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Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years
During NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, roughly 842 pounds of rocks were collected from the lunar surface. Scientific demand for the rocks has always been high, and a review board tracks and sends out hundreds of samples each year, even now, decades after the rocks were brought to Earth. They've provided researchers with a wealth of information about the entire solar system. From the NYTimes:
"The samples have confirmed that asteroid and meteor impacts, not volcanism, created the vast majority of craters that define the Moon's topography, while a constant barrage of meteorites, micrometeorites and radiation melted and pureed the bedrock to create the blanket of fine-grained soil and dust -- known as regolith -- that now cloaks the lunar surface. And knowing the ages of Moon rocks, which can be computed to within 20 million years, has enabled scientists to establish a baseline that allows them to date geologic features throughout the solar system. The surface of the Earth, one of the solar system's youngest topographies, is constantly changing, as it is faulted, folded, shaped and reshaped by eruptions, earthquakes and erosion. By contrast, the Moon is as old as it gets."
Too bad they're all fakes picked up from the driveway outside a soundstage in southern california. All those so called "scientists" and "NASA" will look so silly once people actually make it to the moon and find that it really is made of cheese. Demand for the gourmet "moon cheese" will cause overmining of the moon and an eventual orbital shift sometime in 2012 which will cause all female mammals on earth to have a massively synchronized ovulatory cycle which will end with the death of all the males.
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You might want to look up "plate tectonics".
We really should stop outsourcing dirt from other planets to fill out dirt needs. Think of the economy!
It's not rock... it's fossilized whalebone.
I have touched Mars. Repeatedly.
Stop doing that.
You'll go blind.
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I have touched Mars. Repeatedly.
Stop doing that. You'll go blind.
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Or gain superpowers!
You mean compared to the 5.9736 × 10^24 kg of Earth?
Who'da thunk it?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
"By contrast, the Moon is as old as it gets.""
So true. Even when John McCain was a kid, he could look up in the night sky and see the moon.
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Rocks from mars have been available for a while:
http://rocksfrommars.com/
Can we send a probe to drill for soil? Sure.
No Blood For Soil!
...and while you're there, bring us back some local dancers!
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
They are the only way that I know of to successfully get the Avatar to Britania and back.
Loonie is perfectly good variant of English, tovarisch.
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
That's nothing! I have eaten Mars. Repeatedly.
Or get your moon rocks off.
The moon.
Technically, murder-suicide does not violate the golden rule.