NASA's LCROSS Explorer will send a probe crashing into the Moon later today, with impact occuring tomorrow (FRI) at about 6:30am CDT.
Rain clouds will likely prevent local viewing, but one could probably find coverage on TV. Also, NASA-TV will be playing online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/)
Broadcast information link:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html)
For more information, visit NASA's LCROSS pages:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/impact/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/impact/index.html)
Ice, Ice, baby.
yet again more reasons I wish Cox would offer the NASA channel.
I predict that it will hit the one spot on the moon that will cause the entire thing to shatter, loosing it's orbit, and coming down to earth in a rain of fire.
Quote from: custosnox on October 08, 2009, 02:21:37 PM
I predict that it will hit the one spot on the moon that will cause the entire thing to shatter, loosing it's orbit, and coming down to earth in a rain of fire.
NO! NO! NO! That's not the way it will go down. The heat of the impact will convert the Swiss cheese the moon is made from to become cottage cheese.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 08, 2009, 02:23:48 PM
NO! NO! NO! That's not the way it will go down. The heat of the impact will convert the Swiss cheese the moon is made from to become cottage cheese.
Swiss? I thought it was blue
Quote from: custosnox on October 08, 2009, 02:24:32 PM
Swiss? I thought it was blue
Of course it's Swiss, where on earth did you go to school?
So it's our fault and not just a "runaway planet".
Other than that, they saw the future...
Quote from: Conan71 on October 08, 2009, 02:27:21 PM
Of course it's Swiss, where on earth did you go to school?
Earth? Wait, what network did I connect to this time? Damn I need to keep those icons straight.
And yes, it is our fault. They went with the runaway planet because a well placed hit on the moon just didn't seem fesable then.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 08, 2009, 02:27:21 PM
Of course it's Swiss, where on earth did you go to school?
Leave the Swiss alone. They are a peaceful people who make a great knife.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on October 08, 2009, 02:59:41 PM
Leave the Swiss alone. They are a peaceful people who make a great knife.
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Swiss guard at the Vatican.
They need to be peaceful.
Quote from: Townsend on October 08, 2009, 03:02:12 PM
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Swiss guard at the Vatican.
They need to be peaceful.
Those guys look... eh nevermind. I already got in trouble once this week for talking about gay people. These two guys do look really happy though.
My projection for tomorrow afternoon's news: Earth's moon gains new, permanent, orbiting, saturn-like ring.
I wonder if they still train those guys to be real guards...
Quote from: buckeye on October 08, 2009, 04:25:51 PM
I wonder if they still train those guys to be real guards...
Supposed to be the Swiss Elite Forces. I'm guessing the outfits are to throw you off.
Is bruce willis on standby?
Quote from: sgrizzle on October 08, 2009, 08:00:13 PM
Is bruce willis on standby?
He's busy, but I hear Chuck Norris is available
Swiss cheese, Bleu cheese, ... Where's your patriotism? It's 'merican cheese, waiting to be sliced and individually wrapped in cellophane. Or maybe Velveeta.
Watch....it'll be a gusher of oil not water. (That's what we are really up to...)
Actually, my prediction is nat gas.
10-min to impact and there's been nothing but cheese-cutting here.
your best info here... http://www.spaceflightnow.com/lcross/status.html
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.
Why exactly are we spending taxpayer money to find water on an otherwise uninhabitable moon?
Quote from: Conan71 on October 09, 2009, 10:23:00 AM
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.
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.
Maybe they are looking for Ralph Kramden's wife Alice...
Quote from: RecycleMichael on October 09, 2009, 10:51:56 AM
Maybe they are looking for Ralph Kramden's wife Alice...
One of these days....
Quote from: Conan71 on October 09, 2009, 10:23:00 AM
Why exactly are we spending taxpayer money to find water on an otherwise uninhabitable moon?
I think it was funded by north Texas.
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' :-X
Quote from: sauerkraut on October 13, 2009, 10:48:08 AM
Blam Zooooom
Ralph Kramden's catchphrases included: "I've got a B-I-I-I-G mouth!", Har-de-Har-Har-Har-Har!", "One of these days, Alice...POW!, right in the kisser!", "BANG!, ZOOM!, right to the Moon!" and "Alice, you're askin' for a knuckle sandwich."
http://www.tvacres.com/statues_ralph.htm (http://www.tvacres.com/statues_ralph.htm)
Quote from: sauerkraut on October 13, 2009, 10:43:33 AM
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' :-X
It would be difficult to start with Star Trek type space ships. Development takes time and many steps.
Quote from: sauerkraut on October 13, 2009, 10:43:33 AM
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' :-X
You do realize that our sun won't go 'red giant' for another billions of years, right? Oh, you know everything, so I'm sure you did.
And at some point in our future I'm guessing that interstellar travel will be possible. Not in my lifetime, but eventually it will happen.
Maybe then we can drill for oil on other planets.
::)
Quote from: Hoss on October 13, 2009, 12:46:04 PM
You do realize that our sun won't go 'red giant' for another billions of years, right? Oh, you know everything, so I'm sure you did.
And at some point in our future I'm guessing that interstellar travel will be possible. Not in my lifetime, but eventually it will happen.
Maybe then we can drill for oil on other planets.
::)
Maybe by then we won't need "oil". It would probably be something else though. Di-lithium crystals? I expect I too will be long gone.
Quote from: Hoss on October 13, 2009, 12:46:04 PM
You do realize that our sun won't go 'red giant' for another billions of years, right? Oh, you know everything, so I'm sure you did.
And at some point in our future I'm guessing that interstellar travel will be possible. Not in my lifetime, but eventually it will happen.
Maybe then we can drill for oil on other planets.
::)
The moon & Mars will max out our space flight ability for a very long time- There is no place else in the solar system we can go. As for oil, We need to drill for oil on our own planet- we still have trillions of barrels here. :-X
Quote from: dbacks fan on October 13, 2009, 11:04:20 AM
Ralph Kramden's catchphrases included: "I've got a B-I-I-I-G mouth!", Har-de-Har-Har-Har-Har!", "One of these days, Alice...POW!, right in the kisser!", "BANG!, ZOOM!, right to the Moon!" and "Alice, you're askin' for a knuckle sandwich."
http://www.tvacres.com/statues_ralph.htm (http://www.tvacres.com/statues_ralph.htm)
That's about what it was- he never hit her though. I think one time he even said "Yonder Moon Alice". I thought the words were "blam Zoooom Alice" but I have been having alot of "senior moments" lately as I get older. Maybe it was "Bang Zoom Alice"
Quote from: sauerkraut on October 13, 2009, 04:02:43 PM
The moon & Mars will max out our space flight ability for a very long time- There is no place else in the solar system we can go. As for oil, We need to drill for oil on our own planet- we still have trillions of barrels here. :-X
I guess I need to start using a <sarcasm> tag when it comes to you.