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“That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me?”

Wed 14 October 2009, 4:37pm

Nasa’s LCROSS mission didn’t make the splash expected with its double impact on the Moon [video below the fold] – as the BBC’s Spaceman says, it will be up to Nasa to explain the significance of that result. And, via the Guardian’s live-blog, we have LCROSS’ final [twittered] thoughts.

“And what’s this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round,”
“it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’, ‘Ground’!”
“That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me?”

Heh.Video from NASAtelevision

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