NASA Rocket Strikes Moon, Visuals Were Anti-Climatic
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- News Source: Kansas City Star | about 1 month agoGrey Hautaluoma.
People who got up before dawn to look for the crash at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory threw confused looks at each other instead.
Telescope demonstrator Jim Mahon called the celestial show "anticlimactic."
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@astroengine LCROSS: "What if it somehow throws off the astrology?" Ahh, now I see. http://bit.ly/Cp86S (HuffPost article by @helpsavethemoon)
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@astroengine On the sliding scale of 1-10 (10 being foaming-at-the-mouth-bat-shit-crazy), this guy scores an easy 11: http://bit.ly/fpWxo
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@astroengine Uh huh... 'cuz a lunar science mission is just like going to war. Way to go Examiner. http://bit.ly/2mNHGY
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@astroengine @elakdawalla Cheers! It is Saturday after all :) Oooh, you might like this: http://bit.ly/p8Xye :)
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@astroengine .@ThisIsTheMoon Ha! You're in on the NASA conspiracy too? I know you're really hiding @SarlaccBeast in that crater.
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@acmaurer Want to see what we crashed into the moon? Image #3: http://bit.ly/yPLkY I thought it would be larger - you?
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@astroengine So, @SarlaccBeast what have you done with @LCROSS_NASA? Cough it up. http://bit.ly/p8Xye
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@astroengine Astroengine: What REALLY Happened to the LCROSS Centaur? http://bit.ly/15BU20
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@astroengine Weekends are for playing with Photoshop and pointing fun at conspiracy theorists, obviously: http://bit.ly/p8Xye
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@spencerante Spencerante: Currently reading 'The First Silicon Valley: Boston's Rt. 128 Corridor' : http://scribd.com/doc/20891451. Cool Map from 1968 NYT story
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