This will likely only make sense to a few of you, but I had to post it anyway.

The LCROSS lunar mission smashed into the moon earlier this month with the intended goal of raising a plume of dust that could be analyzed for traces if water ice. There was a twitter feed for the mission that was being presented as a “first person” perspective, as if the LCROSS vehicle itself was posting.

4:34 AM Oct 9th from web #
“And what’s this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round,”

4:34 AM Oct 9th from web #
“it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’, ‘Ground’!”

4:34 AM Oct 9th from web #
“That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me?”

[[end of mission]]

Mr. Adams would have shed a tear and burst with pride.

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