It’s true NASA spent 79 Million taxpayer dollars to bomb the moon

The bigger question is why. Why would NASA spent 79 Million taxpayer dollars to bomb the moon? To see if there is water. Yes, that is a serious answer and the purpose of why we spent the money.

Forget about spending the money to end world hunger or homelessness. Forget about spending the money to end hunger and homelessness in AMERICA.

Boston Area News:

This Friday, NASA is going to fire a “missile” (empty fuel tank) into the surface of the moon to find out if there is water or, more likely, ice.

The cost? $79 million. NASA is a government agency, which means this is your tax dollars at work.

Do you like how the agency’s spending them?

Before you weigh in, though, a little food for thought. Supporters of the LCROSS mission (LUNAR CRATER OBSERVATION AND SENSING SATELLITE) insist that, by NASA standards, this is a cheap mission.
They also point out that it will yield immediate results.

We’ll know when the missile kicks up a six mile-high cloud of dust whether there’s water in it or not. And it will help determine whether the U.S. spends millions more in the future to send astronauts back to the moon.

A future mission may be much harder to defend if there’s no water and no means of supporting life.

I don’t think they can even defend or justify this mission. I am against this mission not only because it is a waste of money, but because there is no meaningful purpose to simply destroy the unknown.

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Art, October 8, 2009:

The stupidity of this boggles the mind. They already know that humans can not survive in space and on other planets because human cells can’t be sustained in alien environments and lack of gravity.

They’ve made known their plans of building colonies on the moon (”because Mars is too far”)complete with oxygen and gravity-producing plants.

Massive waste of tax dollars goes on the same way the banks blew people’s money and lives. Who gave them the right to destroy the billions if not trillions of dollars they literally steal with no accountability whatsoever?
rocker91, October 8, 2009:

i can’t believe they are doing something this idiotic!
aggroskater414, October 8, 2009:

Damn what is the world coming to, are ppl getting dumber or what? how about you put that money towards are deficit idiots
alilsumptinsumptin, October 10, 2009:

Not only should we ask the economic question, but more importantly, we should be asking the moral question – “What right do *we* have to go blowing up the moon?”

Last I checked, the U.S. doesn’t own the moon does it? Then shouldn’t people all across the world have a say in this too – especially in something that affects them? Shouldn’t this be a topic for discussion and a vote in the U.N.?

Whatever happened to being gentle to our Universe? Haven’t all the destruction we’ve brought upon our own planet Earth taught us any lessons by now? Do we have to go destroying everything else around us?

How would NASA and the U.S. government like it if Aliens from other planets suddenly went “Hey, I wonder what’s inside Earth’s crust? Let’s go blow it up n’ find out!” I hope they target NASA first.

BAH!! I’m so disgusted by our irresponsible and reprehensible behavior!
shane, October 19, 2009:

just think of all the jobs that could be created if we are able to sustain life and build a moon base. i joke, but this doesnt reach far from government thinking these days.