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I dont understand this country sometimes . . . . with so many people out of work, people starving, people with no place to live.... WHY should I care if the moon has ICE OR WATER below its surface...??????
Of course, the taxer payers foot this fill @ 75 million.......Dont we have better things to be inquiring about?
          

I never really understood the full function of NASA anyway, except blowing assloads of money with little gain....

Has a hyperactive five-year-old taken over as the director of NASA? It sure seems like it. On Friday morning, an unmanned spacecraft launched in June will crash into the moon's surface. On purpose.

Anyone not named Michael Bay is likely to ask why. Here's the answer: NASA wants to know if the twin impacts of the Lunar Crater Observation and its Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will reveal any ice or water under the moon's surface.

Finding out shouldn't be an issue. When the twin crafts hit the lunar surface at around 6,000 mph, NASA expects "plumes of moon dust — perhaps full of ice — (to soar) 6.2 miles high above the moon's Cabeus crater."

Anticipation among the earthbound is running high. Lookups on "nasa moon bombing" are scorching the search box. Related queries on "nasa.gov" and "NASA moon mission" are also rocketing skywards. More than a few folks are wondering how much the soon-to-be-destroyed LCROSS costs. Answer: $79 million, according to Christian Science Monitor.

Clearly, this is one of those cases where a picture is worth a thousand words. We're gonna go one better and show you a video from NASA. The animated clip shows what NASA expects to happen. The entire sequence looks a bit like one of Dr. Evil's satellites crashing into the Death Star. In other words, it's awesome. See it for yourself below.

I'd rather MY taxpayer money be used for something more useful and beneficial!!!!!

So, what if we DO find there is ice and water below the moon's surface.  Are we going to start inhabiting there????

All I know is that we lost 8 years of future scientists. So now we are down to chucking stuff at the moon.   

I fully agree and more compuguybna. War is not the necessary expense from that cash. I say as always were wasting billions of dollars when we'll never live there anyway. I say under the ocean. I mean for gods sakes, would you rather get with it with an alien? Or  gorgeous Mermaid. The politicians are nuts.  I think I know where I'd put my money.