So we learned that the meteor that was hurtling toward earth for 2038 now has a 1/250,000 chance of hitting us. So to celebrate, NASA has decided to throw a party! Keeping it real, they decided to host it at our neighbor's house, the moon.


http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html


At the time I'm posting this, it's leading up to the launch. The gist is that we're smashing the moon with space shuttles to try to see if there's any water below the surface. The impact is going to be comparable to that of the Nuclear blast. Of course, that's just the debris rising from the moon.


So personally I'm going to be watching, even if it's a crescent moon tonight. I can watch the footage of the crash tomorrow.


What's everyone going to be doing when the impact hits?

I couldn't get the video to play through. For anyone like me whose computers simply do not like the format, what time will the impact occur?

Yeah, what time will it occur?..

Nuclear blasts and the moon don't go well in my mind. I could see that situation becoming unfavorable real quick. I guess when the impact hits, I'll be with my closest friends, drinking heavily and hoping that a chunk of the Moon isn't hurdling towards us at one-million-miles-per-second-squared (and at the same time I would be thinking that if the moon were heading at this planet going one-million-miles-per-second-squared, I would at least be in an extremely good state of mind before I died). Anyway, bed time.

Where'd everyone go?..

great now we are gonna have to add extra radiation sheilding to astronought suits , you think they could spend money a little better then blow upa chunk of the moon... We have Piccilo for that.

Nonono, they didn't actually nuke the moon. They just hit it really, really hard. The force was supposed to be comparable to a nuclear explosion. In reality... it was kind of lame. It hit a big patch of ice or solid rock or something, 'cause there wasn't much of a visible impact at all. Kind of embarrassing for NASA, really.

Was the hype built up by NASA or the news spreading a lot of crappy misleading facts?

It's Piccolo. Not Piccilo.

But yeah, it was media hype. Some NASA guy was just like, "hey, we're going to throw this thing at the moon really freaking fast, there's a chance it'll kick up a lot of dust." And they ran with it.