Slashdot | NASA Explores the Moon's Water/Oxygen Deposits
Paul D. Fernhout
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"NASA's LCross mission will now test whether the moon's hydrogen and oxygen
deposits could be converted into air, water, and even fuel. A dramatic crash
by the rocket's upper stage will blast 200 tons of moon rock up 10
kilometers from a dark crater — where it's constitution can be measured by
LCross's instruments. (NASA predicts 'a number of different ways that we'll
be able to create water from whatever form of lunar hydrogen we find' on the
moon, noting recent missions have already confirmed the presence of oxygen
in moon rocks, while the sun delivers a constant stream of hydrogen.)
Carrying water to the moon costs $100,000 a kilogram, so these experiments
could be a crucial step to getting more people on the moon."
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http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/air-space/crashing-moon
See also, for contrast: :-)
"Surrealist Group : No War on the Moon!"
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/surrealist-group-no-war-on-moon.html
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Twenty years before a powerful syndicate of military-industrial criminals
conspired to plant a U.S. flag on the Moon, a similar clique of fiends
plotted to fire a nuclear warhead-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile
at the lunar face. Code-named "Project A119," this plan devised by Cold
War-era Air Force and weapons manufacturers called for a massive nuclear
explosion that would be clearly visible from anywhere on Earth. ... And now,
once again, there are plans to bomb the Moon. This time the unilateral
strike is aimed at the Moon’s South Pole and the payload will be delivered
by the LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft;
the excuse given is that this is an effort to find water deep under lunar
surface. ... This so-called "NASA experiment" is a hostile act of aggression
and a violent intrusion upon our closest and dearest celestial neighbor. ...
Let us assume that ignorance will rule the day and plans go forward. What
can we as surrealists or lunatics or astrologers or naturalists or
anarcho-primitivists or Greens or werewolves or pagans or psychics or UFO
groupies or other concerned members of the general public do? We must soothe
the Moon, we bandage her. We implore other celestial bodies and entities to
aid her. We will not let her endure this crime or its grim aftermath alone.
Hold her, send out imaginative protection to her, and put our dream bodies
out there in front of the bomb. ... We pledge solidarity with the Moon and
promise we will do everything that we can to help heal her and to prevent
any further such stupid, short-sighted, self-serving, man-made acts of
obscene violence against her.
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--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
Paul D. Fernhout
Looks like the surrealists had some success with their mental vibrations,
but not quite enough to stop the moon-colliding probe: :-)
"NASA's lunar impactor loses most of its fuel"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17685-nasas-lunar-impactor-loses-most-of-its-fuel.html
"NASA's moon-colliding probe LCROSS lost more than half its propellant late
last week after a glitch caused it to repeatedly fire its thrusters to try
to orient itself. But the spacecraft is still on track to complete its
mission to slam into the moon's south pole in October."
--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/