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NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon

Posted by samzenpus on from the hit-it-hard dept.

djasbestos writes "NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into the Moon in order to look for hydrogen deposits in the poles. More notably, it will impact with significantly greater force (100x, per the article) than previous Moon collisions, such as by the Lunar Prospector and Smart-1 probes. Admiral Ackbar was unreachable for comment as to the exact location and size of the Moon's thermal exhaust port."

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  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many Bothans died to bring samzenpus this information...

  2. Wrong guy surely by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    Admiral Ackbar led the attack on the second Battle Station. The thermal exhaust port weakness was on the first.

    1. Re:Wrong guy surely by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Heh, I'd bet all my mod points that you get modded up for this.
      A: You corrected someone's error
      B: It was Star Wars related
      C: You made fun of someone who thought he was funny, but many people don't.
      D: You dead panned it.

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    2. Re:Wrong guy surely by MSZ · · Score: 5, Funny

      Life, get you should.

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      The moon is not fully subjugated. I demand a second assault wave preceded by a massive nuclear bombardment.
  3. Re:Practising... by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny

    Either that, or the Russians weren't impressed by the recent satellite shootdown, so the top brass want to do one more missile test with a slightly bigger satellite.

  4. I didn't know planned failure was okay... by philspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am planning on failing my midterms. I expect to fail this midterm by significantly more points (100x per my plans) than previous failures. I am doing this in search of hydrogen deposits in the poles.

  5. Has to be done by FoolsGold · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is Slashdot, so I better get a good old tradition out of the way before someone else does I suppose...

    NASA officials has released a press statement saying the spacecraft will not require any special programming to direct it towards a collision with the Moon. They simply plan to install Windows Vista on the craft and let nature take its course.
  6. Unfortunately by TummyX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, due to a failure to perform a metric/imperial conversion, the mission failed when the probe performed a perfect soft landing on the moon's surface.

  7. Re:How long... by roguetrick · · Score: 5, Funny

    I blame lunacy.

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  8. In other news... by Thanshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon Following NASA's new trend of sincerity, Burger King releases a new set of products under the name "Die fat bastard! Die" and NIKE presents the new AirSlave collection.
  9. Right... by rucs_hack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which insensitive clod tagged this story Beagle3?

    This entire thread will be kept behind until whoever did it owns up...
    Come on, I can wait all day if necessary.