This line from an article in Scientific American from 2009 still makes me smile:
NASA wanting to establish a permanent research facility on the moon too farfetched?
"The attack on the Moon is not a declaration of war or act of wanton vandalism. Space scientists want to see if any water ice or vapour is revealed in the cloud of debris."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasas-mission-to-bomb-the-mo...
