Water!
There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday, and considerable amounts of it.
“Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference.
The confirmation of scientists’ suspicions is welcome news both to future explorers who might set up home on the lunar surface and to scientists who hope that the water, in the form of ice accumulated over billions of years, could hold a record of the solar system’s history.
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Don't panic!
This is great, this will save billions of dollars when it comes to human exploration of the moon, then on to Mars and beyond. Come on guys where is your sense of wonder and adventure, there are asteroids out there that contain billions off dollars worth of precious metals, helium 3 on the moon that could power nuclear fusion reactors, we could build orbiting solar power panels that could power the world, orbiting hotels, the list can go on. Space is far from a waste of money, how do you think your GPS works in your car!
YOUR LIBERAL COMMANDER N CHIEF
YOU HAVE WATER NO AIR NO MATERIALS TO BUILD WITH NOTHING TO DO BUT DUST 24/7..BUT LETS GO AHEAD AND WASTE A COUPLE TRILLION
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More important to use taxpayer dollars "Bailing" out Goldmann Sacs, AIG, Bank of America! Seems now its patriotic in democrate and republican parties
to keep bankers in their jobs instead of having them go out and get jobs flipping burgers or cleaning toilets like us folks in the heartland do to get by.
Know we have water on the moon and NASA and the United States Air Force can set up base on the moon. No, neil cuvto their at fox business thinks thats a waste of tax payer dollars, but o the folks at goldman sacs, aig, bank of america thats good for all amaericans.
I mean now "ALL" Americans have a World Championship in baseball with the
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Navy(Retired) Oathkeeper
Yip-eeee, lets send all the Libturds up there to live. They could have their own planet to destroy.
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gl269mm
Great! Now we have a whole new source for a resource to exploit & decimate!
JackPaige
Seriously...what exactly would we be decimating?
livingwill
Agreed, nothing is living there so who cares?
Who is Jane Akre?
Magnificent news! If only Carl Sagan were alive to see this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
Atticus Finch
Oh yeah, let's just stay in our caves and never try to find out what's on the other side of that hill. Just not cost effective to see that.
Navy(Retired) Oathkeeper
That's just what the Libturds want, for us to go back to living in caves.
Lemure
I understand that discovering water is really cool to people who love outer space. But, in this economy, why spend so much money on a dream that will never come true. I know there should be exploration to monitor effects on earth, but going to Mars, etc. is just a huge waste of money right now. When times are better, okay, but now NASA needs to concentrate on what effects us now. What did we gain from going to the moon the last time other than a thrill of being there? How about spending more money on our oceans and natural resources that are being ruined by pollution and understanding our earth? Anyone going to the moon will be very rich people who are bored. Too much money for such a small portion that will benefit from this endeavor.
pseudoscience
I understand your position. To me, this is not about tourism or satisfying obscure scientific curiosity. Part of the rationale is strategic - other countries are acting on plans to colonize this valuable real estate. Another factor is the presence on the moon of high levels of helium-3, thought to be key to establishing a viable commercial nuclear fusion capability. As I said elsewhere, I personally believe we should be hedging our bets for survival of our species in the long run given multiple global extinction threats in any single planetary location - but that one is admittedly hard to argue in the short term given the economic situation.
Major_Skidmark
Read the comment that the FOX censors seem to keep blocking. Why?
http://fortheenotme.blogspot.com/2009/11/water-found-on-moon.html
pseudoscience
Water is a key discovery that will enable establishment of long-term human habitation on the moon. It is located in a place where there is also 24-hour sunshine (on a ridge near the moon's south pole), so it will also be possible to set up a reliable photovoltaic energy source. Water + electricity = hydrogen and oxygen. these can be used to sustain life and grow food. Hydrogen + oxygen is also useful for energy storage and rocket propulsion.
pseudoscience
I see it differently. I don't consider humans to be tethered to Earth in the long run, and in fact colonizing outer space is essential to the long-term survival of our species (the central imperative of life itself). There is ample geologic evidence that planet-wide extinction events occur on Earth periodically and I am of the opinion we should be thinking about avoiding the game of Russian roulette.
livingwill
The biggest problem is that there is no real reason to be there. Unless we start using nuclear powered or something else that drastically reduces the price getting there it is far too expensive for it to pay off.
pseudoscience
It may well pay for itself. That is part of why the discovery of water is important. It will vastly reduce the cost of colonizing the moon because less weight will need to be boosted through the Earth's gravity well. the moon can serve as a staging location, and mass can be boosted through its vacuum and 1/6 gravity much less expensively. If helium-3 makes fusion energy practical, the payoff is huge and immediate.
livingwill
If it doesn't pay for itself it won't happen. You can learn more by pouring $1 billion dollars into other research because most of the money is not wasted merely getting there. If you want to stay in space a long time we have to get the price of getting there WAY DOWN.
Young Progressive
Cost isn't everything. Think of what knowledge we could gain by colonizing the solar system and beyond.
pseudoscience
Incidentally, the discovery of water on the moon reduces the estimated cost of colonies there because most of the essentials of sustaining life can now be synthesized instead of being transported there.
pseudoscience
High levels of a substance called helium-3 detected on the moon hold promise for a viable nuclear fusion energy generation capability. Here is an article:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/1283056.html?page=3
winnie
Bunch of money BLOWN into space.........SO WHAT IF THE FREAKIN' MOON HAS WATER!!!!!! JACKAZZ'Z
Shannon in Texas
See.. This is the Shovel ready job Barrack has been talking about
m@
Soon we'll have urine on the moon.
quicksilver
thank's al
IMHO
How is this important? Will it create jobs, now?
Woody Woodchuck
The man power, research, and labor that goes into an experiment like this generates billions for the economy.
SW
I don't get it...lets save the planet but let's shoot a rocket into the moon to see if there's water?
SW
GOOD..Leave the Moon alone .Now start finding ways to create Jobs and Get this country Moving!!!
Don't Drink the Cool Aid
So when is Obama going to declare the moon a sanctuary to preserve natural resources?
Jim in JAX
Call me when they find a really good single malt scotch to go with the water.
rauchenout
Some bourbon would be cool, but none of this could be without uncle al, were really going to owe him this time.
DP
Good ! Send Obama there on the next Rocket !!!
combat veteran
It's outragous!
We can't even take care of our own planet.
And we're allowing $'s be funded to a project like that.
I guess it's called "progress, and advancement of something or other???"
We've got enough problems right here, right now.
I guess I just don't get it.
Jim in JAX
Al Gore will probably announce that the water found on the moon had escaped from the earth to avoid man-made CO2.
Excalibur
............and...............?
Delores CH WV
AL GORE WANTS TO CHANGE THE CLIMATE....HE IS WILLING TO LIVE ON THE MOON AND HELP THE CLIMATE CHANGE.......TO MORE WATER...
wellington
Oh good! There's water on the moon. Now all the liberals have someone where to go.
Barbarella
I wish they'd use all that money they are spending on sending people to the moon to find a cure for cancer.
mfinn
Science! Out damn science!
Do you folks get it that God gave humans the intelligence to figure out how the world and universe around us works? To not use it would be to waste God-given abilities.
College student sick of it all
God gave us the intelligence to find all his hidden little discoveries and toys he made to keep us busy, but when we have things to worry about-such as the plant and wars and such-taking a break from the figuring out the universe and world is not going to offend him.
tbky
why do the boys at nasa get the best drugs, they should have to share what they' re smoking
DonD
Wow, there is water on the moon!!!!!!!!!
And it only cost 1,000,0000,000 to find it!!!!!
Yea!!!!!!!!
Batters56
Scientists are always talking about the masses of minerals and water that is ready and waiting to mined on the moon. What no one ever tends to mention is that the mass of the moon is what keeps it in orbit around us and as we all know the moons gravitational pull is what makes tides happen in our oceans.
I am worried what will happen if we start to remove mass from the moon and, even worse than drink it on space exploration missions, bring minerals back to Earth. Hmmm decreasing the mass of the moon, increasing the mass the earth. I am worried the moon might just fall out the sky one day if we mine too much of it.
livingwill
Even if we mine it like crazy and send the mass down to Earth it is far too large for us to effect the mass much. The bigger problem is that it is far too expensive to get there for it to pay its way. Minerals are far too cheap for that to happen.
IMHO
Oh, don't worry. The intelligent elite would never do anything to upset the natural balance of things....like fire a missile at the moon to see if there is water, or anything like that, right? Besides, we call all just blame the other party.
mfinn
LOL! Hysterical LOL!
Right and then what will happen to the man on the moon's face. He'll have a blemish and we'll have to take a giant tube of clearasil to fix it.
Fuji
Not exactly on topic here, but my 96 Saturn has 267K miles on it. That's about how far the moon is. Its good to know that if I ever drive to the moon I'll be able to get some water.