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dando
10-06-09, 03:30 PM
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/14/lcross-impact-site-picked/



NASA has chosen the final destination for the LCROSS lunar impacting probe: the crater Cabeus A, near the Moon’s south pole.

So why is NASA smacking a probe into the Moon at high speed, and why there?

The idea is that over millions and billions of years, a lot of comets have hit the Moon. The water from these comets hits the surface and sublimates away… but if any settles at the bottoms of deep craters near the Moon’s poles, these permanently shadowed regions can act as a refrigerator, keeping the water from disappearing. It can stay there, locked up as ice, for a long, long time. Some estimates indicate there could be billions of tons of ice near the Moon’s south pole.

:gomer:

-Kevin
Gnam
10-06-09, 03:55 PM
Summary of the run up to war: :p

http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15703&highlight=moon
Ankf00
10-06-09, 03:59 PM
India already confirmed moon water. NASA fail :gomer:
dando
10-06-09, 04:00 PM
Summary of the run up to war: :p

http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15703&highlight=moon

But my thread title is better. :D

:o

-Kevin
dando
10-06-09, 04:03 PM
India already confirmed moon water. NASA fail :gomer:

Yes, but the Kumar's needed NASA's assistance with the project. :gomer:

-Kevin
oddlycalm
10-06-09, 04:05 PM
Laugh now, but with global warming heating up the ability to bombard earth with massive lunar ice blocks will be the next big bidness. :D

oc
dando
10-06-09, 04:10 PM
Laugh now, but with global warming heating up the ability to bombard earth with massive lunar ice blocks will be the next big business.

oc

The sad part is we don't have a lack of water, we have a lack of fresh water...especially with the glaciers melting away. :saywhat: Somehow desalinization has got to be an answer. :confused:

-Kevin
Ankf00
10-06-09, 04:43 PM
Somehow desalinization has got to be an answer. :confused:

-Kevin

not unless you build nuke plants up and down the coast
dando
10-06-09, 05:42 PM
not unless you build nuke plants up and down the coast

Put the tree huggers in camps for a few years, build the plants and then set the huggers free. That simple. Hey, we're printing $$$ anyway, eh? :gomer: :saywhat:

-Kevin
Gnam
10-06-09, 06:16 PM
We can have Iran make the nuclear fuel rods. win-win-boom. :p

Hope the mission goes better than the Mars impactors did. :thumbup:
Ankf00
10-06-09, 06:36 PM
didn't the mars impactor impact? I mean, it wasn't meant to be an impactor but hey, when life gives you lemons...
SteveH
10-06-09, 06:55 PM
We like the moon (http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song)

Just had to :D
Gnam
10-06-09, 06:59 PM
probe droids have more fun

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/2978/il430xn87112889l.jpg
oddlycalm
10-06-09, 07:51 PM
So what if the is a man in the moon and he gets pissed....? :eek: :laugh:

oc
Elmo T
10-06-09, 07:55 PM
So what if the is a man in the moon and he gets pissed....? :eek: :laugh:

oc

http://i38.tinypic.com/sl3b7s.jpg
dando
10-06-09, 08:02 PM
http://i38.tinypic.com/sl3b7s.jpg

That'll leave a mark. :gomer:

-Kevin
Ankf00
10-07-09, 05:11 PM
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/blog/mooninites.jpg
chop456
10-09-09, 07:18 AM
T-minus 13 minutes. :tony:
dando
10-09-09, 08:59 AM
NASA confirms (again) they can crash space vehicles. :gomer:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/09/probe.moon.crash/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

-Kevin
oddlycalm
10-09-09, 01:50 PM
NASA confirms (again) they can crash space vehicles. :gomer:

-Kevin

Maybe next time they could make it bounce real high a couple times for some low grav showboating....:D

oc
Napoleon
10-09-09, 04:34 PM
Jimmy Fallon's joke about this was pretty funny. Something like "NASA's new method of picking program objectives is "what would Wile E Coyote do""
nissan gtp
10-09-09, 04:52 PM
wow, NASA can do just what we did in 1964 (Ranger).

does this mean in 5 more years, we'll put man on the moon again ?

USA fail :mad:
RusH
10-09-09, 09:33 PM
eXACtLY Nissan

No Rooskies=FAIL