Hey, Let’s Bomb the Moon!

We’re grown up (sorta) men (mostly).  I know the majority of us loves to watch stuff get `blowed up real good’.  Even planets.

But there is something about this moon bombing that is not sitting right with me.

My astrophysical days are long over (some would say they never started) so I am certain there are things I do not understand about this.  I am not going on a mad rant against the Nobel Peace Prize President bombing a planet.  I just feel there’s something I’m not understanding about this.

Earlier on it seemed to be about water.  We have known about water on the moon for a while.  It was reconfirmed by the recent Chinese mission.  It is not about water.

So why then?

My very brief understanding is that we sent the bombing projectile in to… well… bomb.  Then we sent another projectile, this one with measuring equipment, also crashing into the moon.  Seems inefficient.

Again, it just seems a little weird.

It also seems stereotypical in the overview.  Grandfather of UFO research Stanton Friedman asked what interest extraterrestials could possibly have in a race whose only activity seemed to be tribal warfare.  In the extreme, it appears that we have bombed our own moon…  I know it’s not intended as aggression (or I hope so anyway) but it certainly looks that way.

Are we really going to find out more from examining the blowback of a bombing than from taking the samples we already have?

Enlighten me please…