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Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission uses Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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10-12-2009 12:57 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/35b5119e-6ca3-4d2f-8cf3-48722d2676ea/DCC489A0-17CE-4DF7-8A0A-A2FA6A8787D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter"><H1>Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission uses Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Twitter feed from LCROSS quotes final thoughts of missile turned into whale</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/701B5A37-E889-4515-B382-D03F86B83DF7" alt="Illustration of NASA's LCROSS crashing into moon" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter"><P>In one of its less-reported actions last week, Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission last week gave <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/douglasadams">Douglas Adams</A>'s Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the extra-planetary exposure it has always deserved. A Twitter feed from the satellite sent crashing onto <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/moon">the moon</A>'s surface on Friday channelled the voice of an improbably created sperm whale that discovers itself hurtling towards a different outer-space collision in Adams's much-loved story.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter"><P>As Nasa's LCROSS spacecraft travelled towards the moon at more than 9,000 kilometres per hour on Friday afternoon, <A title="it tweeted in the whales words" href="http://twitter.com/LCROSS_NASA">it tweeted in the whale's words</A>: "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?"</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DCC489A0-17CE-4DF7-8A0A-A2FA6A8787D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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