Defusing NASA LCROSS Bombing the Moon Rumors
NASA is Not Bombing Alien Moon Bases
Here are some of the inaccurate, or downright crazy reports that have been published so far:
Where is NASA Dropping the Bomb?
The Huffington Post in a mostly accurate article, called NASA to Bomb the Moon (Photos), offers little information, but gets the target crater wrong. The Huffington Post even goes so far as to show a diagram pointing out the wrong crater. They say that the LCROSS vehicle will strike the lunar crater known as Cabeus B. While the mission originally intended to strike Cabeus B, NASA shifted the target to Cabeus (proper) on September 29th. Given that NASA to Bomb the Moon (Photos) was published on October 6th, this should have been old news to anyone doing even the most basic research.
Ice Is "Not Frozen Water"
NBC San Diego, in an online article creatively entitled NASA to Bomb the Moon Friday, had some surprising new information. According to their source, Ms. Sunshine, a University of Maryland Astronomer, "It's not liquid water, it's not frozen water and it's not gaseous water." I guess that means its plasma water... NASA, on the other hand, calls it water ice which is, despite what they may teach at the University of Maryland, in fact, frozen water. NBC San Diego's story also, without citing a source for this tidbit, said that NASA is "firing a bomb-laden missile at the moon." While a high velocity object can accurately be called a missile, there is nothing on board that justifies "bomb-laden." There are no explosives at all. The LCROSS vehicle Centaur is simply a big heavy object that will strike the moon at a speed of approximately 5600 miles per hour. It weighs enough to kick up a considerable dust plume from the force of the impact. That's all.
NASA Bombing Alien Moon Base
Other online "news" outlets have speculated that the entire NASA story is a fabrication to cover the bombing of an alien base on the dark side of the moon, while comments on left by readers on these articles suggest that the impact may knock the moon out of orbit and cause flooding and devastation by changing the Earth's tides. All of this is, of course, pure foolishness. There are no alien bases or extraterrestrial cities on the moon to be bombed. The mass of the LCROSS vehicle, which is not a bomb, is far, far too small to have any effect on the moon's orbit, or the Earth's environment.
Sources:
huffingtonpost.com
nbcsandiego.com
nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2009/M09-127.html
examiner.com
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10 Comments
Post a CommentThe "bombing the alien base" story is the best scenario. lol
Great article - the comments are must-reads also.
There are indications of water ice on the moon in quantities that could make it feasible to separate it out from the lunar soil. Much of the strongest evidence has come after the LRO with it's LCROSS hitchhiker launched from Earth. With data already available, we know whta chemical compounds might be there with reasonable certainty. LCROSS is not a shot in the dark to see if water or cotton candy might lie under the surface. There is scientific evidence that inspired the mission as a low cost, hurry-up add on project to the LRO Mission. go to nasa.gov or google "evidence of water on the moon" to read the prior research for yourself instead of making stuff up. It's called research and science and the people who do it for a living are good at it.
If it is not known whether or not there is water just under the surface, how is it known whether or not there is or isn't FLAMMABLE GAS just under the surface?
GAS and or LIQUID EXPLOSIVE?
Thanks for clearing this up. I understand completely now. Just one thing..
If we don't bomb the aliens' base, won't they take that as a sign of weakness and attack us first?
Personally, whilst I do like to clue up someone who's only seen bad science reporting but is open to reason, with the full-on w00-w00 brigade it's pointless. Instead of wrestling pigs, I find it much more amusing to point and laugh at people determined to make fools of themselves in public.
Any of the nutters commenting here care to make a bet about the results of LCROSS? money to the charity of the winner's choice? (My nomination: planetary.org .)
cont. Instead of using HAARP to cause huge earthquakes, tsunami's, volcanoes & hurricanes. They could use that same technology to raise the planets consciousness not surpress it with FEAR!
bombing of an alien base on the dark side of the moon, while comments on left by readers on these articles suggest that the impact may knock the moon out of orbit and cause flooding and devastation by changing the Earth's tides. All of this is, of course, pure foolishness (foolishness?!?) There are no alien bases or extraterrestrial cities on the moon to be bombed. Can we then see the pictures taken of the dark side of moon to establish this "foolish" claim?
The mass of the LCROSS vehicle, which is not a bomb, is far, far too small to have any effect on the moon's orbit, or the Earth's environment.
again where is the proof for this claim?
It seems when ever a question either factual or speculation arises and TPTB can't or won't answer it, they ridicule, try to debunk or spread rumours and lies to the contary. We are sick of the double-negatives and false prophetic delusions of grandeur. Our world is far from depletion or extinction. Instead of using HAARP to cause huge earthq
But Cabeus A isn't the target!! It is Cabeus (sometimes called Cabeus proper). Both Cabeus A and Cabeus B are separate satellite craters of Cabeus itself...
The Huffington post may have read your article because they now say Cabeus A is the target.