Oct 8 2009Well, It's Been Nice Knowing You: NASA Plans To Blow Up The Moon Tomorrow Morning

NOTE: If you're reading this after 7:30AM Eastern you may be dead.
As you may recall from the Pulitzer-winning article I wrote back in June (and an even ooolder article from April '06) , NASA plans to blow up the moon by crashing the $79 million Lunar Crater Observation and its Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the Cabeus crater on the moon's south pole.
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."
NASA hopes the explosion and resulting unmooning (see what I did there? Like unearthing!) will finally settle whether there's ice and water under the moon's surface. And, if so, if it's potable. Nice, NASA -- TOO BAD YOU'RE GONNA BLOW THE MOON IN TWO LIKE BUTTCHEEKS! And do you even know what that's gonna do to the ocean's tides? I mean, besides make for the most epic day of bodyboarding EVER. See you at the beach, suckers!
NASA Will Bomb The Moon Tomorrow [io9]
and
NASA Attacks the Moon [yahoonews]
Thanks to JFreezy, Sean, The Superficial Writer, Benjamin and moses, who are gonna finish the moon off with a giant laser if NASA's plan doesn't work.

Reader Comments
1. ciao - October 8, 2009 9:40 PM
I want moon snow cones
2. Rachel - October 8, 2009 9:40 PM
you should look on the bright side, the moon maybe full of dinosaurs and brendan fraser!
3. OmniSpyder - October 8, 2009 9:45 PM
blow up the moon, its a alabaster retard any way.
4. Spikey DaPikey - October 8, 2009 9:46 PM
it wont work, as everyone knows the moons made of CHEESE !! Om nom nom nom
5. Tennist0 - October 8, 2009 9:48 PM
I just ead an article about this, i've known for weeks but completely forgot until a few hours ago. Can't wait to see the result honestly
6. naas - October 8, 2009 9:48 PM
they should fill those things with the poopy. that way, when we bomb the moon the poopy will go flying. we can lick it off the moon's surface like that special brown snow... mmm...
7. FIRST - October 8, 2009 9:51 PM
does anyone kno if it wud be visible from telescope or something..?
8. ciao - October 8, 2009 9:51 PM
@6 brown snow cones for all, and don't forget the ever popular yellow icicles!
9. Ocelot - October 8, 2009 9:54 PM
i don't want to die
10. 24-bit whore - October 8, 2009 10:43 PM
@8 that's not the real naas
BTW this was pointed out & attempted before -> http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/oh_great_nasa_plans_to_blow_up.php#comment-116531
11. HEatSTroke1 - October 8, 2009 11:05 PM
Why can't we just mind our own business. We have enough to worry about on earth, we don't need to worry about six mile high explosions from the moon that will block out the sun and send the earth into the new ice age. Pack your whale blubber and round up the huskies, we're gunna be eskimos from now on!
12. Anthony - October 8, 2009 11:10 PM
If I'm reading this after 7:30 AM I may be dead? Good to know that when I wake up and check Geekologie again in the morning before my circuits lab, I might just be a walking ghost. Hey, no more worried about electrocution!
13. Anthony - October 8, 2009 11:11 PM
Balls, I meant to say "worrying." Spelling fail.
14. o_O; - October 8, 2009 11:23 PM
Damn, gonna have to go into hiding now..
So they'll be a huge hole in the cheese tomorrow huh ;__;
15. o_O; - October 8, 2009 11:26 PM
there will* Haha.
16. Colorless Rainbow - October 8, 2009 11:41 PM
I wish they did it at night so we could see it happen.. but nooo, the sun will be out. at least in this part of the world heh
17. devin - October 9, 2009 12:03 AM
man i was planning on eating cheese tomorrow you better hope it rains cheese or some one is going down in the cheese hole.
18. Iris - October 9, 2009 12:05 AM
just in case we do die, I don't wanna die without saying...
I LOVE YOU GW!
19. hm - October 9, 2009 12:10 AM
...Didn't India already find water on the moon like, last week?
20. jon - October 9, 2009 12:17 AM
maybe blowing up the moon will lead to 2012 x_x
21. ... - October 9, 2009 12:21 AM
what a waste of money.
22. discobizkit! - October 9, 2009 12:49 AM
we should be cool astroids hit that Mofo all the time! But what if we piss off aliens? It's bad enough we're destroying this planet. Let's start F¥{king with the moon! Let's shoot a hydrogen bomb into Jupiter and jumpstart that mother!
23. Dinosaur Rex - October 9, 2009 1:10 AM
This kind of sounds like when in that time machine movie the americans blew up the moon for some cheese, and bang suddenly mole people, wtf nasa are you happy to be pale and ugly?
24. matey - October 9, 2009 1:53 AM
read the comments, some people think theyre funny
25. egypt holidays - October 9, 2009 3:10 AM
Successful bloggers should take steps to make these kinda contests more common so that visitors get attracted.
26. frothy - October 9, 2009 3:15 AM
Pfft. If they want water so bad, I'll give them some water.
Then I'LL be the hero!
27. robertocrack007º - October 9, 2009 3:41 AM
damn i didn't die x_x
28. discobizkit - October 9, 2009 4:01 AM
Lets put a Wal-mart on that mother! That'll show God!
29. J - October 9, 2009 4:22 AM
What gives NASA the right to plough something into the moon....??? Do they think they own it or something??? Arrogant farkwits.
30. DAAAAN :D - October 9, 2009 4:49 AM
If they're gunna do something so stupid and pointless... why not pour a shit load of purple paint over it or wax/polish?
31. Danny - October 9, 2009 5:03 AM
Wait, so there's no cheese on the moon? T_T
All my hopes and dreams crushed much like the moon.
32. That uncle who did that bad thing we don't speak about - October 9, 2009 5:11 AM
Taxpayer: "Hey, is there any water on the moon?"
NASA: "Dunno, why?"
Taxpayer: "Just felt like asking"
NASA: "Well, you got $79 million by any chance?"
Taxpayer: "Sure, here ya go!"
........ BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NASA: "Yep."
33. Gazawraith - October 9, 2009 7:09 AM
so when is it exactly for England? 7:30am or what? I'd like to know before then for obvious reasons
34. discobizkit - October 9, 2009 7:14 AM
you've got about 18 mins. Then boom!
35. banana_jelly - October 9, 2009 7:33 AM
@ 29 I agree with you...i read this the other day and for some reason it pissed me off. Bad enough we ruined this planet....
36. Zach - October 9, 2009 7:46 AM
Soooooo.... no boom. That was just about the most anticlimactic thing I've ever watched. Way to go NASA. Get Michael Bay in there next time to direct.
37. Famous MOrtimer - October 9, 2009 7:48 AM
Isn't this what happened to the moon at the beginning of the Thundar the Barbarian? Ooklah! Ariel! Ride!
38. Jaded Icon - October 9, 2009 8:10 AM
Wow.....way to go NASA. Let's not try to out do ourselves. If we're going to waste taxpayer money why NOT spend billions on going to the same place that we have gone to multiple times for no practical purpose. And that folks...is how you write a run on sentence.
39. GoSS Jerk no longer sterilized for your pleasure - October 9, 2009 8:13 AM
i didnt even finish reading it... 8.10 est, sh¡t im dead ....
40. bitter_cheez - October 9, 2009 8:16 AM
The only thing interesting about the bomb pew pew was the creepy bearded ped that wandered around the crappy Nasa work stations while the mullet adorned rocket scientist blabbered. To sum it up?
NASA, pew pew. Moon, ooh noes!
41. azzy - October 9, 2009 8:29 AM
Moon is our life source, so if it dies, we all die
42. Daisy has a Small Penis - October 9, 2009 8:36 AM
News just in.... NASA IN MOON DUST PLUM EPIC FAIL !!
43. Daisy has a Small Penis - October 9, 2009 8:38 AM
Dusty plums, oo-er missus
NASA IN MOON DUST PLUME EPIC FAIL !!
44. Blastphemer - October 9, 2009 9:26 AM
2nd rule of Zombieland - That's right, we double tapped that lunar zombie all to shit, man!!! NO WAY it's coming back to make a meal out of us!
CRAP! I just realized that it's after 7:30AM, and I'm still reading this! Guess I'm a zombie too now. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit...and I had plans this weekend! Oh well...
UNNNNGGGGHHHH....brrrraaaaaiiiiinnnnsss......nom, nom, nom
45. Timbo - October 9, 2009 9:30 AM
Armageddon??
Nice knowing you guys...
46. Melissa - October 9, 2009 9:42 AM
Hmm... No new posts yesterday.
Think GW is hiding in an underground bunker fcking his plastic dinosaurs like a two year old to keep his mind off the fact that the moon has been blown to smithereens and how Earth is completely flooded?
47. LSDiesel - October 9, 2009 9:56 AM
And what if instead of a 6 mile high explosion, we just get a muffled *pft*
What happens then? 7million dollars for a *pft*
I think NASA stands for Nitwits And Stupid Assholes.
48. Daisy - October 9, 2009 10:01 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where MAx and several of his friends fly to an asteroid thats gonna hit the earth, and drill a hole into it, for a nuclear bomb.
49. Stuey - October 9, 2009 10:22 AM
Apparently it was an epic fail.
50. Jiakasuma - October 9, 2009 10:47 AM
Awesome!
51. Goblin - October 9, 2009 10:53 AM
@3 - ahh look at the lovely moon in the sky all innocent and white,' others say 'err he's a vanilla rapist, get him away from my kids.
52. Batman - October 9, 2009 11:50 AM
I love how they did this when it was daylight here, so if something bad happened it wouldn't do it over the USA, lol.
53. RK - October 9, 2009 11:59 AM
i dont understand why nasa has to crash the satellite into the moon. they could just try to land it on the moon and have the exact same effect (as with the mars satellite that they tried to land but forgot to convert miles to feet or some such nonsense and it ended up making a big crater).
or maybe that is nasa's plan -- just keep telling people they are going to crash stuff into planets/moons, and if they successfully pull off a landing they can say it was an accident... given their track record with the space shuttles, they have a difficult enough time safely getting objects out to the space station and back -- and that's, what? 17miles up? --i drive farther to work every day.
54. - - - - - - - - - - - - October 9, 2009 7:09 PM
So it didn't go? It's 5:08 here, so I dunno.... Well, gotta go to camp.
~I.F.C.K. (Yeah those are my initials) (KCF backwards lol)
55. joss - October 9, 2009 8:10 PM
@ 19 Yeah ... it was on The Daily Show. Maybe NASA's hoping no one noticed?
56. Geekolojew - October 10, 2009 7:39 AM
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57. J-SIZZLE - October 10, 2009 3:54 PM
I got footage of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUku8rYvQQM
58. holidays to sharm el sheikh - October 12, 2009 1:47 AM
Hi..
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where MAx and several of his friends fly to an asteroid thats gonna hit the earth, and drill a hole into it, for a nuclear bomb.
59. Mike Licht - October 25, 2009 5:14 PM
But why is NASA really seeking water on the Moon?
see:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/water-on-the-moon/