One small step for unmanned, one giant crash for mankind.

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:24 pm

NASA, frak up something so simple that even the french can do it??? Why sir, how dare you!

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:26 pm

Mikey wrote:The problem was that NASA - idiotically - made all sorts of pronouncements about having visual results available right away and a ridiculously short timetable for having more detailed analysis.

You mean the same NASA that lost the Appolo 11 tapes? That NASA?

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:15 am

Wait, so it has crashed and we have no results yet?

And we have to wait a week for results... why so long?

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:35 am

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:59 am

They were saying on TV today that it was a big non-event to the naked eye. Nasa had cameras set up watching... but the scale of the image was such that the flash was too tiny for anybody to see it. Everybody was very let down, apparently.

Dunno if they got data back from the event though... have to wait and see I guess.

thelordharry · Post by **thelordharry** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:11 pm

Look like the jury's still very much 'out'...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/co ... moon_N.htm

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:33 pm

Visually, the problem is that there's nothing much to see - a long, narrow plume of dark grey dust against the pitch black of space.

As far as taking their time for other results - if they released the results earlier, they'd be nothing more than unintelligible raw spectrographic data.

thelordharry · Post by **thelordharry** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:53 am

Did they (NASA) not trumpet that the results would be available very quickly though, like, that day?

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:53 pm

This is NASA we're talking about here.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:29 pm

thelordharry wrote:Did they (NASA) not trumpet that the results would be available very quickly though, like, that day?

Yep. Hence, the current PR snafu.

thelordharry · Post by **thelordharry** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:23 pm

In your own time, lads

thelordharry · Post by **thelordharry** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:11 pm

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/

So I guess the answer is 'no' then?

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