NASA is planning to bomb the Moon, page 3
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reply posted on 19-6-2009 @ 04:26 AM by ngchunter
Originally posted by iwannaseethisshipgodown
its not my moon its not your moon its not our moon. how do you know nothing bad happened up there.

It's been 40 years and we've seen no evidence of ill effect.

japan isn't one the countries i was refering to and i think you know that.

You said far east. Japan is far east. Informed intelligent people would be no more bothered by any other country doing it than they were by Japan... though some here were bothered by Japan doing it.

so it is contaminating then?

Nice quote mining. It's not contaminating at all because everything about the impactor is vaporized on impact. It doesn't get more sterile than that.

i never said it was fake i said. how am i ignorant? i always want to know more.

You implied it was possible, I didn't accuse you of saying it was faked.

once again i never stated it didn't happen, remember i never come to conclusions.

That's just it, you should come to a conclusion based on the evidence. If you can't then perhaps you just haven't been adequately informed.
call me whatever you want and come to a conclusion on someone you never meet.

I didn't call you anything, nor will I.

you didn't even answer all my questions but you know what i dont think i care.

What is it you think I didn't cover?

p.s every now and then you might want to pull your head out of your arse for air, if its not stuck there.

I see, you can't argue with the evidence nor the math so you resort to insults? Well in that case I'm glad you won't be replying.


reply posted on 12-7-2009 @ 08:31 PM by Rotwang
I don't believe that a bomb is necessary to achieve the results that NASA needs for their Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LACROSS. NASA intends to use two heavy impactors, what exactly these impactors are is not clearly defined, perhaps it will be the upper stages of the Atlas 5 rockets. NASA previously impacted a total of nine LMs and SIVBs on the Lunar surface between November 1969 and December of 1972 in order to record the seismic impacts with the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment (APS), which deployed four seismometers to monitor the seismic activities of the moon. In 1969 NASA even requested to test a nuclear device on the Moon in order to do what is known as a core shot. Ofcourse, this wasn't done for several very good reasons.

NASA intends to deploy a massive new array of seismometers and sensors on the surface of the moon beginning around 2018. This is known as the International Lunar Network (ILN). When this array becomes operational we should expect many more heavy impacts by Atlas 5 upper-stages in order to test the ILN. It is by far cheaper to use these upper-stages as impactors than it would be to haul 5000 lbs bombs all the way to the moon. If a larger yield would be needed to do a core shot, I would imagine that NASA would want to use something in the order of the BLU-116 Advanced Unitary Penetrator armed with something like the B-61 mod10/11 tactical nuclear warhead and housed in a Pershing II re-entry vehicle. The B-61 mod11 also has "Dial-a-yield" technology where the explosive force of the warhead can be set between 4 and 365 kilotons. That would indeed make a beautiful core shot.


reply posted on 13-7-2009 @ 08:54 AM by ngchunter
Originally posted by Rotwang
I don't believe that a bomb is necessary to achieve the results that NASA needs for their Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LACROSS. NASA intends to use two heavy impactors, what exactly these impactors are is not clearly defined, perhaps it will be the upper stages of the Atlas 5 rockets.

Indeed, it's a centaur stage and the LCROSS satellite itself seconds later; the latter is just a necessary consequence of getting that close to observe the first impact.
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