Goodbye Moon… My Nights Are Screwed

Friday, 2:41 AM

Its true.

Check out what the nerds over at NASA are up to…

“Has a hyperactive five-year-old taken over as the director of NASA? It sure seems like it. On Friday morning, an unmanned spacecraft launched in June will crash into the moon’s surface. On purpose.

Anyone not named Michael Bay is likely to ask why. Here’s the answer: NASA wants to know if the twin impacts of the Lunar Crater Observation and its Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will reveal any ice or water under the moon’s surface.

Finding out shouldn’t be an issue. When the twin crafts hit the lunar surface at around 6,000 mph, NASA expects ‘plumes of moon dust — perhaps full of ice — (to soar) 6.2 miles high above the moon’s Cabeus crater.’” - Yahoo! Buzz

And this happens in approx. 5 hours of me writing this.  Why am I just now learning about this?!

Too bad all the action takes place around the time I’ll be going to bed.

Astronomy was always my favorite science.  It showed me the night sky was infinite.  Pure heaven.

Ah well, tonight I’ll enjoy the moon as we know it one last time.  This is a ceremonial night for the nocturnal one…

An Ode To The Moon… (found this)

Glowing white sphere
Silvery orb
Of glowing icy magic
You gaze down at me
Always watching
Waxing and waning
Whether you glow in the clear ebony sky
Or make silver mist behind the gray clouds

Oh moon; you are Artemis’s glowing white tear
As she weeps for all she’s lost
Selene’s essence, Thoth’s eye
Egypt and Greece and many others together
More precious than the Koh-i-nor diamond
The mountain of light; in a valley of darkness
A milky pearl, bathed in light
Within the sea of sapphire sky

You make me feel peaceful, safe in your presence
Your sparkle in my eyes
Your glow on my skin
Your essence within me
Moon, my moon
Glowing moon, silver moon…
The moon.

Goodbye moon… goodbye.