A smashing good time

[marko_the_rat]

higgs_raccoon has kindly pointed out that NASA's planned crash landing into the moon in a little over three hours will be accompanied by live video feeds.

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[guma-kawauso.livejournal.com]

79 million, and I didn't see much of anything. Maybe I didn't knwow hat I was looking for?

[higgs-raccoon.livejournal.com]

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"

OK, I guess LCROSS "worked" in the sense that the impactor (presumably) threw up a cloud of debris that the probe could send back information on as it made its own plunge to the surface, but it was a little anticlimactic. I was hoping for a visible flash from the impact. (Heck, even when the LHC was starting up and had its own live webcast, there was a flash on a fluorescent screen as the proton beams made it through each sector, so even a casual viewer could see exactly when something had happened.)

Oh well, it'll be interesting, over the next few days, to see what the analysis of the spectral data reveals.

[harvardheinous.livejournal.com]

LOL on the Marvin the Martian quote   : )

[guma-kawauso.livejournal.com]

Not so much an earth-shattering kaboom, as I would have liked to see the plume of dust. I had the NASA feed an an observatory in Arizona running.

I wasn't expecting anything along the lines of Michael Bay. XD