NASA is going to bomb the Moon tomorrow (Page 1 of 2)

They seriously mess with the Earth, so why not the moon?

I support the bombing of the moon! They had it coming!

he's just asking for it with his stupid smile

I remember like 4-5 years ago I came home from work on a Friday, nothing to do, nothing good going on that night. Started flipping through the tv and came across the NASA channel about t-minus 60 minutes before they were going to slam some space probe into a comet waaaay deep in space. They had launched the probe like 3 years before!

Me and my roommate grabbed some beers and watched the whole thing unfold. We got totally into it. It was a live feed from the NASA control center. Awesome geek central. They've got the craziest jobs. Like one guy in charged of Left Thrust Booster B, one guy in charged of double checking Trajectory Calculations...there were like 50 people all in charged of very specific tasks.

At about t-minus 15 minutes to impact, the team had ONE chance to adjust the trajectory to insure impact...3 years culminating to this one moment that would basically consist of firing one of the boosters for 2 seconds. We could tell that they got it right when the control room burst into celebration.

Then it was just a matter of watching. The probe returned a photo about once every 30 seconds. So the comet got closer and closer until the probe was like a few hundred feet off its surface. And then boom! The control room celebrates again, I think there was some champagne...we celebrated too for some reason. Every 30 seconds another pic of the impact...very cool stuff.

I don't even remember why they were doing it...I think they were trying to gauge the effects of massive impacts or something...I think it was cooler than this moon business.

EDIT: Found video of the impact...it was more impressive within the context of all the drama leading up to the moment.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eIY_9u- … r_embedded[/youtube]

i think they were trying to find evidence of water underneath the surface of the moon

they are probably smashing a probe into a comet because they can
just because it's a cool thing to do.. imagine the NASA guy coming home, when his kids ask him what he did at work today, he's like "oh, I smashed a probe into a comet.." and not like everyone else's boring jobs sitting around in an office or manufacturing sth in a fabric.

the US fucked up every continent in the world with their dumb policies and now they want to take it to another level I guess... Like they dont have to clean some shit up at home, better spend some money and energy on the 3rd world country your living in..

They are bombing for osama.

Bias lives in Poland.

Their president just won the nobel peace prize, how can they be bombing anything.

One world, one leader!

dumbot lives in paisley