we can not bomb the moon !!!

[stellanoir]

this is the utmost in idiocy !!!

[bdamomma]

1. I just don't get this, didn't they know from past luna landings

if the moon has water or not. This is not right at all.

[cali]

2. no one is bombing the moon

this is just a silly meme.

[hobbit709]

10. We didn't land at the poles.

[Statistical]

33. So fucking clueless

1) It is right.
2) There is NO BOMB. Say it with me. There is no bomb. There is no bomb. There is no bomb. There is no bomb. There is no bomb. There is no bomb. There is no bomb.There is no bomb. There is no bomb.
3) Instruments in the 1960s were far inferior to what we have now
4) We are crashing into a crater that is in CONTINUAL DARKNESS. This is important because water boils in vacuum at -70 degrees. So it have boiled off of any part of the moon exposed to sunlight billions of years ago.

The bottom of the crater has never seen sunlight since it was hit by a stellar object the size of los angelos (2 trillion kg) 2-3 billion years ago. Without sunlight the bottom of the crater is cold enough that ice will remain solid forever. We might find 2 billion year old ice at the bottom of that crater.

[AngryAmish]

68. If there is no bomb, then why are we bombing it?/

Think about it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

80. We are using kinetic energy

They are sending a rocket that will accelerate, that has NO WARHEAD...

This is no different than when an asteroid crashes against the moon.

Physics 101.

[Generator]

88. If the moon is bombed but we don't know about it

was the moon really bombed? Think about THAT, Mr.

[yawnmaster]

84. Let me get this straight. We are going to destroy something that may be over 2 billion years old???

That ice has sat there that long undisturbed. Now no one, in future generations, will be able to see it again. nice.

[csziggy]

53. The astronauts only got a few inches into the lunar surface

NASA wants to find out what is deeper below it.

Think about most places on Earth - there may be water 10, 100 or 1000 feet below the surface that cannot be seen if you dig a hole six inches deep. NASA does not have the technology or the funds to send up Bruce Willis with a drill rig and crew, but throwing a big object will create a crater some feet deep (I have not read the literature to know how big they expect to get) and let them find out much more about what is under the top layers.

[NeedleCast]

58. It would be cool if they did though

Maybe we could enlist Palin and her Drill Baby Drill buddies to go up to the moon and drill for water. Providing a means of return should be optional based on fudning.

[Ian David]

3. Shit hits the moon all the time. Get over it. n/t

[malaise]

4. Don't you know

They can bomb anywhere they choose? Fugging madness indeed!!

[cali]

7. The anti-science cadre here should inform themselves

we are not bombing the moon.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. true. And finding usable resources would be a good thing.

Although, the current lunatic residents may still object.

What, a couple of dozen space and ground based telescopes will be watching this event, trying to determine the make-up of the dust? That alone is pretty awesome. talk about global cooperation. I read yesterday, that an easily accomplished and cheap way of recovering water vapor has already been created. (charged metal plates above a microwave generator)

[berni_mccoy]

25. The anti-knowledge cadre you mean. The anti-science cadre is a subsidiary.

[DainBramaged]

5. Too late, as in 99.99% of things discussed here, we have no say.

OH WELL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the end is near OMG run run.

[thunder rising]

31. That's funny! A story from a now closed Nike Hercules site in Gemany

Every year there were readiness tests and drills etc. Of course most of the defense of the site from terrorists to USSR invasion was not feasible due to the lack of or ill-repair of equipment specified.

So, in a test of loyalty to the death certain scenarios were sprung on the grunt level soldiers. Two that I remember:

Q: What would you do if a space ship were to land near a barn and the spacemen started toward it?
A: Sir, I'd shoot them with my ray gun.
Q: Soldier, where do you get your ray gun?
A: Were do you get your spaceship?

Scenario: A Soviet tank is coming down the access road what do you do?
Huddle, discussion, some members leave to prepare defense.
A: Sir, we would attack the tank with our superior mounted guns.
Q: Where are your "superior" mounted guns.
A: Within minutes a trash bin with a broomstick sticking out of the top and a Marks-A-Lot sign designating "TANK" was pushed out from behind a building by members of the action team.

When shit get absurd all you can do is laugh.

I'm sure, much like those guys in the Afghan outposts. Mostly, there defense was "If they don't attack today ... I'm good"

[DainBramaged]

74. Funny stories thanks!

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. The Cat - Women of the moon will not be happy

[Tesha]

23. And what about the "Amazon Women on the Moon"? (NT)

[marylanddem]

34. I saw that movie on the big screen!

[Ichingcarpenter]

48. That movie is part of the Public Domain and can legally be downloaded

for free.....

A lot of great movies, books, radio shows and TV shows mostly from the 30s 40s 50s and 60s.

Some Hitchcock, Sherlock Holmes, Playhouse 90, bad science fiction, film noir etc

Its a great site and is open to the public. I've enhanced my collection from it.

http://www.archive.org/index.php

[hobbit709]

8. Do you not understand?

There is no "bomb" involved.

[bdamomma]

14. that is the media's word for it, stupid idiots

aren't they inserting some kind of a probe in it?

[Tesha]

21. They'll be watching the debris plume from orbit with spectrometers.

"I say we take off and nuke the whole site from orbit;
it's the only way to be sure!"

Tesha

[Ichingcarpenter]

56. this is the utmost in lunacy !!!

Hudson:
Fuckin' A...

Burke:
Ho-ho-hold on, hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.

Ripley:
They can *bill* me.

[Tesha]

65. Well spotted! (NT)

[Tesha]

73. In case anyone wants to hear it in its original beauty...

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/movies1/aliens/nuke.mp3

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/movies1/aliens/nuke2.mp3

[peekaloo]

9. It's always smirking at us!

[AllentownJake]

11. That fucking moon has had it coming

BOMB the shit out of it

USA USA USA

[Wednesdays]

35. Aha! So that's where Saddam hid those WMDs!

So, now the meme is "Level Luna!"
:woohoo:

[Dogmudgeon]

12. We lefties are too intelligent to believe pseudoscience like Creationism

No, we believe that dropping a satellite on the Moon is an atrocity against Mother Earth, that atoms contain evil spirits, and that long hair stopped the war in Vietnam.

:eyes:

--d!

[Richardo]

16. +1

:rofl:

[Gemini Cat]

46. +1000!

[sweetloukillbot]

63. +1

[BlooInBloo]

76. Don't forget ghosts & goblins talking on tape!

[tammywammy]

77. ...

:rofl:

[mamaleah]

79. I am pretty certain Pat Robertson doesn't have a big fan base here.

And I'd bet a lot of money that everyone here got a good laugh when he predicted hurricanes would be worse than usual because God was punishing Florida.

And I bet some of those same people are now claiming the moon goddess is going to punish us for this......

Any bets on if they do not see their own hypocrisy?

[Dogmudgeon]

91. Sadly ...

... it's much more from lack of education and intellectual curiosity.

Sadder still, neo-paganism never used to have the dumb-ass streak we've been seeing lately. I note that the Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christianity movement also took about 30-50 years to lapse into reactionism. It started around 1820, and came fully of age as a vehicle for ignorance during the Civil War (at least for the white, affluent power structure).

I'd hate to see neo-paganism, as much as I often disagree with it, to go reactionary ...

--d!

[Warren DeMontague]

83. Whaddaya got against long hair?

Huh, smartass?

:hippie:

[Dogmudgeon]

89. Hair? Nothing.

Magical war-stopping hair is something else again.

The real magic is underneath the hair!

:headbang:

--d!

[Warren DeMontague]

92. Well, you're right.

My hair was completely ineffective at stopping the Gulf War.

[liberal N proud]

13. Oh dear!

[Solomon]

28. Great Job!

LOL

[Richardo]

15. No, the utmost in idiocy are the ones who think we're bombing the moon

For Christ's sake.

[Call Me Wesley]

19. Bombing the moon

for Baby Jesus? Oy!







:rofl:

[Richardo]

30. :^)

:hi:

[snooper2]

55. guess I should have read all the posts before I responded below

:P

[Richardo]

62. I can't be said too often

:D

[brendan120678]

We aren't "bombing" the moon. (nt)

[Tesha]

17. "We must not permit a 'Moon Shadow' Gap!!!"

Try to picture George C. Scott saying at as General "Buck" Turgidson...

Tesha

[csziggy]

69. That Moon Shadow might follow us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4

[Lint Head]

20. Maybe this will bring on the rapture and all of the RW wingnuts will

dissappear and go to Moran Heaven.

[Richardo]

22. Because nothing has ever crashed into the moon before..

[SemiCharmedQuark]

27. Those aren't craters, they're hickeys from Heaven.

[paparush]

32. You should copyright that "Hickeys from Heaven" :-)

[HipChick]

24. looks like the aliens are going to be upset by this..

the freepers are going overboard on this one..can we call this lot 'Mooners'?

http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations

[DRoseDARs]

26. It's like kicking a hay stack with your booted foot to find the pin.

No explosives are being used. The missile itself is a powered rocket, but its kinetic energy on impact is what will create the dust cloud.

[Silent3]

29. Do you realize other spacecraft have already crashed into the moon?

The only difference now is that we're picking the spot where the crash happens, carefully watching the impact occur with the appropriate instrumentation for detecting water focused on the event.

None of these impacts, from this mission or previous accidental crashes, are anything more than a BB gun shot at a mountain, especially compared to the millions of impacts the moon has endured over time, many of far, far greater magnitude -- you know, the impacts that made all of those craters.

[pipi_k]

36. As long as they don't bring back the draft to send troops there I'm fine with it

[shireen]

37. damn right! the moonlings are still pissed about the Apollo program!

i don't know if i'll be able to talk them out of invading Earth this time.
:scared:

[SidDithers]

38. No. "We can't bomb the moon" threads are the utmost in idiocy...nt

Sid

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

39. You're half right.

[redqueen]

40. LOL... are we doing this again today?

Hurray! :bounce:

[neverforget]

52. I'm bookmarking them for future laughs. They're priceless!

[Canuckistanian]

41. They're only bombing it because they want the oil

Sweet Lunar crude, baby. That's what it's all about.

[kentuck]

42. Most likely, it is for military reasons.

Simply to show the new nuclear enthusiasts, such as Iran, that we can send a missile to the moon. If we wanted, we could put a nuclear warhead on it. So, don't get any bright ideas, OK? This is disguised as a scientific experiment, when in fact, it is nothing more than military propaganda.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

44. It isn't a bomb. How does allowing a not-bomb to crash into the moon's surface send a message to

Iran about nuclear missiles?

[Tesha]

67. It shows that even though we still use the god-given imperial system of measurements,

we can *STILL* hit a target a quarter of a million
miles away (most of the time, anyway), so those
heathens in Tehran had better be quaking in
their sandals at our mighty might!

Tesha

[SidDithers]

45. "We" showed Iran we could send a missile to the moon...

back in 1969.

Sid

[RaleighNCDUer]

54. Because, of course, Iran has no idea that we even have missiles.

:eyes:

[Forkboy]

70. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

The stupidity here is truly embarrassing for any sane Democrat.

[Codeine]

85. Why on earth would we need to demonstrate our

ability to put a bomb on the moon when we already put actual living people there over forty years ago? :wtf:

[anigbrowl]

86. This is the new stupidest post on DU

They already know we can send a missile to the moon. We sent people there 40 years ago. We also already have missiles with nuclear warheads, and it would be a lot faster to just fire one at Iran than to send it all the way to the moon and back. This mission has about zero military upside. WTF.

[JBoy]

43. I want a martini made with moon ice.

[bridgit]

47. Shame the mission was packaged poorly as a 'bombing'

[SemiCharmedQuark]

49. Who packaged it as a "bombing"? The person who wrote the headline on a newspaper article?

It certainly wasn't NASA.

[bridgit]

50. On top of everything else it's a old story

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasas-mission-to-bomb-the-moon-2009-06

[snooper2]

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[lumberjack_jeff]

57. Threads like this make the baby Jeebus cry. n/t

[bikebloke]

59. If we don't bomb the Moon out there...

We'll have to bomb it down here.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

60. Isn't this a sketch from Mr. Show?

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

[sweetloukillbot]

64. "We're Earthlings. Let's blow up Earth things!"

I love Sarah Silverman...

[NYC Liberal]

61. Gaaahhh!

[leeroysphitz]

66. WRONG! We MUST bomb the moon! It's our only chance!

[Bobbie Jo]

71. Not idiocy. It's lunacy, of course.

:evilgrin:

[Javaman]

72. the highest form of flattery is imitation. not in this case.

way to continue teh stupid.

:rofl:

[AsahinaKimi]

75. Do you think the next mission will be to REMOVE THE POTHOLES?

I mean gee, someone has to!!

[BlooInBloo]

78. Ironically and unintentionally enough, true statement. We can not bomb the moon...

This is like a bizarro Gettier case, in relation to idiocy, rather than knowledge. :rofl:

[CreekDog]

81. i agree

we can not bomb the moon.

alternatively, we can bomb the moon.

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

82. What you don't understand is, the Martian Cong are running their supply lines through there.

We really don't have a choice.

[Generator]

87. The moon represents emotions

And I find Obama personally very cold. Of course, maybe this plot was hatched during Bush or before. And you know they demoted Pluto-like that worked!

[TexasObserver]

90. yes, we can bomb the moon!!!

this is the utmost in sanity