Thursday, October 08, 2009
Woo! We're Gonna Blow Up the Motherfuckin' Moon!
Not really.
NASA is dropping a huge projectile that will impact a crater (I know, sounds redundant), burrow 90 feet into the surface, and throw up a plume of debris 6 miles high. The satellite that dropped the projectile will then shower in its sputum and see if any of it is water. If 1% of it is water we'll have no problem colonizing the moon and mining that water for water and oxygen and hydrogen.
Of course, because it's lunar water, before you know it you've got a bunch of astronaut werewolves running around a moon base. Hold on, I've got to go write a movie script.
You can see live coverage on MSNBC tomorrow morning beginning at 7:30am.
Labels:
incredibly freakin cool,
science
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