Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon

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• so what

  Fortunately the next manned moon flight has been canceled. It was worthwhile to go to the moon in order to find out that it is not worth going to the moon. Myself a scientist I found that one should never give politicians, the military or scientific organization blank checks. My strong guess is that they don't find water on the surface of the moon but even if they did find molecular traces, at what cost in the face of steeply rising unemployment and poverty here in the US, and what would be the practical value of it.

  

  horst@...

  7 October, 2009 15:55

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  • If you claim to be a scientist

    You're not showing it. Rather than whining about the money spent on government projects, write up a grant proposal showing how you'd like to make the world a better place, and take it to some foundations where it might be seen!
    What I'm describing gets done every single day in this country and others. And it doesn't get done by armchair quarterbacks (or armchair "scientists") who claim they can do it better, stronger and faster than this or that agency or person.
    IMHO
    www.dfwsupergeek.com
    

    

    unclefixer@...

    7 October, 2009 21:52

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  • so what

    There are scientists... and there are Explorers
    
    You sound like a scientist, if its not exactly the way it says it is in the book then it doesn't make sense therefore it does not exist.
    
    I'll put my trust in the Explorers!

    

    kfortner51

    8 October, 2009 08:49

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• RE: LCROSS (Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon)

  Who gave permission to Nasa for striking this bombs?
  Are they gonna bring water from the moon to earth?
  
  Jose Ortega

  

  ppprint

  7 October, 2009 18:09

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  • ayy, Jose...

    You habla engliss...??? duhhhh
    
    Yeah mon, ...they gonna bring water back in the lawnmower they launch....
    
    Friggin idiot.... your name says it all.

    

    Scitnor

    7 October, 2009 18:52

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• RE: LCROSS (Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon)

  you know they aren't looking for regular water, but HEAVY water (heavy Hydrogen) for use as an energy source. they're hoping to find a good enough concentration to make it worthwhile. i hope they do.

  

  kroyhoy@...

  7 October, 2009 19:29

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  • You mean Helium3

    If they can make strides in fusion research, then by all means, get to the moon and bring back all the helium 3 we need for testing. It would be a big step for humankind.

    

    crazydanr@...

    7 October, 2009 20:38

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    • Wrong time maybe....

      As much as I think finding water or other life supporting particles is important for moving humans on to destroy other planets, I just think the timing was off. Maybe if we were not in a recession and medicaid wasn't talking about going bankrupt, people weren't starving and out of work or wishing they could afford school or diapers for that matter, maybe if people were not not robbing just to feed their families but to just be a crook like in the good old days, and etc. then maybe it would be a little bit cooler to spend that much desperately needed funding on deciding whether or not the moon the has special elements or components for life where no one lives.

      

      ELNICH

      8 October, 2009 11:19

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    • Moon water is priceless

      If humans are going to extract Helium 3 or other elements from the moon, they need a large quantity of water. It's estimated that it costs about $100,000 (space ship, equipment, rocket fuel, etc.) to send a pound of cargo to the moon. Since a gallon of water weighs 8.35 pounds that's $835,000 per gallon.

      

      andy.smith@...

      8 October, 2009 13:30

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• RE: Our goverment wasing our money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  I think the money 970 million dollars should have spent on earth, maybe to help homeless families finance affordable housing. Maybe they want them to live on the moon?

  

  davidemerson1@...

  8 October, 2009 06:44

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  • global finance crisis thinking...

    perhaps the same logic that created the waste--also might care to explain why ANY asteroid/captured space-body would have an atmosphere around it??
    
    

    

    falk-larsen

    9 October, 2009 17:17

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• RE: LCROSS (Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon)

  You guys responding sure sound like a bunch of narrow-minded and short-sighted people. Before you condemn everything, spend a moment at this website:
  http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
  
  Many technology products that you and others are enjoying, including the computer that is allowing you to post your comments, are here as a result of these spinoffs.

  

  hansa@...

  8 October, 2009 07:53

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• RE: LCROSS (Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon)

  We are long overdue in getting this done.
  
  If you are one to believe that we are the only ones in the Universe then we are long overdue in pursuing space exploration. Planet Earth can only hold so many of us and only for a limited time. We belong out there!

  

  kfortner51

  8 October, 2009 08:40

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• RE: LCROSS (Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon)

  dude wtf what if theres some kinda aliens on the moon and you disturb them and they come and eat everybody??!!

  

  RyanPatrickHealy925

  9 October, 2009 05:54

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• RE: LCROSS (Gallery: NASA ready to shoot the moon)

  will that change the orbit of the moon and cause disaster to earth in the long run.

  

  AlexSocial

  9 October, 2009 06:37

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  • Orbit of the Moon

    Something that only leaves a 66 ft. wide crater on the moon will not have any effect. Notice the huge craters that are hundreds and thousands of feet in diameter. Obviously something much more forceful has made them. The moon gets hit weekly by bigger or more forceful objects. There are objects hitting the moon at 100,000 mph. Our little mosquito bite was only 5000 mph The moon's orbit will be just fine.

    

    hansa@...

    9 October, 2009 09:53

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