Quote Originally Posted by sport_122 View Post
I dont like it because it is a foolish precedence to set. First off I don't believe this is purely about water on the lunar surface. We observed mars from much further than our moon and saw signs of water. We have orbited the moon numerous times and have been able to survey the atmosphere, yet in order to tell on the moon, we have to send something explosive. We have landers that can dig deep enough to track water or ice and we have plenty of tools good enough to get another man on the moon.

I am also weird because I think there is more life in our solar system and we are making our way into space as the aggressors when we are taking the same destructive nature that is killing thousands of people per day out into the cosmos.

Call me a conspiracy theorists call me crazy, but I find it strange to celebrate the weaponization of space. And i believe that this is about that and not water on the moon.
It IS purely about water on the moon. I can bet that it is MUCH cheaper, easier, and faster to gather information by using the proposed method than developing a robot with diagnostic tools, safe landing mechanism, remote controls, etc., not to mention it doesn't put any humans in danger.

It really isn't celebrating the weaponization of space, it is the continuous search for knowledge about our surroundings. I am gonna try to wake up early in the morning to catch the live feed.

If there is something intelligent enough to monitor our mission to the moon this morning, they will probably laugh at our idea that is equivalent to putting a firecracker out there to see what shit flies up when it explodes. Far from intimidating or aggressive to a being that would have to have extremely superior technology.