"look at the moon!!"

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No! The biggest problem in the world is the inevitable extinction of the human species. It is so inevitable that it can only be avoided though lunar advertising! See how logical this connection is, in a totally non-convoluted way: http://www.moonpublicity.com/mp/shadow-shaping/the-big-picture

I hope whoever thought this up dies in pain, soon

Some groups of people may object to changing the appearance of the Moon for religious, environmental or sentimental reasons. Most of these objections can be handled through proper framing. For example, commercial space development can take the place of governmental space development to a degree, freeing up federal funds to better deal with humanitarian and social issues. While Shadow Shaping can last for thousands of years, it can also be erased by Shadow Shaping robots as easily as it is created. It is just a collection of small ridges made in the lunar dust. It has no impact to the lunar environment, and it only creates images during partial lunar phases, leaving the full Moon unchanged.

Fuck this guy.

The argument that only corporations can get us into space is especially tiresome when it's clear that iron-fisted communism works just as well to that end.

As I understand it, the shuttle gets retired last year, while Soviet-era rockets are still running like trains.

Wasn't lunar advertising another libertarian wingnut Robert Heinlein idea?

Yes, though he wasn't the first:

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/215/1

Haha, he's right! The majority of the U.S. tax budget is being consumed by funding for manned space flight!

Nasa to crash metal thingy into the moon to see if it gets wet in about three hours!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html

one hour!

Come on, I can't be the only geek on here :-)

i got my nasa tv link ready to go

Wait, when did we declare war on the moon?

maybe you should sign this:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-nasa-from-bombing-the-moon

Usable water under the moon's surface would make setting up permanent stations there much more feasible, because transporting water to there would be prohibitively expensive by any standards.

I'm excited!

(xpost) that's hilarious, but you just know that some people signed it in all seriousness without reading the whole thing.

Nasa to crash metal thingy into the moon to see if it gets wet in about three hours!

So this is Andrew WK's latest project?

lol @ "Leave my sister alone!"

Wait, when did we declare war on the moon?

because it is fun and enlightening.

Dudes like blowing up shit for the sake of it.

yes, thank you.

this is a high impact science experiment. doesn't all have to be petri dishes and pipettes ffs.

doesn't all have to be petri dishes and pipettes ffs.

You're thinking of the Observer Music Monthly surely?

I am ALWAYS thinking of the OMM. Apart from now, when I'm thinking about the moon and the opportunities for exploiting its resources.

I bet they won't find oil there :-(

Oil? That's where the WMD are stowed!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/S99-nuclear_explosion.jpg/280px-S99-nuclear_explosion.jpg

What if the moon is unexpectedly hollow and it breaks up and it all falls to earth and the tidal motions of the oceans stop? I've closed my windows for the time being.

Yeah that'll help...

What if the moon is unexpectedly hollow and we wake the slumbering elder gods within?

one_nation_under_God.jpg

Can't wait.

I wish I could see the moon. Instead it's raining.

Maybe it sprung a leak?

FINAL TRANSMISSION: "Houston, I've changed my mind, I really don't want t"

Did anything blow up?

any second now

oh no, they missed :-(

Ooh... I hope we accidentally unburied a monolith!

How can you miss the moon? It's thousands of miles across!

This is really not inspiring my confidence in NASA.

I think it was a joke.

yep :-)

boom!

(we'll only know if there's water after about an hour, I believe)

Nasa expert: "It's hard to tell what we saw just now"

OK, now they're going to analyse (spectroscopy & so on) the impact plume and the data from 9 instruments on the craft, apparently.

Watching on Nasa.tv, some communication difficulties you'd think they'd have cleared up by now:

"NIR 1 to OPR 15"
"NIR 1... er is that Mike or November?"

lol that was a waste of time

We wanted Mike, but we got November.

^^ :-D

xp

when the STRANGE DREAMS start tonight, we'll know that Cthulhu has awoken.

Not as exciting as

http://weathervortex.com/to_add/2008_07_01_archive_files/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpg

Data received: 01110111 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110111 01101111 01101011 01100101 01101110

OTM.

We plebs want the computer simulation. Let the boffins work on that one tonight and present it to us tomorrow. P.S. We want big splashy bang kablooey.

This is Nasa's equivelent of the LHC as far as thrill-a-minute action goes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8297811.stm
There's a slideshow that shows what was supposed to happen. Meanwhile, the live feed (three guys sitting around a desk) has just gone down!

You gotta love those feeds. "Live in the control room: NERDS!"

Well, somebody post video when you find some. I'm going back to bed.

"look at the moon!!"

This should be as easy as punching a person in front of you at the line at the supermarket- you know that one that has 30 items in a 15 limit fast checkout.

Hunter's Moon/Blood Moon tonight -- it's bright enough out there to read by.

Second Aries moon for the year. Not sure what that means but apaz it is unusual. Sure has been a lot of nutty people about the last 36 hours or so.

It's lovely here but a bit hidden in the clouds, though that provides its own beauty too of course.

chicago is illuminated by it now i can say

after seemingly month(s) of interminable cloudless nights, we get the blood moon of the century, and also Mars at it's brightest and closest position to Earth right next to it tonight. And it turns out to be night of the fucking clouds :(

the moon and mars are nexter than ever

Moon’s got water

We detected water on the Moon’s sunlit surface for the first time! This suggests water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.

Tune in live to learn more: https://t.co/t3AhWT3hNJ https://t.co/73u4hrX90V

— SOFIAtelescope (@SOFIAtelescope) October 26, 2020