NASA punches Moon in the FACE - October 09, 2009
NASA has come over all violent for today’s Moon mission, where a rocket stage has smashed into the surface of our satellite, hopefully sending up a plume of scientific goodness.
“This marks the end of the LCROSS flight mission,” NASA broadcast just moments ago. A shepherding spacecraft observed the impact of a proceeding spent rocket stage and then itself smashed into the Moon.
The actual live impact was a bit of a bust, with nothing very clear on the video feed. Still, the Moon has been well and truly hit.
Previous missions have also used ‘impactors’ to kick up Moon dust and help us see what the Moon is made of (hint: not cheese), but today’s LCROSS impact has been characterized by a bombastic tone. This is not an impact, according to the media. Instead, NASA has BOMBED THE MOON.
This tone hasn’t been helped by incidents such as the software lead for LCROSS tweeting, “Red Leader, this is Gold Leader. We’re starting our attack run now.”
In addition, the space agency has had to contend with conspiracy theories about today’s impact, including that it is ‘bombing the Moon’ to destroy evidence of a secret base.
A full news story on the impact will be up later today on Nature News. In the mean time I shall leave you with these words from Rush Limbaugh:
If there are smarter people than us out there -- and, of course, goes without saying they would have to be -- and they have brought peace throughout the universe except for earth and we're bombing the moon, this could set up a retaliatory attack! You know, wait 'til the meteorites organize when they hear about this, folks.
Comments
I am deeply worried about human ignorance. The attempt to bomb moon is the height of human ignorance. Our material quest of nature without understanding the Truth of Nature has already rendered earth and cosmos unstable. If you stand back and observe, we note that the natural catastrophes have both increased in number and magnitude in parallel to explosion of material knowledge and material exploitation of nature. It could be suicidal to stress nature without first understanding the Truth of Nature, its interrelationship, oneness and its working. I write this comment as a scientist who worked in the field of biotechnology and set out to seek Truth of Nature. There is an important point to which I wish to call worlds attention. Earth is balanced by two opposing cycles of energy. When west awakes to sunlight and goes into disorder, east simultaneously sleeps to darkness and goes into order vice-versa. These opposing cycle maintain order and temperature of the world. The increase in temperature and consequent climatic catastrophes we are observing can be linked to the fact we have upset the energy cycle of nature. Unless humanity awakens to this truth, we are bound to see some of the worst natural catastrophes and mother earth’s destructive reactions. I speak to you from the back drop of over two decades of selfless research that gave me insight into Truth of Nature and its functioning. I call upon the media and intellectuals in the Temples of Science to look at it. The site where the information exist is “Awakening to Truth” http://sites.google.com/site/awakeningtotruth
Posted by: John Paily | October 9, 2009 05:20 PM