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Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission uses Hitchhiker's Guide

 
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:29 pm    Post subject: Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission uses Hitchhiker's Guide Reply with quote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter

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n one of its less-reported actions last week, Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission last week gave Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the extra-planetary exposure it has always deserved. A Twitter feed from the satellite sent crashing onto the moon'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.

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As Nasa's LCROSS spacecraft travelled towards the moon at more than 9,000 kilometres per hour on Friday afternoon, it tweeted in the whale's words: "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?"

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