Monday, September 28, 2009

Lets Bomb the Moon!!!

So here’s the plan; the LCROSS mission will blast its way into the moons surface, creating a crater 5k in diameter, to once and for all find an answer to the daunting question as to whether water exists on the moon. On Oct 9 an object with weight of an SUV traveling at 6,000 mph will crash into a crater near on of the moons poles. The impact will dislodge a plethora of material and create a plume that will be visible to even the most benign telescopes here on earth. Instruments on LCROSS will analyze the plume for water or compounds that contain water. According to one science person the LCROSS will also “reawaken the public to the adventure of space travel, supporting human exploration and scientific discovery.” So we want to know about water and we want to encourage the publics inner child to once again look toward the heaven in the hopes that one day, they too can slam a bomb into a local planet. The water on the moon question is so pivotal and profound that we already have an answer to it. The answer is um, yes. There is water on the moon. Real water.
So check it out, the announcement was made a few days ago, although the unofficial reports surfaced a few weeks ago. Scientists around the world agree, water is not only found on the moon but it is profoundly widespread and can be found along the moons equator (the hot part of most spherical shapes rockin around the big one). This blows away decades of belief that it would be impossible for water to exist on the moon. Even when there was evidence that water did exist on the moon, scientists tried to dismiss the idea. The rocks brought back by the astronauts during the Apollo missions were assumed to be contaminated once back on earth. The water residue on spacecrafts returning from space has always been deemed residue, which must have been picked within our hemisphere. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (kinda like a super incredible version of the satellite used for Google maps) has completely, 100% determined, that water can be found all over the moons surface. And not just water, but also hydroxyl, which is composed of one hydrogen and one oxygen. Now don’t let me deceive you, the Moon is still incredibly dry. There is only about a liter of water for every ton of soil. But what the hell, a month ago the scientists in India found water on the moons surface during the Chandrayaan-1 mission but they immediately dismissed the findings. To me, it seems like there has been a hell of a lot more evidence that water is indeed on the moon and all these asshole scientists have just been to stubborn to consider their initial assumption (made a million years ago I might add) has been wrong this entire time. Now tell me, what justification do we have to Bomb the moon this October? Scientists say they are interested in finding out whether water could be hiding within the craters of the moon near it’s poles, were lack of sunlight might prevent ice from evaporating. But we found water already!! And we found water in areas we thought would never, ever have it. So I figure, why cant they just assume there’s water in the area they thought was the only area that water could exist? The answer to this question is full of shit (at least the ones I’ve been reading). I get it, its cheap, failsafe, fun, interesting, and a 6 year olds wet dream. It’s also a bomb. A Bomb that will hit the moon with such a massive impact we will be able to see it from our back yards. Gross.

Here is an artists idea of what the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will look like when it is deployed for the LCROSS Mission Impact:

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