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Scientists Witness Meteor Strike on the Moon
Lonesome Squash writes "BBC reports that scientists have seen a smallish meteor strike on the moon. Impact only equivalent to 70kg of TNT, but still, you wouldn't want to have it land on your moonbase. At that size, it's kind of neat they saw it at all."
Wasn't that same JiffyPop diagram used for another article recently?
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The meteor must have destroyed the moon buggy that we are searching all along! In your face, conspiracy theorists!
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Danm it! I paid $20 dollars for that plot an all I got was this lousy meteorite hit. It's always the same. The minute you buy, some chump down the street gets blown away or some meteorite just crashes all over prime development land. And me with all these solar power bills to pay.
What next!
May the Maths Be with you!
Netcraft confirms, secret CIA bases on the moon.
Bush shakes fist.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
To me sounds like Sephiroth has been defeated again
Yes there is science behind it, but it's far too hard to understand. That flash wouldn't have been caused by aliens, or the secret NASA Moonbase, or any of the other possible.... [sounds of gunfire]
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This proves that - apparently - scientists have finally been able to *exactly* reproduce previous empirical results. Just imagine: not only is the impact exactly the same and on the same spot; on top of that the same musings appear on /. !
Amazing..
Don't be silly. The last one was about an explosion on the moon. That's exciting stuff. This one is simply about an ordinary old meteor strike.
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And I thought my Meteor Strike didn't work. I just need to polish up my aiming.
Ummm...Doesn't *every* impact explosion look similar? Doesn't seem to be too much of a stretch for me.
Either that or...
What a coincidence that the Reptilian camera caught the explosion with Earth in the background! Should make a good screen saver.
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The NY City subway drivers union filed a complaint against whomever is hurling rocks at the moon, claiming they're just trying to biggyback on the success of their recent strike.
Intelligent Rock Hurler was not available for comment. His coworkers who plot out the precise trajectories of rocks that result in these strikes also refused to talk to our reporters.
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Just be glad we dont have any "Thats no moon..." comment dupes.
It's a trap!!!
Just use the word small, smallish just means rather small. Now the word small just looks weird.
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M-O-O-N, that spells explosion...
I agree. Those 5 bright pixels are stunning.
Much science data is boring to non-scientists and the visuals help engage the casual reader.
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However, as Nasa plans to return to the Moon by 2020, the agency says it needs to understand what happens after lunar impacts in order to protect astronauts.
I am guessing that there will be a crater of some sort after the impact. Maybe some floating dust. That sort of thing.
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I remember it well, it was only 7 years ago, but somehow it seems more like 30.
He's five, so I doubt he's reading Slashdot (yet)...
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And they smacked you down to -1 too. Seems the eds spend more time seeking revenge than checking their stories. If you'd been Roland Piquepaille, they wouldn't have been so cavalier.
Don't they know nuclear explosions can blast the Moon out of Earth orbit, setting the stage for a television series ?
I've located a Hubble image of the impact damage. Pretty impressive!
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the US Department of Defense actually wanted to NUKE the moon..... to be a demonstration of American military might designed to impress and frighten the USSR.
Then USSR would nuke the other side, starting a moon war and turn it into a vast sea of craters.......oh wait.
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... at least ONE moon landing was real....
Yes, but look at the misleading title:
I mean, when did we get scientists back on the moon in the first place? And was the meteor picketing, or was this a sit-down strike?
Corrected headline:
'cue dramatic music' There goes the moon ! Wait, this should have happened 6 years ago.. Curse you !!!!!
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
It was decided that the Moon was too remote to make an effective demonstration