What are your opinions on the 'Moon Mission'?

Wait a couple of weeks and NASA will report on what the data shows.

I know why NASA did this.

The U.S., Russia, China, and perhaps India are trying to race to the Moon to start mining operations in the year 2025. There is an element on the Moon called "Helium-3" that is not found on Earth......and Helium-3 can solve much of the Earth's energy needs cleanly and complete eliminate the need for fossil fuels.

The problem with colonizing the Moon to start mining operations is water....or, more to the point, the LACK of it. If you fill up a rocket ship with water, it will go KABOOM on the launching pad because it will be so massively heavy it will not lift off the ground.

So if you can't send water to the Moon, how do you colonize it in the year 2025?

Answer: See if the Moon already has water!

That was the purpose of LCROSS. LCROSS will determine if the Moon has water so that NASA can create a plan and budget to land on the Moon in the year 2025 and start mining it.

Personally, I am against bombing the Moon and even more against mining it. However, the ultimate goal could reverse global warming and shift the wealth from the terrorist Middle East nations back to the civilized nations where it belongs.

Oy. Even Sci Am is using that stupid "bomb the moon" terminology that made so many people write insane questions to this forum.

The mission was a success in that there was an impact and the instruments gathered the data they were looking for. It's going to be awhile before we know what that data says. I've heard statements from "days" to "months".

I think new data is always interesting. It seems they already had some evidence of higher hydrogen concentrations in the polar regions. I'm not sure about water because I don't know anything about oxygen concentrations.

Either way, new knowledge is always a good thing.

google helium3. you will know what the mission stands for.