Just curious, does anyone know what they find after shooting a warhead to strike the moon just so they can analyze the debrie cloud?
Space 1999?
Jimmy Hoffa?
Actually, they dug up a farm looking for Hoffa in a northern suburb of Detroit just 2 years ago. They were following up on some tips on another location just recently. The search is not dead. I can tell you this, he is most likely still here in Michigan, he’s definitely not in Giants Stadium. 
Oh yes - there is tons of stuff. I’m not sure what the specifics of the actual experiment are that you are talking about, but I do have a few good ideas. First, we could analyze what a real-time asteroid strike would look like and how it would impact the extended moon’s surface (aka how destructive would/could it be?). Second, you could determine, through spectro readings, what the composition of the moon is just below the surface in that area without having to send sometime up there to drill down and analysze the drill core. Third, you could see what the dust settling pattern of the debris is. There are probably many more. Do you have any information on who is planning to do that?
I need to re-watch that. Is it available on hulu?
Well, Not this season anyway…
Yes. I think it is. I’m feeling a perverse, nostalgic need to rewatch Space 1999 too.
LOL! thanks guys! What can I say- the GWC inspire me! The whole community!
NASA hasn’t posted any results yet on the LCROSS site:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/
While watching an episode of Cosmos tonight I rememberd an documentary that came out in 1985 called “The Creation of the Universe” hosted my Timothy Ferris. When I was a kid I video taped it and watched it over and over again. It really was great stuff. Just curious if anyone else remembers it.
The only clip of it I could find was this one of Stephen Hawking teaching a class before his computer days when he spoke through and interpreter.
Holy craaap, Phil! You started me down a rabbity wormhole of youtube vids on Hawking! I’ve just been staring at my screen, and just realized, my mouth’s been hanging open! I guess we are all mouth-breathers to his incredible mind! lol!
Yes, I always loved his analogy that asking what happened before the Big Bang is like asking what lies one mile north of the North Pole…
