Subject: We're Going To Bomb The Moon If Something
Doesn't Stop Us.
This talks about a person on the
Coasttocoastam
radio trying to tell people about our sending
a bomb to
the Moon.
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(JW Mr. Webre also stated that there
are
already people on the Moon. He says that our
astronauts saw on
the side of a hill flying
saucers that had people in them, looking at us
while we were on the Moon. They were said to
be
enormous.)
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Subject: Article In The SanFrancisco
Chronicle.
June 25, 2009.
Here's an article from one of the most
reliable newspapers in our country, The
San Francisco Chronicle
regarding our crash a
bomb into the Moon.
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http://www.sfgate.com
SFGate
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
Moon mission looking at possible colony
sites
mailto:dperlman@sfchronicle.com
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Thursday, June 18,
2009
A California spacecraft, bound for deliberate
doom inside a
crater on the moon, is scheduled
to soar into space today, along with a
lunar
orbiter searching for safe landing sites where
humans might one day
establish Earth's first
colony.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/06/18/MNJ41887O2.DTL
"Sequence of events (Chronicle Graphic)"
Technicians attempt to
install NASA's Lunar
Reconnaissanc..."
In early October, the
spacecraft will send a
heavy rocket crashing into the moon's south
polar
region on a mission to find water that
could support future crews bound for
Mars. With
its mission finished, the spacecraft itself then
will die in
its own final crash into the lunar
surface.
The water-seeking
mission was conceived,
developed and now is controlled by space
scientists and engineers at NASA's Ames Research
Center in Mountain
View.
Their spacecraft bears the unwieldy name of
LCROSS - the
Lunar Crater Observation and
Sensing Satellite - and in a sense is merely
hitching a ride on an Atlas rocket whose main
job is to launch NASA's
new Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter. That spacecraft will spend at least a
year creating the most minutely detailed map of
the moon's surface ever
seen.
Flying over the moon's southern hemisphere,
LCROSS will use
its high-precision instruments,
as well as close-up images of the
terrain
gathered by the lunar orbiter, to seek out a
crater just shallow
enough and dark enough to be
a prime bombing target.
There, acting
as what the Ames team calls
its "shepherding spacecraft," LCROSS will guide
an empty Centaur rocket weighing two tons toward
its target. The rocket
will crash into the
crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater -
perhaps
as large as 5 miles wide. The crash is
scheduled to occur Oct. 9.
Scientists on Earth expect the impact to blast
out a huge cloud of dust, gas
and vaporized
water ice at least 6 miles high. The cloud will
be clearly
visible to astronomers at Earth-bound
observatories and the Hubble Space
Telescope's
new planetary camera, allowing each to observe
and collect
data on its composition.
Astronomers have long thought that a rain of
comets brought water to the arid, lifeless moon
over billions of years.
In the past few years,
at least two American spacecraft reported the
presence of water by detecting hints of hydrogen
and oxygen - the
constituents of water - frozen
deep in the darkest recesses of craters
around
both the north and south lunar poles.
Because an ample
supply of water could help
provide unlimited fuel for any future moon
base,
seeking it out has been a high-priority mission
for NASA leaders
still bent on implementing
former President George W. Bush's "vision for
space exploration" that Bush said would start
with "a foothold on the
moon."
Whether the Obama administration pursues that
goal with as
high a priority remains an open
political question.
But to Anthony
Colaprete, a planetary
physicist and chief scientist for the LCROSS
mission, the brilliant burst of matter his
crashing Centaur will eject
is the ultimate goal
of the current mission.
"In only a few
seconds, we'll see the
brilliant flash from the crash," he said
Wednesday from Cape Canaveral. "The ejecta
should show first as a single
bright, shimmering
star; we're calling it sunrise. Seconds later,
even
modest telescopes on Earth should see two
blurry stars as the ejecta spreads
wider and
higher."
Those blurry lights would show as stars of
the
fourth or fifth magnitude, Colaprete said -
possibly as bright as the
Andromeda nebula.
That spectacle may last only 60 seconds or
so,
Colaprete said, but it will signal that the
Centaur's crash has
created a fresh crater up to
5 miles wide at a carefully selected spot
inside
the larger target crater.
Within 10 minutes, dense material
ejected from
that crater should rise some 6 miles high, with
the water
ice - perhaps billions of years old,
if it exists at all - turning instantly
to
vapor. And within an hour, detectable hydrogen
and oxygen should rise
as high as 60 miles,
according to calculations by Colaprete's team
at
Ames.
After the Centaur rocket crash, LCROSS, its
fuel
spent, will slam into the lunar surface as
well, its job done.
The lunar orbiter, meanwhile, will continue
its looping flights around the
moon from pole to
pole, and as the moon rotates beneath it, the
orbiter
will eventually have mapped the entire
surface. On the way, it will send
back images of
flat regions inside or beyond the craters - the
flat areas
to be listed as potential sites for
future lunar bases, if and when those
bases are
to be built.
The launch from Cape Canaveral is scheduled
for 2:12 p.m. PDT today.
E-mail David Perlman at
dperlman@sfchronicle.com
This article appeared on page A - 1 of the
SanFrancisco
Chronicle
(JW Let's hope that this will not
happen and
no people will get hurt.)