Yes Virginia, there IS water on the moon

[moshquerade]

So, how long before the first Moon Colonies or Moonolonies sprout up?

Water Found on Moon, Scientists Say

Published: November 13, 2009

This artist's rendering released by NASA shows the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite as it crashed into the moon to test for the presence of water last month.


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.

The satellite, known as Lcross (pronounced L-cross), slammed into a crater near the Moon’s south pole a month ago. The impact carved out a hole 60- to 100-feet wide and kicked up at least 24 gallons of water.

“We got more than just whiff,” said Peter H. Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University and a co-investigator of the mission. “We practically tasted it with the impact.”

For more than a decade, planetary scientists have seen tantalizing hints of water ice at the bottom of these cold craters where the sun never shines. The Lcross mission consisted of two pieces — an empty rocket stage to carve into the lunar surface and a small spacecraft to measure what was kicked up, but it too slammed into the surface.

For space enthusiasts who stayed up, or woke up early, to watch the impact on Oct. 9, the event was anticlimactic, even disappointing, as they failed to see the anticipated debris plume. But NASA later said that a plume was indeed photographed; the live video stream was not properly attuned to pick out the details.

The water findings come from analysis of the slight shifts in color after the impact, showing telltale signs of water.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/14moon.html?hp

 

[Malak]

Good news everybody! We can stop spending billions of dollars confirming something that doesn't even matter.

 

[rbV5]

Good news everybody! We can stop spending billions of dollars confirming something that doesn't even matter.

Idiot much?

 

[OutHouse]

Good news everybody! We can stop spending billions of dollars confirming something that doesn't even matter.

maybe not to you.

 

[Malak]

maybe not to you.

The ridiculous amount of money spent on discoveries like this don't help anyone. In no way does society progress. In no way are any problems solved. It's a complete waste of time for what amounts to nothing more than a hobby.

 

[SunnyD]

Great. Yet another celestial body for humanity to pollute.

 

[lxskllr]

Good news everybody! We can stop spending billions of dollars confirming something that doesn't even matter.

Why are you anti science? Is it because we're one more step towards putting your god in the grave? :^D

 

[rbV5]

The ridiculous amount of money spent on discoveries like this don't help anyone. In no way does society progress. In no way are any problems solved. It's a complete waste of time for what amounts to nothing more than a hobby.

Yea, Tell that to the Vatican idiot.

 

[SneakyStuff]

Even if there is water on the moon wouldn't life there be impossible due to the constant danger of meteorites?

 

[darkxshade]

I read that today on CNN when it was breaking news and could have sworn we found water on the moon many a times.

 

[Grabo]

The ridiculous amount of money spent on discoveries like this don't help anyone. In no way does society progress. In no way are any problems solved. It's a complete waste of time for what amounts to nothing more than a hobby.

Eh ok. The world's technical progress is dependant upon the economical squirrel/hamster wheel. Nobody ever asks why, it seems, as in 'Where will we end up?'

To find the primary element of life on another celestial body is 'complete waste of time' according to only idiots.

 

[Brainonska511]

The ridiculous amount of money spent on discoveries like this don't help anyone. In no way does society progress. In no way are any problems solved. It's a complete waste of time for what amounts to nothing more than a hobby.

 

[Malak]

Why are you anti science? Is it because we're one more step towards putting your god in the grave? :^D

I'm not anti-science. I'm anti-NASA.

 

[Miramonti]

That's a long ways to ship 20oz bottles so that people would be willing to drink it.

 

[Malak]

Yea, Tell that to the Vatican idiot.

What does the vatican have to do with ANYTHING? I couldn't care less what the pope thinks about any subject. He's a sith lord.

 

[meltdown75]

the ridiculous amount of money spent on discoveries like this don't help anyone. In no way does society progress. In no way are any problems solved. It's a complete waste of time for what amounts to nothing more than a hobby.

crawwwwwwling in my skinnnnnnnnnn

 

[rbV5]

Even if there is water on the moon wouldn't life there be impossible due to the constant danger of meteorites?

Check this out

 

[moshquerade]

I'm not anti-science. I'm anti-NASA.

you can't be one and not the other.

 

[spidey07]

Even if there is water on the moon wouldn't life there be impossible due to the constant danger of meteorites?

That's what the shields are for. Sheez, haven't you watched ANY star trek?

But seriously, this is a pretty big deal. I'm not really surprised, it's just hydrogen and oxygen doing what they do. It's not just a little bit of water, but quite a bit. They think there's a huge ice/water cap underneath the surface.

 

[moshquerade]

That's a long ways to ship 20oz bottles so that people would be willing to drink it.

I can see it now....bottled Moon Juice. It will be the cure... for something... somewhere.... on Earth.

 

[rbV5]

What does the vatican have to do with ANYTHING? I couldn't care less what the pope thinks about any subject. He's a sith lord.

Check this out

 

[gwai lo]

you can't be one and not the other.

eh, that's sort of false. I'm taking anti-NASA to also mean just not agreeing with NASA has been doing.

 

[Malak]

you can't be one and not the other.

Yes I can? NASA is the most wasteful organization on(and off) the planet. The science has nothing to do with it.

 

[sandorski]

What does the vatican have to do with ANYTHING? I couldn't care less what the pope thinks about any subject. He's a sith lord.

What do you have to do with anything?

Pope---1 billion followers
You----1

 

[moshquerade]

Yes I can? NASA is the most wasteful organization on(and off) the planet. The science has nothing to do with it.

No, you can't.

NASA is all about science and the further advancement of science. You can claim they are wasteful, but that doesn't change the previous statement.