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I"m sure that by tomorrow morning there will be even better ways to watch, but I thought I'd get this out there tonight so maybe some can catch it in the morning.

Thanks for the link.


Question and I don't mean to start the debate it is going to, but I am seriously curious: How long does it take to plan a NASA mission?

Is this a Bush thing or Obama or both or neither?

I'm going to wake up 15 minutes early to watch this. Thanks for the link.

Is this a Bush thing or Obama or both or neither?

I don't think the president has to bless every NASA mission.

Is this a Bush thing or Obama or both or neither?

Here's a link to the LCROSS main page:

www.nasa.gov

Answer to your question:

This mission was selected in 2006 by NASA, launched June 18, 2009

Obama did hold a very nice astronomy night for kids last night with 20 telescopes all set up on the South lawn of the White House.

thegovmonitor.com

Hell all they needed to do was to ask Me to bare all and then they could bomb Me saving Mega bucks. I don't get why they have to waste the money.

Larry

hmm -- I had a thread on this yesterday, too. I wonder why rcade took it down.

Thanks for reposting it, yav.

NOt to steal your thunder, but here is the thread I put up. I only post it because I included three links (two from NASA's site) with graphics that readers may be interested in reading.

www.drudge.com

oops, we crossed in cyberspace, yav. I see you put one of the links up while I was typing my post.

Hope your thread lasts longer than mine did!

Sweet! I should have checked your blog entries. No way you'd pass this up. I did search the back page and front page before I put this up. Maybe RCade will combine and put this on the Front page?

(Is my "geek" too strong?)

Inelegantly stated on my part, Goatman. I mean combine yours and mine and put this (the mission) on the front page.

"NASA bombs moon!"

Going after the factories?

They're going after my smokestacks.... NOOOOOOO!!!!

Buffalo Bob

So what did the Moon do to the Earth to deserve to get bombed??

Obama did hold a very nice astronomy night for kids last night with 20 telescopes all set up on the South lawn of the White House.

I have done sidewalk astronomy sessions for the children's hospital, the scouts, church groups, summer camps, and my sister's school. The latter has turned into quite an event over the years. It is great seeing the look in those kids' eyes the first time they see the rings of Saturn or craters in the moon.

One of my favorite exercises is the solar system "walk". I have a volleyball for the sun and a peppercorn for the earth. A marble is Jupiter. The kids are amazed at the relative sizes. But when I put them on the ground and walk out their relative distances, they don't believe it. The earth is ~ 26 yards away. Here is the model. It is quite interesting and eye opening. I do it for my sister's 5th grad class every year:

www.noao.edu

Unfortunatley, Saturn currently is rising too late at night (or early in the morning) to show people now. But Jupiter is good viewing now and the kids seem to enjoy that planet as well.

Did anyone see the remake of 'Time Machine'??

Fucking Moonies! We should have bombed their asses decades ago.

(Is my "geek" too strong?)

Geek is good.

I hope I can see it from the rig with the binoculars. I wish I was at home. I would break out the 10" reflector.

"This mission was selected in 2006 by NASA, launched June 18, 2009"

The history channel ran a piece where NASA was going to explode a rocket into an asteroid orbiting the earth. I believe they said it was to collect samples. Hard to believe they can extract anything from a rocket that was to create a crater the size of the Roman Coliseum.

This was about a couple of weeks after another episode, where they were talking about an asteroid on course with hitting the earth in 2012. They were planning on hitting the asteroid with a rocket, in the hopes of knocking it off its current course.

www.noao.edu

That entire walking it off and peppercorn/bowling ball, etc. thing is so much fun! Good stuff, Goatman.

I wrote in this blog a few months ago about a story I read in an old 1959 Popular Science magazine I picked up at a garage sale. It was the timetable on the moon. They said man would be there in 2000. They said NASA would explode a nuke on the moon in the '60s.

Well, I found that article in its entirity, complete with pictures. It looks like exactly what I have at home.

Worth the read. How naive we were -- 10 years before it actually happened, NASA still thought it was over 40 years away!


It's a few pages, but worth the read.


books.google.com

How naive we were -- 10 years before it actually happened, NASA still thought it was over 40 years away!


Sputnik changed everything.

Sputnik changed everything.

Sputnik was put into orbit in 1957. That Popular Science article was written in 1959

The Pride of Kansas and My Hometown www.cosmo.org

Oh! It's about NASA crashing a vehicle on the Moon...
For a minute there I was afraid the Engineers at NASA were getting bombed on Moonshine.....

Here's a link to the LCROSS main page:

www.nasa.gov

Thanks, YAV!

Looks like NASA TV is the best option. The streaming from LCROSS is not working for me.

www.nasa.gov

the LCROSS site came up for me. Yay!
www.slooh.com

Ok. The animations were much better, but crashing the satellite into the moon was cool.

I'll have to wait and see it when I get home. Can't get streaming videos and it is overcast here.

Darn.

crashing the satellite into the moon was cool.

MSNBC is reporting that it was a woman driver.

Honey don't hit that Mooooooooon.

Thank you for the non-political answers.

"So what did the Moon do to the Earth to deserve to get bombed??"
#13 | Posted by MURPHY at 2009-10-08 08:38 PM | Reply

NASA was attacked first ... by Mars.

The moon people are pursuing weapons of mass destruction... we had to preempt them.

They wouldn't have developed any WMDs-if we'd ONLY given them a Trillion Dollar Tax Cut!

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