Nasa impacting the moon for water

**Blackshear** · 9th October 2009, 23:17

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

Nasa is sending an 'explosive' to the moon surface in 20~ minutes.

Streaming link above.

**Blackshear** · 10th October 2009, 00:27

Nevermind. Nothing happened.
Some black guy got his Hi5 denied by some asshole white man, but that was it.

**sidecar bob** · 10th October 2009, 06:43

Cant work out why they didnt just send a couple of blokes up there with a divining rod. The technology to go there must be well perfected seeing as they did it over 40 years ago.

**Elysium** · 10th October 2009, 09:09

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Cant work out why they didnt just send a couple of blokes up there with a divining rod. The technology to go there must be well perfected seeing as they did it over 40 years ago.

NASA said there may be water, not oil.

**kit** · 10th October 2009, 16:33

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Cant work out why they didnt just send a couple of blokes up there with a divining rod. The technology to go there must be well perfected seeing as they did it over 40 years ago.

+1! With how fast technology evolves there should be everyday trips to the moon if they had managed it 40yrs ago!

**Winston001** · 10th October 2009, 16:39

Originally Posted by kit

+1! With how fast technology evolves there should be everyday trips to the moon if they had managed it 40yrs ago!

Yes what a waste. Do you know, they can't even build new Saturn rockets? Apparently NASA ditched the blueprints decades ago.

**pzkpfw** · 10th October 2009, 16:54

Originally Posted by kit

+1! With how fast technology evolves there should be everyday trips to the moon if they had managed it 40yrs ago!

Not all technologies progress the same way. Chemical rockets are still rockets.

Take a look at cars, they are way cleverer than before, but that's largely about the computers that go into them. The basic petrol-bang-go technology is pretty much the same, and your car still doesn't fly or take you from Wellington to Auckland on a cup of petrol.

Computers won't carry you to the Moon.

Originally Posted by Winston001

Yes what a waste. Do you know, they can't even build new Saturn rockets? Apparently NASA ditched the blueprints decades ago.

The new generation of space craft need to take more and stay longer. They don't want to just build new Saturns.

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It's not so long ago you could buy a supersonic trip across the Atlantic, yet you can't do that today.

Doesn't prove that Concorde was fake.

I'd also be very surprised if it's all that "easy" to build another bunch of Concorde's off whatever plans remain. It's not only the minutia of the design that gets lost, but some of the techniques involved in building stuff.

...and who'd pay to do it?

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The "if they could do it 40 years ago" arguement does not stack up.

**vifferman** · 10th October 2009, 17:42

I'm a bit pissed off they thought they had a right to go firing things at OUR Moon and blowing holes in it. I mean, WTF?!?
What if they damaged it, or summat?

**Mekk** · 10th October 2009, 18:01

Originally Posted by vifferman

I'm a bit pissed off they thought they had a right to go firing things at OUR Moon and blowing holes in it. I mean, WTF?!?
What if they damaged it, or summat?

There's thousands of craters all over the moon from objects far more destructive.

**pzkpfw** · 10th October 2009, 19:01

...and it's not like they haven't done it before.

Bits of the Apollo gear was sent crashing into the Moon too. They had seismic detectors in some of the science equipment left on the surface and they used the shock waves from the crashing equipment in some sciency way.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...lo_impact.html

**Kickaha** · 10th October 2009, 19:02

Originally Posted by vifferman

I'm a bit pissed off they thought they had a right to go firing things at OUR Moon and blowing holes in it. I mean, WTF?!?
What if they damaged it, or summat?

Yeah, what if they break the Moon?

**Fatt Max** · 10th October 2009, 19:03

The long term plan is to see if they can set up a bar and nightclub on the moon. They did try it in the early '90's but it went out of business.....no atmosphere you see.....

**ManDownUnder** · 10th October 2009, 19:11

Originally Posted by vifferman

I'm a bit pissed off they thought they had a right to go firing things at OUR Moon and blowing holes in it. I mean, WTF?!?
What if they damaged it, or summat?

Isn't the moon protected under Article 2 of The Treaty?