It's ironic how "valuable" these moon rocks are, when there are about a hundred billion billion (quintillion?) tons of that shit, just sitting up there in space.
If we use the water/silver/other will the mass be replaced by something-else (i.e. leave the Moon's gravitational characteristics as we found them)? How otherwise might this change the behaviour of Earth-bound effects?
Cool! [Makes note not to go to the Maldives this month.]
ReplyDeleteLast time this happened, I had to fend it off with a broom.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly looked big and yellow tonight, bigger than usual to my eyes.
ReplyDeleteCloudy here :(((
ReplyDeleteBeautifully crisp and clear here. I got to watch it rise as I drove home.
ReplyDelete...and should assume that everyone who didn't post was too busy running around with whiskers on their faces?
ReplyDeleteStill big and round tonight, in a perfectly clear sky. (So another cold one tomorrow.)
ReplyDeleteIn Kent it was like a big old Peppermint in the sky.Very bright and full.
ReplyDelete(The wife was howling away) but that's another story.
With a hole through the middle?
ReplyDeleteI was wondering about that....
ReplyDeletehttp://gizmodo.com/5242736/how-an-intern-stole-nasas-moon-rocks
ReplyDeleteWhat I did on my summer vacation.
ReplyDeleteIt's ironic how "valuable" these moon rocks are, when there are about a hundred billion billion (quintillion?) tons of that shit, just sitting up there in space.
ReplyDeleteWell, they did say they lost much of the footage, so I'm not so surprised!
ReplyDeleteNice.
ReplyDeleteOf course it was faked - in the voice recordings from the LM, I distinctly heard the sound of of a two-tone police siren in the background. ;-)
The Russians must have been in on it...
ReplyDeleteMoon's water is useful resource, says Nasa... So, um, a couple of questions...
ReplyDeleteThe Water; Is it tidal?
If we use the water/silver/other will the mass be replaced by something-else (i.e. leave the Moon's gravitational characteristics as we found them)? How otherwise might this change the behaviour of Earth-bound effects?
THIS is why we like the moon
ReplyDeleteWell, if it didn't exist, there'd be an awful lot of songs with very silly lyrics.
ReplyDeleteRed Moon Rising
ReplyDeleteCould China's lunar ambitions scramble politics here on Earth?
"The Eagle has landed." Remembering Apollo 11: July 20, 1969
ReplyDelete"We are on the fucking moon" (video) (NSFW)
http://members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon_tiny.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW6DuPQzyBU
How the Eagle Landed: Grumman Construction Log, and a message to space (Apollo 11)
FARK: Lunar X-Prize Team ups the ante on last day of Kickstarter. Will allow eight donors to drive rover on Moon. FARK: At the Apollo 17 Landing Site
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nasa.gov/pdf/617743main_NASA-USG_LUNAR_HISTORIC_SITES_RevA-508.pdf
makes interesting reading