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(from NASA.gov)
“The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water,” reads the first line of NASA’s announcement that water was discovered in the agency’s recent crash-a-rocket-into-the-moon-and-see-what-happens experiment. Ahh, what cards they are, those lunar scientists.
But here’s the passage that really sticks in my mind:
The impact created by the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket created a two-part plume of material from the bottom of the crater. The first part was a high angle plume of vapor and fine dust and the second a lower angle ejecta curtain of heavier material. This material has not seen sunlight in billions of years.
“Billions of years”?! Holy man-sized safe, Batman — what else could be hidden under the surface of the moon that we earthlings have given up all hope of finding?
Some helpful suggestions of what NASA should look for, courtesy of the gang at the FDL water cooler:
- The Bush White House’s missing Plame emails
- A Republican health care reform plan
- Democratic politicians’ spines
- Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction
- The receipts for Sarah Palin’s Republican National Convention wardrobe
- The Obama “whitey” tapes
- Michael Steele’s “street cred”
- Chads from Florida ballots in the 2000 presidential election
Feel free to offer your own ideas in the comments.
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Dick Cheney’s conscience?
Bush’s brain?
I think they found Marta’s detachable penis. They should let her know.
Bullshit.
Just more NASA bullshit.
We all know the earth and the moon and the univere are only 6,000 years old.
/s
Maybe it’s not such a good idea blasting terrain that hasn’t seen sunlight for billions of years when they have no clue what the material is.
Irrefutable evidence of “liberal media bias.”
boosh’s military records
Let’s go drink all the water and trash the place on our way to Mars, bitchez!
Thats a black hole:) Ask Spiderpaws about Darth and Blackholes in his star chart.
O/T
Dollar Bill Jefferson sentenced to 13 years prison.
Can’t we get Darth on destroying evidence if Obama can’t find them?
Steele gots Street Cred the day he can go to an African American neighborhood and fill seats with people wanting to hear him talk.
Orly Taitz will no doubt be arguing that Obama’s apocryphal Kenya birth certificate has been stashed there…
Jimmy Hoffa’s body.
Shee-it, well there ya go: and Duke [edited by mod] only got what: like less than 3 years for about 10x as much in bribes (inaccurate info but close; too lazy to research it)??
IOKIYAR!!
And the repukes in CA50 were boo-hooing about the poor, poor Duke-stir going to jail because of such a “little old thing” like that.
Sheesh. Tell me again how our society just isn’t racist????? Not that I don’t think Jefferson deserved some consequences for his actions, but…
amelia earhart and her missing plane
Fulfillment of campaign promises
Geez. Jefferson deserved some consequences, but compare his crime & time to what Duke Cunningham did & got. IOKIYAR rides again.
Swopa’s leather jacket?
Republicans’ understanding of the Golden Rule?
C Street’s lost morals?
Darth black holes from Late Late Nite!
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spiderpaws August 8th, 2007 at 12:01 am
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The astrologer who did the war chart of king george was Jim Shawvan. He said the entire pesidency was marked by aggression because of Bush’s prominant mars. I took his statement of the “wound that would not heal” to mean this was a situation in Iraq that was long term but good astrologers wouldn’t go out on a limb and actually predict, they just tell you what it looks like based on the aspects. Doesn’t mean their interpretation of these aspects is correct. Astrologers love to talk aspects to each other and say how they see it. After the time period involved is over there is a lot of comparing of notes.
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things come undone August 8th, 2007 at 12:09 am
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spiderpaws @ 241
The astrologer who did the war chart of king george was Jim Shawvan. He said the entire pesidency was marked by aggression because of Bush’s prominant mars. I took his statement of the “wound that would not heal” to mean this was a situation in Iraq that was long term but good astrologers wouldn’t go out on a limb and actually predict, they just tell you what it looks like based on the aspects. Doesn’t mean their interpretation of these aspects is correct. Astrologers love to talk aspects to each other and say how they see it. After the time period involved is over there is a lot of comparing of notes.
Thanks for the information any idea what black hole is influencing Darth?
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spiderpaws August 8th, 2007 at 12:13 am
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You know about black holes in astrology?

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things come undone August 8th, 2007 at 12:14 am
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spiderpaws @ 262
You know about black holes in astrology?
Uh no I was trying for snark
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things come undone August 8th, 2007 at 12:23 am
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things come undone @ 266
spiderpaws @ 262
You know about black holes in astrology?
Uh no I was trying for snark
I googled a bit on astrology and blackholes if Cheney is a blackhole person well it is scary. I don’t have the background to determine if the information was good. Or if it does apply to Cheney, if it is Darth might really be suitable name for him.
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spiderpaws August 8th, 2007 at 12:27 am
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As a matter of fact, cheney has two black holes conjunct his sun and one opposed to his sun and he has another black hole conjunct his natal saturn…in this case it makes him among other things an enabler for king george and much more but hey, I’m out of here
http://firedoglake.com/2007/08/07/late-late-nite-fdl-im-in-love-with-a-boy-named-jesse/
Elvis playing poker with Amelia, Osama and Yetti on a crate of Iraqi WMD.
Did NASA reveal whether there was an collateral damage?
Hmmm… I sense a creature-feature script in the making :)
Actually humans have nothing to do with that particular situation arising. It happens every time a meteorite smacks into a permanently shadowed area (i.e. a “cold trap”) on the Moon.
(Say Walter Koenig is due for another Moontrap sequel soon, isn’t he?)
And, if you hadn’t noticed the condition of the lunar surface lately, be assured that that sort of thing happens all the time…
… well, all the time on a selenological time scale ;)
Yeah, surprised no one said Osama Bin Laden before now. Good one.
The JFK consirators.
Not only found, but being worn *at this very moment*!
Pink Floyd?
heyyyy…wait just one minute…this does not add up
the earth is only about 7000 years old, I know this as a FACT cause some people say the bible says that (though I have searched and searched in I cannot find any such thing but I believe it anyway)
now lets do some elementary math;
one billion minus 7000 = nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-three thousand
so these sintists (tee hee, that’s scientist with “sin” instead like “evil”ution)
so these sintists are trying to say the moon is nine hundred nunety nine miilion ninety three thousand years older then god’s good earth?
I THINKK NOT!
(hey echahn, I see you’re here, hows my math?)
oh!!
That is good to hear.
Osama and Dubya’s military records definitely should be on the list.
Why would you assume Obama was looking for them in the first place?
Not all of them, just Syd Barret. :)
The Bank Bailout money the Fed can’t tell us who they gave it too?
Judge Crater
Any politician’s integrity
Wonder what the moon was orbiting all those other years??
you know, google I guess taps into some orbiting telescopes because they have the surface where this happened on their website
click in to that camera shot and zoom in as close as you can and you’ll see what the rocket saw…I don’t know how google does it
Now THAT’S funny!
Satan, of course.
Blackmail to if not send Darth away at least get Obama a seat on several Corporate boards kind of like how Bush 1 got on the Carlyle Group hedgefund and Dan Qualye got work at Cerberus hedgefund.
Unless you think they got those jobs on their merits?
Oh, crap, I meant to work in a line about Joe Lieberman’s integrity — that it might have been found, but no one alive has ever seen it, so they’re not sure — but I forgot. :-(
Merci.
where’s my monitor cleaner?
The Moon? What is it good for? (Think that song…)
Maybe we could send KSM there. But, that will take time and in between now and then, before I have to watch anymore tv news about him, one suggestion.
Body Wax Treatment!
I might not be able to watch tv for a really long time. No loss, of course.
Why it almost happend last week:
and it was a wee bit closer to Earth than the Moon
That the dark side isn’t dark except at the poles. That shadow that causes the new moon and and a half moon is the darkness. Pink Floyd certainly screwed up our perceptions.
Now for the serious stuff:
The Nixon tape’s 18-minute gap
J. Edgar Hoover’s personal files
The smoking gun in the Iran-Contra case
Jim Garrison’s evidence file
Ronald Reagan’s memory; Alberto Gonzales’s memory; Dick Cheney’s memory
The loot from the Iraqi Museum
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The USAF UFO files
George H. W. Bush’s thousand points of light
The warrantless wiretapping NSA database
The Bermuda Triangle’s back door
“Billions of years”?! Holy man-sized safe, Batman — what else could be hidden under the surface of the moon that we earthlings have given up all hope of finding”
Water Ice, Fissable metals, diamonds, gold, other neat stuff
oh man, the google spoiled my fun, that moon shot used to zoom in to a picture of swiss cheese, somehow google stopped keeping up the gag
*DAMN IT*!
you know, if there were oil there I guarantee THAT’S where the terrorists are by god and we HAVE to go there and set up camp
Things you can do with water:
– pollute it
– water desert golf courses
– turn it into moonshine
you got that right
Guarantee you if there’s oil there, the R’s will suddenly be NASA’s biggest fan.
And of course, suddenly trillions of dollars would be found in the budget to pay for going there and getting it.
Damned shame they can’t find that money for health care.
Maybe that’s one of the “answers” to this thread.
Money for health care.
come on man, are you saying you cant think of anything useful to do with water? i think someone needs to lay off the red bull.
Well, it really is most all politician’s who have lost their integrity there; Short Ride is just one of the more obvious examples.
Heh heh… “Clean Coal”…
and even some dirty coal…
Mayfly May Thwart $3 Billion in Coal Mined in U.S. Mountaintops
Then they would be HOWLING to privatize NASA.
here’s what would happen first if we found oil in addition to water on the moon;
1) a tape of bin laden threatening to attack us would come from a camp hidden on the dark side of said moon
2) a relative of sadam would be commanding a secret base of weapons of universe distruction deep in the sea of tranquility
and
3) the koch brothers would dispatch krystol to survey the area and provide political cover
Some are already calling for that.
How about a compassionate conservative, or family values.
D. B. Cooper
Obama’s change we can all believe in.
Ditto his progressivism.
I don’t know why people are still referring to it as the ‘dark’ side. Both sides of the moon get the same amount of light from the sun, we just don’t see it on the far side. When there’s a new moon the dark side is, quite obviously, facing us. Any idiot can infer that the other side is brightly lit. But I belabor the point.
I guess Pink Floyd are at least partially to blame for this astronomical misconception. ;-)
The odd thing is that one side of the moon is always facing the earth. Thus while there is no “dark side of the moon” there is an “earth side of the moon”. This means a lunar “day” is actually about a month. In the past (those billions of years ago) the moon’s orbit was much closer to earth. This meant the lunar month was about 22 days. And the effect on tides was much greater. Eventually the moon will slip further and further away.
Well here’s a little moonshine for ya
That’s right, the other side of the moon will always be dark to me and the 6,794,108,554 other Earthlings down here.
Actually, NASA has never recovered from the glory days of Apollo and unlimited budgets.
There are a lot of smart, efficient and thrifty people working within NASA but the persistent agency management culture can be overbearing beyond belief.
And therefore the various fiefdoms within the odd structure of NASA have ferociously guarded what they regard as their territory… and have callously smashed commercial spaceflight markets time and again when NASA needed the money that would have gone to such commercial markets.
The space shuttle was a prime example of this… until the Challenger disaster resulted in a ban on government flights replacing commercial launches.
But the damage was done before that happened and to this day the taxpayers pay extra every year to help maintain two commercial EELV launcher fleets so that military spacelift needs are covered… because the shuttle had failed the military (never ready to launch on time) and the shuttle had gutted the commercial launch market so badly that the commercial launch suppliers couldn’t keep such fleets flying on their own.
Foreign spaceflight programs and global launch markets are much better off in this regard because while their budgets are small compared to the U.S. budget… they don’t have NASA to contend with either.
This was one case where bringing in commercial competition to the government agency would have been beneficial… and so what did the disciples of Rand and Norquist do while they were in charge of NASA?
You guessed it… they did nothing to change the balance and meanwhile the Bushies ran wild inside NASA itself… where they seem to have made themselves peculiarly at home…
And now the massive and parochial Ares program is years and billions behind schedule and commercial space interests are just now starting to crawl out of NASA’s last bootprint hoping that they won’t be stomped flat yet again.
Damn… ranting again? sorry… :)
Pink Floyd or at least Roger Waters and David Gilmore?
To Suzanne.
What?
your comment was moderated because it was completely off topic demi. eli’s thread is available for you to use to be lighthearted on.
I’m really not sure what you mean. The post was not lighthearted at all. Death. I asked Mary to dance.
What am I missing?
the post by mr rodman was not lighthearted and yet you wanted to dance on a post about his wife’s passing. eli’s post would have been a more appropriate place for that comment.
Okay.
dancing on a grave is considered by many to be a gross insult demi. glad ya understand.
I didn’t do that. I hope You Understand that.
Please, Suzanne. We’ve been through a lot together. Please?
I said a long slow dance.
I think you are not understanding what I said. I don’t stompt like that. And, I’m sorry.
glad you understand why demi. as i said eli’s thread is up and is a good place
All of the dolphins.
You always show up, don’t cha?
She’s a big girl. You underestamate her.
And, my feeling is, you won’t have any idea what to do with the fish.
How about some pretty pissed off moon men, who are getting ready to retaliate. If You remember some of the Astronauts said they felt like they were being watched.
No cheese???
The cheeze is on the stinky side we can’t see.
used condoms and smoker videos (circa, 1960s).
1000′s of golf balls.
pictures of Tom Cruise and Xenu, together.
the bones of a creature that may be part ape and part man.
The original love shack.
God with a telescope pointed at earth and a massive data network to keep track of everyone.
a chariot from the middle ages.
Satan, in charge, of Cheney’s rendition camp there.
caviar and pictures of Stalin
The really robust public option?
The Constitution, the Fourth Amendment, and our Democracy?
The Monolith and Roger Ailes’ conscience.
- Tom