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Personalized Moon Crash
Ich Bin Zu writes "Do you want to create your own crater on the moon? CNN has an article about a company putting a personalized moon crash for sale on ebay. The bid opens with $6 million which will enable the highest bidder to stuff up to 10kg worth of stuff on a space craft and lob it to the moon. The condition of the cargo is not guaranteed as it crashes on the moon at 4000 mph."
I think we can safely guarantee the condition of just about any cargo which hits the moon at that speed...
I want to send my mother in law to the moon...
RS
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Imagine if people could so that repeatedly to spell something...like chairface did with that laser on the Tick :D
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Hmm... the #1 bidder, someone named GWBush2004, lives in Yucca mountain, and has 77,000 tons of something he wants to get rid of.....
That ought to be enough to annoy all the scientists measuring micro traces for life.
stuff up to 10kg worth of stuff
Can I buy multiple bids and send Darl packed up?
or maybe just a troupe of monkeys...
until the moon people launch a full-scale retaliatory strike.
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What would happen if we lobbed Star Jones towards the moon at 4000MPH? Would it shatter? Fwahahahaha! >:D
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Hmmm...How about 10 Kg of custom mixed Toner. I'm thinking red or maybe green... I suppose it would look like a paintball target...
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You can get a sidewinder missile lobbed at a Fallujahn mosque much closer to home ....
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This will give NASA a chance to throw one of their moon 'landers' off the soundstage. It will take years before a Chinese or other mission will leave them with anything to explain.
Now we don't even have to wait to get to a planet to piss away its surface with polution and shit we don't need. Now we can charge obscene amounts of money and do it...w00t!
One a secondary note...if you were really worried about your legacy standing the surface of earth in 100 years after we finish with this planet then you could potentially safely store a whole bunch of things...DNA, booze, *nix admin bible...
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how high a 10kg super bouncy ball would bounce going 4000mph in low gravity. Think it would bounce hard enough to hit the space station?
So if it lands on the property I bought from the Lunar Embassey (http://www.moonshop.com/) can I sue them for littering, or even trespassing. I am serious, I have the paperwork and everything. Don't tread on me!
If we all chip in we could nuke the moon...
:P
D'oh!! We have to save those for the oncoming asteriods, you nitwit!
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No, the redneck version of "moon crash" would have an entirely different meaning: "If we're all hanging our asses out the windows, who's driving?"
What would be really funny if it said "shipping not included" on the eBay site. XD
Procure a corporate sponsorship from the Kraft company to get their logo on there, then you really could mess with little kids by telling them the moon is made of cheese. ^_^
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And in 25 years after 36500025 * 10kg garbage thrown at Earth's untill now pure and romantic little sister in space, we will be able to smell it all the way through the vast space, and the scientists have to change all their theories about the speed of odour through vacuum.
What and have them revive you as a sideshow attraction or clone you into some invastion force sent to destroy your bretheren in a distant future?
alien scientist to the local media:
This odd being is clearly an intergalatic hoax sent to puzzle or bemuse scientists from other civilizations. Nothing ever evolved into 'that'.
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Damn, Bill Gates does weigh more than 10 kilograms...
Say, what about those guys who sold us plots of land on the moon? Do you think if they crash it in my plot I can sue them?
Has anyone else considered this?
(Both serious and funny replies are welcome).
You could probably fit about 1/7 of Darl McBride in 10 kg -- let's say just the head. Now if only I had $6 million...
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"A frickin' good eBayer, they sent my "laser" to the moon in frickin' quick time. A++++++++++"
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Think of the irony of sending a college textbook on physics as the payload! Actually, I have a specific one in mind, care to chip in? I was considering making a bonfire out of it, but this would be MUCH more fun.
I for one will be severely disappointed if crashing 20 pounds of crap into the moon turns out to be the opportunity of the Century.
they start firing things back at us?
Jolyon
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I wonder if you sent up 10kg of Blue Ink/Powder if you could see it from an earth telescope. That would be kinda cool.
Today:
"You consider a six-pack and a bug zapper to be quality entertainment."
Tomorrow:
"You consider a six-pack and making a crater in the moon quality entertainment."
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I think I'd much rather just carve my name in the moon... C H A I R F... damn, foiled again.
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I'd love to put 10 kgs of Antimatter up there. The flash and the following explosion should be strong enough to be seen even in daylight.
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Arms in space, advertising in space and now we turn the moon into a garbage dump. To paraphrase Robin Williams, spending $6 mil to do to the moon what rednecks do to rural traffic signs is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.
And it just occurred to me, that if this is the true mark of sapient behavior, maybe the *real* reason we can't find other intelligent life in the universe is because their commercialized space program has so trashed their solar system with weapons, ads and Alienica Online CD's we can't see their sun from here...
Bah...
And a "burst resistant container" may be useful if you want to do science in the millisecond that the probe has to survive on the surface. Seriously! A recent Mars mission had a couple of probes that were supposed to work this way (they failed).
Beagle II?
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We'd better not piss off those mooninites. No one can defeat their quad-laser! Jumping...is useless...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
If anyone has a moonrock laying around, I think they should send it back up there.
For some reason, that would make me chuckle...
"Do we really want to turn the Moon into an interplanetary garbage dump?"
Well I do have a couple of bodies to bury...
"Derp de derp."
Not only that: they don't take PayPal.
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How about a few kilos of superballs delivered at 4000mph, that oughta gimme some bang for the buck!
Did you just happen to be eating a peanut butter sandwich and drinking a glass of milk when you posted that? you sure did make me hungry...
Emory: Uh..we're still..beta testing that.
Oglethorpe: What you're testing is me and my patience!
I think a personalized sun-dive would be much more worth the money, especially after a Disaster Area concert.
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You'd figure for 6 Million this would aply world wide.
This SIG pulled due to lack of funding. (This damn war is costing too much!)
I'd send up a bucket of golf balls and have them delivered near Neal Armstrong's. It'll give future archeologists more of a challange. :-)
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:-p
I, for one, can think up several uses for/with them Bimbos
How many AOL CDs can we fit in 10Kg?
Viv
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The Sun has over 99 percent of the mass of the Solar System. You could drop Jupiter in it without bothering it. Although it might be bothered if you dropped in the project's Environmental Impact Statement.
How about a big 10Kg red paint ball?
Then you can say that you got to:
SHOOT THE MOON!
and of course it will need to be biodegradable paint!
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Just came to this one today, seems appropriate :)
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Too bad 22 pounds ain't enough for a body.
I have an old defective 9gig SCSI that I would be love to see hit some surface at mach 4. But could data recovery companies still recover my data? ;)
Just think - Rosie O'donnell, Oprah Winfrey, and Martha Stewart all taken care of in one mission.