Poll: Soo we shot the moon with a rocket, whos next?

[The Shade]

Sat[i/]urn[/i]. Sorry about that, anyway, we shot the moon with a rocket?! When was this?

Ah! I found this: http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/nasa-exploding-moon-rocket/.

Excellent, hmmm, well I don't think they'll find anything. They should really be focusing on finding out what colour Mars is.

I find your avatar particularly suiting for this conversation.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

We're not done with the moon yet! America has a proud tradition of bombing things then invading it. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I think now that we've bombed the moon, we'll be sending in ground troops. Within the next 4-6 decades, The Moon will be a self-stabilized democracy.

 

[nathan-dts]

Sat[i/]urn[/i]. Sorry about that, anyway, we shot the moon with a rocket?! When was this?

Ah! I found this: http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/nasa-exploding-moon-rocket/.

Excellent, hmmm, well I don't think they'll find anything. They should really be focusing on finding out what colour Mars is.

Finding the colour of Mars? How about they work on something useful like colonising it first?

Err excuse me? And what if we thought it was orange and brought some nice cream paint for the outside of the colony-house, AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE LILAC! Colonisation failed. Go back home.

Anyway, colonisation ain't gonna happen for a long time, least not until we can find some way of blocking cosmic rays. (They kill people, but luckily, our Earth's magnetosphere deflects them).

Cosmic rays don't kill people, they give you superpowers.

 

[Baldry]

I guess we will all drown so I blame you, bye bye

 

[Evil the White]

Excellent, hmmm, well I don't think they'll find anything. They should really be focusing on finding out what colour Mars is.

It's brown. NASA just put all the images through a red tint so as not to ruin people's expectations.

 

[Cargando]

Sat[i/]urn[/i]. Sorry about that, anyway, we shot the moon with a rocket?! When was this?

Ah! I found this: http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/nasa-exploding-moon-rocket/.

Excellent, hmmm, well I don't think they'll find anything. They should really be focusing on finding out what colour Mars is.

So..it's not dusty brown and made to look red by NASA's Jet propulsion Laboratory so as to conform to our expectations of Mars?

Nah. The red we see from satellites is caused by dust swirling in the atmosphere. The lunar rovers sent so far have only been able to send back in black and white, now, these pictures of the surface [i/]can[/i] be turned into colour. But it takes a great deal of fine judgement and expetise to do so. Mars is most likely a sort of browny colour with patches of pastel pink.

 

[Igen]

the "bomb" was to find water, read the whole thread before posting. If there is water there, it would be easier to put a station there. Water is a heavy resource that is required for people to survive space travel. 10 gallons of water is a small person in weight. I dont know the cost in fuel per pound of equipment that they put into space, but i can promise you its several thousands of dollars per pound at least. If the water was all ready there, it would be very cost benificial if we are to continue space travel.

 

[Cargando]

Cosmic rays don't kill people, they give you superpowers.

In any case, it took a bit of digging, but heres the real Mars:

[spoiler/][image/]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0406/hills_spirit.jpg[/IMG][/spoiler]

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Sat[i/]urn[/i]. Sorry about that, anyway, we shot the moon with a rocket?! When was this?

Ah! I found this: http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/nasa-exploding-moon-rocket/.

Excellent, hmmm, well I don't think they'll find anything. They should really be focusing on finding out what colour Mars is.

So..it's not dusty brown and made to look red by NASA's Jet propulsion Laboratory so as to conform to our expectations of Mars?

Nah. The red we see from satellites is caused by dust swirling in the atmosphere. The lunar rovers sent so far have only been able to send back in black and white, now, these pictures of the surface [i/]can[/i] be turned into colour. But it takes a great deal of fine judgement and expetise to do so. Mars is most likely a sort of browny colour with patches of pastel pink.

So it is brown...sort of...

Why in the world can't they get a colour picture anyway?. How hard can it be?.

 

[Eicha]

Next, we'll colonize Mars and have a dude in a firefighter coat smashing buildings with Thor's hammer.

 

[Dante_Alucard]

uranus

 

[Cargando]

So it is brown...sort of...

Why in the world can't they get a colour picture anyway?. How hard can it be?.

Hold on, I did a bit of digging and it turns out, that in the 70's the Mars mission couldn't get colour pictures, so they did what any upstanding, honest science team should do - doctored the colour in themselves. So now a lot of people think Mars is orange and Google image (or, as I use Google Pirate, Google Engravins) is flooded with pictures of the 70's mission.

In 2004 they sent a more high-tech lander to Mars, and they got the brown-grey-pink surface we now know to be true.

 

[RooftopAssassin]

Well, it was a old satellite and we bombed it twice... Once to kick up all the "ice and, or water" into the air. I get the sarcasm though.

I chose Pluto's only moon... because it would be impossible, in my book.

Edit: It's biggest moon, I meant to say. Charon.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Mars? The many moons of Saturn or Jupiter, or Pluto so we can see it blow up ?

Edit: Was really bored when thinking about this.

I'd blow up Neptune. Because I'd like to see NASA get around the issue that it's comprised of gas, and only gas.

 

[chstens]

We didn't shoot the moon with a rocket, NASA crashed an old satelite into the moon to see if there's water (as ice, of course) there. And the satelite was practically space junk anyways.

 

[cjbos81]

To think that children are starving in [insert poor country name here] and we're throwing $80 million into the lunar surface just to watch it explode.

Take that, world!

WHOOO! America!

USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

So it is brown...sort of...

Why in the world can't they get a colour picture anyway?. How hard can it be?.

Hold on, I did a bit of digging and it turns out, that in the 70's the Mars mission couldn't get colour pictures, so they did what any upstanding, honest science team should do - doctored the colour in themselves. So now a lot of people think Mars is orange and Google image (or, as I use Google Pirate, Google Engravins) is flooded with pictures of the 70's mission.

In 2004 they sent a more high-tech lander to Mars, and they got the brown-grey-pink surface we now know to be true.

I knew NASA's JPL made them look orangy-red (it's a word!) to fit the expectations the public already had!. However, I was kind of sure that they did state Mars was brown in colour during the "Pathfinder" mission in 1997.

Now we know for sure and that's half the battle!.

 

[j0z]

We didn't shoot the moon with a rocket, NASA crashed an old satelite into the moon to see if there's water (as ice, of course) there. And the satelite was practically space junk anyways.

what?
We hit the moon with a part of the rocket that took the LCROSS probe up, it was attached to LCROSS.
And if we know that water is on the moon, then we will know that moon colonization is possible.
Plus, so what if it took a lot of money? WE CAUSED A BIG BOOM ON THE MOON!

 

[Skeleon]

Jupiters moons. Europa, to be more precise!
Let's break that ice crust and have a secondary drone land, collect samples and check for microbes.