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First Word On Results From GRAIL, NASA's Moon Gravity Mission
An anonymous reader writes "Nature has advance word on the first science results from GRAIL, NASA's twin probes launched a year ago which are mapping the gravity of the Moon from lunar orbit. This is coming out in advance of any official publication or NASA release, so the data isn't available, but the story trails what the PI Maria Zuber told a Harvard CFA colloquium last week are some of the team's key scientific findings: including that the Moon's crust is substantially thinner than once thought; and some of the more speculative impact basins haven't been confirmed."
Hmm, so the inside of the moon is softer?
...on the advanced word on the first science results from GRAIL!
Who'd have thought it; A Coptic Christian gets together with 100 Jewish financiers to make a film about Islam. doesn't that give you a warm fuzzy feeling?
Aha! I knew it! "Thin Crust" -- The moon's not made of cheese it's a Pizza!
> the data isn't available
Should be "the data aren't available"
It's the only way to make sure.
The term you should be using from now on is "rind".
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the Moon's crust is substantially thinner than once thought;
The Moon is really cheese cake - cheese doesn't have a crust but cheese cake does.
If it were fried cheese with a jalapeno center - a Moon Popper - the orbit would be completely different.
Initial data seems to indicate the presence of a monolith buried underneath the surface of the moon. Scientists baffled at the implications.
I used to have a good sig...
The "crusts" on cheese are more commonly known as skins.
Cheese cake doesn't have a crust, it has a base.. and we haven't seen any moon bases yet.
I have to say that I'm sorely disappointed in the lack of moon poppers. Poppers are the moondog's nuts.
which is totally what she said
yeah, you got the joke and successfully dumbed it down for everyone. Congratulations!
Cheese cake doesn't have a crust, it has a base..
According to Wiki, "crust" and "base" are interchangeable.
Cheesecake is a dessert consisting of a topping made of soft, fresh cheese, usually on a crust or base made from...
Now, we'll see if I started the first pastry flame war EVAR on Slashdot.
and hopes for an anomoly at Tycho.
RIND. Cheese Rind.
WTF is a Cheese Skin? Maybe Edam and Babybel have Cheese Skins, other cheeses have rinds.
The "crusts" on cheese are more commonly known as skins.
It's not called a "crust" or a "skin", it's called the rind.
Cheese cake doesn't have a crust, it has a base.
Base is a generic term, cheesecake has a bottom crust.
It's not called a "crust" or a "skin", it's called the rind.
Cheeses can have both rinds and crusts. The rind is on the outside, and is intended to be there. Crusts, on the other hand, develop mostly unintentionally, and often on the inside too after a cheese has been cut. An outside crust can be treated, e.g. with brine, to create a rind.
As for skins, yes, some have those too. Jarlsberg, for example, has a sprayed on rubbery skin between the cheese and the protective wax. It is NOT a rind, and not meant for consumption (and neither is the protective wax, although I've seen dolts that eat it).
In addition to these, some moist cheeses like Cabecou and Gamalost develop fur instead. It's a fungal layer which can be quite tasty. Sometimes it's compressed into the cheese again to make part of the rind, like in a Brie.
NASA found the Holy GRAIL on the moon? That might be one way to get more funding from the(R)ight wing nutjobs that want to close NASA down
So how come a pizza is a "pie"?
No sig today...
Because it's built on a pastry crust
Free Martian Whores!
Why do these things even make the /. headlines? These items from NASA are just high-zoot boondoggles that get nothing done except waste taxpayer dollars. Wake up folks, we are in a recession since 2008, and there are more important things to spend on than billion-dollar space probes. The sci-fi stuff is great for the movies, but until the economy actually gets going, things need to be spent first for basic things like reducing the national debt.
This stuff the private sector is better at anyway. For every $50 printed and spent on this, a private company could do it with $1.
I volunteer to be captain. That's Captain Coward to you bub.
Will come when they do a survery of the moon's *magnetic* field.
But I'm not a big fan of Grails. I'd rather just use Spring directly.
Slashdot is not what it should be anymore. The real slashdot should have discussions about the consequences of a thin crust. For example, is it having impact on the age of the moon?