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- RogerStrong, on 02/28/2008, -1/+45NASA has been one of the best investments any government has ever made.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -0/+41I can see two scenarios. 1. Moon civilization will declare war on earth. 2. Chinese astronauts walking on the moon will think they have found an alien spaceship at the pole.
- bzaks, on 02/28/2008, -1/+37How about instead, we send a relatively untrained team of oil drillers up there... they only need to drill to about 800 ft, drop a nuke in and allow bruce willis to push the button while everyone else leaves... We'll find water if its there.....
- frogman54, on 02/28/2008, -0/+28The title could use the word "into" in it somewhere. I feared that mad scientists had built some kind of moon crashing device.
- sjbdallas, on 02/28/2008, -1/+28You forgot the scenario where we miss hitting the moon and next year when we're back in the same spot in space, the probe will hit the earth from the backside.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+27That's right. Without NASA, there might not be GPS, live TV broadcast, and internet. In fact, US might have lost cold war, and maybe the communists would be running the world right now. Nouf said already. Literally, US government doesn't burn away dollar bills for NASA. This is public spending aimed to help the economy!
- romistrub, on 02/28/2008, -0/+23Crash Moon != Crash into Moon...
that really threw me off - wontstoptalking, on 02/28/2008, -0/+21But I like the moon!
- fearlessfx, on 02/28/2008, -2/+20Would be embarrassing if they missed.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+18I don't see how it is useless. We will somehow make use of the collected data for various advantages. It is like smashing cars to study and invent seat belt and air bag that save countless lives. It might not be an exact analogy but you do get some picture, don't you?
- sjbdallas, on 02/28/2008, -1/+14That should be movie. And Aerosmith should sing the theme song.
- jotux, on 02/28/2008, -0/+12What have they done for you lately? Not a whole lot...of course it might help if we funded them enough to actually do something useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NASA_budget_lin ...
The NASA budget peaked in 1966. Everyone complains they don't do great stuff anymore...but no one wants to pay for the programs that would allow them to do it. - captoftheworld, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12BOOM! Moonshot???
- aoru, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11here is a multi-trillion dollar oops
http://images.nationmaster.com/images/motw/middle_ ... - RogerStrong, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12Armageddon wasn't a movie. It was a longer-than-normal music video.
- Chestnutridge, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12I don't think survivability was a key component of his plan.
- samfishercell, on 02/28/2008, -3/+14I would have loved to be there during the initial meeting:
"Thanks for the word on budget cuts, Steve. And, here's Earl with the latest from R&D."
"So we're gonna take two $70 million probes..."
"yeah..?"
"and we're just going to SMASH them right into the moon"
"..."
If they find water - neat.
If they crack the moon in half and ruin the tides - not neat. - zanderw00t, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10Holy *****, I dont know why your comments not dugg up more; reading it made my cheerios go out my nose. :)
- Wildthing, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9Good luck making a slingshot that can accelerate him to 11.2 km/s (Earth's escape velocity) for $79 million without destroying him before he can make it to the moon.
- andregriffin, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9That's no moon.
- sonicularulus, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9we're going to anger the moon. before you know it, we'll be in an intergalactic war.
Then tom cruise will come along and say something about scientology. - zeromancer, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9that's what your parents should have said before you were conceived.
- SilenceGold, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10There must be a happy NASA employee with the Staples® Easy Button.
- thomas, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9In 2007 the government spent $16.8 billion on NASA. It costs us that much to be in Iraq for 61 days.
- nospinhere, on 02/28/2008, -0/+8what have they done for you lately?
People like you ruin countries. - Jordan117, on 02/28/2008, -0/+7Artist's impression of the probe's impact:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1354/1034481470_cc3 ... - DrywallThief, on 02/28/2008, -2/+9Cheerios go in the mouth you moran.
- romistrub, on 02/28/2008, -0/+7"useless"
care to qualify that? - jotux, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon.....
- elizabethb221, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7Water on the moon?
Maybe whalers on the moon actually WILL exist! - johnsonjoeb, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7How 'bout you give me 70 million and I find you a bunch of water right here on Earth.
- tightscrummy, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5The Chinese probably built the probe. They'll recognize it.
- romistrub, on 02/28/2008, -1/+6Scorpion, meet the Sun; the Sun, meet Scorpion. (You may have heard of it. It supplies nearly all energy ever for this planet. Funny thing about the Sun is that there's lots of it on the Moon, too. You just gotta look real hard.)
- EllimistX, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Because you know...he's the only one that can help...
- Kido1986, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4We like the moon, because it is close to us!
- Spudster, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Soon we're gonna have an environmental movement for the moon too...
- zioxide, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5According to the chart jotux linked, the yearly NASA budget is equivalent to the weekly Iraq budget. (Around 15 billion)
- adooga, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Can't see how anything could possibly go wrong with this......
- diggpandit, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I really need a million! can't they prepare it with $78 ???
- Spudster, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3That's what she said.
- BossKey, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Thanks, now I can't get that song out of my head...
- fakekevinrose, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3it's time to show that moon that we're strong
- toxicityj, on 02/28/2008, -2/+5so move away and quit bitching about it
- ckhw2, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3LOL! You just made me waste another half-hour watching that whole episode again... frikkin hilarious...
- Poweroft, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Don't we have a lot of water down here? I'd like to bring a scientist to my sink. "Oh, it'll gush like that for days."
- FTLJohnson, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I would bet that the X-Prize people could probably get it done for less than 2 Mil.
- lolwutpear, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3The moon is throwing a sweet party this weekend, and NASA is totally going to crash it.
- FTLJohnson, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I bet the folks with Richard Branson and the X-Prize would be able to do this for less than 1/79th the cost.
- otakushark, on 02/28/2008, -2/+5Yellowcakewalk = waste of space and oxygen
- Iamironman, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4they hit a satellite... the moon shouldn't be a problem.
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