The Luna-Bomber
Last Thursday NASA launched two spacecrafts destined for the moon. The first, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, has just entered the moon’s orbit . For the next year it will hover 31 miles above the surface of the moon in order to gather high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon’s surface. Compiling data on lunar resources, features, and topography is a crucial step in plans to build a human outpost there by 2020.
As of today, the second spacecraft, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, completed its swingby of the moon, which allowed scientists to calibrate instruments and take return pictures of the far side of the moon. On October 9th, the satellite will have traveled back to the moon, where it is set to impact. NASA is hoping that the crash will scatter surface material that may aid in the search for water. "The impact will excavate a crater about 1/3 of a football field wide and about the depth of the deep end of a swimming pool...The amount of material (dust and probably ice) ejected could fill ten school buses, or ten Space Shuttle cargo bays. The plume will reach nearly 50 km high (over 30 miles)! "
These missions are all a part NASA’s long-term plan to create a lunar landing area and base where humans will one day live.
Image: "LRO, LCROSS Prepared to REturn United States and NASA to the Moon" by Goddard Video and Mulitmedia on flicker courtesy of Creative Commons.
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It's science fact!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
Go Mr. Wiggles!
The "Lunacy" of Eden
So many in the scientifc community have us looking for of our resource manipulations outside of Earth ... to mine minerals from Mars etc ... simply because they project our own inability to live sustainably here.
If even a fraction of such funding was spent on sustainability "decades ago up to present" ... the World would be an integrated place ... not only sustainable but "enlivening"
If you can't do it here ... you won't be able to do it there.
Just like a video game ... modern science does nothing but perpetuate it's own fantasy .... to the umph degree
The first "in space/on moon" national competitions of the 60's ... and all such furthered misnomer kept us from considering actually integrating our planet here.
... 'tis but our own infatuation with the non-organic mech-tech sciences that have us ignoring our own home grown organic Eden.
We just cannot believe that humanistic endeavor is itself the probelm {Biblical Tree of Knowlege} ... and not the Soul-ution
Appreciation to Scientists
Scientists have conducted the longest, most sustained, and most fruitful meditation into the nature of reality ever conducted.
Thanks to science and scientists, we have touched the moon, that all living animals and people have longed for since times greater than millenia.
Moon View
You can "fly" 100km above the moons surface in HDTV with this video!
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007,
Nescience
Science does nothing but perpetuate it's own relationship to nescience
This is what Quantum Physics is all about.
The very so called apex of science itself ... has comcluded how less and less is actually "known"
As all of ones so called knowing is but of the same unified field/zero point field state, as that which it thinks it is knowing about.
Like Robert Anton Wilson has said ... but our own individual tunneling.
All measurement is "leaving Eden" ... returning only to the degree one has "let go" of such "tree of knowlege" fruit.
Like the monkey trap ... he has to let go of the banana or he will be caught if he refuses to do so
It is ok to exercise the intelligence, which is all science can ever really claim to be doing ... from the Quantum perspective ... ... which by the way is the most updated version of where all of our mech-tech /sci fi science has comcluded it's own self to be resting at the very premise of at present
At least at the Nobel Laurate level they all get it ... however the consumer based corporate and/or government funding sciences are still way behind.
Exercising just like weight lifters have developed all kinds of machines to "sculpture" muscle ... yet on educational TV years ago they had this farmer guy from Ireland ... called "strongest man in the world"
. He never lifted weights his whole life ... but his main job was removing large rocks from the fields and hillsides by hand {old style}
The brought in several weight lifting champions who looked much more impressive .. yet they could not axctually perform the simple task of picking up the larger rocks and placing them on the cart ... their strength was mostly fabrication ... and not function.
The more science goes into agriculture ... the further from feeding ourselves we have gone.
I knew an older women, from the 30's/40's who grew up in the Floirida pan handle in a poor farmer family ..
Spent her whole life watching cloud formations in the sky.
From the point of the Cape Canavaral, Kenndey center Launching pad era ... she has directly witnessed the changing of cloud and or weather patternings ... always to the point of detriment ... increasing over time to this very day ... rocket ships madly tearing through the ethers
Every single empirical science has proven deterimental to the inner or outer environment in some way or other ... it is just a question of degree
The more into Empirical obsrvation one is the less actual organic insight remains viable.