{"id":657,"date":"2008-02-28T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2008-02-27T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:21:08","slug":"earth-on-moon-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Earth-On-Moon Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA scientists are planning to whack a couple of spacecraft into the Moon&#8217;s south pole to see if they find water.  We&#8217;ve never been to the Moon&#8217;s poles, and since some craters at the south pole are deep enough that sunlight never reaches the bottom there might be unsublimated ice lurking there.  Researchers have already detected a lot of hydrogen around the poles so this mission will help determine whether some of that hydrogen is locked up in water.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the <EM>official<\/EM> reason for the mission.  However, as the mother of a boy I can state with some authority that the only reason there aren&#8217;t objects smashing into the Moon constantly is because most boys don&#8217;t have the budget.  Every guy at NASA is currently thinking, &#8220;<EM>Cool!<\/EM>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20080227\/sc_space\/nasatakesaimatmoonwithdoublesledgehammer\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA scientists are planning to whack a couple of spacecraft into the Moon&#8217;s south pole to see if they find water. We&#8217;ve never been to the Moon&#8217;s poles, and since some craters at the south pole are deep enough that sunlight never reaches the bottom there might be unsublimated ice lurking there. Researchers have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}