Twits

I liked the tweet from @TheActualMoon

"Fucking OUCH!"

http://twitter.com/TheActualMoon/status/4732484505

good to know

That all the time, money and effort educating the western world in the sciences hasn't been entirely wasted.

well...

You don't think they might be just pulling your leg?

"Think of the planets in terms of forming a sentence."

The moon's a planet? First Pluto, then this!

"Think of the planets in terms of forming a sentence."

It's called a newm, nemon, pneumo, nmem, memory aid.

My Very Easy Method: Just Set Up Nine Planets.

Does that mean...

"Think of the planets in terms of forming a sentence. The Earth is a noun. The moon is a verb."

Does that make the variety of objects that hit the moon adverbs?

What's the square root of -100?

It never ceases to amaze me how many morons (used literally and correctly) are out there.

Just lol

It's lucky that Armstrong et al launching back to earth didn't knock the moon out of orbit, given how little inertia it obviously has...

For some ignorance is bliss??

I can not believe the ignorance of some of these people...before they make themselves look so stupid you would think they would gather some facts first. Or at the very minimum attend a 6th grade science class.

I am shocked to know our tax dollars are spent on such people!!!!

FRUITCAKE parade

Criticism and humor designed to ridicule and belittle people with honest fears or beliefs is a tactic often used by authoritarian regimes to create fear of disclosure which leads to what social psychologist have dubbed “a spiral of silence,” i.e., a fear to say anything unpopular or illegal, lest they be reported to the authorities as being “anti-government”, or just plain “insane.” Your blog is neither cynical nor humorous, but an attempt to differentiate between "correct " and "incorrect" thinking . Your tactics instill an implicit fear that "incorrect thinkers" will be labeled a “fruit cake”, thus chilling people into simply saying nothing. You accuse those of us that are opposed to using weapons of mass destruction on an important and interactive natural satellite as being "fruitcakes" or "lunatics". You can call it a “probe”, or a “kinetic energy device”, or whatever euphemism you like, but I believe most people would agree that creating a five mile crater while awaiting a 6-12 mile plume off the lunar surface is a WMD. Most people who expressed concerns asked the fundamental question, “by what authority does the United States imagine it can unilaterally use such measures against a target that is shared by the entire world? “ Does that make them a "fruitcake"? The major media release only hours before this act contributed to the legitimate concern and anger of many citizens here and abroad without a chance for discussion. The effect? Once again, we display to the rest of our planet the “in your face” policy of doing whatever and whenever we want, regardless of the wishes of others. I believe it would be a mistake to bank on the political or social apathy you and people like you think exists in this country. Perhaps there are those that even congratulate your effort to ridicule “the long gaggle of “fruitcakes” opposed to this destructive act. History, however, has demonstrated that what you have actually done has effectively radicalized that segment of the population that may well have “non-normative” beliefs about “bombing the moon”. You have also converted some who “previously sat on the fence “and are now more fearful of their government and will now be more vigilant of NASA projects. Moreover, your ridicule may translate to those environmentally conscious, or perhaps those who have religious beliefs such as those of Native Americans, that they are also “fruitcakes”, but then, that is the consequence of ignorance.

@Wolf207

Get your facts straight and maybe you wouldn't be freaked out by such an event. They are not creating a 5 mile crater, the energy needed to do that would be enormous. They are crashing the spent stage into an existing crater. That will create something like a 20 meter crater within a crater. This occurs naturally all the time, the moon is constantly hit by various objects going at much higher velocity than this piddly thing that NASA is crashing into the moon.

Re: What's the square root of -100?

±10i (where i² is defined as -1)

Postmodern scientists

would rather rehearse primitive myths than do old-fashioned science. How else to explain astronomers' preoccupations with fast-moving little things crashing into slow-moving big things? Examples: Comet Shoemaker-Levy into Jupiter. Deep Impact. And now this.

All are metaphors for a brave spunky little sperm bravely engaging a large fruity round egg - a metaphor from which countless other metaphors derive.

The search for scientific knowledge has mutated in the hyperreality of the postmodern era into the non-reflexive rehearsal of the "deep truths" alleged of the canons of art and literature. Ironic. It had it coming though.

Peace prize winners all...

All the 'anti' commenters should be nominated for the peace prize.

we know here, you need not do anything worthwhile now, to get it...

And they seem fully qualified.

as a woman?

"as a woman i feel violated that NASA feel it's acceptable to bomb the moon.

i demand this is stopped. i think we should get an INJUNCTION against NASA."

we'll as a man i feel unempowered that I'm prevented from blowing stuff, by preventing this you are oppressing my creative urges to rain chaos down and create afresh from the ashes of the old....

now go an make me a cup of tea... no sugar.

Fire the idiots at the moon.

Why do we have to share a planet with these imbeciles?

Its nice to know....

That somewhere in this world there is a nutjob avaialable to protest anthing

often overlooked

Won't somebody please think of the children?

Peace Prize

To earn the Nobel Peace Prize, it is not sufficient merely not to be George Bush. Many people are not George Bush. You must, like the last three winners, be the person who has done the most not to be George Bush.

@Wolf207

"by what authority does the United States imagine it can unilaterally use such measures against a target that is shared by the entire world?"

" The major media release only hours before this act contributed to the legitimate concern and anger of many"

You seem to believe that this was kept secret until hours before impact. The mission was planned years ago,and information about its objectives is easily found thanks to the Internet. NASA releases information constantly, but the mainstream media only reports the exciting bits.

Unilaterally? Has there been any worldwide political or scientific objections? No, none whatsoever.

Just a few fruitcakes jumping up and down at the last moment.

Earth affects the Moon

"Wouldn't it seem logical for the earth to have a reciprocal effect on the moon - but it doesn't"

Yes it does. The Earth's tidal forces hold the Moon's orientation so that one side always faces us (more or less), AND the interaction between the Earth, the Moon and the oceans actually _accelerates_ the Moon, causing it to _gain altitude_ and move away from us over time.

Sperm and eggs

"All are metaphors for a brave spunky little sperm bravely engaging a large fruity round egg "

It actually is, honest to God, the cheapest way to check for water.

Its not their fault you see penis everywhere you look.

As a woman

I'm personally embarrassed by some of those coments. Would that I could convince myself they were jokes...

/facepalm

Gives new meaning to the word "Lunacy"

Enough said.

Then again, we don't have a "man from the moon", just a "man from mars"..

It demonstrates the level of education we have in the USA. (*SIGH*)