Originally posted by barrelmaker
Seriously?? How many of these threads are their going to be? I will say this as politley as I can.

THERE IS NO BOMB!

It is not rigged to explode. There are NO explosives on board.

I realized that immediately upon reading the OP's thread...

Because historically, I'm aware that there has never been any instance of using an explosive to 'ring' the moon or something.

The sheer kinetic energy of a two-ton payload at twice speed of bullet (mach 4 to mach 6, hmm a bit too slow IMO) would easily overwhelm the explosive energy of chemical explosives....

Besides, in space, there's no air for explosives to generate a powerful blast/shockwave so it will be less effective.

Originally posted by Shrukin89
I was only told by my brother. So if NASA's Clementine Spacecraft found good evidence of water-ice on the Moon 15 years ago. Why the hell are they doing another test?

Because finding evidence of water is not the same as finding proof. It's standard scientific practice to do more than one test. NASA has collected evidence of Lunar ice with a variety of spacecrafts and instruments. Wouldn't you agree that it's better to be thorough and make sure of your findings?

The spacecraft that they are crashing is 75 million dollars. Why the hell would someone be so wasteful to crash a 75 million dollar spacecraft into our moon?

$79 million is cheap. The LRO that launched with LCROSS will have had an operational life cost of $500 million by its end. It too will crash into the Moon eventually, like all Lunar probes. All the past Lunar probes that were sent by the US and former USSR in the 60's, impacted into the Moon. China's and Japan's recent Lunar probes both impacted into the Moon already and India's will eventually as well.

It's not like the probe is filled with money, never to be seen again. That $79 million is spent here on Earth, paying peoples wages, paying for parts and equipment from other companies.

Geez...
I'm sure someone's beat me to it by now, but I don't feel like rifling through the same old trash over and over.

There is no bomb or explosive rigged to the projectile.

Please check your facts before embarrassing yourselves repeatedly. It really doesn't take that much effort.

Sorry to sound so sarcastic, but I'm sick of seeing dis-info threads.

hey what a surprise...no damage...still on orbit...no explosives...no surprises

-Kyo

OMG Chovy you were right!! this 2000 lbs. NUKE destroyed the moon! Well well well what do you have to say for your self now?

WOW, is the moon gone now or what?
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