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Steve LeibsonLeibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by Steve Leibson, a marketing consultant specializing in lead generation and content creation for high-tech companies, former VP of Content for Reed Business, and former Editor in Chief of EDN. See my consulting Web site at www.sleibson.com and my history site at www.hp9825.com. You can email me at steven.leibson followed by the magic email symbol @ followed by att.net.

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Friday, October 9, 2009

NASA Perfects Lunar-Crashing Technology for Only $79 Million

Oct 9 2009 9:40AM | Permalink |Comments (2) |


NASA demonstrated pinpoint perfection of its new lunar-crashing technology early this morning by first crashing a Centaur final stage booster into the moon, followed closely by the LCROSS Lunar CRashing scientific platform. All kidding aside, the two lunar impacts are designed to further explore the amount of water on the moon. The impacts kicked up debris from craters perpetually in shadow, likely places for hard-frozen water. Spectrographic analysis of the debris will determine how much water there was in the vicinity of the impact sites. Thus we will soon know whether or not there’s some Popsicle mixed in with the green cheese.


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at 10/9/2009 11:14:03 AM, Mickey said:
Would that be gobment cheese?



at 10/9/2009 12:01:48 PM, Mark Hoske said:
Did you happen to see the details on the sensor taking the measurements? Here's a little bit about that from EDN's sister publication, Control Engineering.
www.controleng.com/article/314837-Spectrometer_orbits_the_moon.php



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