Gaming the system? Who knew they were so unscrupulous. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to speak with my WoW gold courier.

Hey, this is not a troll: I wrote this article on Heavy.com to try to express some frustration I had with how the LCROSS mission was being spun by the White House. I wanted to share it with anyone looking for a laugh today who has been following this mission as closely as I have. "Mars, Bitches!"

http://www.heavy.com/post/why-we-should-blow-up-the-moon-840

"The International Space Station is still going strong, but you can only budget so many taxpayer dollars for the study of toilet-flushing, spiderweb-weaving and astronaut-humping in zero gravity. Eventually people are going to get wise. You gotta do something, so messing up the moon is an awesome idea. And don’t bring up Mars, because that’s still a sore subject. Not gonna happen. They did the math, and it turns out that it was all just made up by Bush after he accidentally mixed his Zoloft with three Tom Collinses."

http://digg.com/d316nFP

The fact is that the pros and cons skew wildly in both directions, but scientific progress must come at a price. And finding water is certainly a major scientific imperative. But still, the skeptic in me always worries about operations like the one happening today on the Moon. It's hard for me to embrace the science and let go of my inner worrywart.

As this article puts it: "The plan has generated a lot of outrage among people who shop at Whole Foods and grind their own coffee beans. However, there are a host of reasons we should irreversibly alter the shape of the moon with explosives, and finding water is just the easiest one to fact-check."