NASA "Moon Bombing" Video
Because People like to See Things Get Blown Up -- Even the Moon
Because people really like seeing things get blown up. And let's face it, how many times to you get to see NASA blow up part of the moon?
But, to be truthful, the NASA moon bombing was to be more like a "crashing" than an actual bombing. There are no explosives involved, although the velocity that the Centaur rocket would be traveling when it made impact with the crater on the south pole of the moon (twice that of a bullet) would have the effect of 1.5 tons of TNT. The missile is expected to penetrate the moon's crust and produce a debris field from which NASA can ascertain whether or not there is water (ice) on the moon. It is believed that ice may be trapped within the lunar crust and especially in the shadows of the moon's southernmost craters, because those craters never receive any sunlight.
But most people don't care about the mechanics of the rockets, the velocity, or the what might happen. They also do not care about whether or not NASA finds ice crystals or evidence of water with their moon bombing (or crashing). They just want to see the EFFECT of the LCROSS missile. They want to see a visual. They want to see a video of the impact.
The LCROSS mission is supposed to be completed by 7:31 a.m. EST Friday. With all the satellites, the Hubble Telescope, and the thousands of video cameras hooked into telescopes by amateur astronomers, there will no doubt be dozens, if not hundreds, of videos to watch on the web by Friday afternoon.
Of course, the best video will no doubt be that provided by NASA themselves. Or at least it should be, since they have the inside track on the LCROSS mission. But that remains to be seen.
And it will be seen. In fact, it will be surprising if the NASA moon bombing video isn't one of the top searched items on Google for days.
People are going to want to see the moon get blown up...
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NASA video of the simulated "moon bombing" via Huffington Post.
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Post a CommentPLEASE leave the moon alone ur hurting mother earth n sister moon
y r dey bombing da moon
LEAVE THE MOON ALONE!
we as the people all hate the fact that they%27re shooting missiles at the moon%2Cwe need a voice and a say in it.its not right%2Cits bad enough we%27re hurting earth but now the moon too%3Fthis is such a bad idea..yeah science is interested%2Cbut everything needs boundaries..this is them passing it
It's like shooting an elephant in the butt with a bb gun. NOTHING! But instead lets all freak out and say everything is going to be destroyed from an empty rocket container colliding with the moon.
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it was a big nothing this morning! The moon can't be thrown off course, or so 'they' say.
Saul - Sorry to have missed some of your recent articles. I had to resubscribe to you, must have been a glitch. This was a most fascinating article.
No worries, sallyanne. The moon gets hit with meteors each week bigger than the rocket that hit the moon this morning and it doesn't stray from its orbit or affect its position. They're a government agency. They've done a hundred risk-analyses before they even started putting the mission together. The moon is a small planet. Hitting it with a rocket (a projectile and non-explosive) isn't going to do too much damage, relatively speaking...
Have studies been done of the moon's mass and influence on our ocean tides? IF it is that strong, why would we ever want to experiment with blowing up even part of it. How will the Earth's OCEANS respond?
Such gravitational forces are not to be messed with. Why is it that we still use in some sectors this outdated "blow it up to understand it" mentality of the Physics of the early 20th Century? We have progresed to Climatology, to interdependent sciences of ecology, etc.
Please explain the math and causation as known now. Seems so dangerous given the sorts of risks that could easily develop.
the argument that the moon is hit by meteors every day, making craters, and so we may hit it deliberately, regardless of whether our object/projectile is the same material as the meteorites (ice and rock?) .... What studies were done of risk?