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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. How long... by Lifyre · · Score: 5, Insightful

    before someone tries to blame high tide, beached whales, and global warming on us crashing shit into the moon?

    --
    I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
  2. Re:Practising... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Or you can only get the current administration to fund Dukes of Hazard style 'science'.

  3. Re:Wrong guy surely by mr_matticus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm.. did you miss the part where the Emperor said the second Death Star *wasn't* under construction and that it was all an elaborate trap? Yes, because that never happened.

    http://blogs.starwars.com/static/img/image-selector/full/original-trilogy/episode-vi/02.jpg

    Clearly either under construction or not identical to the first.

    "Rather than rely on thermal exhaust ports to vent the reactor's incredible excess heat, the second Death Star would instead funnel the waste energy through a series of millimeter-wide heat dispersion ducts."
    -Starwars.com, http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstarii/

    Sucks to be you.