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kloan
09-10-2009, 04:16 AM
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html

Does anyone else think this is ridiculous? What if the impact was great enough to shift the moon's orbit? Wouldn't that have an immense adverse affect on Earth? Maybe they thought of that.. they are scientists after all, but aside from that, seems like a HUGE waste of money and resources.
steve_d
09-10-2009, 09:01 AM
"what if the impact was great enough to shift the moon's orbit"...

Yes, I am sure they thought of that - although they probably didn't have to think of that considering what really would need to be done to the moon to shift its orbit and then have adverse effects to the earth. Not something this little mission could have done.
_Ragnar_
09-10-2009, 09:43 AM
As a space buff i think this is an awesome experiment. Slamming a couple of satellites into the moon is kind of like throwing a tennis ball at an apartment building. Im sure if there was even a .0001% chance of this harming the earth the government would have nuked this project so fast it would have made NASA's head spin.
waderow
09-10-2009, 10:08 AM
no way in hell an empty space hull is even remotely close to an asteroid impact

interesting experiment, but not sure why they give a ****. If there is water, there might be micro-organisms. Probably not something we want to bring back to earth
_Ragnar_
09-10-2009, 10:16 AM
no way in hell an empty space hull is even remotely close to an asteroid impact

interesting experiment, but not sure why they give a ****. If there is water, there might be micro-organisms. Probably not something we want to bring back to earth

Which is why any and all extraterrestrial material brought back is placed in quarantine until Nasa is 110% sure that there are no micro-organisms. A single alien bacteria has the potential to whip out all life on earth. Its scary shit.
ironwill
09-10-2009, 10:20 AM
There are large asteroids and space junk that hit the moon all the time, this is minor in comparison...They want to see how much h2o is in the surface of moon and what quality etc....possibly a dock zone for space travel later rather than coming back to earth.....
OR SO THEY SAY>>>>>>muahahaha
kloan
09-10-2009, 04:54 PM
It's actually not as bad as I thought it was. I had read earlier articles about the project that described the satellite as a "missile". Obviously those people had the wrong information. I watched the NASA video feed of the impact.. pretty minor in comparison to a meteor impact.
Ritch
09-10-2009, 05:56 PM
It was only a question of time...
GYMBRAT
09-10-2009, 05:59 PM
gotsta spend money some how right!! NASA F**KIN MORONS!
LonelyBedouin
09-10-2009, 07:02 PM
Did they release their results? I havent followed it since seeing the news this morning. Did they find any water molecules?
_Ragnar_
09-10-2009, 08:29 PM
sounds like they arent releasing anything until wednesday
LonelyBedouin
09-10-2009, 11:39 PM
The people discovery channel were talking to said they would have the results in as quick as 15 minutes after impact... My guess now is they found nothing so they need a excuse to why there was nothing there and spent all this money. lol
Drummer
10-10-2009, 01:15 AM
**sigh** they gotta spend money somehow to justify their existence

~D~
nitrous
10-10-2009, 01:38 AM
hmm sounds like a useless waste of money.. they should have just given it to me
hommes
10-10-2009, 01:44 AM
your damn straight nitrious, except you have to give me a piece of the money pie.
Seth
10-10-2009, 06:46 AM
If there's water, it makes the construction and upkeep of their space station even more affordable, which opens the way to gathering resources on the moon. Rare expensive metals on Earth might not be so rare on the moon. Plus the whole space travel thing.

As for the impact, the moon is already getting away, so it couldn't possibly result in a collision