NASA Set To Bomb The Moon Friday

Did they really send a missle to the moon? How do we know? What did we see when they said they were successful? Hmmm..... Have we heard anything more about it? They should of never sold the building where they filmed the first steps on the moon, they could of used it for a moon blast!

The trend of this thread ---REALLY IS--- toward anti-tech idiocy and "science fear". With a "friendlyliberal" crowd like this,...who needs fascist/theocratic superstitious conspiracy theorist conservatist "enemies". DAMN! McCain is ACTUALLYstarting to look GOOD in comparison,.... like the "noble worthy foe"; at least as a pilot HE is O.K. with flight and missiles! This makes my head hurt.

If any aliens are receiving this message we do NOT blow up everybody we find who we think might have water. We have too many other and much better reasons we always have reasons.

They're always real good reasons. It's our way.
They're always real good reasons. It's our way.
They're always real good reasons. It's our way.

It used to be we had to have a Biblical reason but we've progressed way beyond that now.

"And we'll be doing it during a full moon to make sure we get it all..." -Bob Odenkirk

lol, we're earth-lings let's blow up earth things!!

You know what I don't give a damn if there is water on the moon. My fucking meds arn't working today and my back hurts like hell. so just maybe some moron will push the button today and blow the world up and fix every damn thing. So unless you are in a third world country and starving or dieing of thrist you have not got a damn thing to bitch about . Some of you folks bitch just to make noise. I'm tired of the pain I'm tired of my head aches I'm just tired of it all

This is completely crazy! Bomb the Moon! haven't we bombed enough of our own planet? If there are aliens out there somewhere a missle won't scare them they will have weapons so advanced a missle will look like a rock to them! We need to stop blowing things up!

great, blow up the water supply on the moon into space, whose brilliant idea was this?

WTF people? It's not a bomb. It's a satellite that has been in orbit around the moon for some time.

This is the final stage that is going to kick up some dust from an existing crater. If this thing could even remotely impact the moon's orbit we would be in serious trouble as the moon routinely gets hit.

As usual people are letting fear and ignorance get the best of them. Reacting, yet again, to another over sensationalized headline.

Fear terrorists, fear scientists, fear corporations, fear you neighbor, fear nature, fear god. I'm sick of all this fear.

GAH! They are not bombing the moon. LRO / LCROSS will certainly impact the moon, but no explosives are on-board. It will just be a high-speed impact to try and detect water. The media is making it sound like we're sending up nukes, missiles or other large explosives but that simply is not the case. This is an amazing experiment that could start to allow humanity to visit the stars, forever altering our future. I know that sounds overly dramatic, but it is pretty freaking cool stuff!

This whole thing was ,...ahem "provocatively"( and simple mindedly ) titled to begin with; the headline virtually drove the discussion. O,....how about one for my retort; "PISS POOR YELLOW JOURNALISM GRAPPLES WITH SCIENCE AND TOO SLOW TO COPE". -something like that-
O.K. that was a bit much. Good source material. -sigh-

Mommy, I'm scared; the bad people are thinking again!

Completely ridiculous and unneccesary

An explosive is not always a "weapon" because it has the potential to be destructive, any more than a hammer is inherently/intrinsically/solely a weapon.
p.s. and this is not even "an explosive",...it IS a hammer. A thrown hammer, but still a hammer.

I guess humans are done destroying our planet and it's time to bomb the moon?

They are going to mess up the orbit of the moon. then we will have all kinds of things go wrong here on earth. get ready folks the people in charge are going to kill us all one way or another.better yet why waste money on space crap if we take care of what we have here being here is great for what was spent on this crap we could have saved a millon people here on Earth. I think it is all a waste of money that could be put to better use else where. Thats all I don't really beleave it will cause the moon to jump out of orbit. I just don't under stand with all that is going wrong. why waste the funds to find water on the moon. when millons are dieing of thirst here on Planet Earth. I just don't under stand folks?

LOL AGAIN. let me bring the sleepy americans up to date. the government been lying since nasa came into started. yes the moon has life up there already. its alien life up there. it was a whole alien base up there. its a usa miltary site now on the other side. waiting for what they call star wars in the near future 2012. the moon has ice on top its dry ice. the aliens up there live under ground just like some do here on earth. you dont believe me start looking up your history. nasa history. technology didnt boom until when. ROSWELL. the queen of england is a alien, she is a reptilian along with the rich bankers of the world. thats why they need all the oil, gold. to help fight the good aliens coming back 2012. the evil ones here. like bush and clintons rostchilds rummsfield,greenspan, the royal family. all reptiles. aliens. and the bad ones. they know whats bout to happen in 3years, they trying to run and hide. thats why nasa doing what they doing. oh yeah, sounds crazy, but just start doing your homework on history, even from the bible. now look at bush and his grandma reptile queen, and look at them eyes. reptilian devils. nasa, nsa,mib,norad, all for aliens coming and going from earth. check out the dates these organizations was started. WAKE UP AMERICA.

this is sad sad and scary. What purpose other than to satisfy nasa's neverending search for water. Eh hello, we live on a planet made up of 2/3 water. Leave it be, i hope the invisible aliens on the moon come out and send a massive infra red beam staright into nasa hq.

Some of the comments here are dumber than usual.

For one, the impact of this probe is insignificant compared to the history of impacts the moon (and every other body in space) has. It's covered in craters.

It's also a cost effective means of analyzing the surface composition. The impact "bomb" is really a satellite that after service in it's prior role is being crashed into the surface -- reuse for cost effectiveness.

My final point, poor people can study hard and get jobs in science and engineering if they so choose. Why deny poor people that choice to explore the universe in which we live?

those Americans sure do love to blow shit up.........

yes its sad when people lose reason...lets wait for the side effects..then comment?

thanks saladin for the voice of reason. as for the waste of money, what do you think happens to the money spent? is it gone? no it's in circulation, paychecks and banks. money spent on stuff in the u.s. is what stimulates the economy. maybe i didn't get the point across, it could easily be that your 9 years old.
money spent on space doesn't go on the ship into space, silly. it is spent on; workers and materials right here and that money is spent on many things (yes candy bars too) and then it is spent again and again making the economy work. space exploration is important as america will be one solid city in 6 generations.

@ Saladin (and yes men)

Wow someone thought they were going to blow up the moon? Can you point out to me who that that was because I didn't see that comment.

I also found no mention of a "waste of time".

Now there were a few mentions of wasting money. Which didn't involve a knowledge of science (something else you were complaining about commentators not having), they just needed a vague understanding of economics; and they were correct it is wasteful.

Here something scientific; if the children aren't educated there won't be more scientists.

If tax payers money keeps going to bullshit, instead of important things like education (which in time would improve the economy); the whole future of this country is in peril.

There are WAY more serious issues; the economy, health care, education, etc., etc......

And if several shorted sighted egg-heads from NASA, think that water on the moon is more important than the future and stability of his country; that's embarrassingly stupid....

And because these people at NASA have life in a blender, and are supposed to be so educated yet lack common sense. I figured I'd emphasize education...

Gonna search for life on the moon, when that funding could be saving lives on Earth...

Saladin pretty well sums it up ... a lot of blow hards with nothing to say often say the most. To borrow and bend a phrase from Thumper in Disney's Bambi, "If you can't say something right, don't say nothin' at all."

Amen Saladin!

They're not blowing up the moon geniuses. They're testing for something.

Read the article.

And if you're too lazy to do that, take a gander at the moon. Do you see those GIANT fucking holes? Those are called -craters-. They are the product of massive asteroids more powerful than dozens of nuclear bombs.

Do you -seriously- think that tiny probe testing for water is going to damage the moon in light of the massive attacks that rock has suffered for the billions of years it's been around?

You might as well think a missile would destroy our planet, it's equally stupid.

Talking about science requires a basic knowledge of science, -criticizing- science requires a more extensive knowledge.

But if you know -nothing- about this at all and talk about this mission being a waste of time and "dangerous," you're fair game for ridicule and scorn. You might as well yell at your car mechanic for taking off a flat tire or burst into a surgeon's operation and demand to know why he is cutting a human being open.

It's embarrassingly stupid.

will the crater even be visible from earth? probably not, maybe everyone is imagning a huge mushroom cloud but i hardly doubt that is the case. FInding water on the moon is important. I dont think we can be so short sided as to not see the importance of continuing to explore new frontiers.

WTF what is the point of this, it's just wasting money and destroying something that mankind has held scared since there was a mankind

Indeed Darevalo,

Science and exploration waits for no one. Sure things (cough... economy) aren't looking so hot but that doesn't mean we put everything else on hold in the meantime.

Rock on NASA!

its nothing but science and exploration.

which is kool.

finding water on something like the moon gives us a glimmer of hope there is water else were we may find.

which is also kool. (cause acording to manbearpig guy we only got till 2050, and the aztects apparently say 2012, some dumbass thought 2000 but they were wrong)

yeah, we could spend money on other stuff.. but guess what.. TOO LATE HA!

science rox. *does a dance*

I wonder how far the NASA budget could go as far as; sheltering the homeless, or improving public education? The vast majority of projects NASA works on are only of interest of those that are very rich. Nobody else could apply the information they are obtaining.

There are so many other things the tax payers money could go to. We're increasing the amount of stupid things we do in space, while simultaneously cutting school board budgets across the country?

Between NASA and the cost of these needless wars, no wonder China practically owns us. I'm surprised the country isn't completely bankrupt actually......

wow i can think of maybe a hundred reasons not to do this. chief among them is that it's a colossal waste of money.

can we please get a petition going to stop these idiots spending our perfectly good money to bomb the EFFING MOON? how about we stop funding nasa all together, until we have earth sorted out. a small fraction of the money we spend at nasa could fund all the observatories we need to monitor space for decades.

Is nothing sacred?

Clearly they are trying to force the subteranean moon into extinction so that we can settle it next. Don't beleive me? Look it up.