NASA to crash $79 million spacecraft into moon,

[thanny]

RCTjunkie said:

CatFangs806 said:
Hopefully it won't blast large pieces of moon rock towards earth. *gasp*

My thoughts exacly. Did they think through the possible consequences? And how long have they had to plan this? The earth's fate is in the hands of engineers.

...or I'm mistaken and the moon's WAAAAAAY bigger then I thought. ;)

The moon does have its own gravitational pull... The force will be no where near big enough to make a rock shoot of at a velocity fast enough to overcome the moons gravitational pull.