Water on teh Moon

[Hornin Hong Kong]

Amazing discovery. If you have Carbon , Hydrogen and Oxgen you can have self sustaining life on the moon with current technology.

It's as simple as setting up a power source - currently nuclear probably makes the most sense if Solar can't provide the necessary level (is this crater dark or light side?)

Things like this give me hope. I spend most of my time watching the world dig itself into horribly dangerous holes economically and politically but maybe we will squeeze out into space and save ourselves.

TANSTAFFL.

 

[DoobieWah]

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[l00p]

According to Gil-Scott Heron, there is something else on the Moon too.

Whitey on the Moon

Btw and in case you were wondering, no, the revolution will not be televised.

 

[Dionysus]

What makes anyone think we wouldn't eventually **** up the moon as well? Human stupidity migrates pretty well.

 

[THEU]

Dio,
it would just be a further evidence for the total depravity of man. Agreed.

 

[boon]

only the select will be going to the moon. riff-raff not allowed

 

[Burnt Orange Bevo]

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[Uninformed]

From wiki:

Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have slowed the moon's rotation so that the same side is always facing the Earth. The other face, which is never visible from the Earth in its entirety (18% of it can be seen under some conditions), is therefore called the "far side of the Moon". The far side should not be confused with the "dark side" (the hemisphere that is not illuminated by the Sun at a given point in time), as the two are the same only during a full moon, and during a new moon, the near side is the dark side. Both the near and far sides receive (on average) almost equal amounts of light from the Sun. However, the term "dark side of the moon" is used commonly to refer to the far side.

 

[Uninformed]

The Link

But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.

That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.

If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.

 

[El Sapo]

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[Mobyhorn]

but no green cheese, huh

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Wake me up when they discover diamonds in Uranus.

 

[accuratehorn]

Are you considering relocating, henceforth to be known as Hornon the Moon? And didn't you misspell TANSTAAFL?

 

[Uninformed]

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