NASA Detects Meteoric Rise In Lunar Meteors

netbuzz writes "Just because your software model can accurately predict the number of meteors that will hit the Earth doesn't mean it will fly on the surface of the moon. NASA scientists say little rocks are hitting that big rock at four times the rate they had anticipated when they started watching a year ago."

here we go again..

[smitty97]

dont you mean meteorite ?

'meteoric rise' is oxymoronic

[MollyB]

Shoveling against the tide here, but that term is as ridiculous as this gem: The stock market skyrocketed downward today... (heard on TV recently)

oh poo on efficiency

[Quadraginta]

[D]id you really think we were going to have cities under transparent domes?

Sure! Screw efficiency. As far as I'm concerned, the major reason to go to space -- an unbelievably extravagant thing to do anyway -- is for the glory and wonder. So that ordinary blokes can do double somersaults in the air, laughing madly, while standing under a blazing starry sky the likes of which only God and a handful of mortals have heretofore ever seen.

I say phooey on any glum whiny pussified harping on efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Would a sane man buy a Ferarri [ferraricars.org] and fail to spring for the leather seats because cloth is more efficient? Would he buy a gaming PC with the latest and greatest CPU/GPU combo and then use an old black-and-white TV for a monitor to save 0.5% of the total cost? Hell no!

I expect a big transparent dome...they can use CVD diamond or something to protect against the micrometeroids...and I expect 10-speaker super-duper-surround mind-blowing quadrophenic sound, too.