Watch NASA bomb the moon live, on the 9th of october.

[TrippyLondoner]

 

[Crispy]

This is pretty depressing tbh. The few hundred millions dollars worth of satellite crashed into the moon could have helped some people out of abject poverty. Why do we have to keep blowing things up? We're gonna be so fucked one of these days with our bloody-minded arrogance. Ignore my rantette anyway, I'm probably just a lazy conspiraloon or something.

NASA: <0.5% of the federal budget
Dept. of Defense: 21% of the federal budget

Get your priorities right.

 

[Mungy]

NASA: <0.5% of the federal budget
Dept. of Defense: 21% of the federal budget

Get your priorities right.

to be fair to me, this thread is about NASA bombing the moon, not the DoD and their budget, but I do see your point.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Apparently the rocket is going to be loaded with swine flu vaccine as a warning shot to any alien life forms snuffling around below the surface. Ha!

 

[Maggot]

Why do we have to keep blowing things up?

NASA don't keep blowing things up. Not deliberately anyhow.

 

[Mungy]

NASA don't keep blowing things up. Not deliberately anyhow.

I didn't say NASA kept blowing things up.

 

[xes]

You didn't need to

24 hours and it'll all be over apart from the dust cloud

Looking forward to it? Yes I fucking am!!

 

[Spion]

*yawn* It's been tried before

 

[Beanburger]

The conspiraloons are all over this. Had an argument with one down the pub last night, and he was utterly convinced that NASA are using a two-tonne bomb, and started rambling about about how they're in breach of space weaponry treaties. Yawn.

 

[Beanburger]

The Moon is moving away from the Earth,a couple of centimeters each year.
Eventually it will pull clear of Earth orbit.
When it does we will all be fucked !
(Unless we,as a species,have moved on.)

 

[Signal 11]

The Moon is moving away from the Earth,a couple of centimeters each year.
Eventually it will pull clear of Earth orbit.
When it does we will all be fucked !
(Unless we,as a species,have moved on.)

It will take a billion years to get about 10% further away. By that time we'll have other things to worry about.

It's not expected to "pull clear of Earth orbit" as far as I'm aware.

 

[kyser_soze]

LULZ at the hippy nonsense.

Looking fwd to watching this at lunctime

 

[DotCommunist]

The noos said it's not a bomb but two disused craft.

 

[kyser_soze]

That's what they say

Yeah, it's a rocket being used as a kinetic energy device - no explosives needed, all it has to do is hit the surface. Not that the idiot squad will be able to understand that. Too much science and stuff - all that theory about transfer of energy is what they want you to think.

Fucking muppets. I still think the hippy stuff is better tho. 'We must bandage the moon with out loving thoughts'.

 

[dlx1]

is this live footage now ?

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

 

[fogbat]

This is pretty depressing tbh. The few hundred millions dollars worth of satellite crashed into the moon could have helped some people out of abject poverty. Why do we have to keep blowing things up? We're gonna be so fucked one of these days with our bloody-minded arrogance. Ignore my rantette anyway, I'm probably just a lazy conspiraloon or something.

It's all very well to say that, but I'm afraid there was a decision made. By a committee and everything.

9 votes for blowing up the moon, and only 6 for abolishing poverty.

Frustrating, I know

 

[Intastella]

I can't see it...my dongle won't load up the page. Gutted.

 

[editor]

Those guys should get a bigger desk.

 

[Beanburger]

It's all very well to say that, but I'm afraid there was a decision made. By a committee and everything.

9 votes for blowing up the moon, and only 6 for abolishing poverty.

Frustrating, I know

I had a funny conversation with a hippy at the pub.

"Why are we spending money on blowing up the moon instead of abolishing poverty?"

"Well you could say that about any non-essential spending. Take that pint of scrumpy, for example. Did you really need it? Why not donate the money instead to third world poverty? You could have fed an Ethipian family for a week for the price of that drink."

"That's different!"

So there you have it. Scientific advancement is morally wrong, getting pissed is morally fine.

 

[themonkeyman]

so has it happened ? I am watching it now, and doesn't seem to be anything to do with it.

e2a - 57 minutes to go

 

[DotCommunist]

All NASA staff appear to share the same american geek voice

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What time is this happening. I'm bored of all the chit chat.

 

[editor]

NASA's offices are well low-rent.

54 mins to go.

 

[DotCommunist]

probably not much change to spare after they've built the multi-million dollar spacecraft

 

[xes]

*RUNS AROUND LIKE A LOONATIC TRYING TO GET STUFF DONE IN TIME*

caps lock

 

[Intastella]

 

[kyser_soze]

*RUNS AROUND LIKE A LOONATIC TRYING TO GET STUFF DONE IN TIME*

caps lock

Were you being subtly witty in your use of the word 'lunatic', it being related to some people being a bit more mental during full moon, which is where the word comes from?

 

[Limejuice]

NASA's offices are well low-rent.

Looks like the accounts department in my mate's haulage firm.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Only just started listening in, but fuck me that bugger is moving fast

 

[fogbat]

Those guys should get a bigger desk.

I was thinking that - no expense spent on the presentation