LUNAR IMPACT - FRIDAY 6:30AM

[sgrizzle]

Is bruce willis on standby?

[custosnox]

Is bruce willis on standby?

He's busy, but I hear Chuck Norris is available

[Red Arrow]

Swiss cheese, Bleu cheese, ...  Where's your patriotism?  It's 'merican cheese, waiting to be sliced and individually wrapped in cellophane.  Or maybe Velveeta.

[FOTD]

Watch....it'll be a gusher of oil not water. (That's what we are really up to...)

Actually, my prediction is nat gas.

[Wrinkle]

10-min to impact and there's been nothing but cheese-cutting here.

[TheArtist]

your best info here... http://www.spaceflightnow.com/lcross/status.html

[brianh]

I didn't see a spectacular plume when I watched it this morning.  In the interest of science, I recommend we drop a daisy cutter on the lunar surface next time.  Actually I am not sure if that would do anything with the vacuum of space and all.

[Conan71]

Why exactly are we spending taxpayer money to find water on an otherwise uninhabitable moon?

[Townsend]

Why exactly are we spending taxpayer money to find water on an otherwise uninhabitable moon?

Maybe it's a use it or lose it kind of thing.

No shuttle flights anymore.

[brianh]

Facts for funding things like this as I see them:
1) We obviously don't know a whole lot about the moon, an object that affects many things here on earth.
2) A great deal of technology in the last 50 years has come from NASA's experiments.
3) A peaceful project that employs many bright US workers.
4) Improves relations with other countries as we are quick to share data and allow other countries to participate.

[RecycleMichael]

Maybe they are looking for Ralph Kramden's wife Alice...

[Conan71]

Maybe they are looking for Ralph Kramden's wife Alice...

One of these days....

[TulsaSooner]

Why exactly are we spending taxpayer money to find water on an otherwise uninhabitable moon?

I think it was funded by north Texas.

[sauerkraut]

The mighty "Boom" on the Moon!- NASA wants to check for water for a moon base. When you think about it man has only two places to visit in our Solar System, the Moon & Mars. There is no place else man can travel to. Mercury & Venus are too hot & fry space probes, Jupiter is a ball of gas 400 million miles from Earth and the moons of Jupiter are awash in a deadly radioactive belt that surrounds them & Jupiter. Saturn is much farther out and is a gas ball and it's moon Titan is -300 below zero man so cannot go there. At Uranus & Neptune things only gets worse. After man lands on Mars  he's maxed out in space travels. Setting up a colony on Mars won't do much good because Mars will die when Earth dies when our Sun goes red giant. Just Sayin'

[sauerkraut]

One of these days....

Blam Zooooom