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• Papa commented on Ignorance About Space Exploration
  Deep Impact did the same experiment on comet Tempel 1, and barely raised a squeak of protest or ridicule. It was patently obvious that the mission was designed to crash into the comet and measure what came out. Somehow the public is missing that message here....

• stugray commented on Ignorance About Space Exploration
  I will post here one comment I put on the Newsvine site. Perhaps Keith can use it during the CNN interview. "Just to put this money in perspective: How much do you think it is going to cost to rebuild the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Miss.???? 250 Million dollars. So........ ONE BRIDGE = $250,000,000, but whiners on this forum complain about NASA and $80 million??? Give me a break!!"...

• Thomas Matula commented on Ignorance About Space Exploration
  Hi All, It is funny to see all this fuss as if this was the first time NASA hardware has impacted on the Moon for the purpose of science. There were nine impact experiments during Project Apollo. The goal was to use the impact energy to map the lunar interior using the seismograph network created by Apollo. Below is a list of the locations http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_impact.html Just a though, but I wonder what evidence the LRO images would show of these impacts. It would be interesting to do a before and after using the restored Lunar Orbiter data and the LRO...

• nelly commented on Ignorance About Space Exploration
  anytime you hear MSM declare that NASA is "bombing" the moon........... well, they are getting the reaction they wanted by making such a ridiculous statement in the first place....

• MostlyHarmless commented on Ignorance About Space Exploration
  I had a tough time believing there are this many ignorant people. It looks like the entire MSNBC audience commented on this article... @papa: Can we leave politics out of it? I don't know if you've even watched either Beck or O'Reilly; but they are not of the "everything that Obama does must be wrong" crowd -- especially O'Reilly. I HAVE heard both comment when they agreed with the president. Besides, it's not if Obama decides to embrace the space program -- we need to encourage the public to embrace the space program. And that starts with education (which those...