New Crater On Moon Caught On Video 247
From A Far Away Land writes "NASA has released a video clip of a meteorite striking the surface of the Moon. From the article: 'On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy -- that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL.'"
Colony on the moon (Score:5, Interesting)
Do it like they do on the Discovery channel... (Score:5, Interesting)
Scientist have been trying to figure out when something big will hit. Imagine if what hit the moon hit a major city... I'd definitely rather see my tax dollars spent on a project to deter meteorites as opposed to seeing money thrown around with people crying "Al Qaeda" anytime.
Re:Colony on the moon (Score:2, Interesting)
Sagan's account (Score:5, Interesting)
As it was in the beginning, is now, and always shall be: for ever and ever. Amen.
The significance for the monks was that the Bible was telling them that the earth and heavens were unchanged since Creation and would remain unchanged forever after. Here was evidence that what their faith was telling them wasn't true. Sagan said the event caused quite a bit of problems for the monastery as the monks tried to reconcile their faith and reality.
If anyone knows anything more about the event Sagan was talking about, I'd really like to hear it. I've often wondered if the crater it left has been identified.
More astro movies. (Score:4, Interesting)
The crab nebula in motion:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive
Herbig-Haro object 47 in the Orion Nebula, look at this! This is similiar to the "Pillars of creation in M16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HH47_animation
V838 expanding in Monoceros:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030402.html [nasa.gov]
The ebb and flow of clouds around Jupiters Red Spot:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001123.html [nasa.gov]
Re:Colony on the moon (Score:4, Interesting)
the Hiroshma bomb.
Russia was hit about 100 years ago, the gulf of mexico millions of
years ago, and their are many bollide impact sites still visible
all over the earth .
As for ways to protect a moonbase, the best way would be to make
a mine, and have the base deep underground with multipe exit tunnels
and redundant compartmentalization like newer US navy ships .
Thus why the USS cole in yemen had a huge hole in its side but didnt sink,
after the bombing by terrorists several years ago.
A underground moonbase also would not experience the temperature extremes
of the surface, and would reduce radiation to near zero .
Ex-MislTech