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Originally posted by IX-777
I hope for the best and peoples support against NASA and their hysterical "water searching" mission, they are spending YOUR tax money towards creating a possible war between planets.
Maggador
It's not a question of explosives, as you said is a "kinetic bomb", which means that it's just like throwing a rock, no explosives involved, that would affect the results of the experiment.
Originally posted by IX-777
ArMap: The information regarding the 5 miles crater was reported in different news, I am not sure if this estimate is correct or not as I am far from any expert in explosives.
That's not the idea, the idea is to analyse the dust plume that the impact will create, nothing will be collected, it would be impossible to know where the debris would go to try to collect them.
I do hower imagine that the blast must be rather powerful considering it has to blow the debries out in space for the satellite to collect, even though the Moon has much less gravity than Earth.
They already used other methods, this is the closest to go there and drill the ground. After all, the idea of the impact is to replace a drill.
Personally I find it strange how few people realize how ludicrous such a mission is when there exists much better ways of exploring possible water - specially since it is only "possible water" in the first place and not even a known fact.
I hope that the moon people fire a projectile back and it creates a rainbow of skittles.