The moon rises a couple hours after sunset on Friday evening

[Bill McBlueState]

I heartily encourage everyone to peek outside tomorrow night and see whether anything horrible has happened to the moon.

There's nothing like doing science from your own front porch.

[tjwash]

1. Does this mean Sarah Palin is now an astronaut?

nt

[Uben]

2. If they're goin to bomb the moon....

....and leave black marks on it, can they do it where it would leave a smiley face on it? Now that would be cool!

[CoffeeCat]

7. Hey, don't laugh...

There was a mathematics professor at my alma mater--Iowa State. He was pretty infamous for wanting
to blow up the moon. He said the absence of the moon would change the tilt of the Earth--giving us beautiful
weather and also slowing climate change.

I interviewed him when I was a reporter for the student newspaper. He was quite the trip.

[ellie]

14. I remember

reading an article in the Wall Street Journal in the late 80s about just such a plan.

[madokie]

19. I bet he was

[get the red out]

3. Supposed to be storms tomorrow night

And they could be horrible.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Attack it! Leave nothing to chance.

It does nothing good for us, well except with tides and shit, so why shouldn't we blow the damn thing up?

[rufus dog]

8. I'm with Tommy

Bomb it into oblivion. Socialistic fucking moon. Aiding and abetting our enemies!

[FatDave]

56. Hells yes, blow the fucker up.

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

[woo me with science]

5. Not gonna go outside, nuh uh,

in case they knocked it off course and it's comin' toward me.

[tammywammy]

6. I'm worried about my menses

:scared:

[Solly Mack]

9. Watch it on NASA TV

October 9, 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, NASA will start a live TV broadcast.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[global1]

10. I Think The Moon Will Take This Bombing As An Act Of War And ........

retaliate by firing back.

Maybe that will put us out of our misery.

[ellie]

15. I think the aliens who are

mining the moon might get upset.

[csziggy]

31. That is why we're dropping TWO spacecraft on the Moon!

One to get things stirred up, the second to observe and hit while it's not looking. :silly:

LCROSS launched with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 p.m. PDT. The LCROSS shepherding spacecraft and the Atlas V’s Centaur upper stage rocket executed a fly-by of the moon on June 23, 2009 and entered into an elongated Earth orbit to position LCROSS for impact on a lunar pole. On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate. The Centaur will act as a heavy impactor to create a debris plume that will rise above the lunar surface. Projected impact at the lunar South Pole is currently: Oct 9, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. PDT. Following four minutes behind, the shepherding spacecraft will fly through the debris plume, collecting and relaying data back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface and creating a second debris plume.

More: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/overview/index.html

[Robyn66]

11. I am no scientist

but I think if the moon goes so do we!

[NeedleCast]

12. But since there's no chance of that happening it's a moot issue

[SidDithers]

13. We're doomed. DOOMED!!!....

Sid

[CrispyQ]

53. That looks like PacMan.

:rofl:

[redqueen]

16. I'm starting to think we may just see some moon mayhem.

Perhaps in the form of major moon cracking, or even splitting. :o

[frylock]

20. !

Mayhem of the Mooninites

[mamaleah]

46. You won't be laughing when our menstrual cycles go wonky!

Really, i am just kidding......but just in case, the subject line is pure :sarcasm:

[kentuck]

17. Should we expect to see this immediately?

Or will there be some delayed reaction? The Moon will be in late Gemini, if anyone is interested? If there is a catastrophic earthquake or tidal wave, we can just call it coincidence. There will be no scientific explanation. Only theories.

[SidDithers]

18. And if there's no catastrophic earthquake or tidal wave...

can we put the damaged-moon lunacy to bed for good?

Sid

[Posteritatis]

52. Of course not; the wooösphere will just shift its goalposts once again. (nt)

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Ka-Pow!

Stuff Asplode!

[BeHereNow]

22. Guess nobody has read the Hopi Prophecies about fucking with the moon.

This is catastrophic insanity.
We don't deserve to survive as a species.

BHN

[Bill McBlueState]

24. an alternative

is that people have read the prophecies, but chose not to take them literally.

Things often work out poorly when people insist on a literal interpretation of religious writings.

[BeHereNow]

26. Tell it to the Kogi.

http://www.taironatrust.org
There is a HUGE difference between religious rantings and SPIRITUAL teaching of the elders.
BHN

[Warren DeMontague]

29. And you determine that...

..how, precisely?

[BeHereNow]

33. Results- evidence based.

Religious ranting= chaos and violence.
Spiritual teachings of elders= peace and the betterment of all living beings.

Any more questions?
Perhaps you should do some research of your own.
Start with the Kogi link and then we can discuss some things in a year.

BHN

[Warren DeMontague]

36. Any more questions? Yes. What the fuck does any of that have to do with the NASA LCROSS mission

which you clearly have little or no grasp of? :shrug:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html

Read it, and we can discuss it in a year, if you've got it figured out by then.

[Odin2005]

41. It's all superstitious BS.

[SidDithers]

61. Uhh, no, there isn't...nt

Sid

[Blue-Jay]

25. Oh, brother.

[BeHereNow]

28. Your cat abuse page is far more telling than your posting- oh brother indeed.

Is that you in that hideous video torturing the cat?
No wonder you have no respect for the life or teachings of indigenous people.
If you find humor in that video linked at your profile, I would doubt that
you even qualify as a human being.
http://www.hersenscheet.com/loi/kat.swf
Sharing your link so other DUers can get a closer look at who you are.
BHN

[Blue-Jay]

32. Baaahahahahaha!

:rofl:

[BeHereNow]

34. And what is so funny? Torturing an animal is funny to you?

You are sick.
Mentally, spiritually and no doubt, physically.

BHN

[Blue-Jay]

38. To answer your polite queries:

No, that's not me. It's a link I found years ago and thought was funny.

It's not torturing an animal. You you knew anything about cats, you'd realize that if the cat was uncomfortable, it would get out.

THIS is real animal torture:




Actual animal torture is not funny. YOU are funny for looking at my profile to try to find something objectionable.

Here's a picture of me inflicting torture upon my dog:

[Codeine]

35. The cat looks lke he's having fun. nt

[Blue-Jay]

39. Did you have your speakers on?

The song that's playing in that link is mesmerizing.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. That's how NASA trains all its cat astronauts.

Really.

[Blue-Jay]

42. Is that before or after they shoot the cat at the moon?

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Guess not.

Guess they didn't 40 years ago, either, when the 3rd Stage of Every Apollo mission smashed into the moon with at least as much 'destructive' impact as the LCROSS mission is going to cause.

Maybe the world ended 40 years ago, after Neil Armstrong's initial act of Lunar Date Rape, and we just didn't get the memo? :shrug:

[Odin2005]

40. Oh good god what superstitious BS.

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. You have absolutely no comprehension what this mission is about nor how science works, do you?

No, didn't think so.

Amazing how people can so easily let their emotions run the day and say fuck all to actual facts, data, and science.

Here are some more awful things that will happen when the probe contacts the moon that you should be ignorantly freaking out about:

1) The temperature in the immediate area WILL RISE IMMEDIATELY!!!! just like when a volcano goes off, it raises the immediate temperature, too!!!!

2) A dust cloud will be created - nuclear missiles and volcanoes ALSO create dust clouds!!!!!!

3) Water will be vaporized! Vaporized!!! Like aliens hit with phasers in Star Trek!! And like what happens to HUMAN SKIN IN NUCLEAR BLASTS!

4) There will be a transfer of energy! The same kind of transfer of energy that happens WHEN ASTEROIDS COLLIDE WITH EARTH!!!!!!!! and like happens EVERY TIME A BRIDGE FALLS DOWN!!!!

5) The dust cloud WILL BE VISIBLE FROM EARTH! Exactly in the same way that when Saddam BURNED THE OIL WELLS after Desert Storm, THE SMOKE COULD BE SEEN FROM SPACE!!!!!!

6) The probe will be thrust in a forward direction, JUST LIKE A MAN'S PENIS IN RAPE!!!!!!!

Anything else I can help you and the science-illiterate hyperventilate in ignorance about?

[Warren DeMontague]

45. And quantum physics proves that my 6,000 year old spirit guide is deeply unhappy about the moon bomb

You left that part out.

[trotsky]

48. Could you please describe #6 in greater detail, please?

Preferably with some Casio keyboard demo mode music in the background. Thanks.

[Codeine]

51. You, sir,

are my new hero. :rofl: :applause:

[Silent3]

47. Is it anything like messin' with Sasquatch?

I had a prophetic dream last night that the moon was looking forward to this probe impact to scratch an itch it hasn't able to reach for 14,000,000 years, and will be damned pissed if we don't crash the thing.

[thelordofhell]

23. I'm gonna be out there with a big ol' net to catch me some free cheese!!

:woohoo:

[ddeclue]

27. We have you right where we want you!

[Starry Messenger]

44. What about those of us who don't have a porch?

How porchist of you.
















:hide:

[Bill McBlueState]

55. Well, I was going to say backyard,

but then the porchers would be after me. Can't you people ever be satisfied?!

[uppityperson]

49. My front porch faces north, would my back porch work? Should I wear a hardhat or have a net to catch

the cheese with?

[slutticus]

50. Anyone in the Bay Area should check this out....

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2009/M09-126.html


NASA Ames to Showcase Spectacular LCROSS Lunar Impacts


MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission will come to a dramatic conclusion at approximately 4:30 a.m. PDT (7:30 a.m. EDT) on Friday, Oct 9, 2009, with the impact of the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket and four minutes later, the impact of the LCROSS Shepherding Spacecraft into Cabeus crater near the moon’s south pole. To mark the event, NASA Ames Research Center is hosting ‘LCROSS Impact Night.’ News media are invited to cover the three-part event that is open to the public and free of charge.

WHAT: LCROSS Impact Night Public Event

WHEN: 7 p.m. PDT, Oct. 8 to 7 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, 2009
Presentations
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PDT, Thursday, Oct. 8
S. Pete Worden, NASA Ames Center Director
Victoria P. Friedensen, LCROSS program executive
Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut

Moon-Themed Movie Night
8:30 p.m. PDT, Thursday, Oct. 8 to 3:15 a.m. PDT, Friday, Oct. 9.

Live NASA TV Broadcast of the LCROSS impacts with expert commentary
3:15 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. PDT, Friday, Oct. 9

WHERE: NASA Ames Research Center. To reach Ames, take U.S. Highway 101 to the Moffett Field/NASA Parkway exit and drive east on Moffett Field Boulevard toward the main gate.

[zorahopkins]

54. It's The END of The WORLD!

There is absolutely NO WAY I am going to peek outside tomorrow night.

My God -- does no one here understand that the bombing of the moon means the END OF THE WORLD??!!

I will be in bed, with my head under the covers.

I am going to the store TONIGHT to make sure I have enough tinfoil to line the windows of my bedroom!

Do NOT look directly at the Moon tomorrow night! (If you have a cat, she can look at the moon, because cats have special eyes)

[Warren DeMontague]

60. Leonid Breznev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3CmXGKXOmk

[edbermac]

57. At least NASA isn't blowing up Uranus.

Just think of all those noxious fumes that would be released.

:P

[Fumesucker]

58. I'll have my umbrella ready..

Just in case..

[BlooInBloo]

59. I heard we blew it up with a conventional nuclear warhead.