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Hubble Zooms In On Moon Minerals
DIY News writes "Lunar scientists have already returned to the moon, using the Hubble Space Telescope and old Apollo Program rock samples to begin prospecting for useful ores. Locating ores rich in oxygen and metals is seen as the first step in making the next decade's human return to the moon more self sufficient and cost effective. Some wavelengths of UV are filtered out by Earth's atmosphere, which is why Hubble can do the job better than a ground-based telescope."
"We require more minerals"
----- You know you have ego issues when you register a domain in your name.
Because it's impossible to fake a digital image =P
here's some more.
I've always liked Hubble, not only for pushing back the bounds of our knowledge (and more importantly our ignorance, its made us realise there is much more we don't understand) but also for the very very cool pictures that get people interested in science.
This is a very useful and productive use of Hubble... but will it help it get more funding? I'm not sure that the chaps in the Whitehouse will get excited about finding rocks on the Moon unless they can claim that THIS was where Saddam had is WMDs.
Rock A - No oxygen
Rock B - No oxygen
Rock C - No oxygen
Rock D - A bit of metal
Rock E - A bit of oxygen
Rock F - No oxygen
When they find something the photo is going to be rubbish, even worse than when scientists try and get people excited about red dust on Mars.
I suggest that they do the colouring job on the Moon that they always do on the star systems, and make it look way cooler...
"Rock X not only has a large amount of gold, shown in gold, and oxygen, shown in blue, but also various other minerals, show in pretty rainbow colours and is resting on a mauve background which represents the futility of mans existance and the desire to expand our knowledge"
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
There would have to be a flag and some footsteps on the moon in order for them to zoom in on them. I think a google moon would be fun to play with, dont suppose something similar already exists online?
Maybe they should fax it, since faxes are legally binding and therefore must not be alterable. :/
Dear god man, no! Didn't you see what happened in 1999 when there was an explosion and the moon was torn out of earths orbit and flung into outer space!
http://www.space1999.org/
weird, i try to zoom in to see the footsteps, but the surface its showing looks nothing like the hollywood soundstage?
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
they would have to bring ... troups
There's going to be a circus?
Sign me up!
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Did you just call me disgustingly ignorant? Not that I necessarily disagree, I just think it was premature.
There's going to be a circus?
gives a new meaning to "Moon Bounce". And it makes the trapese child's play.
You sir, need to find a wife.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Since it's almost Halloween, I figured I'd go ahead and post a warning I found while searching for the exact Quayle quote:
Your uber knowledge of napkin math makes me feel stupid :(
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