San Diego Housing Bubble News and Analysis

NASA web site does not show any launches or missions that could result in an explosion on the Moon before the end of June. Neither does Wikipedia.

BTW, it's 2 ton, not 2 kiloton. If true, it would not be an atom bomb (there's a treaty that forbids us from testing those in outer space), it would be something more regular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

What good has the moon ever done us? I say blow it up.

NASA plans to bomb the moon

http://www.examiner.com/x-8698-Sacrament...

"LCROSS will guide an empty Centaur rocket weighing two tons toward its target. The rocket will crash into the crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater - perhaps as large as 5 miles wide"

so we are not talking about an explosive bomb - we are talking about two tons of metal that will be crashed into the moon

put on your tin foil hat and read the article

"'PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.'"

this is too much!!!

between trying to figure out if that Kenyan Muslim community organizer is really a US citizen vs whether we are waging war with aliens with a base on the dark side of the moon, I'm getting totally scatter brained.

I think life was much much simpler when we were just trying to figure out the bottom of the housing market...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...

NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in the lunar surface at twice the speed of a bullet.

The missile, a Centaur rocket, will be steered by a shepherding spacecraft that will guide it towards its target - a crater close to the Moon's south pole.

This is probably what it is about. Running out of energy on earth, let's go to the moon!

China and India are rushing up there as well.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/1...
Mining the Moon
Lab experiments suggest that future fusion reactors could use helium-3 gathered from the moon.

It would be something if they really discover water up there. But I would be concerned w/debris heading this way.

Jp: Sheesh. Didn't you ever watch "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis? We'll be fine!

I was starting to think my tin foil hat was permanent:). This is ridiculous and you have to expect something catastrophic could happen when playing with the moon. It does control tides along with a handful of other vital parts to making this earth go round!! Well, at least I am not the only one that hadn't heard about it.

Exactly. Maybe it'll just float around in space until it makes its way over here. We always have to go messing w/stuff. Can't leave well enough alone.

My main concern is that we will live out the remains of our lives with two big chunks of moon orbiting the Earth and have to explain to our grandchildren how it used to be round and in one piece :-)

Seriously though it sounds like a pretty interesting project. I cannot wait to see the results.

Yeah, because nothing larger than 2 tons has ever crashed into the moon before. *sigh*

Really? When was the last time? I'm curious?

Bush doctrine

lol... The man on the moon was looking at us funny. Let's bomb the shit out of him.

Have you ever seen those dark black circles on the moon? Those aren't holes in the swiss cheese surface of the moon. No -- those are called craters, and they are caused by meteors. Meteors much larger than any rocket we can throw at the moon.

I have no doubt that the moon and earth have been hit with space debris. Lots of things burn out in our atmosphere all the time. I was just curious if you were privy to information regarding the last large impact on the moon.

A good freind just finnished his Phd in astrophysicics from UCLA. One of his side interests in monitoring asteroids tht could possibley hit the earth and the effects of such a strike.

It does not take much to distrupt things. Orbitally, atomospherically etc...

Now, I'm quite sure the NASA scientists are quite proficient in their trade. Conversly, human hubris knows no bounds. Take a look at GM food for a good example of science gone wrong.

Pretty much everything's uncalled-for these days. There's so much that's broken, there's no chance of us fixing it. We're going to have to rely on hope, faith, and prayer. If you need a prayer book, I have them for sale for $11.95 + S/H. Remember, God won't listen to you if you don't have an official prayer book.

This is one of the best threads in a long time...LMAO!!

The thing that scares me is that the moon is hollow. I'm now starting to understand why the Creator put most things out of our reach!

The best part about this thread is that the idea of bombing the moon is a laughing matter and while we are in one of the most brutal economic times our country has every experienced NASA has decided to spend millions on such a silly project that will most likely do much more harm than good! I am out the door on my way to get my tin foil hat tattooed on my head!!

True dat, but we really do need to laugh from time to time.

48 hours and counting!!! Maybe high tides will get a bit higher and low tides will create a Tsunami!! Good thing the NASA space program won't be around much longer. They could give me a few dollars and I will tell them exactly what they are trying to find. There is no water on the moon! NASA employees should all be wearing tin foil hats!!

Might there be ice?

My 7 year old watches NOVA @ PBS and knows what this is about. You should try it at home, cancel your cable and put PBS on.

Money is not the issue ....print and go to the moon. What a watse of money. Is there no hunger? dont the police need help to clean up the gang problem? Do Governments have their priorities all screwed up. Has everybody smoked, drank or partied where they think plowing into the moon is money well spent. God help us all.

NASA's initial research, or "waste of money," as some like to call it, have resulted in plenty of things that we use today and enable us to live the modern life that we do. Where would we be without satellite technology? GPS? Insulation? Solar technology? Rocket design and fuel? Optical tech? Gyroscopes? Silicon chips? Lasers? Composites?

Now imagine back to when NASA requested the initial funds to begin research on these technologies. I'm sure plenty of people saw these things as wastes of money. But look today and you'll find that all of these things have payed for themselves and then some. A million times over.

Crashing this thing into the moon doesn't cost any more money than just letting it turn into space junk at the end of its mission. It wasn't sent up to crash into the moon. It was sent up to survey the moon. Now that its job is over, why not crash it and increase the research data that we can squeeze from the mission? It's better than leaving the thing floating in space as a piece of junk or burning up upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.

Lots of people called Columbus' voyages a waste of money too. But now 500+ years into the future, wouldn't you say those expensive voyages were worth it?

I think we should spend resources looking at "the little things",what makes up sub atomic particles. I'm not saying we should spend Billions on colliders,but really try to understand what makes up matter. I'm pretty sure it will turn out to be energy strings that unfortunately/ or fortunately for us are not put together perfectly. Yes I guess I'm saying God made some mistakes when he made the Universe-there now I think I've offended everyone. P.S.- Does anybody know what time the bombing begins?
If I ever have the urge to read grocery store tabloid trash, now I know where to find it.

Yes, we did indeed strike the moon on October 9th.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint), we found out it was NOT where the Colorado terror suspect hid his hydrogen peroxide, so it did not explode.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/09...

"Significant" amount of water found on the moon: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html

The finding is based on data taken from the "bombing" that happened last month. Still a waste of money?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/con...
WASHINGTON—In recognition of mankind's inherent propensity for tragically foolish decisions, Congress allocated nearly $500 billion Monday for the construction of a new national monument honoring human folly.

"From Hannibal's disastrous crossing of the Alps to Custer's humiliating defeat at Little Bighorn, human history has been plagued by senseless mistakes, and it is high time we built a memorial to honor that history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of the expensive and ill-advised monument. "My deepest hope is that future generations of Americans will one day look upon this pointless edifice and be filled with a sense of awe and wonder at mankind's utter lack of foresight."

"To think of all the ways our time and money could have been better spent," Pelosi continued. "I can imagine no more fitting tribute."

Our goal is to create a structure that, like the human race itself, is doomed from the outset and plagued by innate flaws that can never be corrected," Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) said of the monument, which he claimed would eventually sink into the federally protected wetlands that surround it. "Not only will it be an aesthetic disaster, but it will also require constant, expensive maintenance just to ensure that the whole foundation doesn't topple suddenly and kill hundreds of innocent people."