Friday Open Thread

Are you ready for the weekend? I am!

Here’s some thoughts to get you started:

NASA bombs the moon! Why didn’t Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama save the moon? Huh?

At 4:31 a.m. Pacific time (7:31 a.m. Eastern time), one piece of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite — LCROSS, for short — slammed into the bottom of a crater at 5,600 miles per hour, excavating about 350 metric tons of the moon and leaving behind a hole about 65 feet wide, 13 feet deep.

Trailing four minutes behind, instruments aboard the second piece analyzed the rising plume and sent its observations back to Earth before it also slammed into the same crater.

Of greatest interest is whether there is water ice hidden in the crater’s perpetual darkness and frigidness. The data could play into the debate over where NASA’s human spaceflight program should aim next, whether to return to the Moon or head elsewhere in the solar system neighborhood. The presence of large significant amounts of water could make it easier to set up future settlements with the ice providing water and oxygen.

NASA LCROSS website

Second thought – Facebook. Smitty actually suggested this topic Wednesday, and I think it’s a good idea.

How do you use Facebook? What do you do about friends that post political content, especially if you disagree with it? Do you post political content? Do you get into FB flame wars? Have you ever “de-friended” someone?

I tend to keep my content fairly non-political because a lot of my FB friends are people I went to school with in KY, many of whom are very conservative. I just don’t want to get into fights with people I know all the time but it does feel like I’m hiding a portion of myself, not that this is necessarily a bad thing.