Guest guest Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 THERE are no aliens up there, as far as we know, but NASA is preparing to bomb the moon. A space mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral today carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface, The Daily Telegraph reported. The unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet. The aim is to see whether any traces of water or vapour will be revealed by the disruption caused to the surface. Scientists expect the impact to blast out a huge cloud of dust, gas and vaporised water ice at least 13km high - making it visible from Earth. After examining the moon matter, the explorer will follow the Centaur's lead by also hurling itself into the moon at approximately 2.5 kilometres per second - some 9000 km/h. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25659495-401,00.htmlIn total, NASA said, the two impacts will excavate some 500 metric tons of lunar material and begin the search for a long-frozen water source. The project will also examine the moon's mineral makeup. An accompanying probe, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), will spend at least a year creating the most minutely detailed map of the moon's surface ever seen by staying at an orbit of about 50km - the closest continual lubar orbit of any spacecraft. LRO's $US500 million ($A630.91 million) mission is designed to provide NASA with maps of unprecedented accuracy, which will be crucial for scoping out possible landing sites for astronauts. Program manager Todd May said earlier this week the robotic mission would give NASA information it needed to make informed decisions about any future human presence on the moon. "Earth is subject to erosion processes from air and water," he said. "The moon itself doesn't have this process.... LRO will send back pictures daily on things we have barely seen before." NASA hopes to take astronauts to the moon by 2020, almost 50 years after its last manned mission in 1972. The launch has been marked as "America's first step in a lasting return to the moon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Real great! Now we are getting somehwere! The original visit was a hoax! The astronaughts could have gotten that information when they were supposedly there! Hmmm.--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Clare <theclaremcharris wrote: Clare <theclaremcharris Bomb the Moon................ is nothing sacred? Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:01 AM THERE are no aliens up there, as far as we know, but NASA is preparing to bomb the moon. A space mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral today carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface, The Daily Telegraph reported. The unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet. The aim is to see whether any traces of water or vapour will be revealed by the disruption caused to the surface. Scientists expect the impact to blast out a huge cloud of dust, gas and vaporised water ice at least 13km high - making it visible from Earth. After examining the moon matter, the explorer will follow the Centaur's lead by also hurling itself into the moon at approximately 2.5 kilometres per second - some 9000 km/h. http://www.news. com.au/story/ 0,27574,25659495 -401,00.htmlIn total, NASA said, the two impacts will excavate some 500 metric tons of lunar material and begin the search for a long-frozen water source. The project will also examine the moon's mineral makeup. An accompanying probe, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), will spend at least a year creating the most minutely detailed map of the moon's surface ever seen by staying at an orbit of about 50km - the closest continual lubar orbit of any spacecraft. LRO's $US500 million ($A630.91 million) mission is designed to provide NASA with maps of unprecedented accuracy, which will be crucial for scoping out possible landing sites for astronauts. Program manager Todd May said earlier this week the robotic mission would give NASA information it needed to make informed decisions about any future human presence on the moon. "Earth is subject to erosion processes from air and water," he said. "The moon itself doesn't have this process.... LRO will send back pictures daily on things we have barely seen before." NASA hopes to take astronauts to the moon by 2020, almost 50 years after its last manned mission in 1972. The launch has been marked as "America's first step in a lasting return to the moon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Not only that, but there really is no moon... it is a holographic projection created by the Illuminati, designed to arouse young lovers and trick them into pre-marital sex and unplanned pregnancies, and thereby a life of debt and multiple jobs. With the average child costing $125,000 - $250,000 by the time it is 18 (ie excluding college) http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles/family/kids/tlkidscost.asp , and can then either be used as canon fodder, or as breeders, being taxed (AND tithed) forever. Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids Mon Aug 3, 12:18 pm ET For people who are looking for ways to reduce their "carbon footprint," here's one radical idea that could have a big long-term impact, some scientists say: Have fewer kids.A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environment-friendly practices people might employ during their entire lives - things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs."In discussions about climate change, we tend to focus on the carbon emissions of an individual over his or her lifetime," said study team member Paul Murtaugh. "Those are important issues and it's essential that they should be considered. But an added challenge facing us is continuing population growth and increasing global consumption of resources."Reproductive choices haven't gained as much attention in the consideration of human impact to the Earth, Murtaugh said. When an individual produces a child - and that child potentially produces more descendants in the future - the effect on the environment can be many times the impact produced by a person during their lifetime.A child's impactUnder current conditions in the United States, for instance, each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent - about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for which, on average, a person is responsible.The impact doesn't only come through increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases - larger populations also generate more waste and tax water supplies.Other offbeat environmental impacts have been in the news recently: One 2007 study found that divorce squanders resources, because people who once shared resources such as energy now use twice as much under two roofs. The current obesity epidemic may also be hurting the climate, because food production is a major contributor to global warming. The impact of having children differs between countries. While some developing nations have much higher populations and rates of population growth than the United States, their overall impact on the global carbon equation is often reduced by shorter life spans and less consumption. The long-term impact of a child born to a family in China is less than one-fifth the impact of a child born in the United States, the study found. However, as the developing world increases both its population and consumption levels, this equation may even out."China and India right now are steadily increasing their carbon emissions and industrial development, and other developing nations may also continue to increase as they seek higher standards of living," Murtaugh said.Not advocating lawThe researchers note that they are not advocating government controls or intervention on population issues, but say they simply want to make people aware of the environmental consequences of their reproductive choices."Many people are unaware of the power of exponential population growth," Murtaugh said. "Future growth amplifies the consequences of people's reproductive choices today, the same way that compound interest amplifies a bank balance."Murtaugh's findings are detailed in a 2009 issue of the journal Global Environmental Change. http://news./s/livescience/20090803/sc_livescience/savetheplanethavefewerkids ben jackson Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:16 AM Real great! Now we are getting somehwere! The original visit was a hoax! The astronaughts could have gotten that information when they were supposedly there! Hmmm.--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Clare <theclaremcharris > wrote: Clare <theclaremcharris > Bomb the Moon................ is nothing sacred? Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:01 AM THERE are no aliens up there, as far as we know, but NASA is preparing to bomb the moon. A space mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral today carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface, The Daily Telegraph reported. The unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet. The aim is to see whether any traces of water or vapour will be revealed by the disruption caused to the surface. Scientists expect the impact to blast out a huge cloud of dust, gas and vaporised water ice at least 13km high - making it visible from Earth. After examining the moon matter, the explorer will follow the Centaur's lead by also hurling itself into the moon at approximately 2.5 kilometres per second - some 9000 km/h. http://www.news. com.au/story/ 0,27574,25659495 -401,00.htmlIn total, NASA said, the two impacts will excavate some 500 metric tons of lunar material and begin the search for a long-frozen water source. The project will also examine the moon's mineral makeup. An accompanying probe, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), will spend at least a year creating the most minutely detailed map of the moon's surface ever seen by staying at an orbit of about 50km - the closest continual lubar orbit of any spacecraft. LRO's $US500 million ($A630.91 million) mission is designed to provide NASA with maps of unprecedented accuracy, which will be crucial for scoping out possible landing sites for astronauts. Program manager Todd May said earlier this week the robotic mission would give NASA information it needed to make informed decisions about any future human presence on the moon. "Earth is subject to erosion processes from air and water," he said. "The moon itself doesn't have this process.... LRO will send back pictures daily on things we have barely seen before." NASA hopes to take astronauts to the moon by 2020, almost 50 years after its last manned mission in 1972. The launch has been marked as "America's first step in a lasting return to the moon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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