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Explosion on Moon Spreads Moondust

Jotii writes "NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Marethe Sea of Rains on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground. The main danger of such explosions is the static and toxic moondust, which is thrown around."

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  1. A scary occurence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was about 16 years old ( i am 20 today) and living with my mother,her boyfriend, and my sister and brother in our small two bedroom apt. I had just gotten home from school and decided I would relax on the couch and read a book for a while to unwind from the pressures of being a normal high school student. I had had experiences with inhuman entities before but not for some time and never like this before. As i was reading silently to myself I began to drift off to sleep, but before I could close my eyes I looked over to see something strange going on. You know those tall skinny lamps people have that are about 6 feet high and and have like a bowl at the top with a light bulb inside. Well my mom had one a few feet away and it began to lift up off the ground. When i realized what was going on I was shocked, but I didn't have time to take it in because after it had lifted a good foot of the ground it then began to swing left and right like a pendulum. I knew at that point that something wasn't o.k. And as soon as i could rationalize the situaton into an actual thought I became paralyzed and started to panic.For some reason I had no control over my body and suddenly coudn't move or speak. Then, out of the corner of my eye a black, smokey, shadowy figure emergered. It came out of my perifial vision into plane sight. This figure scared the crap out of me and I wanted badly to scream and alert someone in the apartment of what was happening to me but i couldn't speak much less move. The black figure seemed to talk to my mind and sounded as tough it were using a language unknown to me prior to this incident and its voice sounded like many voices all speaking at once yet saying the same thing. Blasphemy and evil things were spoken and I felt like i would suffocate. Meanwhile, I told myself that I was awake and to prove it I started to move my eyes over to the direction of the clock on the wall. I began watching the time go by...I min, 2 min., 3 min., I wanted this to be over when I remembered something my grnadmother told me when i was young. At that time i had no idea why she was telling it to me. She said if i ever come in contact with an evil spirit or a demon, to say the name of Jesus Christ and the spirit would have to leave. Apon realizing this I said in my mind " help me jesus" " jesus christ" and all of a sudden like nothing ever happened, the thing was gone and the episode was over. I felt myself able to move and felt relieved that I could speak. I was sweating and still watching the clock. The whole thing had lasted no more than 10 min., but seemed like an eternity. The entity came back a few times after that and become sexually abusive. For some reason it always chose to show up when I was alone somewhere wether it be in my place or someone else's. Well, I'm 20 now and have been married for almost a year. I am also muslim now and every since I became a muslim and got married, i haven't experienced any thing from that particular entity anymore thank Allah.

  2. Re:Danger? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Im not really sure if this is a ghost story or not. I was serving in the Royal Navy about 2 years ago, i was asleep in what we call gulches, which means bed space, the bed spaces were in groups of six, which consisted of 2 rows of three beds in a bunk system. I was asleep and suddenly awoke, i slept on the top bunk. I couldnt feel the bed and was pressed against the ceiling of the gulch with the various wires and pipes that kept my ship running, pressing softly at my face, for some reason i was floating.

    This was the first time and only time it ever happend, and up until that point i was a total non believer in anything like this.

    Does anyone out there have any explanations for this.? I dont have a slashdot nickname, so Pls mail me at wes.god@blueyonder.co.uk.

  3. But... did it bounce? by Jare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linking to one of the most embarrassing /. headers ever brings out the worst in me. :)

  4. Re:I don't believe in the moon by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Actually, it there:

    God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. -- Genesis 1:16