October 9, 2009, will go down as a the day Obama was announced the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and.....we bombed the moon. Friday morning we bombed the moon in hopes of finding ice amongst the debris.
NASA said Friday's rocket and satellite strike on the moon was a success, kicking up enough dust for scientists to determine whether or not there is water on the moon.
"We have the data we need to actually address the questions we set out to address," said Anthony Colaprete, principal investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission.
Take a guess at how much this all cost? $79 million. Thats right, $79 million. Hmm, what could we do with that money here at home?
Truth is stranger than fiction.......
Everytime I read about this story I think of that line by the President(Tim Robbins) in the Austin Powers movie when they are contemplating bombing the moon to stop Dr. Evil's plan, "would you miss it? Would you miss it?"
007 parodies aside, this is a grotesque waste of tax payer dollars and simply NASA's feeble attempt to stay relevant to secure more funding.
I actually know a professor who worked on that project. There were actually a few good reasons behind it... We should at least be happy they were bombing the moon and not Iraq or Afghanistan.
But yes, I do still think it was a waste of taxpayer dollars.
What could we do with that money here at home? There's nothing "we" could do with that money because it's not "us" spending it. That 69 million bucks was stolen and it ought to be returned to the free market where all value comes from.
There are very good reasons this mission was launched. The only preposterous thing about it is that it was done with government funding. Beyond that, it was a fantastic mission.
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