Illustration of missle bomb being fired into Moon. (NASA)
Last night the lunatics at NASA "successfully" sent a bomb into the South Pole of the Moon. They say it was to test for water. I say it was a waste of taxpayer money to see how well our "Star Wars" technology would work. Fortunately, we did not seem to destroy anything.
The LCROSS booster went plowing into the moon's surface at 5,600 miles per hour . The missle made a crater about 60 feet across -- and send 350 tons of rock and soil flying. It did not, however, make the spectacular plume that was predicted so people with plain telescopes did not get the great show that they stayed up to see.
If there is ice mixed in that rock and soil, the small satellite, flying on the same path less than 400 miles behind the rocket, should be able to detect it before it crashed about four minutes later. Scientists have yet to give us that data, but they do know that they can shoot a projectile from a satelite. It's now just a matter of where to aim it next time.
What’s really true is that nobody knows what effect this will have on all the Universe – including our fragile Earth. It seems that we humans have "dodged the bullet" on this experiment, but when will we stop being "boys with toys" seeing how much destruction we can create?
May we all realize that we are deeply interconnected to all reality and that any action in one place effects us all. And may we all be grateful that our beloved Moon and all sentient beings survived this ludicrous experiment created by a bunch of lunatics.
What do you think about this? Write your comments below. I read them all.
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Comments
Steven, why so bitter and cynical. Did you talk to even one person directly involved with this exciting experiment before you launched off on your unsubstantiated rant against science? I know you didn't because you don't appear to be smart enough to hold an actual conversation with an intelligent person.
Your views only continue to poison the well of human optimism. Space exploration is the grandest and most profound of all of human achievements. Your blog post is an example of the lowest form of human achievement- typing from your envy and fear, without bothering to explore facts.
There is a bright and positive world out there, populated by passionate, brilliant scientists and explorers who's only goal is to understand our universe and our place in it. I'm not naive, I'm informed, and connected. Meet some of these people who carried out this experiment. Talk to them about the facts! They don't remotely resemble the paranoid diatribe you postulate in your post.
'What’s really true is that nobody knows what effect this will have on all the Universe – including our fragile Earth. It seems that we humans have "dodged the bullet" on this experiment, but when will we stop being "boys with toys" seeing how much destruction we can create?'
In what way did we dodge a bullet? We know how much energy the impacts had (since we know how fast both objects were moving when they hit) and we know how massive the moon is so we can actually work out exactly what effect this has had: None. But this isn't surprising, objects of that size hit the moon all the time and never affect us in any way. The only difference this time is there was a probe behind it.
If there was a danger from this, do you think all the scientists involved would be so glib about exposing themselves and their families to it? There was never any even remote danger from this, unless you consider the opportunity to learn something new about the universe a danger.
Foundonmars: 'Space exploration is the grandest and most profound of human achievements.' -- I agree completely. I agree with the rest as well, but this especially.
Everything NASA does is a waste of taxpayer money to some people. Usually its the people who never paid attention in science class. Usually, it's the people who think their daily lives would be rougly the same without scientific advancement. It's the people who don't understand that NASA's $18 billion budget only makes up HALF OF A PERCENT of the $3.1 trillion US budget. If you paid $10,000 in taxes this year, then you've contributed rougly 26 cents to the LCROSS mission. I don't know about you, but I'm more than willing to pay 26 cents for a FAILED nasa mission that they can learn to improve apon, let alone a successful one like LCROSS.
Bombed the moon? Are you illiterate or just lazy? The probe they crashed into the moon more closely resembled your refrigerator than a bomb.
You should limit your writing to things about which you have at least a tiny clue. Then perhaps you won't sound so stupid.
This is one of the sillier things I've read. As others have pointed out, we hit the moon with a spent rocket stage that had been deliberately drained of all fuel, not a "bomb." And there was never any reason to question whether we'd survive. Much larger meteor impacts on the moon occur on a regular basis. (Where do you think all those craters come from?) And finally, the technology tested in this experiment would be of little use to any "Star Wars" program. Being able to hit a lunar crater with a spent rocket stage is so totally different from destroying an incoming missle that it's lunacy to say it's "just a matter of where to aim it next time." (A missle attack would be coming much faster ... and not from the moon.) If anything, this technology could be useful in finding ways to deflect potentially dangerous meteors. These natural threats are the real bullets we may someday need to dodge.
You are afraid of science. I am afraid of people that are afriad of science.
I've an idea. Join the fundementalist muslims in their caves and deny yourself the joyand wonder science has provided.
I am betting you miss BUsh.
idiot
bombing the moon to find water is great. Landing curiosity in a crater instead of the great, deap, beautiful, interesting, ex-water holding canal is super lame and super boring. The last 3 objects observed on mars were crators, if there is life on mars they are looking at robots that are looking at crators. Thats like aliens coming down to Earth and going strait to the sahara desert or even worse, going to a arab country and staying with a bunch of koran bashing nerds eating rice and wailing out of tall buildings built with their own waste.
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