Water has been discovered on the Moon.

[droded]

Water has been discovered on the Moon.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html

I think I might take my vacation there one day.

 

[TheJJMax]

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Awesome! Maybe now we can colonize there.

 

[Necromancer]

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If only it had some kind of bacteria in it. Y'know, so we could find life somewhere other than Earth.

 

[Daemon300]

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yay wohoooo

Cool.

 

[seress]

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Plus the Helium-3 found on the moon, time to...

Spoiler

clone some Sam Bell.

 

[Arseface]

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Moon base in the next 20 years FTW!

If you want heluim-3, I hear Jupiter's almost completely made of it. Easy to mine too.

 

[Man]

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i was the one to put water there. a personal reserve should the earth dry up in my lifetime. i shouldve hidden it better

 

[Necromancer]

Re: Water has been discovered on the Moon.

I just realized something after reading these few comments about moon colonization. How exactly would finding water on the moon help to colonize it? Obviously we'd need water for the moon colonists to drink, but we could very easily transport it up there.

 

[Necromancer]

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^But there wasn't enough water on the moon to make any kind of a difference in how much water would need to be transported.

 

[seress]

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Moon base in the next 20 years FTW!

If you want heluim-3, I hear Jupiter's almost completely made of it. Easy to mine too.

But it's difficult to get the He3 back to Earth.

 

[Purple Nurple]

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the amount found on the moon was only like 20 gallons or something. not enough to colonize there BUT it means there will be alot more we haven't found. if i remember correctly the crater from the impact was only like 20-30 meters wide anyway. but it is nevertheless a massive discovery ; there could be simple life on the moon, mind you it would be extremly simple, and in limited quantities because the water is frozen, which would not allow the bacteria from multiplying or evolving productively.

 

[Arseface]

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the amount found on the moon was only like 20 gallons or something. not enough to colonize there BUT it means there will be alot more we haven't found. if i remember correctly the crater from the impact was only like 20-30 meters wide anyway. but it is nevertheless a massive discovery ; there could be simple life on the moon, mind you it would be extremly simple, and in limited quantities because the water is frozen, which would not allow the bacteria from multiplying or evolving productively.

No there couldn't. The moon's lack of a magnetosphere would mean that the sun's radiation would fry any form of life as soon as it began.

 

[Noctus]

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Isn't there water in comets? Don't comets crash into the moon all the time?

:|

 

[Another Spartan]

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Isn't there water in comets? Don't comets crash into the moon all the time?

:|

Lol DS just crushed CNN's world with questions.

 

[Arseface]

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Isn't there water in comets? Don't comets crash into the moon all the time?

:|

No. Comets rarely enter the inner solar system, let alone hit something as tiny as the moon.

Oh yeah, all those years of wikipediaing stuff about space is finally paying off

 

[Firis]

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I couldn't give a crap about space unless it is SciFi XD I rarely check out Space News, I am a simple Entertainmment/Tech and Obituary guy. Space does interest me it is just I know WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many people that fullfill the "Space Geek" stereotype, so it of course destroys some of my enjoyment.

Good to know bombing the moon didn't kill us and offered results. Next stop? PUT A GIANT VACUUM ON JUPITER!!

 

[Zarkes]

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They said there was no water on the mewn, so I wonder if there is any water anywhere else. How come when India builds a better space program they find water? How come Nasaa never gets lucky like that.

 

[Wolverine]

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Guess NASA don't have the luck o' the Indian I guess. And anyway, what about atmospheres, huh? We can't breath without air. And the gravity. It would be something like this:

"Honey, Im just going to work."
"Okay, have fun."
((Bounds across the road))
"Honey, I'm home!"
"But that was only five seconds!"
"I found out it was Saturday."

Imagine dropping a match on Jupiter. Since its a gas 'giant', it would be a pretty cool light show. But with the vacuum, yyou realise that Jupiter is why we only get a few meteors, cause it blocks them. And there is only one way their could be life on the moon. If it bumped us and took our position. Earth is lucky because if it was any closer or further from the sun, even a millimetre away, we would all die.

 

[Arseface]

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Imagine dropping a match on Jupiter. Since its a gas 'giant', it would be a pretty cool light show. But with the vacuum, yyou realise that Jupiter is why we only get a few meteors, cause it blocks them.

Sorry to act like a know it all, but I fear I must correct these various errors. Jupiter is mostly made up of Helium, which is inert. Ie, not combustable.

And there is only one way their could be life on the moon. If it bumped us and took our position.

That would still be impossible. There are two main reasons why the moon would be unable to support life unaided:

1 No atmosphere. Any unprotected human would die of hypoxia within minutes. This also means that the temperature is pretty low, so even if there was a breathing apparatus involved, you'd freeze before you know it. Not to mention the effect the lack of pressure would have on you.

2 Even if the moon had an atmosphere, which would be pretty easy to pull off with terraforming, the moon doesn't have an active core. This might not sound that important, but without a rotating iron core (the moon does have an iron core, but it's stationary), there is no magnetosphere. The Earth's magnetosphere is what keeps the solar radiation away from us. The radiation hit's the magnetosphere, travels along it to the poles, where the radiation ionises in the troposphere, which appears as the various aurora. Without that, we'd find ourselves dying very quickly.

Earth is lucky because if it was any closer or further from the sun, even a millimetre away, we would all die.

That is also incorrect. The Earth's position is a lot more flexible than many make it out to be. It is true that we are within the goldilocks zone (it's "just right", get it?) but that zone is pretty wide. I think Mars may even be inside it, or just beyond. I can't recall off the top of my head. Besides, Earth's orbit isn't a perfect circle anyway. It is what's known as an ellipse, which is like a squashed circle. So every year, the Earth's distance from the sun increases and decreases. That's how we get eqinoxes and solstices.

 

[Wolverine]

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Wow. Man, Firis is right. Too many 'space-nerds' out there.