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NASA has successfully crash-landed two spacecraft onto the Moon in an attempt to detect water-ice there. It is said that scientists anticipated 350 tons of debris to be hurled up to altitudes of over six miles in an experiment costing $73 millions.
One hopes that NASA feels they got value for money from this programme which had the first spacecraft crashing onto the Moon’s surface at twice the speed of a bullet.
Nonetheless, 350 tons (I refuse to recognise the European interference in our language by calling them tonnes!) is a lot of rubbish.
And I wonder if there are hidden inhabitants of the Moon that would prefer that we kept our rubbish to ourselves and to concentrate on our own environmental issues?
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NASA has successfully crash-landed two spacecraft onto the Moon in an attempt to detect water-ice there. It is said that scientists anticipated 350 tons of debris to be hurled up to altitudes of over six miles in an experiment costing $73 millions.
One hopes that NASA feels they got value for money from this programme which had the first spacecraft crashing onto the Moon’s surface at twice the speed of a bullet.
Nonetheless, 350 tons (I refuse to recognise the European interference in our language by calling them tonnes!) is a lot of rubbish.
And I wonder if there are hidden inhabitants of the Moon that would prefer that we kept our rubbish to ourselves and to concentrate on our own environmental issues?
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