Comments on: Science Friday: LCROSS Impact Update + more

By: Zebonka

Zebonka — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:45:45 +0000

I don’t mean to be rude but that guys upload of the LCROSS thing isn’t the best. I did a bit of brightness and contrasting and you can see it much better in mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AHWiDLLDQI

By: Thorny

Thorny — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:48:48 +0000

24. toddk… “The Hubble could have watched it..but no one thought to turn it on..”

Hubble did watch it.

By: toddk

toddk — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:22:36 +0000

The Hubble could have watched it..but no one thought to turn it on..

By: captain philips

captain philips — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:53:43 +0000

response 18# comment:Wait about 10-25 more years or so. It’s going to get really good. Then again, I guess most of us wish we lived in the 24th century. I know I do.

Doesn’t everybody lol

By: Thorny

Thorny — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:14:10 +0000

That should be “couldn’t see the impact point.”

By: Thorny

Thorny — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:13:31 +0000

18. Steven D…. “What did you guys expect the LCROSS mission to look like? I’m really surprised by the high expectations of what people thought they were going to see.”

I think most of us were expecting something like the Deep Impact event (the space probe, not the movie.) That was an enormous flash and a debris cloud so thick the mother probe could see the impact point.

By: Spockish

Spockish — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:43:49 +0000

One of these days they will get Interstellar communications working 100%, but in the mean time they can expect things to happen but if it is the first time for some thing new expect bugs.

I’ve even heard that they are aiming at and are currently structuring space communications much like the way Internet Web content is stuructured.

To #18) Steve D. Is not NASA’s motto since 2006, Smaller, Faster, Cheaper that it got from Lockheed Martian after the First Mars Rover did such a great job.

And my brother, whom did not see the live video show at work, said their was even a rumor going around the Engineering staff at Lockheed Martian, that it was NASA and the FEDs hiding the UFO’s from the public. It was only meant as a joke, and so was my comment, trying to add humor. But to many second hand viewers the humor just floats by because the joke was not told or aimed at them. We’re not all stand up comedians.

By: Commodore Lurker

Commodore Lurker — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:37:54 +0000

Wow!!!! Kayla, like dude . . . FLASHBACKS!!!!!

Like, ya know, wow, like . . . invisable explosions on the Moon, like . . . giant glowing rings in the sky, an’ like . . . glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, like . . . freaky smiling cupcake people on wheels . . . WHEW! . . . flashbacks of a really great acid trip I had in college . . . thanks Kayla . . . (floats away) . . . .

By: Steven D.

Steven D. — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:00:07 +0000

What did you guys expect the LCROSS mission to look like? I’m really surprised by the high expectations of what people thought they were going to see. This isn’t like the movies, you weren’t going to see laser beams and pew pew pew noises. For all intensive purposes it was a success. Unfortunately for most of the people it seems like space exploration just isn’t very exciting if this is what they expected.

Wait about 10-25 more years or so. It’s going to get really good. Then again, I guess most of us wish we lived in the 24th century. I know I do.

By: Thorny

Thorny — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:27:30 +0000

11. Spockish… “And why did the survay probe black out just before it hit.”

They picture blacked out because LCROSS was traveling at 6,000 mph. What we saw was the last picture it had time to take and transmit to Earth before the Big Splat. The same thing happened with the old Ranger probes in the 1960s.

11. Spockish… “If I was in control of the mission I would have had a probe to be at the crash site looking up to show what space impacts really do to things.”

That would have defeated the purpose. We sent an impactor to the bottom of that crater because sending a lander there is very hard. If there is ice, it is at the bottom of craters that never see sunlight. If there is no sunlight, we can’t land a solar-powered probe there. So such a lander would have needed nuclear power, and that would be prohibitively expensive. Hence the low-budget LCROSS mission.