each other over your stupid idiotic rants about who is saying bad things about Alah now.
We the Americans are moving on into the Science history books.
LOL the thing I really like the most about all these postings is how much it shows people stupidity and awareness about the world around them when they claim that this "BOMB" haha is going to knock the moon off its current OR FUTURE trajectory or axis. LMAO
Right now, if every man, or beast on this planet could put together a bomb, all working together, (if we all work together then Yes we will even go with some ragheads ideas and throw a couple of suicide bombers in there too(idiots)) The biggest bomb we could ever produce to date, then we would barely be able to see the dust plume on the moon through a telescope. We couldn't even match one of the medium size craters on the moon with this bomb.
And still people cry, "Don't hit the moon with a bomb, it controls our tides." This is for those people "the worst thing that could happen from this is we might accidently hit one of the wires that powers the moons light"
So What!!!! We could see the stars better without that stupid thing in our eyes
These people have more money than sense, and way too much time on their hands....How much is it going to cost to send a rocket in to space then orbit the earth a couple times before they blow a hole in the moon, A HOLE IN THE MOON....come on now people...what are they hopeing to find some form of life that we have never before seen....no people their lookin to see if the moon has any water inside it....that's it pure H2O
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think there is a secret society of Yetis up there.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou all realize all the craters on the moon -- the ones that are visible from earth -- were caused by meteors that collided with the moon with several orders of magnitude MORE energy than anything we're capable of? That NATURE has been "bombing" the moon, in fact, ALL of the planets and moons of the solar system, for BILLIONS of years? There's been no apocalypse yet, and the "pea-shooter" that we're using in comparison will not even come close?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI hope you are all trolling and not that ignorant.
the majority of the people here are letting there imaginations run away with them..just because its going to be powerful enough to produce visable debris does not mean its going to do radical damage or take out a country. Some may see it as a waste but i wonder what people thought about investing in medical research. Just because you fail to see the reason or dont care doent mean its not important, they didnt just sit at a table and say," hey lets blow the moon up for shits and giggles." they have research and reason to want to know if, and where there could be water in our universe, i mean it is one of those thing living beings HAVE to have to survive. It could find probable cause for other life, and no im not talking about little green men with big buggy eyes that fly around in little discs. SCIENCE IS IMPORTANT..no matter if you find it boring or just dont care or understand, and part of science is exploring, and understanding.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisdear ladys and gentleman,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisim a modern man and in science so interested. if i could, i would be one of the first on a mission to mars. but please.. what happens if we know there is water..ice.. on the moon.. you destroy our female spirit of the sky..the moon.. please, dont do it... it does not make sense what you are doing...
thank you so much for reading my mail, good bless you.. all people .. and the moon...
Quite honestly I think they are complete idiots at this point. This may sound like a contradiction but I know, yes, they are scientists and what not and I am not a scientist but, out of prior knowledge from taking science courses this could be deadly to the earth....If they remove too much debris who knows what could happen, the moon's orbit could be thrown off, throwing the earth's orbit off or causing the moon to be hurtled into the earth, or even visa versa. The earth could go hurtling into the sun, extreme environment changes, flooding or anything really...Well this proves the point that humans will be the death of themselves...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes!ihave agree allways wellcoming a new rechears and experimenty to any fieald of world or uinivarsal,this than true when it is naturealy more true to any experimant by nasa or any scieantist of orbit free fore this but I must bilive in a soft and proctected natur of univarsal law of all human all animal earth and all faver of life saveing nature,sun moon is not planat only but all world cultur and fare old genaretions of humanbeang is owen expireans to all univarsal are our look like mother care sistam,so pl I have ask a qeastion to my unknowen stiudy of nasa progect of how benificial to human protections ans very carefuly creat experiment to agains a moon fore informetion checking by attakack to moom with bombaireang I have realy not undarstant as a simpal on this earth living humanbeang nature!pl kindly send me a satifactionnebal answer to us!this is voice of man who is his feet touch a earth and head is hight touch unlimit skay and all astronomy space.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou have got to be kidding me. Why stop with the moon , let's just blow up the f-ing sun too. This is pure insanity. Good God people wake up. I am at a loss for words on this endeavor. Hell yeah, why don't you just blow everything up. Believe it or not NASA, we have more than enough problems here. Enough is enough already
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNuke the moon Nuke the Moon Nuke the mooooooon! I'll do the bomb the moon dance this friday biotches! You can't stop us, we are the Moon Blasters!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou watch. It is well known that the Earth depends on the moon as part of a VERY delicate balance of its own orbit. I can't wait to see how left wing thugs spin the disaster that is coming as a result of this foolish experiment.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat? Puny humans can change global warming but a missile to the moon is benign?
LOL
Since when it bombing not a declaration of war? I cannot fathom the thought of being bombed and not feel it is an act of violence. Are they looking for water? Why? We have water right here on Earth that needs to be taken care of&in fact our Environment needs lots of help and that money should be used to ensure it will be healthy for our future generations. Or, is there another reason they are going to bomb the Moon&makes one wonder. I read an article in the Astronomy Magazine, October 2009, page 16. This article was written by Bob Berman under Strange Universe. It is written as follows& The Moon rings like an enormous gong. When unneeded spacecraft are sent crashing onto the lunar surface, the Moon still shakes 2 hours later. By contrast, impacts on Earth dampen out in just a minute or two. Explanation: The Moon must have a solid core like a giant crystal that transmits vibrations, unlike Earth with its liquidy creamy nougat center. If a simple space crash can cause the Moon to shake for two hours&what damage will a bomb do?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBetter stick to poetry.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSure Hydrogen is abundant and cheap!
It's getting it into a form that can be exploited!
RIGHT NOW WAY TOO EXPENSIVE AND WAY TOO HARD TO DO!
Ok with the economy in such a rut.what secret is the government keeping from us,what is fixing to happen here on earth that we must spend so much money looking for another place to survive.have we really screwed this planet up that bad,or is something fixin to colide with it.when ronald regan was running for president,his biggest campain speech was cutting funds for nasa,he spent more on nasa than anyone before him,and flaunted it.but what did he find out after becoming president that none of us will ever know.considering how everyone panicked about black mold,can you imagine knowing the destruction day of earth.i could understand all of this if i knew the truth about why we are doing it,but at the same time i can understand why they wont and don't tell us.and if they wont water on the moon why not just explode a hydrogen bomb above the surface instead of thrying to split the moon in half.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou mean sort of like anthropological warming?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisA flea on a flea on a dog who's building a fire to keep warm?
Sorta like that?
Yeah I saw Ironman too.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDoesn't mean its true!!! DUH???
This is the SAME BS said about anthropological warming.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this300ppm of CO2 is killing us all!
N- please......
Yo Cowcharge, I did indeed read the whole article,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI never said anything about it being a bomb
(that came from other threads). I too can
quote literally hundreds, no thousands of
prominent scientist that have an opposite
opinion about global warming. I'm neither an
alarmist nor a chicken little. But you go ahead
and believe or don't believe whatever you want.
Continue on with your rhetoric. I have no worries,
I'm not the one that will be burning in HELL!
Why would you bomb the moon. Oh yeah, lets bomb our history (the moon)so we go see if its water in it. Im not a scientist, but I feel this just isn't right. Sometimes it is perfectly fine to not know everything. 79 million dollars that could be going hungry people are being thrown away to bomb the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat's NSA going to do when they screw up - lie like always
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAre none of you paying attention? It's not a bomb, it's an impactor. And the scale? It's something like getting hit in the belly by a speck of dust. Moon ain't going nowhere.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAs someone with a physics degree, these comments make me want to cry.
This sounds like the most ridiculous thing we could be doing right now. How much is this costing tax payers. Do we get a vote on this distruction? There is so much more we could be putting this money and energy towards! Wake up America!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMan has almost destroyed the earth and now here they re taking pot shots at the moon. Is there nothing better to do with the money used to fund this lunacy? What happens if the moon shifts or just starts falling apart? What about the tides it controls? Does anyone things about consequences to such actions?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAlright umm.....how stupid are you? We aren't looking for water so that we can use it on earth. We are looking for water so we can see if life is or can be possible on the moon. And you cannot say that there is definitely no life on the moon because one half is always dark. That means there is a whole other half of the moon yet to explore. Who knows what could be over there? Rumors say that Neil Armstrong sighted an Alien Base during the Apollo 11 mission.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAll I can say is American Scientist BE ASHAMED, VERY ASHAMED! You are acting GOD like! I mean REALLY * slap yourselves in the forehead and think again*
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI mean REALLY! American Scientist need to be VERY ASHAMED of themselves, thinking they can just bomb the MOON, WE ARE TALKING about the MOON!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe scientist need to each *slap themselves on the forehead and think again!
Question I have is WHY HAVE WE NEVER BEEN BACK on the Moon! Now we Bomb it.
***Man has almost destroyed the earth and now here they re taking pot shots at the moon. Is there nothing better to do with the money used to fund this lunacy? What happens if the moon shifts or just starts falling apart? What about the tides it controls? Does anyone things about consequences to such actions?***
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow I am beginning to think all you people are really that stupid and nieve! Moon falling apart? Tides are going to be effected?
You idiot! just plain and smiple 1'st grade ignorance.
I also see people complaining about a vote? YOU ALREADY DID!!! you had a voice and you all voted Obama into office and all of your other idiots you voted for in years past when they drawn up the plans for this. They are there! IN OFFICE! Where you put them. And now you bitch about wanting to have a voice. Have all of you gone MAD!
I really do see civilization collapsing because of silly minded idiots that don't understand why the moon is all lit up and yellow then create hoopla by spreading their opinions and demanding answers.
AMERICANS!! Please rally together and support everything to get off this planet and leave all the rock throwing idiots still battling over religion for the last 2000 or so years behind.
They are worring about people calling ALAH names and fighting to the death about it when most of their countries are under devoloped. starving, and cold, its been going on for thousands of Years and it will never stop the thinking of the feeble minded, under-devoloped middle eastern people.
Those are the ones posting the stupid rants here. Not true level headed americans. And I mean "LEVEL HEADED" not like the idiot that just posted the rant I quoted above. He is not American even if he is in this country. Americans strive for knowledge and progress. Communist's, liberals, alarmists and clueless people are posting here about "hurting the poor liitle moon with our progress.
Face it! we are going to rape the moon for all it can give us as a civilization. We have to do this to live and progress. There is no such thing as letting the cow live when we have to eat. Or for you vegitarians, letting the plants live their exsistance while we just do what? eat what? live how?.
Complain all you want about your feeble attempts to stop progress and hide in your wooden homes, drive cars and complain about mining. Progress is not going to listen to you when you have already spoken with the idiot you already voted into office.
***Man has almost destroyed the earth and now here they re taking pot shots at the moon. Is there nothing better to do with the money used to fund this lunacy? What happens if the moon shifts or just starts falling apart? What about the tides it controls? Does anyone things about consequences to such actions?***
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow I am beginning to think all you people are really that stupid and nieve! Moon falling apart? Tides are going to be effected?
You idiot! just plain and smiple 1'st grade ignorance.
I also see people complaining about a vote? YOU ALREADY DID!!! you had a voice and you all voted Obama into office and all of your other idiots you voted for in years past when they drawn up the plans for this. They are there! IN OFFICE! Where you put them. And now you bitch about wanting to have a voice. Have all of you gone MAD!
I really do see civilization collapsing because of silly minded idiots that don't understand why the moon is all lit up and yellow then create hoopla by spreading their opinions and demanding answers.
AMERICANS!! Please rally together and support everything to get off this planet and leave all the rock throwing idiots still battling over religion for the last 2000 or so years behind.
They are worring about people calling ALAH names and fighting to the death about it when most of their countries are under devoloped. starving, and cold, its been going on for thousands of Years and it will never stop the thinking of the feeble minded, under-devoloped middle eastern people.
Those are the ones posting the stupid rants here. Not true level headed americans. And I mean "LEVEL HEADED" not like the idiot that just posted the rant I quoted above. He is not American even if he is in this country. Americans strive for knowledge and progress. Communist's, liberals, alarmists and clueless people are posting here about "hurting the poor liitle moon with our progress.
Face it! we are going to rape the moon for all it can give us as a civilization. We have to do this to live and progress. There is no such thing as letting the cow live when we have to eat. Or for you vegitarians, letting the plants live their exsistance while we just do what? eat what? live how?.
Complain all you want about your feeble attempts to stop progress and hide in your wooden homes, drive cars and complain about mining. Progress is not going to listen to you when you have already spoken with the idiot you already voted into office.
Do all lizard people have this insatiable need to destroy , kill, break , and eat things?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMy god...give it a rest Drac breaths. Get over yourselves
Do all lizard people have this insatiable need to destroy , kill, break , and eat things?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMy god...give it a rest Drac breaths. Get over yourselves and quit being so damned grumpy.
Check it out guys and gals. Folks who are paid a heck of a lot more than you have been charged with this. I am sure the benefits outweigh the risks or they wouldn't be taking this course of action. BLUF, dont worry about it and enjoy the show =)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think it is bull that they are doing this they need to leave nature alone god is going to be very upset with people they are trying to blow the heavons up well persay the next thingh to it can i say please let nature b nature and quit with the bombs and such if u have any quistions contact me at silversbrandon@yahoo.com or on my space as brandon silvers !!!!!! thanx have a good day....god loves u...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is a science fiction nightmare!!! Now, I'm not opposed of science's ambition to build a space station for further study, and I'm not even opposed of science's curiosity to find water on the moon, but launching a missile to blow a hole in the moon just for water is criminal! There are better, more creative, ways science can accomplish this, but frankly, NASA is acting RETARDED! We've already destroyed the earth, let's not destroy the moon! Even if there is water on the moon, there is no way it would be of any use on that wasteland. And transporting water from the moon to the earth would cost BILLIONS of dollars the global market does not have. If we want water so bad, let's conserve what we already have. C'mon NASA, gather what little common sense you have and be realistic! YOU ARE LETTING PLANET EARTH DOWN WITH SUCH STUPID IDEAS!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMaybe someone has already said this, but I'll say it again. I'm surprised Scientific American used the word 'bombing.' It's not at all a bombing, it's an impact. That was a very poor choice of words because of the connotations that go along with 'bomb' and it leads to misunderstanding of the science.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYeah i think it's a bad ideal, there is no water on the moon its way above the cloud's and no moisture ever gets that high. they need to spend the money on health care and feed our hungry instead of waisting it on that.They are messing with God's Creation and they just may be putting the earth in danger too!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm not sure if this has already been said, but I'm surprised that SA used the word 'bombing.' That's a horrible choice of words because of the connotations that go along with the verb 'bomb' and it is not accurate. The mission is an impacting mission. Creativity is great, but a word can change how a person views something.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think it's a bad ideal to bomb the Moon! There is no water on it . It is way above the clouds and no moisture gets that high, I think they need to spend the money on health care for poor people or feed our hungry or find more useful things to spend it on. All they do is waist money!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNasa and the Governments no that that's not what their doing this for! this comment probably wont even make it on this page!!But,if I'm wrong it will.I think they should take a step back and try not to piss off the inhabitants that are already there and have been for a long time!!War?Don't know?Maybe we have permission?Or just trying to make people here on earth think otherwise?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am stunned by the sheer ignorance of most of these comments. Doesn't anyone here have even a 6th grade education? If this is what passes for intelligence in America, then I shudder for the future of our country.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNasa and the Governments no that that's not what their doing this for! this comment probably wont even make it on this page!!But,if I'm wrong it will.I think they should take a step back and try not to piss off the inhabitants that are already there and have been for a long time!!War?Don't know?Maybe we have permission?Or just trying to make people here on earth think otherwise?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNasa and the Governments no that that's not what their doing this for! this comment probably wont even make it on this page!!But,if I'm wrong it will.I think they should take a step back and try not to piss off the inhabitants that are already there and have been for a long time!!War?Don't know?Maybe we have permission?Or just trying to make people here on earth think otherwise?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNasa and the Governments no that that's not what their doing this for! this comment probably wont even make it on this page!!But,if I'm wrong it will.I think they should take a step back and try not to piss off the inhabitants that are already there and have been for a long time!!War?Don't know?Maybe we have permission?Or just trying to make people here on earth think otherwise?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNasa and the Governments no that that's not what their doing this for! this comment probably wont even make it on this page!!But,if I'm wrong it will.I think they should take a step back and try not to piss off the inhabitants that are already there and have been for a long time!!War?Don't know?Maybe we have permission?Or just trying to make people here on earth think otherwise?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe New World Order slime did this exact thing to the poles of Mars in the 1940s. Caused life on mars that could survive to go underground since it destroyed the atmosphere which was present on Mars. I see the Bilderberg pigs are up to their crap again.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe New World Order slime did this exact thing to the poles of Mars in the 1940s. Caused life on mars that could survive to go underground since it destroyed the atmosphere which was present on Mars. I see the Bilderberg pigs are up to their crap again.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow dare NASA do this! The moon is a vital part of the balance of the earth. They have no right to play with our lives and that is exactly what they are doing. God help us all.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMost of the remarks are from outside of the United States. What if the moon is frozen, and shatters on impact?? Stop giving Nasa money, they have no idea what to do with it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIts about time! the moon has been looking down on us for too long! Those Mooninites will finally get whats coming to them! Steal my coffee table....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOh my God, what is humanity coming to? As if we haven't stuffed up mother earth enough, with all the greed, consumerism, and need to 'own' everything, they're now blasting the guts out of the moon! So what's this going to mean for climate change??? We haven't seen anything yet. Do they think they own the moon?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHey NASA. Go F yourself! You don't own the friggin' moon. You haven't been to the moon in decades, why do you care if there is water there?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNot to worry. They are not really bombing the moon. They are just bombing that place in the Mojavi desert wher they fimed all those bogus moon landings back in the late 60's and 70's.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy don't they use one of the long sampling tubes? Why an explosion? Why don't they use one of the sampling tubes that they use all the time on Earth that sample miles of Earth?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis seems a little "off." And so let's say there is water? Then they create a moon station for....what? That would be extremely expensive to..... whom? Who would profit? If we are able to colonize anything who do you think would get to live there? Not you or I. The mega wealthy would sit up in their moon houses and nuke the planet Earth like a video game and laugh.
with all the respect for all the coments i just need to ask: bombing the moon in the name of science..but for what? i think that is the main idea behind the supposed harmless of bombing the moon that is dangerous..to put there a manned moonbase.. you can say that the moon is bombarded with random chunks of rock for billions of years and so, comparing with this human act, the impact now wont be nothing.. why do they want to know if there is water on the moon??whats behind it??just curiosity?is it just science for science?or is it ego and fear?or all together..what you are so afraid of?of not having enough water on our beloved planet?and then how will you be rich?and have the control?of being homeless when your own house is destroid (by you..)? maybe you can start solving the problem taking (much) more care about your/our real Home..instead of jumping from sphere to sphere..Nasa and USA governement (not the people!): disregard your ego (superman is just a cartoon..) and dont be so afraid of life!!just respect it more!Ah! and maybe there is life on the moon!maybe you just cant see it..or..is not allowed to be shown to you..you wouldnt have inteligence enough to understand!(sorry about my english..im not an anglo-saxonic native speaker).Dont be so afraid of loving!!Start to love and you wont be so afraid, so needed of control, power..because in the end its just an ilusion..you dont have it!start to travel more inside of you..not outside seeking for power. let there be light in your heart!*
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiseheheh!good answer!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen I heard of this I just could not believe it...I am still in shock...how stupid and what if there is water...things have been just fine for a very long time without that knowledge...by the way who gives permission for such an act. I am an American and I dont recall voting....but then again rarely do I get to.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHi, I think this is really stupid! I'm not a scientist either but won't this effect the moon's orbit which will inturn effect us? Doesn't the moon's gravitational pull effect our oceans? So... mess with the moon and we'll have a Tsunami? So what's going to happen with all the debris from the explosion? What if it comes shooting towards Earth? Then what? Thanks Nasa glad my hard earned dollars are going to satisfy your curisoity and not my medical expenses! You're the best!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf people lived and worked on the moon... LMAO. Does anyone else hear how RIDICULOUS this sounds?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLet me just say, if people lived and worked on the moon what could they find out that they couldn't have known for all these decades that we have been going to the moon (chuckle)?
Why don't they just put people on the moon and have them drill for water, or use one of those giant sampling tubes? Why use a creator maker (or whatever silly word you want to use to try to explain a missile without using that term)? Maybe they would have to spend some time there building launching gear to get the shuttle back to Earth, oh wait.. umm... LOL! Didn't mean to spill the beans, sorry NASA.
It's about as Genius as "curing" cancer with mustard gas!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is very, very sad - I cannot believe what I'm hearing. We are in a crisis in this country; in the world really and this is the best you (NASA & our government) can do with our tax dollars? If you are so interested in knowing whats on the moon then YOU go up there and live there and find out for yourself. DO NOT put the rest of the world at risk for your whims under the disguise of science. Shame on you! May God forgive you He is the only one who can.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think its absolutle crazy to bomb the moon!!! Don't we have enough with destroing the earth now we want to start destroying other planets?, just listen to the ridicules headline "NASA tomorrow will launch a spectacular mission to bomb the moon" WTF? these are the dumbest words I've ever listen to in my life.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think that bombing the moon sounds ridiculous, don't we have enough with bombing and destroing the earth, now we want to go out and destroy another planet! do the scientist have planned carefully what the outcome will be, you know that nothing ever goes according to the plan? what if something unexpected happens? then what are they going to do? there is nothing expectacular about this mission.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thislol...what's next? Detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon, so we can see if the moon cracks? It's bad enough we bomb our own planet. What would a moonless earth be like? In the name of science, other means should be explored. Moon Rover?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisforget bombing the moon which will cost us people millions.....use the bomb for greater reasons like ending the war we have right here on earth.....drop the bomb on all the towel heads..!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWater for the new american lunar space station; sounds terrific. GO NASA!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLooking for water??? Must be getting ready for the new American Lunar Space Station! Brilliant; go NASA!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswho really knows what will happen when the missle hits.....NASA could be opening up something that shouldnt be messed with....everything could go wrong and not as planned causing the end of the world...!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe article above is not very complete- the purpose of bombing the moon is to look for water! It is a class-d mission and is much-much cheaper than if we were to send men and drills up there....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisnonsense... you watch to much syfy and are probably a fantasy lover; but apocalyptic events tend to catch people's attention!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisbtw great humor
you have all the sensitivity of a blunt axe when it comes to war and no honor/chivalry... furthermore i'm willing to bet you are in debt just like america; take care of your own house first!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI'm sorry I can't tell if you're English is really weak, or if you're just illiterate. Actually reading the article will tell you that most of the research was done by British scientists. They're only teaming with NASA because they have a lot more funding and it's beneficial to everyone. While I by no means agree with the war started by George W Bush, no one, by any means can accuse America of being bored with killing humans and wanting to "kill the space". I don't need to go into detail over the erroneous word choice and logic used.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNow onto my thoughts... While I think that its very dangerous for solutions to resource shortages to be solved by space colonization, I liked star trek and maybe that's where we're headed. I trust that these scientist will know how to not fuck up the moon.
Who gave permission to bomb the moon? Real scientists in the world we know understand the Principle of the Sacred Balance.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThen there are those who just do things to satisfy their inane curiosity with no real consideration for effects of their actions.
The definition for these members of our society is the same as the medical definition of A VIRUS. I am not trying to be nasty just alarmed at the blatant lack of wisdom and real consideration for the essentials of life in our universe. When you do something which could potentially change the specific relationships of heavenly bodies saying I'm sorry i didn't think of that DOESN'T CUT IT. It has been stated the earth has a 23.25 degree relationship with the sun and if that changes we are doomed; Thank God for all the water we have to balance otherwise taking too much oil out of one side of the earth or the pole areas would do us in.
So what if you change the orbital relationship between the moon and the earth. In the far east they have a saying much quoted - "Pluck a flower and disturb a star." - there is some application for that thought here. Here's hoping we wake up breathing tomorrow. Disclaimer: "I may disagree with what YOU SAY but will always honor your right to say it."
Respectfully submitted,
Melvin W. Deardorf of "The Jobs for Everyone Initiative."
How retarted do they think we are???? Come on, they are not bombing the moon for water, they are testing a new bomb!!! I suspect they have a new bomb comparrable to a nuclear bomb, and they want to test to see how it performs and this is there pathtetic attempt at making it seem they are doing something else. Got to love the U.S.A, nothing but lies.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat a pathetic excuse to test a new bomb.. I know what they're doing, too bad they're lieng to the entire world good old US of A
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSounds like NASA doesn't understand the law if physics. You know, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. What a joke! I heard this was Arnold Schwarzenegger's idea. How appropriate.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOkay, this is just a unknowledgeable idea. No one is really thinking and they're just panicing, thats why the scientists are just jumping to solutions to avoid the decreasing supply of water on Earth. But they're clearly missing the important facts; that a missile being shot at the moon, considering the size and speed of this missile, can possibly shift the orbit of the moon; if it doesn't shatter the moon first it may shift further to the Earth, causing it's gravitational pull to become stronger and making the moon crush the Earth or ruin its' atmosphere in the result of the impact. If the Moon moves away from the earth, it could possibly mess with the Earth's orbit or sling shot the moon around the sun and hit another planet, causing choas across our galaxy. God set up the galaxy the way he did for a reason. This mission of chasing overthought dreams is not only filled with lots of doubts and unseen consequences, but could possibly be one of the largest mistakes of the human race. Is knowing whether there is water on the moon really worth all this?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisQuoted from an earlier post*******Man has almost destroyed the earth and now here they re taking pot shots at the moon. Is there nothing better to do with the money used to fund this lunacy? What happens if the moon shifts or just starts falling apart? What about the tides it controls? Does anyone things about consequences to such actions?********
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow I am beginning to think all you people are really that stupid and nieve! Moon falling apart? Tides are going to be effected?
You idiot! just plain and smiple 1'st grade ignorance.
I also see people complaining about a vote? YOU ALREADY DID!!! you had a voice and you all voted Obama into office and all of your other idiots you voted for in years past when they drawn up the plans for this. They are there! IN OFFICE! Where you put them. And now you bitch about wanting to have a voice. Have all of you gone MAD!
I really do see civilization collapsing because of silly minded idiots that don't understand why the moon is all lit up and yellow then create hoopla by spreading their opinions and demanding answers.
AMERICANS!! Please rally together and support everything to get off this planet and leave all the rock throwing idiots still battling over religion for the last 2000 or so years behind.
They are worring about people calling ALAH names and fighting to the death about it when most of their countries are under devoloped. starving, and cold, its been going on for thousands of Years and it will never stop the thinking of the feeble minded, under-devoloped middle eastern people.
Those are the ones posting the stupid rants here. Not true level headed americans. And I mean "LEVEL HEADED" not like the idiot that just posted the rant I quoted above. He is not American even if he is in this country. Americans strive for knowledge and progress. Communist's, liberals, alarmists and clueless people are posting here about "hurting the poor liitle moon with our progress.
Face it! we are going to rape the moon for all it can give us as a civilization. We have to do this to live and progress. There is no such thing as letting the cow live when we have to eat. Or for you vegitarians, letting the plants live their exsistance while we just do what? eat what? live how?.
Complain all you want about your feeble attempts to stop progress and hide in your wooden homes, drive cars and complain about mining. Progress is not going to listen to you when you have already spoken with the idiot you already voted into office.
when i heard this on the news this morning i was horrifyed , the sun and the moon are the most important things in our universe ,we need them to live on this planet we all now what roll the moon plays , i dont think anything good can come from this. curiosity killed the cat !! god help us !
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisyou know what they say about the best layed plans !
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSomebody PLEASE, shoot down this thing now!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPleas Take some time to research the topic before posting such ignorant comments. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2633205.stm. India plans Moon landing. That's exactly why we have become the third world of technology. Go buy an iphone and call ET.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPleas Take some time to research the topic before posting such ignorant comments. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2633205.stm. India rejoices over moon probe landing. That's exactly why we have become the third world of technology. Go buy an iphone and call ET.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTomorrow NASA is planning to bomb the moon to “look for water”; this is the most asinine, dangerous, arrogant thing I’ll ever witness in my lifetime! Why the hell are they looking for water in space when they already have water they can carry with them? What if another planet decides to bomb us? What if this “bombing” affects the tides, winds and seas on our planet? This is the height of arrogance and disregard for other life forms including the human race. What dumb-ass authorized this? If NASA is making interplanetary decision, shouldn’t we as citizens of earth get to vote on it???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWell there is some more money well spent. Gee I wonder what else we could have spent all that money one...hmmmm.....maybe HEALTH CARE?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNow that is money well spent huh?? Maybe there is some free health care on the moon that we can one day bring back to earth. I wonder how much this mission cost us? You know....I don't want to sound too far out here but...assuming we are not the only intelligent life form in the Universe, doesn't really send a very good message......."Holy crap, if they are crazy enough to try and blow up their own moon God knows what they would do to us!!"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThose fools are gonna cause us to be attacked!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey were planning this BEFORE Obama took office...genius!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisweather not wether
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi really dont think that this is a good idea. with the moon being a big soft rock and little to no gravity i dont think that it will be as minor of an explosion as they say i think that a ton of debri will come and rain down on us. or we will make suck an impact on the moon that it will knock it out of orbit
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhine whine whine bitch bitch bitch Whine whine whine bitch bitch bitch. Is anyone here a Rocket Scientist? Anyone? Anyone at all? I want to see the Degree you have in astrophysics. I do. Snap a picture and show it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am an environmental scientist but am not a tree hugging hippie. BUT How well thought out could bombing the moon be if you only found out a month ago that they might be water on it? I don't think bombing the thing that causes tides, which by the way is responsible for pretty much all life on earth, is a good idea. I am all for scientific advancement and while it is probably highly unlikely that all life of earth will perish from this one act, I do think you are not considering the long term consequences of your actions to the moon. As of yet, I don't know of any way of remediating the moon, we have enough trouble remediating contamination on earth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAmerican Physco-babble!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAt least we know now whos to blame for the upcoming 2012 then dont we.
and oh! what a surprise, the Americans, I shoulda put money on it ages ago, at least i could live my last days in style.
No tides without the moon, but who cares, America has to shoot stuff! I'm so glad i dont live there. If your not getting told your gonna have to answer to Jesus when you die cause you dont believe in God, your getting shot.
What does Moon and then American psycho Christians shooting people for not believing in god have anything to do with this?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPeople have to stop over analyzing this shit. They really do. This isn't about some stupid God thing this is about Science. Take your soap boxing some where else.
And for the Record not every American is a Psycho if you really believe that then your just stupid.
fuck you akmed
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGentlemen,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe Moon is a control means for the Earth and vibrating it in any manner causes reaction in the control signals to the Earth. The craters on the Moon are actually from literal Bombs (not TNT) exploding on impact meant to destroy the surface and all that was on it at the time. It is not important how I know, that I know and am telling you about it not is what is important. The information is here on Earth, seek it out. The results of the contemplated actions will be disastrous. I am not allowed to say more as it will interefere with the ONE Law.
You shut up too.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIdiots like you give Americans the reputation that we have.
wow most of u rags are simply just to stupid to be considered intelligent life forms. one fool even suggests we are starting star wars some, other crackhead says its a war on islam like you guys dont kill yourselves of fast enough or violently enough i would love to embrace all of you as brothers but with the level of nieve stupidity in this room thats not likely
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think it's a practice shot! Which country will be next?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat about the related search for helium3 and 4 as well as hydrogen did you consider that
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisim not complaining about medicine thats only our commy leader
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisright because islam has a shrine on the moon duh
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo what time will it be happening in Texas?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisyou dont keep up with history do you
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHey guys, you should learn a little science before you start judging NASA's decisions. Determining if there is water on the moon is a valuable endeavor for a multitude of potentially practical reasons (such as being a potential water resource for scientists spending prolonged periods of time on the moon, for example) as well as being a worthwhile basic science question. Probably the logic behind using explosives is that it is a much less expensive and much less dangerous method than sending scientists to the moon to study the geology by hand. And no, an explosive device of this kind will not impart sufficient momentum upon the moon to alter its orbit.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOf course, the criticism that this is prompted by a desire to develop satellite-to-earth missile systems is potentially a valid one worth discussing. But the tones I see in the above posts are much more sophomoric than that, and don't seem to be addressing that issue in a serious manner.
p.s. - what exactly does it mean to 'wage war on space'? I can't wait to get to my physics class to tell my friends that someone thinks it's meaningful to 'wage war on space'. lol. Perhaps you meant 'wage war in space'?
man really really
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes we decided to put a missle defense shield on the moon. We need the water to get hydrogen to fuel missles and oxygen to feed scientists on the moon. It will be like looking down on an ant colony. See something we don't like and we can cap someone's ass from space. Nice!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon is in orbit to protect humen race from sailing into space but the united states is now recomending that they should be allowed to fire a missel and a gigt from our creater so who gives them the right to play God and destroy something so beautiful get a life .
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisstupid stupid stupid
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think this is a great stepping stone to space. If there's water we can make energy from hydrogen and oxygen for astronauts.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhere would we be if Christopher Columbus stayed home?
Yes we decided to put a missle defense shield on the moon. We need the water to get hydrogen to fuel missles and oxygen to feed scientists on the moon. It will be like looking down on an ant colony. See something we don't like and we can cap someone's ass from space. Nice!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisgods you say not likely perhaps your just jelous
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisJust another step man kind is taking to distroy all that is good in out world, for what. . . . Science? I don't think so. One thing I have learned which stands true. . . .whatever the stated reasons for man's actions/motivations, it is NOT the truth. Man kind will not rest until there is nothing else to distroy or control. Maybe there is life else where in space. If there is, then man kind just might be in for a good ass woopen.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI honsetly don't know what to make of this, i mean to me it seems sort of fictional bombing the moon like something out of a story book, but i dunno im curious to see what will happen and i hope that scientists have made sure that there won't be any potentially dangeerous side effects of the debris and blast
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOne thing about scientist, there's a reason they work in such high security areas. . . . there all nuts and need to be locked up. I mean come on . . .bombing the moon to look for water. Do you really expect us to believe that line? So what would you do if there was water on the moon. . . .drink it!!!!LOL.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWTF seriously u guys need to stop being imature and think fuck the moon base if this goes wrong some can die or all of us i mean don't the U.S. citizens have anything to say about our lives cause yur threatning ours and thats against the law if this goes wrong i know numerous people who say there going to rebel live life there own way!!!! THIS IS MESSED UP!!!!!!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWTF seriously u guys need to stop being imature and think fuck the moon base if this goes wrong some can die or all of us i mean don't the U.S. citizens have anything to say about our lives cause yur threatning ours and thats against the law if this goes wrong i know numerous people who say there going to rebel live life there own way!!!! THIS IS MESSED UP!!!!!!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthey are fucking idiots! thats will be dangerous for earth!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNASA omg ur fucking stupid...bombing the moon....grab a brain
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthey are fucking idiots! thats will be dangerous for earth!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisomg wtf nasa are u stupid? u bomb the moon and set it off coarse were all screwed u know..moon is one of the most important things in the sky u know >:(
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisno wonder aliens want to attack earth....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am a appalled, by everyone's reaction to this, its not going to be as bad as all of you are saying. The moon has been hit by meteors traveling at such greater speeds and sizes and even THOSE did not remove the moon from earths orbit. Take a look folks wake up to what space exploration has done for our civilization, and this is only the start. Another thing, please show some respect for the people who work at NASA, saying things like"Go find real Jobs" and the such is just so unenlightened. Also you can spend as much time as you want cursing human ingenuity, but in the end its whats going to save us from what ever obstacles our species is faced with. I just ask that you people get your facts straight.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNo wonder aliens have a misunderstanding to earthlings
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNope, can't do much the stop their actions. They keep stealing our tax dollars, while corporations pay them off. The world needs to know that Washington DC does NOT represent the people. That was lost long before we living today was ever born. . . . you need proof, just look at the mess they are proposing for national healthcare. They act like sharks with blood in the water. . . .they just go from bad to worse. . . .must be the new american way.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisim from the south we shot animals for food, we drive old trucks and talk counrty .people make fun of us but at least we got c0mmon sense to realize how incredibly stupid it sounds to shoot the moon .ya"ll are scientists for gods sake get your heads out of your arses and find a better use to put 79 million dollars to instead of bombing the moon .maybe give some of that money to the over 6 million people that are out of work right now or to food banks or the homeless. ya"ll are dumber than a box of rocks that is so sad that with all your advances about space you come up with this. i can't believe the government helps fund this kind of crap it's just such a waste of resourses seriously.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisoops. They might have forgotten about that one.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWouldn't the debris cause damage to us? I think it's the dumbest idea ever thought of. If there is life in outer space couldn't this start a war of some sort? It's scary to think that my future could be in jepordy just for some stupid experiment...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thissuch a stupid idea. are you kidding me!?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswe are having economic problems and instead of fixing our health care system we are wasting money JUST to discover if the moon has water!!?
WOw. this is not legit. its not cool. it puts the whole world in risk.
Ok patrick_kenn, just read your comment and had to respond about the things NASA has done. I am impressed at the level of complexity with which NASA operates. However, when if comes to choices between what the country and the world needs verses NASA. . . . NASA takes a back seat. Space exploration is NOT going to save the world from its problems. The countries priorities are out of place with what is needed and NASA draws off valuable resources which could be put to better use. Let the people sound off as much as they want. These comments are great. Besides, their not listen to us anyway.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thislets see we have people starving in all countries and a war,plus recession.and people loseing homes,jobs but we can afford to send a rocket to the moon,hmmmmm does this sound like a good idea? i dont think so why dont they stick to the earth and fix the problems we have here and go from there! space water should be the last thing we should be spending billions on. come on people fix the earth not blow a hole in the moon!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswitchcrft27: I afraid your right on point with your comment. Yep, there is not pill they can take, not rehab classes or other forms of therapy for them or Washington. Because of their individual sucesses they feel justified in their thinking that they are right and we are all wrong. . . . .what a sad state of affairs. Kind of makes you wonder if there has been some inbreeding going on.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisobviously the 'scientist' don't enough brian to think 'huh?doesnt the moon control the tittlewaves? so if we blast iit could effect the water and tsunami's might take over or earthquakes seperate the world? then what would they do wage war with the other side of their country?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthey wonder why our economy is down because they use their money for unrealistic things instead of using it to support their people.this is so pathetic! it just proves they've never been to the moon if they had they could just went to it and dug alittle not blow up half of it!
obviously the 'scientist' don't enough brian to think 'huh?doesnt the moon control the tittlewaves? so if we blast iit could effect the water and tsunami's might take over or earthquakes seperate the world? then what would they do wage war with the other side of their country?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthey wonder why our economy is down because they use their money for unrealistic things instead of using it to support their people.this is so pathetic! it just proves they've never been to the moon if they had they could just went to it and dug alittle not blow up half of it!
Why is it so much necessary to find water on moon when there is plenty on earth. We should learn and find ways to manage our natural resources to the fullest capacity first. Our eco-systems are self-sustainable if we manage them in a proper way and the amount of water we have here can cover the whole land mass of earth. IT IS AN UTTER STUPIDITY ON THE PART OF GOVERNMENTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE THAT WATER MANAGEMENT IS ALWAYS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE NATIONAL PRIORITY LIST WATER LIFE-SUSTAINING NATURAL SUBSTANCE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY BOTH IN HELL AND HEAVEN . If we manage the available water well, we dont need to find water elsewhere for many thousand years to come. With our progressive way of life we have damaged our pristine natural water system and now we are trying to do our best to start a systematic damage to the moon. I hope when NASA fires a bomb into moon, someone or something or aliens would FIRE back and destroy all the equipments, reminding us to mind and manage the resources made available to us well first before going into some other frontiers to do our damaging works. Most of the fellas at NASA are scientists or you can say as, "WEIRD SCIENTIFIC FREAKS WHO LIKE FIREWORKS SHOWS AND TRICKS", who don't care much about the plight of the common people of our world. The time, energy, effort, money, etc. used for this purpose can instead be better utilized to manage our available water resources right under our feet!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is amazing! Why are you people complaining so much? This is a huge step in understanding our universe! So many mysteries will be solved. This is the future and your living it!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAnd by the way this has nothing to do with getting more water for earth. They stated that they could use it to support a manned moon base. The water on earth isnt going anywhere, it is continually recycling.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think that this whole thing is bull$h!t. the people at nasa are idiots. they're risking all of the people on earth's lifes just for that shit. i'll be sure to be up in the morning to watch the earth die...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe're not going to war with the moon. That's just ridiculous. I don't know if the impact could possibly be great enough to throw it off its orbit. The moon has probably handled bigger and harder impacts in the billions of years its been up there. Plus I'm confident that the astrophysicists at NASA have taken the power of impact into consideration. Space exploration and a moon base... sounds like crazy sci-fi stuff to me, exploring new frontiers and expanding our knowledge of the the universe makes me think of Star Trek and Star Wars so I must admit it sounds pretty exciting to me, though also extremely expensive. =(
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLeave nature alone!! Let it do it's thing. I totally despise this mission to bomb the moon. And believe NASA does not have the right to do it. The whole Earth shares the moon. If they want to carry out such an invasive endeavor, they better consult the other nations too. Man has already marred Earth. What do you get if you know there's water on the moon? Save the remaining water on Earth.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat's ridiculous, Heracles. We all know that the astro-physicists at NASA have no idea how to tell what kind of impact would affect the moons orbit and that the moon has never been struck by other celestial objects traveling at high speeds through frictionless space.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI guess progress is darn expensive, but omg MOON BASE! Exploring new frontiers and making sci-fi happen is a pretty amazing feat that seems greater than our earthly problems... which I guess are pretty significant, especially in terms of our economy. =(
I'm so darn poor.
I cannot believe Scientists would do such a VIOLENT thing to the Moon to check for Water..in 2009, you would think they would have a smarter, less invasive & DESTRUCTIVE way to do this!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt is appalling & upsetting!
Seems like a cruel Joke:((
I think it's a great idea , i just don't like the tax payers having to foot the bill when they are already so over burdened with all the bull they already have to pay for . the world is in a sh##ty state as it is and the americans have to pay for most of it . 60,000,000 million dollars a year just to pay prisoners of war in iraq was more than enough bull for me , you are not supposed to pay the people trying to kill you when their caught not to mention the many millions more that just went up in smoke ! litterally ! and any Idiot who says we're waging war on the moon is a brainless fool !
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis REALLY Upsets me... seems MORONIC!:(
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDid the rest of the World agree to this?
Who does America think it is to commit such a violent act on the MOON!!!??
your a bunch of idiots if you think we're waging war on the moon !!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy don't we go to the moon and drill for water then blow it up?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHas the world finally gone absolutaly insane. Nasa thinks the population of this planet is low in I.Q. That might be the case in the white house of where ever they make these obsurd decisions. But seriously, you expect us to believe your doing this for the sake of finding water. Unbelievable, get real idiot, whats the real reason. Its just another pissing contest or something else that involves underhanded practices. unbelievable.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBOMBNING THE MOON? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!!!!!!!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDID WE ASK HOW OTHER COUNTRIES FEEL ABOUT THIS? IT IS NOT OUR MOON TO SHOOT. HAVENT WE LEARNED OUR MISTAKES FROM POLLUTING EARTH YET? GOOD GOD, I HATE HUMANITY.
This is crazy and truly unethical and should not be allowed to happen. Its bad enough we bomb each other, lets leave the rest of the world(s) out of it. Water was already discovered by Indias mission several years ago. And remember folks that NASA (and most major news media outlets) are linked to the NSA, CIA, DoD and Army/Air Force/ Navy Intelligence. Anything they try to explain or try to debunk (aka: disinformation) to the public you can be assured it is all BS.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is crazy and truly unethical and should not be allowed to happen. It’s bad enough we bomb each other, let’s leave the rest of the world(s) out of it. Water was already discovered by India’s mission several years ago. And remember folks that NASA (and most major news media outlets) are linked to the NSA, CIA, DoD and Army/Air Force/ Navy Intelligence. Anything they try to explain or try to debunk (aka: disinformation) to the public you can be assured it is all BS.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI don't know where you get your education from but we don't have the weapons to knock the moon out of orbit. So pick up a science book about astronomy and read it before making a stupid comment like you did kocol,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHas the world finally gone absolutaly insane. Nasa thinks the population of this planet is low in I.Q. That might be the case in the white house of where ever they make these obsurd decisions. But seriously, you expect us to believe your doing this for the sake of finding water. Unbelievable, get real idiot, whats the real reason. Its just another pissing contest or something else that involves underhanded practices. unbelievable.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisyou know, it seems to me that this may be a last ditch effort to save the polar ice caps and maybe us... not sure how sound of an idea it is but in my crazy mixed up mind I see it as such: If we4 blast the moon and a we find water, we can colonize the moon in an effort to complete opperation constelation or whatever it's called. However if we find that in fact there is not water on the moon, at least we can shift the moons position enough to couteract the shifted tilt of the earths axis and the drifting that earth has done from the from the sun... just a theory by an average Joe using what he likes to call reason.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think that is just nuts are this people crazy.why would you bomb the moon to see if water is on it.why don't they just send a few people up there and have them drill a hole in or near the crater.do they think that is to hard or something.they don't even know how the missile will react to the moon atomsphere.which is super stupid of them.I may just be a kid typing this but tons of people will think i'm right.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think that is just nuts are this people crazy.why would you bomb the moon to see if water is on it.why don't they just send a few people up there and have them drill a hole in or near the crater.do they think that is to hard or something.they don't even know how the missile will react to the moon atomsphere.which is super stupid of them.I may just be a kid typing this but tons of people feel the same way i do about this
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think that is just nuts are this people crazy.why would you bomb the moon to see if water is on it.why don't they just send a few people up there and have them drill a hole in or near the crater.do they think that is to hard or something.they don't even know how the missile will react to the moon atomsphere.which is super stupid of them.I may just be a kid typing this but tons of people will think i'm right.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think that is just nuts are this people crazy.why would you bomb the moon to see if water is on it.why don't they just send a few people up there and have them drill a hole in or near the crater.do they think that is to hard or something.they don't even know how the missile will react to the moon atomsphere.which is super stupid of them.I may just be a kid typing this but tons of people will think i'm right.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi think that is just nuts are this people crazy.why would you bomb the moon to see if water is on it.why don't they just send a few people up there and have them drill a hole in or near the crater.do they think that is to hard or something.they don't even know how the missile will react to the moon atomsphere.which is super stupid of them.I may just be a kid typing this but tons of people will think i'm right.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisseriously? 79 million to look for water on the moon? Granted this may be important in the future, but it seems like we have a few problems more pressing than a potential water source for a hypothetical moon base. National debt? Unemployment? Poverty? No, clearly Washington knows what the people really want.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat is this bullshit?! They can't bomb the moon! If they do that and it knocks the moon out of orbit, we'll be in some deep shit! My science teacher taught us the moon reflects on the weather or something. NASA is so stupid! We don't need this shit happening! We've got enough going on with Earth like global warming. NASA is supposed to be the smart ones? Yeah right. Those guys are complete idiots. I just found out that they're doing it tomorrow, October 9th, during the day instead of the 8th. Just what I need to worry about while I'm working...NASA bombing the moon. This shit is stupid. I thought they had to talk to the Preisdent first? My friends and I don't think Obama would agree to this but, for all we know, we could be wrong. But still we need to do something. The moon belongs to everyone on Earth, the moon doesn't only belong to NASA.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthis is the epitomy of stupid things that humans have done to screw up the earth in which we live in. Did Obama allow this?... I hope that they thought of all the cosequences that are going to be brought upon us for this act of curiosity.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the epitomy of stupid things humans have done to destroy the earth. Does Obama approve of this? I sure hope that they have thought out all of the consequences that will be brought upon us thanks to the curiosity of these scientists.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhy am i reading your message 5 times kocol,send it only once you chooch
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen i saw the headline i thought it was a joke,my god how can
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswe justify spending millions of dollars on a project like this.I am frightened how do they know what the impact on earth will be,it's foolish,when americans have to remortgage there homes to pay for medical procedures it makes no sense.
What a sad and terrible thing to do! I'm disappointed that NASA is so desperate to get attention for future funding. The moon is of vital importance to our planet's survival and bombing it can throw things off course. Think about it, how would the Earth respond if a vessel crashed into it? NASA is run by individuals not thinking through the consequences of their actions. Protect the moon!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is really stupid. They want to bomb the moon and they aren't even sure if there's water in it or not?! God. Americans are terrible.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisU.S. must be looking for oil - - - - - - - - - lmao
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think with the talk from other countries, aiming to travel to the moon, has prompted the US government to bomb the moon, for the purpose of destroying the evidence they found when they were there.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou crazies need to chill. NASA scientists are far more brilliant than any of us, so I don't think we have anything to worry about. These aren't the same people who are declaring war on other nations either, so I don't think this should be compared to invading countries like Iraq.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo geniuses, should someone find water on the moon, what difference does that make to anything? If you think we need it on Earth, how long before we could get it back. If there's enought to worry about, you'd risk destabilising the gravitational balance just for that? Ca you predict with 100% certainty what the effect of you actions would be. If not leave it the fuck alone.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAh! Science, finally exposed, we have a theory so lets "throw rocks at the moon" to see if it's true. My theory is that all Scientists are unbreakable - lets test that one folks!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWho are these NASA people to play with everybody's life....when they plan something don't they take the opinion of all people this is just a disturbance to Environment....Who knows they don't even can't assess there is water or not without this...how sure are they that there are no explosive gases over there which can light up whole atmosphere on moon? and who knows this might even result in Death of millions of people today itself...Whatever it is some miracle has to happen to stop this....from Anthropic destruction of climate
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey are trying to determine if there is water on the moon in order to help sustain a proposed moonbase. The are not declaring war on the moon! Apparently you all didn't read the article.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey are trying to determine if there is water on the moon in order to help sustain a proposed moonbase. The are not declaring war on the moon! Apparently you all didn't read the article.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOK just looking for water? Come on its something else for sure if they were looking for "water" why bomb when on mars we sent the rover and its still getting info now i think so why is nasa(millitary) doing a one shot deal pretty much?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe did not create the Moon, therefore we have no right to deface it in ANY way. With all the earthquakes and disease, and Tsunami's warning us....let's just go out of our way to piss God off a little more!! Let's see what happens....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the most ridiculous idea NASA has ever had. I don't understand why they just can't leave things the way they are, and people wonder why our planet is disintegrating before our eyes. This is a terrible idea, this is just a disaster waiting to happen.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWho the hell does the Goverment think it is GOD? Because the Moon belongs to everyone and I say get the hell away from the Moon Have some f____en RESPECT. Who asked anyone else How about China, Europe Etc. Who asked them? This has got to stop. Just like the Middle East America needs to mind it own business and RESPECT others these countries have been fighting for thousands of years America has only been here for 200 years. The Goverment needs to start Respecting others and set an example for the rest of us so we can learn to respect one another. The Goverment has too much power, this has got to stop... What if they do alter the Moon are air or something important my change on earth and kill us all. Or what about China they are looking for a reason the fuck us up and what better reason then messing with there moon.
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Who the hell does the Goverment think it is GOD? Because the Moon belongs to everyone and I say get the hell away from the Moon Have some f____en RESPECT. Who asked anyone else How about China, Europe Etc. Who asked them? This has got to stop. Just like the Middle East America needs to mind it own business and RESPECT others these countries have been fighting for thousands of years America has only been here for 200 years. The Goverment needs to start Respecting others and set an example for the rest of us so we can learn to respect one another. The Goverment has too much power, this has got to stop... What if they do alter the Moon are air or something important my change on earth and kill us all. Or what about China they are looking for a reason theF us up and what better reason then messing with there moon. How much is this costing? This is so stupid it's a waste of time. And stop playing GOD..
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thistheres always another reason for anything the government does. lie to use and use some other name so we cant get the truth(harrp, the twin towers, ect)Im glad to see more americans waking up to the lies they are eveywhere.bottom line they cannot be trusted so why are they? bomb the moon common sense should be required to run anything in this country all the people in government office that voted ok on this need to be sent with it!we didnt need to bomb mars to look for water and everything else its still finding (i think could be wrong). WHY THE MOON THEN dosent make any sense let alone common!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI understand the concept of going to the moon to look for water to support a moon base. If it is going to be a such a deep crater from the impact this seems to be a matter of economics. I know it could take a long time to drill a hole that deep, it does on earth. Which could cost a lot. But, from drilling you at least understand the strata and will know how deep the water is. You won't be able to tell that from this expensive experiment. You will probably say, yep there is water, now we need billions more to drill a hole to see where the heck it is. I guess this is a scientific stimulus package of maga proportions. The only need for a base moon station to to train astronauts to be ready for extended space flights to god knows where. We may be running out of time on our planet, they just aren't telling us that they have spoken directly to god. And, he says time is nearing the end and if you want to live get off the planet...I don't think so. God will be ready at any given moment to end it. Just think super valcanoes and massive siesmic activity near those regions. Something may errupt at anytime and end the world with in hours. So run up your credit card debt and have a blast, take a cruise, travel the world over. Have fun, it may all be over any day anyways. That will simulate the economy too, until you can't pay what you owe. What a circle we live in, the world.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHeres another thought maybe thats what they want to piss off some more people to say look more terrorists. then they can take more of our rights.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisShit LikE BoMbiNg The MoOn Is ExaclY Why This World Is FuCked Up Now!! For StuPid Shit Like That.....
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisah why is everyone so stupid and clueless.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this1. the impact is relatively small (10km plume of debris vs. the whole size of the moon, and hence will not change the orbit.
2. they aren't interested in collecting moon water for earth, it is an experiment to see whether we could possibly colonize the moon thanks to the presence of sufficient water.
3. it isn't just the US, India has done similar and other countries crash stuff into the moon all the time
now that we are going to blast the moon is that we was not the 1st to the moon that is y we are going to blast the moon it 's to see if there is water on the moon ?now you will see that we can't send a man made land rover like the one we send to mars no they have to blast the moon because they know something is there that is y they are going to do that not water but to hide the proof of people liveing up there we help put them there but now that they are doing will y not blast them to hell that is y they have to do that not water but life so watch the sky and you will see the blast bigger then they say 2 for the price of one y not send a man made rover but we need to be ready for the out come i think we are going to pay for this now all we can do is have faith in god now you think 2012/DEC/12/is going to be something but we just jump the gun so be ready
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisShoot, I think the report said the rocket is not really a bomb, just some other thing , supposed to act like a comet and its going to make an impact of 70-60 feet? I mean thats the only way it will be safe. Like if somebody did the same thing in reverse but to like the desert i think it would only make a small crater in it. Secondly is the axis of the moon affect the earth? or is it the sun that its actually being revolved around? Yes and that would be a disastor if the earth changed shift then all kinds wierd stuff could happen. Finally have they not spent enough money to save a thrid world country to see if the moon had water and all the test came out the same, either it had little frozen water, or something.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisnow that we are going to blast the moon is that we was not the 1st to the moon that is y we are going to blast the moon it 's to see if there is water on the moon ?now you will see that we can't send a man made land rover like the one we send to mars no they have to blast the moon because they know something is there that is y they are going to do that not water but to hide the proof of people liveing up there we help put them there but now that they are doing will y not blast them to hell that is y they have to do that not water but life so watch the sky and you will see the blast bigger then they say 2 for the price of one y not send a man made rover but we need to be ready for the out come i think we are going to pay for this now all we can do is have faith in god now you think 2012/DEC/12/is going to be something but we just jump the gun so be ready
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNEXT TIME THEY NEED TO BE MORE INFORMATIVE WHEN DOING THINGS LIKE THIS, THE NEWS, THE PEOPLE INVOLVED, AND NASA!
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWHAT A HORRIBLE IDEA! WHAT ARE THEY DOING? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? BILLIONS SPENT ON STUPID STUFF LIKE THIS! I AM SO ANGRY AT THE WHOLE IDEA! THE MOON EFFECTS OUR OCEANS! THE MOON EFFECT HUMAN MIND AND WE ARE BOMBING IT? WE HAVE DESTROYED THE EARTH AND NOW THE MOON?! WHO THE HELL IS DOING OR ALLOWING ALL THIS CORRUPTION! IT'S DISGUSTING AND I'M COMPLETELY AGAINST IT! HORRIBLE, STUPID, CORRUPT BEHAVIOR! EVEN IF THERE IS WATER, THEN WHAT? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! STUPID WASTE OF MONEY AND FUNDING WHILE PEOPLE A BLOCK AWAY STARVE!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSomething else America can throw away their money they don't have on! I have to agree with kocol, it doesn't sound like a good idea to mess with the moon since it could cause damage to the orbit! War with the moon war with people, I wish it would just all stop!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSomething else America can throw away their money they don't have on! I have to agree with kocol, it doesn't sound like a good idea to mess with the moon since it could cause damage to the orbit! War with the moon war with people, I wish it would just all stop!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSeriously????? Is it not enough that we are destroying our own world but now we are moving onto the moon. There are better ways im sure of obtaining samples of poss. water on the moon then to bomb it. Is that really the always the answer the human beings have .... lets bomb it, exploit it,.... how about we just leave it alone until we are cabable of obtaining the sample without using distructive methods
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi cant believe dat sum of de worlds smartest men are gonna do the dumbest thing.they can create stress like quakes on de moon doin serious damage.wha are they thinkin.so many things can go wrong.i,m so angry rite now.tuskani ziggy franco
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this<----- is wondering how much a bottle of moon water will cost if the concept gets to the coca-cola company ?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi wonder how much a bottle of this water will cost if coca-cola gets ahold of the concept of bottling it??
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThey have known about traces of water on the Moon since 1971. India beat NASA to the punch, by being 'first' in disclosing the discovery of water on the Moon. So there is no reason really to detonate the 'alleged kinetic bomb' on the surface of the moon seeking traces of water anymore as India discovered this already.
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The attempt to bomb moon is the height of human ignorance. Our material quest of nature without understanding the Truth of Nature has already rendered earth and cosmos unstable. If you stand back and observe, we note that the natural catastrophes have both increased in number and magnitude in parallel to explosion of material knowledge and material exploitation. It could be suicidal to stress nature without first understanding the Truth of Nature, its interrelationship, oneness and its working. I write this comment as a scientist who worked in the field of biotechnology and set out seek Truth of Nature. I speak to you from the back drop of over two decades of selfless research that gave me insight into Truth of Nature and its functioning. I call upon the media and intellectuals in the Temples of Science to look at it. The site where the information exist is Awakening to Truth http://sites.google.com/site/awakeningtotruth
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe attempt to bomb moon is the height of human ignorance. Our material quest of nature without understanding the Truth of Nature has already rendered earth and cosmos unstable. If you stand back and observe, we note that the natural catastrophes have both increased in number and magnitude in parallel to explosion of material knowledge and material exploitation. It could be suicidal to stress nature without first understanding the Truth of Nature, its interrelationship, oneness and its working. I write this comment as a scientist who worked in the field of biotechnology and set out seek Truth of Nature. I speak to you from the back drop of over two decades of selfless research that gave me insight into Truth of Nature and its functioning. I call upon the media and intellectuals in the Temples of Science to look at it. The site where the information exist is “Awakening to Truth” http://sites.google.com/site/awakeningtotruth
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswow as if the planet is'nt fucked up enough lets go bomb our lifesource that controls our tides weather and probably more shit than you so called sci fi knobs think you know.What gives yous the right to fire bombs into the earths moon?Not yours!for fuck sake theres no god dam oil on the moon or maybe ossama's hideing in the caves LEAVE OUR MOON ALONE YANKS THATS RIGHT OUR MOON EARTHS.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswow as if the planet is'nt fucked up enough lets go bomb our lifesource that controls our tides weather and probably more shit than you so called sci fi knobs think you know.What gives yous the right to fire bombs into the earths moon?Not yours!for fuck sake theres no god dam oil on the moon or maybe ossama's hideing in the caves LEAVE OUR MOON ALONE YANKS THATS RIGHT OUR MOON EARTHS.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswow as if the planet is'nt fucked up enough lets go bomb our lifesource that controls our tides weather and probably more shit than you so called sci fi knobs think you know.What gives yous the right to fire bombs into the earths moon?Not yours!for fuck sake theres no god dam oil on the moon or maybe ossama's hideing in the caves LEAVE OUR MOON ALONE YANKS THATS RIGHT OUR MOON EARTHS.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDon't you know what you idiots are doing?! Everything runs on the patterns of the moon. Why can't we just drill on the moon? INSTEAD OF BLOWING IT UP?!!! You are all forgeting that the tide just isn't for surfers, you have turtles and crabs that run on that cycle. I know we're only blowing up a part of it, but think if we accidently blew it up completely!!? Think about it folks. I'm all the way against this. All we're doing is destroying what mother Earth gave to us.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDon't you know what you idiots are doing?! Everything runs on the patterns of the moon. Why can't we just drill on the moon? INSTEAD OF BLOWING IT UP?!!! You are all forgeting that the tide just isn't for surfers, you have turtles and crabs that run on that cycle. I know we're only blowing up a part of it, but think if we accidently blew it up completely!!? Think about it folks. I'm all the way against this. All we're doing is destroying what mother Earth gave to us.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the work of mad scientients. All involved need to have there heads checked. The earth has enough problems. Science is now being used to start enviromental changes to the Moon. Why can't we use resources & our brains to look after the planet we are on. Human kind has already made Species of plant's and animals Extinct. There is & never will be any Technology made to bring them back. Don't break it! You can't fix it Idiots!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the work of Stupid governments and Mad Scientists.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat if they do stuff it up. Do they know how to fix it? We live on a planet that has problems. There are species of Animals and plants that are extinct. There is no technology or ever will be that will bring them back. If don't know how to fix somthing don't break it!!! Why can't the resources,money & time be used looking after the planet we live on. What a wonderfull world it could be! Lets send these crazy people to the moon so the rest of us can live in peace and harmony.
what are they thinking?!!! bomb the moon to transfer water to earth....its moon water not earth water im sure it wouldnt be safe for any of us to drink.also if they keep blowing up parts of the moon will there be any moon left next decade??and yes what will it do to the orbit of the earth? or global warming? will it make it worse or better? how many of the debre will go past the orbiting spaceship and crash into other things... example...EARTH!! I have never been on to listening about what the scientists are doing BUT when i heard this It made me scared.
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what are they thinking?!!! bomb the moon to transfer water to earth....its moon water not earth water i'm sure it wouldn't be safe for any of us to drink.also if they keep blowing up parts of the moon will there be any moon left next decade??and yes what will it do to the orbit of the earth? or global warming? will it make it worse or better? how many of the deb-re will go past the orbiting spaceship and crash into other things... example...EARTH!! I have never been one to listening about what the scientists are doing BUT when i heard this It made my family scared.
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Did anyone perhaps catch the special on Nat Geo or something regarding the importance of the Moon to the Earths survival? If the Moon were somehow destroyed it would effect the entire gravitation balance of the earth to everything and we would all die. Ok, if this is wrong call me stupid. It's a complete waste of money that this country doesn't have to bomb the moon. WTF? I'm sure you can find the special online somewhere or perhaps goole 'the importance of the moon to the earth' or something.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhy the hell do u want to bomb it??????eh
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why the hell do u want to bomb it??????eh
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well i would like to be the oe to blast it.but if it messed up the pull on the earth then i wouldnt.i live in america and i think we suck and just wanted to test a bomb out in space to see wat it will do to a country on earth
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi would like to be the one to bomb the moon but if it messed up and the pull on the earth then no.adn i think were just testin a bomb in space to see wat it does then we do it on a country when were at war.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI can't believe it really happened. It is insane, stupid and desperate. What's the matter with you people??
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisEveryone seems to be posting really stupid comments here. A 5Ton bomb can't throw the moon off its orbit. Much more massive explosions have happened on Earth and we're still here. They are doing so that they don't have to waste money transporting water to the moon when they build a base there. By the way, a lot of you really need to invest in a dictionary.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI really don't believe that we should be launching bombs or what not at the moon when it can take it off the orbit and mess everything up. I believe that we should come up with a better plan then to not just shoot things twice as fast as bullets into the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswell, i for one vote yay.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thismilitary action has caused so many advances in human technology. and please let someone try to argue against that, i need a good laugh.
i don't see how you can possibly say that space exploration is a waste of money!! so you don't want to consider the possibility of finding other life forms? you don't want to find another planet that can be inhabited? a waste of taxpayer's money? please....welfare, congress' annual pay raises, amnesty AND unemployment checks for ILLEGAL aliens, this health reform bullshit....those are wasteful programs, but to say that NASA is?? how does that make sense? have you licked a 9V battery today? i recommend doing so if not, maybe it'll jumpstart that lump of gray matter you like to call your brain. without NASA you wouldn't have cellular phones, you wouldn't have fiber optics, space travel would be a myth still, digital tv, yep you can kiss that goodbye too! scientists wouldn't have the understanding of life, HERE on earth, that they have today. notice how i said scientists because i'm willing to bet not a single one of you can tell me just what else is causing global warming, and sorry, pollution is only a small part.
the amount of force needed to move the moon....would be MASSIVE compared to any and all explosive materials we have on earth. oh and i want to ask this....how many of you that have replied to this posting are rocket scientists?? how many of you can tell me what a lagrangian point is? i think i've made my point very clear....sssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh. if you don't know what you're talking about, go read a book instead of watching the next american idol, or football game, or playing the newest patch for world of warcraft....and please for humanities sake....don't reproduce.
Mane these doods is stupid!!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy do news outlets insist on calling this "bombing"? It's ludicrous. LCROSS is not a bomb! It's nonexplosive and nonmilitary. And it's one thing for the local news to say that we're "bombing" the moon, it's another for a publication that should know better. Using military terminology like "bomb" and "missile" totally distorts the conversation about what NASA is actually doing and what their goals are. Try to report the news accurately instead of sensationalizing it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt's preatty interesting! The moon is hit by space material sevral times per day. And in the past there has been massive meteor impacts... so a missile is not gonna hurt nobody. I hope they find water, cause that is a well expensive mission, to send water to the moon...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this@kocol - don't worry about Monn's shifting orbiter... in the 50's there was a plan in order to destroy the moon, because it's orbit is responsable for many weather effects on earth. Fortunatly someone was smart enough to understand that the debris would had fallen on earth...
there is no danger for an orbiter shifting of the moon... the satellite id hitten every day by space debris, wich creates more pwerful impacts than the one made by a missile... we can't see em, because it happens on the dark side of the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI hope the mission will be successful, cause sending water up there is going to be very expensive
Can we spend more money??? Are you people RETARDED??? if GOD didn't want the moon to be where and how it is, HE would have changed it, Boy, Man can not leave well enough alone...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWTF????? Can we spend anymore money?? If GOD didn't want the moon to be where or how it is, He would have changed it, NOT MAN!!!! Really?? Can man honestly destroy any thing else?? This really sickens me...Lets give it up one more time for the GOVERNMENT!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy the heck would want to bomb the moon? Does anyone not care what that could possibly mean for the planet earth? What happens if something goes wrong with this plan to "bomb the moon". We could be tremendously effected by this. Well, I guess this just furthers my proof that scientists know no bourndaries. They have no limits in their minds, I suppose.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHOLY SHIT THEY BOMBED THE MOON and yah wtf we are in fidanial debt bombing the moon isn't going to get us out of it
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisumm the moon really guys come on we are in findacial debt and bombing the moon is not going to help and hello did you think that this was really going to help gobal warning???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLunatic refers to irratic behavior during the full moon phase. Gravitaional effects (if they truly exist) of the moon would be most powerful when the moon was closest to the Earth (perigee), which is independent of it phases ie; the moon can be full when it is at its furthest point from the Earth (apogee), so the "lunatic" explanation is illogical. I so love having my "Sheldon Cooper" moments-lol!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou dumb ass.. haha if god thought we could mess earth up or the moon he wouldn't have invented man.
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omg i cant believe your blowing up the moon, thats so killer haha lolz <3
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe satellite that will be performing this impact will be about the size of a jet aircraft. Yet rocks that are MILES across hit the moon every day going faster than this vehicle will be traveling, and they don't fuck the moon up. There will not be an "explosion" just a cloud of debris which will hopefully include frozen water. The water will not evaporate as there will be no heat, and the trailing satellite will easily be able to identify it. There is ABSOLUTELY no possibility of any change to the moon from this mission, and hopefully we will find water there which a hopefully future mission to put a permanent base on the moon will be able to make use of. You guys are all fucking retarded (except the ones who take time to post intelligent remarks based off scientific reason and not idiocy).
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisShoot the moon has a whole new connotation. What the h... were they thinking? Apparently, NASA has a blank check. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to send up Joe the Plumber, let him drill a well and bring the space ship back?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAlso, the word "Bomb" in the title of article is a poor choice of words. A lot of people don't take the time to read the article and merely look at the title, and we're giving them the wrong impression of the mission.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOh and, I've been sick didn't look at the date....The mission was already carried out. Earth is still here you fuck-tards, absolutely nothing happened except a plume of debris was released and we are now analyzing it for evidence of water.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBut you are wrong when you say that "(T)he attack on the Moon is not a declaration of war or act of wanton vandalism." That is exactly what it is, regardless of the "noble" goal you want to ascribe to the bombing.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSadly, ironically, this coincided with Obama's being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. NASA has taken taken human disfunctionality outside the earth's atmosphere. Apparently it is not enough that we have mistakenly come to see ourselves as outside of nature on our home planet where we are leaving a garbage dump in our wake, we now intend to take our waywardness outside our biosphere and into other realms we penetrate. Very, very sad and disturbing, indeed.
Wow. Space exploration is one thing, but - bombing the moon? Insane.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt sounds like a bad joke. Anyone remember that Mr. Show sketch where they blow up the moon?
"We're Earthlings, let's blow up Earth-things!"
WHAT GIVES NASA THE RIGHT TO MESS WITH GOD NATURAL NIGHT LIGHT FOR HIS CHILDREN???????
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisARE THEY SO TRIGER HAPPY, THEY HAVE TO SEE IF THEY COULD SHOOT OUT GODS BEAUTIFUL NIGHT ART, HE PUT UP FOR HIS WORLD?????? HOW VAIN !!!!!!
I HOPE THEY GOT PERMISSION FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD, BECAUSE ASK ME!!!! HOW RUDE!!!!!!!!!!! DUMB ASS'ES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW DERE NASA THINK ITS OK TO BOMB GODS NATURAL LIGHT FOR HIS CHILDREN HERE ON HIS PLANET EARTH, YAH... HIS PLANET EARTH NOT MISTER TRIGGER FINGER!
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I HOPE YOU GOT PERMISSION FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD, TO BOMB OUR, GIFT FROM GOD!!!!!! ALL I KNOW IS NO ONE ASKED ME, HOW RUDE ...! YOU DUMB ASS'ES !!!!!
"I don't think that those who plan it has no brain at all!" - uuuhhh yeah but you do english major?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou would think the comments here would be a little bit educated... guess not.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thispearl.....are you kidding......??? hope the Cheeto stains come clean on your chubby little fingers...go back into your trailer and please lock the door>
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDoes anyone in nasa or the Us care what the public opinnion is about blasting off the moon, what right do they really have? and does the rest of the world agree with this mission if so we are really heading off to a big bang retaliation from nature and guess what ...somebody asked for it!!
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First of all that is great idea!
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Because we need to know if there is water on the Moon if we want to build Moon station.
Why we want to build moon station?
How many people live on Earth today? About 7,8 billion and increasing almost exponentially. One day there will be no place to live on Earth. Space is are only option. We should start making preparations as soon as possible which is exactly what NASA is doing. Having water on Moon will only make it easier.
Moon shift it's orbit without are interference and has done that for hundred thousands of years. But this will not change Moon's orbit, that is absurd.
A little high school physics can prove my point. Find the Newtons laws and calculate the force needed to use to move the moon. So we better think about how much carbon dioxide we set loose when we drove to work today.
Science is are damnation but t is also our salvation!
First of all that is great idea!
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Because we need to know if there is water on the Moon if we want to build Moon station.
Why we want to build moon station?
How many people live on Earth today? About 7,8 billion and increasing almost exponentially. One day there will be no place to live on Earth. Space is our only option. We should start making preparations as soon as possible which is exactly what NASA is doing. I'm not saying we are going to live on moon tomorrow, it's going to be a century or two but this is a first step. Having water on Moon will only make it easier.
And if there is water some of it will probably evaporate, but that would mean that there is frozen water probably under the moon surface in other places on Moon.
Moon shift it's orbit without are interference and has done that for hundred thousands of years. But this will not change Moon's orbit, that is absurd.
A little high school physics can prove my point. Find the Newtons laws and calculate the force needed to use to move the moon. So we better think about how much carbon dioxide we set loose when we drove to work today.
Science is are damnation but it is also our salvation!
This is just wrong...creepy and a waste of money. So many people and things here on earth need our attention ..why the hell are we bombing the moon?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAwful terrible and really annoying. Waste of money, and who owns the moon, who has to consent to this? There are plenty of things right here on earth that need our attention...ahhh!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTHANK YOU ALEX4EST FOR YOUR IMPUT, I HOPE YOUR RIGHT.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat gives nasa the right to bomb the moon anyway
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat gives nasa the right to bomb the moon anyway
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow can someone of mature mind and responsible enough even think of such things as bombing the moon or any other planet that are in our system. It is all interconnected! The moon and the sun have such a vital for the Earth meaning/presence. It affects not only our low/high tides, it affects our moods as well (at least some people who can feel/see the effect) etc etc... Why do people - science - not think about what risk they put on the whole creation. We do inhibit the Mother Earth too. Why do you cherish your own ideas without thinking of responsibility before each single part of universe! How dare you risk the lives of billions, the life of the whole creation and bomb such an important things for living! At the end you are not just destroying yourselves and local place you live by, but you are destroying slowly every single aspect of being... What happened with human kinds? Why do we keep destroying what was given us to be happy and live peacefully? Had we turned to be robots who don't think with their hearts any more, don't think of all consequences that might happen? Why don't we think of a life and everything around us as a gift? Why can't people accept it as is (it has worked for centuries, ages!) and start loving and cherish it as WE ARE part of it! WE ARE all (planets; plants; animals; humans; and every single creature that inhibits the planet) interconnected. It is simple and not! But please scientists don't be selfish pursuing your ideas! Think of every single part of this universe and think what if my scientific idea will cost billions of life or slow destruction of the planet!!! How would you feel to see the result of your own destruction???? I hope this message come across to your (science) heart!
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TODAY IS MY DAUGHTER'S 18th. BIRTHDAY!.... I SHOULD BE HAPPY BUT FOR SOME REASON THE BOMBING OF GODS CREATION MAKES ME FEEL SO SAD AND ILL.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JOHN GIVE PEACE A CHANCE LENNON.
Bombing the moon .. is it me or what the F@@k...if this was Iran or Russia doing this would the Americans be happy..its crazy.... Who gives people the right to start playing with mother nature,...God help us...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIs it me or who gives the Americans the right to start messing around with mother nature, if this was the Chinese or Russians or say the Iraqs doing such a thing would they be happy with this, god help us...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think NASA should had thought this out longer than they have. Many people disagree with this situation. So, NASA should have left the moon go. Why would we need wTer there anyway? It's not like we are going to live there anytime soon.... I think we have enough water Here on earth, meaning we should leave this godly structure to itself....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisit's true that the first nation that installs a moonbase on the surface of the moon will take control of the entire globe, you can install nuclear misiles aiming against your enemy nation and no one could stop you atacking from the moon
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisdosent bombing the moon cause title waves i mean i heard the moon controlls water
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisdosent bombing the moon cause title waves i mean i heard the moon kinda controlls the ocean.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the beginning to 2012. Has humanity lost its mind?! Do we HAVE to shoot EVERYTHING?! When you shoot a forgien object into something, expect consequeneces. This is just the beginning to something very terrible that, once again, MANKIND has created. I give these consequences just 2 more years
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the beginning to 2012. Has humanity lost it’s mind?! Do we HAVE to shoot EVERYTHING?! When you shoot a forgien object into something, expect consequeneces. This is just the beginning to something very terrible that, once again, MANKIND has created. I give these consequences just 2 more years
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the beginning to 2012. Has humanity lost its mind?! Do we HAVE to shoot EVERYTHING?! When you shoot a foreign object into something, expect consequeneces. This is just the beginning to something very terrible that, once again, MANKIND has created. I give these consequences just 2 more years.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhy are you going to bomb the moon?isnt the earth enough for you to do your crazy experiments.the moon is a gift not a piece of scrape that you can blow up.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen I read that headline, I got a fearful chill from head to toe. I think this is a very bad idea with far reaching consequences that we may not understand for some time to come! I don't feel that NASA should be able to do experiments that effect our world and Universe without the people who live in it having a chance to have a voice about it or vote! It should be our constitutional right to have a say about anyone any where, bombing the moon! This is not good!
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I don't think bombing the moon is a good idea since if the moon shifts from its orbital position eclipse wouldn't exist anymore since using an atomic bomb is much stronger weapon than an asteroid falling every month on moon, If that is not to be believed then my question is what is the sense of knowing that there is a water on moon? since ok for knowledge its not like earth is going to run out of water specially when global warming starts infact it adds more water on its self. and if ever earth is dying and we all need a new planet no no ones gonna get out of this planet be it! since we are the one contributes and making cause of our own disaster so we will face the consequence all together, And how could we live on moon let's say it has water can nasa make a huge spaceship to ship all of us there or only the rich people? Do you think we could breath in there without oxygen and there is no gravity in there and one thing nasa itself stated that moon is being hit by asteroid every once a month so it means it is still not safe to live in there, you know what NASA is trying to be way too smart but because they are too smart they lose the common thinking like an innocent people thinks which makes innocent people appears smarter, And i do believe that this will be one reason to start the beginning of the next human generation and end our generation since this proves we are making mistakes more than chances we take,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI don't think bombing the moon is a good idea since if the moon shifts from its orbital position eclipse wouldn't exist anymore since using an atomic bomb is much stronger weapon than an asteroid falling every month on moon, If that is not to be believed then my question is what is the sense of knowing that there is a water on moon? since ok for knowledge its not like earth is going to run out of water specially when global warming starts infact it adds more water on its self. and if ever earth is dying and we all need a new planet no no ones gonna get out of this planet be it! since we are the one contributes and making cause of our own disaster so we will face the consequence all together, And how could we live on moon let's say it has water can nasa make a huge spaceship to ship all of us there or only the rich people? Do you think we could breath in there without oxygen and there is no gravity in there and one thing nasa itself stated that moon is being hit by asteroid every once a month so it means it is still not safe to live in there, you know what NASA is trying to be way too smart but because they are too smart they lose the common thinking like an innocent people thinks which makes innocent people appears smarter, And i do believe that this will be one reason to start the beginning of the next human generation and end our generation since this proves we are making mistakes more than chances we take,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI know right! Why would we blast the moon with anything? I mean we only have two years till the end of the worl anyway right?lol Its because they are crazy.
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Bombing the moon. lol I can't believe we are actually shooting down our own moon. lol
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I agree, Why can't we solve this without taking the peoples money?
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAliens....sheesh.
I'm sure Melvin the Martian wont mind.
are they relly that stupid? havent they heard of drilling?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNasa run by American Rednecks?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWoooo hooo! Lets send a fast moving projectile at he moon with no regard for human life whatsoever to see what happens. We are intelliegent scientists right and we have taken everything into consideration?
... hmmm why didn't it produce the predicted six-mile-high plume of debris that should have been visible from Earth as we thought? o well at least it didn't knock the moon out of it's orbit ... pass me the JD!
if America's looking for water, they can just go to Canada where there's a damn endless supply. so yeah they're definitely not looking for water. this is highly dangerous shinanigans that they're playing around with. as corny-sci-fi as it sounds, it can really alter the universe.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishave you guys not seen the si fi move last night!ABOUT THE BIG HOLE IN THE MOON .ABOUT THE MEDOR HITTING IT AN PECIES OF THE MOON HITTING EARTH AN AN PART OF THE MOON PULLING APART .OR SHIFTING THE MOON . YES ITS JUST A MOVIE AN I AM JUST ONE PERSON ,BUT THANK . THANK ABOUT IT YOU JUST MIGHT DESTORY SOMETHANG WE NEED AN MESS IT UP. OR THE EARTH PEOPLE ON IT. THANK ABOUT IT WILL BE BECUSE OF MAN NEXT TIME THE WORLD ENDS DONT BE THE ONE TO DO THAT TO YOUR SELF AN FAMILY.AN OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is the best NASA could do? Wreck two multi-billion dollar spacecrafts on the moon? This is the best images they could offer? It looks like a cheap ATARI video game. I could have done better with a 50 dollar digital camera and photo-shop. I think its BS and if not -- it is a BS waste of money. Who cares if water is on the moon? All it means is a dirty snow ball hit at one time -- and I doubt if they found water as they are SILENT about finding nothing aren't they?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWaste of time and money, in useless efforts...just like the Obama administration.
By the way did you notice the face in the crater? A winking bearded old man? Did we kill the MAN IN THE MOON?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow about all those pursed kissing lipped craters in the photo? And of course instead of hitting the big crater they aimed for a kissing lip crater on its edge just like the camera guided bomb down the the air duct during Gulf War 1 ... hitting a non-existent building and was just hokey special effects... looks like more of the same to me...
By the way did you notice the face in the crater? A winking bearded old man? Did we kill the MAN IN THE MOON?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHow about all those pursed kissing lipped craters in the photo? And of course instead of hitting the big crater they aimed for a kissing lip crater on its edge just like the camera guided bomb down the the air duct during Gulf War 1 ... hitting a non-existent building and was just hokey special effects... looks like more of the same to me...
DID YOU GUYS WATCH THAT MOVIE LAST NIGHT ABOUT THE MEDOR HITING THE MOON AN LET A BIG HOLE IN IT! YEA ITS A MOVE AN I AM JUST ME . THANK BEFORE YOU GUYS DO THIS PIECES OF THE MOON AN DEBRE WILL FALL TO EARTH. AN THE EARTHS GRAVTION WILL KEEP PULLING THE MOON APART . THANK ABOUT THIS AN MANKIND YOU AN YOUR FAMILY NOT JUST FOR THE MONEY. WATER ON THE MOON GO AN SEND SOMEONE UP THER AN GET IT NOT BLAST IT FROM EARTH THIS POWERFUL THIS COULD BE A DESASTER.A SHIFT OF THE MOON AN PROUBLEMS FOR THE EARTH. WE NEED THIS MOON LET IT BE!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI agree with you STARLINAOCEAN about the gravity thing.. I told my friends at school basically the same thing, from my own slight knowledge of the laws of physics and gravity. And I'm not even out of middle-school.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisthey not looking for water these greedy bastards are looking for valuable minerals that they could mine deep beneath the moons crust like gold and diamonds etc...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBesides, why search for water on the moon it is obvious that there is water everwhere as meteors are made majority ice and with all the craters on the moon lots of water had to have settled on it before. finding water just a cover up for average people
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWell the moon is constantly hit by oribiting astroyds twice the magnitude of the missile that we launched.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon it hit by orbiting astroyed twice the magnitude of the missile that we fired at it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon it hit by orbiting astroyed twice the magnitude of the missile that we fired at it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe comments left here are all by children with zero ability to spell and think about how large the moon really is but yet they can still panic and post that they are in fear. Too bad. it's a real pitiful life to lead in constant fear without due cause.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThese un-educated fellows are what keep the alarmist in business. Without un-educated people tree huggers and political alarmist would be out of business.
Just remember people out there that believe in god,
God would have not put man on earth if he thought man could destroy his creation.
FYI
Nasa is not looking for water to bring it back to earth you dingbats! I am not going to tell you why they are doing what they are doing because it would be futile for all of your little imaginations.
When you all get old please remember all of you worried for nothing and maybe you might get to see man living on the moon. Maybe even your precious children might get to escape this doomed planet one day sooner than you think when it's about to be destroyed by a comet or astroid because of this heroic science project that started it all.
Sorry, this mission was for nothing but to look for water period. Nothing else.
We Americans know how to advance and we have proved it.
We will advance in history while you mindless ragheads keep fighting over religion like you have over the past 2000 Years!
Haha
We have been a nation only for 250 someodd years and Everyone is just showing their envy posting here that America is doing the wrong thing...
sorry bout your luck Non-Americans.
Good thing officials don't see your panic childish rants here in these postings
Lol i wonder if you guys will still be a nation in a few years time. Iran looks like they after your ass. think a comet is the last thing you guys should be worried about right now!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishaha yea they might as stupid as they are. But right now their sights are set on Israel. I think we (Americans) are sort of trying to distance ourselves from that conflict all we can. But if Israel doesn't turn Iran into glass and they have to deal with us, we will without hesitation. See President Carter led the east into thinking we are just pushovers and that was Saddams fate. Iran just needs to abide by the resolutions and calm down. They have proved beyond any doubt that they are not a peaceful nation so they cannot be trusted even with peaceful nuclear power. Until they start acting like a peaceful nation instead of threatening all nations who do not respect Allah they are going to be treated like the idiots they are.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHere in America we can slander all we want all of the religions that live in peace here together without going to war with the Mormons, catholics etc. I think we have grown up in 250 years whereas it's taken more than 2000 years and there is still no end to anyone who disrespects Allah. Disgraceful don't you think? Think as I think or be put to death?
Anyone who can't respect anothers views is just being selfish and childish.
America and the people would love to let Iran be Iran and we will I am sure but to let Iran continue on and rant like they have would be like letting Saddam sit on one of the worlds largest oil supplies for 30 more years and wait until there is an oil crisis where Saddam could write his own ticket and buy any Nuke he wanted to destroy the infidels (America) which he clearly voiced he would. So we did what had to be done and the same fate could come to Iran if they don't calm down.
haha yea they might as stupid as they are. But right now their sights are set on Israel. I think we (Americans) are sort of trying to distance ourselves from that conflict all we can. But if Israel doesn't turn Iran into glass and they have to deal with us, we will without hesitation. See President Carter led the east into thinking we are just pushovers and that was Saddams fate. Iran just needs to abide by the resolutions and calm down. They have proved beyond any doubt that they are not a peaceful nation so they cannot be trusted even with peaceful nuclear power. Until they start acting like a peaceful nation instead of threatening all nations who do not respect Allah they are going to be treated like the idiots they are.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHere in America we can slander all we want all of the religions that live in peace here together without going to war with the Mormons, catholics etc. I think we have grown up in 250 years whereas it's taken more than 2000 years and there is still no end to anyone who disrespects Allah. Disgraceful don't you think? Think as I think or be put to death?
Anyone who can't respect anothers views is just being selfish and childish.
America and the people would love to let Iran be Iran and we will I am sure but to let Iran continue on and rant like they have would be like letting Saddam sit on one of the worlds largest oil supplies for 30 more years and wait until there is an oil crisis where Saddam could write his own ticket and buy any Nuke he wanted to destroy the infidels (America) which he clearly voiced he would. So we did what had to be done and the same fate could come to Iran if they don't calm down.
Did they say how big was the bomb? Was it a nuk or not? Maby the government is trying new weapons on the moon.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCorrect me if I'm wrong but I thought you had to have air to create an explosion. There's no air present in space, nor the moon. How is it going to explode?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisyo wat do we do if there is life on the moon
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswouldnt they get offended..and couldnt this some
how affect the tide or the way theearth works since
the moons gravity changes shift in our oceans...
or couldnt it throw the moon of course...-guardian
I now know we are the stupidest creatures on earth...the more brilliant people appear to be, the dumber their decisions. I am grateful I am still here today to write this and I wonder what else is going on in the world that we poor citizens do not have a clue about until it is too late. It is quite obvious that we ourselves are considered too ignorant, apathetic, and uncaring to care whether the powers that be destroy our world by their negligent choices.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTHE US GOVERMENT KNOWS ABOUT THE ANTARES STATION ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, THEY KNOW THAT THIS MATERIALIST SOCIETY IS ON THE VERGE OF SELF-DESTRUCTION...THEY DON'T WANT THEIR MONEY TO BE BURNED. IDIOTS!! WHY DO U HATE SO MUCH LET HUMANITY FINALLY EVOLVE TO 13:260!! ....AND HAVE U NOTICED? THE MOON'S NOT THERE ANYMORE
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this....GOD HAVE MERCY ON US...
I understand that they want to find water on the moon, but, why dont they make the salt water from oceans into fresh water. If they can bomb the moon they can convert salt water into fresh water
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat's an expensive single data point. Surprised they don't have multiples that separate and disperse early to cover an area.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBummer if they centerpunched a huge iron deposit, and it just came down with a dull thud.
how stupid is our goverment anyways? its not bad enuff that we pollute earth with bombing the planet but some people thinks its a great to bomb the moon gee lets try and blow up the moon no more sheild to protect us from space debrie so its just a little bomb what really is the inner layers of the moon made of have u done test drilling to make sure thereisn,t some kind of compound that may have an adverse reaction to said bomb i can remember in our past nasa doing some preety dumb things. opps i got caught thinking again
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiscurtis, contrary to the urban legend, Tang was not invented/created/ or discovered in Space : )
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSoooo.... Let me get this straight. They [meaning the government and NASA] thought it would be smart to bomb the moon. So they wish to find water... ?? WHY ARENT THEY TRYING TO HELP CLEAN UP THE PLANET WITH THE REST OF US!?!!! So what if something went wrong... we are all made up of water. The moon moves tides and so forth... which assuming this theory to be true... wouldn't that mean we as a human race are effected by the moon as well??? Thanks NASA for being so freaking smart I'm glad they learned you all well!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiskravinmh: i think you need to go read some books and not tell me what the hell to do, i bet you dont even have a wife because your a FAG
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOMFG! You people seriously think one bomb hitting the moon is going to cause some sort of monumental damage? For millions of years it has endured, yet you think we have the power to take it down!?! Don't get me wrong... I think its a big fat waste of money, but come on, do you seriously believe the bleeding heart crap about us "hurting" the moon? And read the article ... they aren't looking for new water sources to replace the ones on earth; they are trying to locate a water source so they can build a base near it (which, again, is a big fat waste of money). An we are not going to war with the moon either ... unless you consider blast mining war... which means that many a coal company is at war with the USA right now...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOMFG! You people seriously think one bomb hitting the moon is going to cause some sort of monumental damage? For millions of years it has endured, yet you think we have the power to take it down!?! Don't get me wrong... I think its a big fat waste of money, but come on, do you seriously believe the bleeding heart crap about us "hurting" the moon? And read the article ... they aren't looking for new water sources to replace the ones on earth; they are trying to locate a water source so they can build a base near it (which, again, is a big fat waste of money). An we are not going to war with the moon either ... unless you consider blast mining war... which means that many a coal company is at war with the USA right now...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFadedlight420 your right about the money that is being spent but also you need to know what your talking about to talk to me i'm smart
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn my opinion I feel this wasn't a good thing. You have to think of all the possibilities that could have happened, what if the missile broke off a large portion of the moon? Then what if it came down colliding into Earth. Sometimes its better to just leave mother nature alone. we already can't keep up our planet so why destroy something thats not ours, I understand having the need to want to make new friends but why make new friends if your going to kill or slave them. thats what we do to our selves and each other. "scientist and NASA is something else, ill tell ya"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt's to the point now where I need to get my life right with GOD because the way NASA is going I don't think I'm going to be around long and I don't feel safe living on this planet knowing that that boombs and holes are being shot in the moon. Whats next finding life on the sun? :(
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt's crazy how NASA is trying to find life on other planets but they cant do anything about the pole melting on Earth thats causing Global Warming. What are the going to do next sale some of Earth's resources to other living creatures , aliens.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWow. I'm astounded by the stupidity of people in these comments.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe moon looks small from your backyard, yes. That's because it's 400,000+ miles away. It's really a very, very large object. I highly doubt there's anything humans could do to it with present technology to cause it to explode, or crash into earth, or go flying away, or whatever. Meteors with more mass than the spacecraft in question have crashed into the moon millions of times, and guess what? It's still there.
The majority of people who commented here are a demonstration of the need for more mandatory science education.
This makes me so sad. What a horrible thing to do. Haven't we done enough damage to the Earth now we have to start in on the moon.???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi agree with you completely
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy in the heck would NASA even think about doing something like that?!?!?! Only a complete idiot would think of something so stupid! By launching a bomb of that kind of power, would create immense amounts of heat, evaporating all water, if there even is water on the moon, in this case, bombing the moon is pointless!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSTARLINAOCEAN, that is so true! And if there was water on the moon, the bomb would create heat and evaporate all of the water! So if they are really going to be that stupid, they should send someone up there to drill!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThat's true, if u want to get ur life right with God then start with a prayer, it's easy, u just tell God that ur sorry for all of the bad things that you've done and u ask him to come into ur life and help u. U don't have to talk out loud, u can whisper or just think it, it doesn't matter, God always hears u. And God loves u, he created u. The Bible will explain everything. The Bible is God's book, It is a reliable collection of historical documents written down by eye witnesses that report supernatural events which took place in the fulfillment of specific prophecies and claim to be divine rather than human in origin. If that is hard to understand, then I'll tell u what it means, it means that the Bible is a book filled with documents that the people wrote that live lived years ago, when Jesus (Jesus is God's son) walked on earth, these documents are all true stories! If u don't own a Bible, then u can find them at ur nearest book store. Just remember, when u are facing hard times, and it seams like life's just not worth living, remember this verse from the bible, For God has said, "I will never fail u nor forsake u" Hebrews 13:3. That verse means a lot to me, I face hard times a lot. Remember that u are gods creation and he loves u. If u have any questions, then reply to this message and i'll help u.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is truly terrible news. I am so sorry this happened, I hope to God that my tax dollars did not go to fund this atrocity.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat does it say about humanity that we're not content to simply destroy our planet but also bomb our moon with a view to using up any water resources there too? Shouldn't we be looking at ourselves and finding ways to harmonise with our universe instead? Even if there is water on the moon it is a non-renewable source. What a destructive and selfish race we humans are turning into. There's so much potential in humanity that we just don't even care about it would be a shame if all we managed to do after 10,000 years of civilisation was to destroy ourselves.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIM SO STUPID I LIKE MEN HEHEHEHE
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis is by far the dumbest f'ing thing I've ever read in my life. it's not enough that we are destroying our world....let's screw around with the moon. I mean really which idiot thought this would be a good idea and what other idiot approved an idea made under the influence. How dare you use my tax money for this type of stupidity!!!!! I'm boycotting everything NASA. if this stupidity continues, I'm no longer going to pay taxes.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNever mind that your argument is ridiculous. Don't you think we can spend tax dollars on something more productive and less destructive. If you'd like to argue from a scientific point of view argue the benefits of this experiment.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisgood luck to bomb the moon, nasa is meant to house the smartest people ever.... are they really that stupid as to bomb the moon for 'scientific purposes' its the stupidest idea I have ever seen, is this all you people do, sit around looking for ways to make the public go WTF!?!?!?!?!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI protest! Don't use MY tax dollars to fund this effort! Tax dollars aside, this is ludicrous. Send a probe, do it peacefully, but if the subtle balance within and outside our Moon is disturbed, I will personally visit the perpetrators in the afterlife.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisplease be clear
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisplease be clear
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisyou need to get a life... i bet you don't even know what that word means also because ooooo your a scientist as well right.....i bet your on of those people who lose his wife and kids because you sit in a chair all day and look at the screen and play WORLD OF WARCRAFT..... so therefore you suck at life and need to learn how to dis people you FAG
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCan an astrophysicst or astronomer, geoscientist relate the bombing of the moon to the numerous earthquakes and volcanoes occurring on earth including the displacement of the earth from its axis in the Haiti 7.8 magnitude Richter scale earthquake? I think the increased incidence of these phenomena may have something to do with the bombing as it may has disturbed the centripetal and centrifugal forces of attraction and repulsion between the earth and other heavenly bodies. Can anybody establish some mathematical linkages? And if the linkage is true do we not have to bomb again from the other side to restore the balance after which nobody should bomb again?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi dont think its the moon being bomed is what we should worry about so much i dont think that nasa would send a missile to the moon if they thought it would be a danger to the world, but the real truth behind why they r doing it is what boggles me, with all the earthquakes and everything i wonder if the real reason for finding water on the moon is us to get off this damn planet because boming the moon seems like a desperate atempt for somthing..somthing that only nasa and the goverment really know, and by the time we find out whats really gong on with is whole boming the moon crap it will be to late for us to debate about if it was stupid,wrong,rite,useless,or helpfull or mabey our savior to mankind!! but im getting carried away just a thought no one really mentioned yet....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe mission as a whole was illogical to begin with. Anyone with a brain would see that if the space rocks that often hit the moon are observed to have water, the moon, also, would have water. It would have cost the same to just start mining for it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe mission as a whole was illogical to begin with. Anyone with a brain would see that if the space rocks that often hit the moon are observed to have water, the moon, also, would have water. It would have cost the same to just start mining for it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOur planet is already on a collision course. Global warming, pollution, wars, hunger, toxic dumps, corruption etc.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisInstead of trying to save the world you are destroy it
Now you want to take out the moon. You will suffer the consequences. The moon sustains the oceans, provides light at night and besides its gods creation. Oh by tghe way you don't beleive in god your scientist who think they know everyhting. What on earth is wrong with you people?
What on earth is wrong with you people? Literally.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCan't you see already how God is punishing us for our acts?
Oh by the way you scientists are just a bunch of ignorant stuck up curious cats. And you know what happened to the cat right?
You don't know nothing when it comes to our creator.
You will see the wrath of God and suffer the consequences.
Go ahead bomb it and you will regret the day you were born.
hey pal we never started talkin shit about you soo dont talk shit about america i bet you cant even win a war you fucking douchebag!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishi this is ijaz i really like this
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGo NASA. Just heard about this one this morning. Awesome idea in my book. I love reading the posts of the ignorant uneducated masses. Most don't realize that many of our best options for solving world hunger, and a good number of our other problems here on Earth, are with the research done at NASA. Research done in Zero-G, and many of the polymers and materials widely used today come as a result of NASA research.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSo stop your griping there, and to say that a small rocket is going to throw off the moons orbit or blow it up is ridiculous. The Bomb used was barely a fraction of the size of the A-bombs used on Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Using the same reasoning obviously those bombs should have knocked us out of our orbit or for that matter blown the Earth apart. It's comparitive to us shooting the moon with a BB gun.
Let's show some Intelligence here people, as well as at least a marginal lack of mass hysteria hyper-paranoia about the government. If you're American and have issues with the Government, get educated in politics, educate your neighbor, and get something done, don't sit around griping about it like some junior high brat.
Back on subject....Hope we find water up there, would be tight to get myself some real estate with an Earth view....
You are an IDIOT!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGentlemen:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat a funny and absurd story !
I do not believe in aliens. But according to this story NASA and US-Government believe. Only a REAL FEAR of future alien atacks can justify to spend millions of dollars in such a nonsense.
World becomes more and more crazy every day !
Yours truly:
Dr. Toivo Willmann