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Bombing the Moon for Water

s20451 writes "In 1998, NASA scientists deliberately crashed the Lunar Prospector into the Moon, in a failed attempt to detect traces of water allegedly hiding in deep craters at the lunar south pole. Now the BBC is reporting a new proposal to attack the lunar poles with "Bunker Buster" missiles to liberate a detectable amount of water. Called Polar Night, the mission is being proposed as part of the "Discovery" series of probes."

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  1. Re:Time Machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Idiots! They haven't had enough fun bombing Iraq, and now they want to bomb the moon. That's what happens when you give idiot monkeys any kind of firepower! They go insane!!! I just know this is going to have repercussions that we are going to regret. Why not just send someone up to mine for water? I'll tell you why, becasue they will say it will cost too much. FUCK THEM! Who the fuck cares if it costs too much! It's a hell of a lot better than lobbing bombs up there. "Duh... gee! I wonder if there's water in that guy's head. Let me put this gun up to it and pull the trigger" That's that state of humanity after all this time. Pathetic. You'll never evolve to where I have. Stupid monkeys.

  2. Re:What is this MSNBC? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, it's the BBC, aka "Al Jazeera West".

    You know, the "Saddam Network", where even their reporters in the field could not believe the crap their leftest staff was putting out.

    It's a shame, I used to look to the BBC for unbiased reporting. Now they make CNN look like Fox News.

    And now the BBC head honcho is bitching that U.S. networks are biased. Talk about pots and kettles...

  3. Re:Been there, done that! Got the radioactive t-sh by mfrank · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They're spending a lot on homeland defense (sensors, etc), and they'll have to replenish the ordnance used in Iraq and Afghanistan, but 9/11 hasn't caused, and isn't going to cause, a large increase in the size of the military. Come on, now, what use are soldiers against terrorists? Or do you actually believe the US is going to invade every country in the world?

    The only reason the US and UK had to go it alone in Iraq is because the French and Russian governments are populated by whores.

  4. Re:What is this MSNBC? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Okie Dokie:

    http://www.davidakin.com/weblog/2003_03_23_archi ve .html

    http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/000123.html

    http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/ 16 /210420.shtml

    http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ ne ws/2003/02/23/nbbc23.xml

    http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,74 93 ,922206,00.html

    To all the moderators who modded me down without checking my (true) facts, please suck my sweaty nutsack!

  5. The Inevitable by limekiller4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, George, there really isn't a man on the moon. Ari is just teasing you.

    No, George, he isn't laughing at you. He's winking. Relax. We'll get you a telescope for Christmas, we promise.

    No, George, I don't suppose that we could convince the world that he's hiding J. Lo's talent up there.

    GEORGE, WOULD YOU STOP GETTING COLON AND JPL ON A THREE-WAY CONFERENCE CALL AND MAKING BANG! BANG! NOISES DURING DINNER!

    --
    My .02,
    Limekiller