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- AngryDeuce, on 10/10/2009, -0/+128Are people really that ***** stupid? Seriously??
God I weep for the species... - thegrantman, on 10/10/2009, -1/+69NASA should release a press statement assuring us that the alien life forms they found are harmless.
Then make a stiff gin and tonic, sit back, and laugh as the crazies tear out their hair. - copypastry, on 10/09/2009, -3/+61That tiny impact to the Moon has nudged it out of orbital alignment with the earth. In roughly 3 years it will collide with the Earth. We're all doomed.
/s - Salinator, on 10/10/2009, -0/+57I was actually thinking that I would see legitimate concerns raised by intelligent people
What I got was further proof that there are far too many stupid people on this planet. We should launch them into the moon instead. - cmost, on 10/10/2009, -0/+47It's really sad that scientists even have to clarify the situation. If people weren't such morons and used a little common sense, they would immediately realize that the scientific community isn't out to get them!!
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...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\ - Subduction, on 10/10/2009, -2/+32I know it had no effect but honestly, if I'm going to die anything but a natural death, I would want it to be either by getting sucked into an unanticipated black hole created by the Large Hadron Collider, or by the moon crashing into the earth.
Either one would be a completely epic way to go. - Sexercise, on 10/10/2009, -0/+20Mission #2 - Sending these morons into the surface of the moon.
- Ninh, on 10/10/2009, -1/+20I don't think that's the proper approach. Instead I suggest reinforcing those silly ideas in an effort to get the idiots to remove themselves from the gene pool in a fit of panic.
- ralphthemagi, on 10/10/2009, -0/+18Let's hope for both. LHC create a black hole that pulls the moon into the Earth.
Epic death is epic. - rockdude14, on 10/10/2009, -0/+18that might have knocked the moon out of orbit
- 3rdDay, on 10/10/2009, -1/+182012....
I see. - egocogito, on 10/10/2009, -2/+17All I'm saying is that it can't be a coincidence that Obama wins the Nobel on the same day that NASA attacks the moon.
- mikemx7f, on 10/10/2009, -0/+14Did you notice it was is the comedy section of the Huffington Post?
- partrow, on 10/10/2009, -16/+30Amy Ephron of Huffington Post is worried, 'What if it somehow throws off the astrology?' Or that it might throw the solar system out of balance.
Which planet is she living on? Have her feet ever touched terra firma?
Not surprising that she writes for Huffington Post. What an embarrassing rag . . . - Jeff901, on 10/10/2009, -1/+15"The spacecraft are far too tiny compared to the moon, in fact, to have any significant effect on the moon's orbit or dynamics," he added. "The impact might be likened to a gnat hitting the windshield of a truck."
There have been space rocks which are MUCH larger that have made impacts on the moon....
People need to lighten up and educate themselves a little before making statements about things they have no ideas about! - N0DIGGITY, on 10/10/2009, -1/+13the dust will float to earth and make people into zombies!!!!
- FearlessFreep, on 10/10/2009, -3/+14Truthers...Birthers.... Mooners?
- bbagi, on 10/10/2009, -0/+10I'm fairly certain that the CRATERS that are seen by the NAKED EYE all over the moon were created by asteroids and meteors impacting the moon at high velocity.
- kilsekddd, on 10/10/2009, -0/+10Thundarr the barbarian will emerge to right the injustices!
- TVarmy, on 10/10/2009, -1/+10Yeah, Nasa was pretty dumb to blow up the moon. If it's any consolation, we'll be extinct really soon.
/s - FeargusMcDuff, on 10/10/2009, -2/+11NASA got troooolled...
- Thuktun, on 10/10/2009, -0/+8They wouldn't have to dignify it if the "mainstream media" hadn't recently morphed into a Stupidity Amplifier.
- linksus, on 10/10/2009, -1/+7You see all those craters on the moon yeah?
They be there because of big ass rocks plowing into it like i did your mum. - Propethic, on 10/10/2009, -0/+6Really, it's just liberals doing the fearmongering? Which administration was it that introduced stupid "threat levels" again?
- Subduction, on 10/10/2009, -0/+6But how fitting would it be for the Earth to be destroyed in our own global Darwin Award Youtube video?
When other intelligent life comes searching for the history of the human race, it would end with an entire species going "Hey! Watch this! Oh shi..." - Syric, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5No, the truth is that a couple of hand grenades' worth of explosives cannot possibly have any effect on a mass large enough to be a small planet.
Please don't ever become a teacher or raise children. - Pjotrovich, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5Ignignokt: Some would say that the Earth is our moon. Err: We're the moon. Ignignokt: But that would belittle the name of our moon, which is 'The Moon.'
- inactive, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5A gnat into the entire rocky mountain range would b e more accurate.
- Kettek, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5Can any scientist do anything without the roving flock of conspiracy retards descending in their retard fashion?
H1N1 Vaccine? Mercury poisoning government mind control!
LHC? Doomsday scientists making a wormhole machine to destroy the world!
Small purposeful moon impact? Threw moon out of orbit, we're all dead!
The worst part is they have to dignify the retards with answers to their idiotic theories. - Thuktun, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5This is totally the year of the STUPID. WTF
- acealewar, on 10/10/2009, -0/+5We all saw the Time Traveler. The moon is going to crash into Earth and Morlocks are going to eat us in the future. Run, run for your live!
lol - Thuktun, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4I don't think it's limited to just those, unfortunately.
- ebcreasoner, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4WTF? They have been here and there since the dawn of our ancient ancestors.
- candre23, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4Wow. I expect online journalists to be a bit slow, but SHAME on computerworld.com for reporting on a comedy/satire piece as if it were real. Double shame on you idiots who are condemning the HufPo article without realizing that it's not real.
It's all one big joke, and YOU are the punchline. - Alienrace, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4Ok, so either man did land on the Moon, or the probes were sent to a studio in the Nevada Desert. You can't have both, kids.
- DrSnugglebunny, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4Science lead is turned into comedy gold!
- pbgswd, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4There are retard conspiracy nutjobs all over the place that will say just about anything to get attention.
- Nintendesert, on 10/10/2009, -1/+5http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-ephron/help-save ...
Read through the comments section for some comedy gold. - pineutrino, on 10/10/2009, -0/+4"I'll use the fact that science hasn't discovered everything as an excuse to ignore the stuff it's already discovered!"
- Kzoo, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3"People need to lighten up and educate themselves a little before making statements about things they have no ideas about!"
Good luck getting that to happen. - Thuktun, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3"Common sense" isn't nearly as common as you might think. That said, this is more of a failure of our education system that people are released from school in to society thinking that a probe that we can launch from the Earth will have enough mass to be able to significantly affect anything about our largest satellite.
- hackiavelli, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3There are so many different kinds of crazy on the internet it's becoming impossible to tell sincerity from parody.
- Eunonia, on 10/10/2009, -1/+4It would take a lot of force to move the moon out of its axis. Probably several thermonuclear rockets. Even that would not work. All that energy would probably just break the moon's surface and release some chunks of rock into space or out orbit. Why are people so stupid. All those craters on the moon's surface are result of the countless impacts that the moon had over this time. And those comets were going at even faster speeds and the moon is all right. I think the problem lies in real understanding of the moon's mass and size. Some people still don't get it that the moon is 1/4 of earth diameter. It's big but not that big. Just a lot of idiots who were also trying to stop The Large Hadron Collider a particle accelerator. Fear of micro wormholes that would get big and suck earth into oblivion. Watched too many movies.
- BaphClass, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3You losers will introduce politics into ANYTHING just to feel needed, won't you?
- snkscore, on 10/10/2009, -2/+5People really *are* this stupid.
Ever visited the red states? - Volath, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3YES
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93080#comments
Scroll down to see the comments. - Pixelante, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3Not enough red matter.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 10/10/2009, -1/+4Don't be embarrassed if you need a hint. Start with G = gmM/r^2 where g is the gravity cosntant, M is he mass of earth, m is the mass of the moon, and r is teh distance from earth to moon. Then let d be a mass moved from the large mass M to the small one m. Compute the change by
g(m+d)(M-d)/r^2 - gmM/r^2
This will be positive if (m+d)(M-d) -mM is positive. That will be positive if M - m - d is positive, which will surely hold if m and d are small compared to M. - S1ngular1ty1, on 10/11/2009, -0/+3This is the internet. One of its primary functions is to allow people to discuss things they know nothing about as if they were experts.
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