Two-and-a-half hours after the announcement that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, his employees at NASA tried to blast a hole into the moon by shooting a rocket into it.
At the time of this posting the moon had not yet launched a return volley against the people of Earth.
The goal of today’s moonshot was to find water ice so that visiting astronauts might enjoy a nice, cool drink after the 240,000 mile trip from the Earth. No sign of water yet, but what the probe did unearth, or in this case, unmoon, was an unexpected burst of sodium (and nothing slakes your thirst like gulping sodium). Still, the strike was cause for handshakes and a high five — well, almost a high five — in the control room, as shown in the video below.
Spotted on Geekologie, linked from YouTube.
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One Response to Attack on Moon Proves Scientists Will Do Anything for a Drink
22261448 - October 12, 2009 at 9:24 am
What’s a $79 million rocket when money is no object. Besides spending billions of taxpayer dollar to play in space, what has NASA done for humankind lately?