NASA moon mission – FAIL
well…not exactly I guess, but spectators (myself being one of them) were definitely disapointed about the anticlimactic images being shown on TV this morning. I kept starring at the screen with all the attention I could muster at 7 o’clock in the morning….waiting, hoping, expecting to see some amazing cloud of…something. Little green men would have been cool too, but I would have settled for the dust cloud. But we got nada, zip, nuttin’!
Then, all of a sudden the people, being televized in what I’m assumming is mission control, stood up and clapped! They were certainly all proud of themselves…clapping, puffing their chests out, hoisting their pants up and grinning like fools…yeah, you know exactly what I’m talking about. So I thought, they must have done something right…even though I’m completely clueless as to what just happend. Then after reading this article about the mission’s outcome, I was finally informed that they did happen to collect a lot of data…but that it will still take TWO weeks to determine if water or ice particles are among the findings. Two weeks? Most of the resources in the world and it is still going to take two weeks?
This then got me on a random thoughts track…maybe you actually know a legit answer to this…but did we need to get permission from the world first, before hurling large objects and crashing them into the moon for fun? I mean…it isn’t OUR moon…it’s everyone’s moon. My coworker stated that since we’re (meaning the USA) the only ones who’ve been there…we technically could claim ownership of the moon if anyone were to do so. But I’m not so sure…
