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Blow Up The Moon!

misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Social Entropy++
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1556254/NASA-To-Trigger-Massive-Explosion-On-the-Moon-In-Search-of-Ice?from=rss
NASA is preparing to launch the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, which will fly a Centaur rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm whether water is frozen in the perpetual darkness of craters near the moon's south pole. If the spacecraft launches on schedule at 12:51 p.m. Wednesday, it will hit the moon in the early morning hours of October 8 after an 86-day Lunar Gravity-Assist, Lunar Return Orbit that will allow the spacecraft time to complete its two-month commissioning phase and conduct nearly a month of science data collection of polar crater measurements before colliding with the moon just 10 minutes behind the Centaur.

Go, NASA, Go!

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The monkey just asked why we're blowing up the moon.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Holy balls that's incredible.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    WHOA WHOA FIGHT THE POWER

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  • TyrantCowTyrantCow Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    nothing rhymes with 'orange'

    :(

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    see this is why we pay the government money

    so that they can fly rockets into the fucking moon

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    How will a rocket exploding help determine if there's water frozen on the moon?

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  • StationaryStationary Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Trying to find a picture of piccolo blowing up the moon but so far all I learned was that DBZ Moon is not something I ever want to GIS again.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    TyrantCow wrote: »
    nothing rhymes with 'orange'

    :(

    blorange

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Man, you're overthinking things. We're going to blow shit up on the fucking moon.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Darmak wrote: »
    How will a rocket exploding help determine if there's water frozen on the moon?

    water and ice sometimes are under things

    like dust and rocks

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  • Wombat!!Wombat!! Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    TyrantCow wrote: »
    nothing rhymes with 'orange'

    :(

    'door hinge'

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  • HighfireHighfire Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    That's right.

    Show that Moon, who it's fucking with.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Moriveth wrote: »
    The monkey just asked why we're blowing up the moon.

    :^:

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  • misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Darmak wrote: »
    How will a rocket exploding help determine if there's water frozen on the moon?

    What about water now?

    Man, we're blowing up the moon! Whatever excuse we use for doing so needs to be quickly forgotten and never mentioned again.

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    They better tape it

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    How will a rocket exploding help determine if there's water frozen on the moon?

    water and ice sometimes are under things

    like dust and rocks

    i c

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] new member
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    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    This is a cover-up.

    We're starting a war with the Moon D:

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    chouginga-dai-gurren400.jpg

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    hey teefs

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The Far Side wrote: »
    6 miles high is like invisible from Earth, huh

    dang

    to the naked eye yes

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    People are going to be good and pissed off if it turns out to be just a shell and then whooooops, have some tides.

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    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Ugh I gotta take my car in for a smog check today

    ughhh

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    this is pretty cool
    LCROSS website wrote:
    The lunar impacts of the 2000 kg upper stage and the 700 kg S-S/C will take place at a velocity of 2.5 km/sec and at an angle of 75°. The resulting impact craters will be ~28m in diameter by ~5m deep (Centaur) and ~18m in diameter by 3.5m deep (Shepherding Spacecraft). The ejected mass from these craters is shown in Figure 2. Analysis to date has shown LCROSS will create a significantly larger crater than Lunar Prospector (LP) that hit the Moon at 1.7 km/s with a 158 kg impactor at a glancing angle of 6°. Temperatures reached will be insufficient to vaporize most (~90%) of the material, though is expected to create a very brief visible flash that will last < 100ms which will be measured by the S-S/C photometer instrument. Most of the ejecta will be thrown upward at a velocity of >250 m/sec, and will contain water in its solid state, as water ice mixed with the dust (refractory minerals).

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    well I didn't know that!

    edit tteefs

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    what if the moon didn't exist is an awesome book btw

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I wonder what Space-Bat thinks of all this

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    has anyone else watched that episode of "the universe" about the moon

    is was awesome because most of the episode was really just a history lesson about moon origin theories that have popped up over the years

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    is that meters or miles usagi

    I mean, I assume meters

    but I can't really tell

    also, 28m is not very big for a 6 mile high debris blast

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »
    has anyone else watched that episode of "the universe" about the moon

    is was awesome because most of the episode was really just a history lesson about moon origin theories that have popped up over the years

    Did they happen to say when people realized it was round?

    Because man, living in a time where you think it's this crazy ass disk in the air...

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    hey usagi I have been meaning to ask

    did you get your name from usagi yojimbo

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Drew-B wrote: »
    ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »
    has anyone else watched that episode of "the universe" about the moon

    is was awesome because most of the episode was really just a history lesson about moon origin theories that have popped up over the years

    Did they happen to say when people realized it was round?

    Because man, living in a time where you think it's this crazy ass disk in the air...

    it's been a while but I don't think they did that, no

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Maybe wikipedia...

    I've never thought to read the moon's wiki page. Hm...I bet it's long as all hell.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    is that meters or miles usagi

    I mean, I assume meters

    but I can't really tell

    also, 28m is not very big for a 6 mile high debris blast

    I'm assuming its meters because they're using kilograms, so SI units

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »
    hey usagi I have been meaning to ask

    did you get your name from usagi yojimbo

    nope

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »
    hey usagi I have been meaning to ask

    did you get your name from usagi yojimbo

    nope
    sailor moon :lol:

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I guess our moon is pretty swell when you think about how it's the 5th largest out of the 160+ in our solar system, huh.

    Nice going, moon.

    and thanks wikipedia.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    also this bomb is a pussy compared to the tsar bomba

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