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It's Official: Water Found on the Moon.
Anybody remember how NASA was planning to 'drill' into the moon?
Well it's official now, they've got what they wanted, they've struck frozen water with the impact. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33912611/ns/technology_and_science-space/ What are your thoughts on this, think it's a step towards progress? Or are there way too many other factors in effect to sustain life on the Moon? Correct me if I've got something wrong. |
I heard about this yesterday. Kinda reminds me of Dan Brown's Deception Point for all who have read it. I really don't care what they do up there, because I will never - NEVER - go up there. Something bad is bound to happen, plus, I like to be down here on Earth, where we have GRAVITY and WARMTH. The moon is too cold and too lightweight for me.
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Well there is one. The "extremes", as what scientist would say. There are complications when establishing moon bases, the cost, and the time and sacrifice it would take to make it there.
There may be water there, but it could sustain us there? For how long? The best bet for colonization is Mars. |
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But how is it related to this? The Moon might turn out to be a very nice place, IMO. |
HAI RUSEL T DAIVEES I FINK U SHUD RENAIM IT 2 TEH WATRZ OF TEH MUN!
Sorry. Anyway, so they found ice. Was it round? What does that matter? Why would we move to the Moon, anyway? What's wrong with Earth? I'm confused. |
I'll be interested when they put a pool on the moon.
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I've seen it on google i wasn't interested
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I saw it earlier today. Just shrugged it off. Lol.
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Back to the topic, I believe that we can now finally begin to take our first steps to conquering the Galaxyinterplanetary exploration. Once a base has been established on the moon, we can use the moons lower gravity to launch rockets to mars with less fuel required for take-off. The Moon Rocks!(pun intended) |
"It's like saying 'we're almost to Disneyland' when you pull out of the driveway."
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Anyway, on topic: I think it's kind-of exciting, really, but I don't expect anything to come from it. I recently attended a lecture with an ex-BBC Science Correspondent and Rick Stroud (it was at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and they were both promoting their new books) and both of them were adamant that we should concentrate on exploring the moon instead of heading out into deeper space, which I agree with - but again, I don't think we'll find a lot. It's exciting all the same though. /long rambly. |
If they honestly think that they can build a moon base now that they found water there, I'll point out one possible occurance: A little kid of an astronaut is playing with something, and he throws it. It crashes into a window and fractures the glass. The decreased level of protection causes the other layers of glass to crack from the pressure, and a hole into space is formed. The vacuum of space sucks everything in the base outside, and everyone dies. The end.
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yeah right life sustainable on the moon??!?!?!?!thats one thing that mankind wont be able to do i guarantee u that
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Wait! Life DOES exist there, it's just that it's very primitive! D: OMIGOSH NOWAI |
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2: It won't help a lot, since you would have to take out time and effort to develop a base on the moon, the distance isn't too much so I would say to direct all that capital and effort into planning a direct route to Mars. |
Oh you crazy carbon-based bipeds and your water.
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It's a rock. A big rock. Just add water. XD (BTW, I really am curious when I ask 'what's the deal'. I'm not being sarcastic. Enlighten me.) |
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I think its just the fact that where there's water, there's life, and it makes those scientists all giddy inside. |
Wait why would anybody want to live on the moon?
I dont see anything wrong where we are now >: |
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Considering how common Hydrogen is in the universe, water and hydrocarbons are probably all over the place in the universe. It's no surprise to find it on Mars or on the moon, really. Now advanced life... that's a bit different XD
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*surfs web for Sun cycle stuff* Actually, scratch that; they're saying that the Sun won't encompass the Earth during the Red Giant stage, but rather, another stage afterward will release a lot of solar flares. And if that doesn't get us, the loss of gravitational pull from the Sun will. The End of Earth Life Astronomy discussion (part II) So it's all irrelavent really. Ah, there's nothing like talking about the inevatable end of the world to make one feel better.....:\ Imah shut up, now, k? Quote:
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I think they should use the moon only for a last resort just in case something bad ever does happen to the Earth.
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Maybe so, but theres no way everyone could go. The moon's surface area is 37.9 million square kilometers while the Continent of Asia is 44.4 million square kilometers. |
Guys, it's not like they found oceans of it :p
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Not surprised, I heard about this on world news.
Now how about we get an atmosphere for the moon too? 10 Chinese hummers should do the trick if we only drive them for 5 Earth days. |
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I think there might be very small life forms since they have water on the moon. It is likely since the earth started out like that.
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I'm reminded of the X3TC description for the ice ware...
"Water in the form of ice is harvested from asteroids [some tosh I don't specifically recall about supply of planetary colonies and Earth water retrictions imposed by the ATF]." Water is really quite a basic compound, so I actually expected it to be on the Moon as well as many other places. |
This is amazing. It makes me sad that I will never be able to see any significant change compared to what's happened today. Maybe centuries from now, organisms and life forms will be able to inhabit the Moon, but I'll never know about it.
However, I kind of don't think that should happen. The Moon isn't meant to be inhabited. I'm not too sure what this discovery of water will mean for the future of the Moon, but humans sure have effed some stuff up down here... hopefully they don't take the Moon too. |
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The Moon will be take up some day. Sorry to tell you, but that is what we plan on doing, why else would we be searching for water? For teh lulz?, nope. |
Hey, we already planted our flag up there. It's just a matter of time until we formally move in.
Manifest Destiny FTW!!! <=P |
I think it's quite cool that they found water. It means that we're 1 step closer to off world colonisation, and that's got to be a good thing right? I mean one day, either some great catastrophe will happen on Earth, so the people living off world may have to carry on the human race, or the more likely option, Earth will get over crowded, so people should be given the option to leave. Besides anything else, expansion = greater chance of meeting discovering aliens.
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Because Britain is win. |
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Seriously though, every piece of information we gain about the universe helps us understand it better. We can form better theories about other big space rocks we haven't studied as thoroughly. It helps keep us from assuming too many things we don't really know that much about. |
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We've made discoveries greater than this. And besides, life on the moon isn't going to happen. It's a quarter of the Earth's size, so unless half of us die on the way there, we're not going to fit. Like everyone else stated, if we're going anywhere, and unless we find somewhere much like Earth, it's going to be Mars.
Too much money is going into space travel, in my opinion. We should at least share it around evenly. |
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Believe me, Mars is way better than the moon(and they have found water on Mars too). |
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Alrighttt!!!
now make a big air dome and I'm ready to move. haha. |
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I would say that if something does go wrong in the year 2012, the will and the strong survived should life on the moon.
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I think it would be pointless haveing a base on the moon because what in gods name are they going to do up their besides seeing how far they could jump. I think it would be a waste of money. But I would like to live up their.
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We could use the moon's lower gravity to launch rockets to other planets without wasting to much fuel in escaping the gravitational pull of the moon. That means, we can travel further on more fuel. Also, some scientists believe that the abundant Helium 3 present on the moon can be used to fuel the rockets as an alternative. Yes, it would be nice to live there. Quote:
I lol'ed. XD No offense. |
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You know what I meant XD. Besides I like the moon because thats my last name MidnightMoon. I would like to go on the moon then look at earth and then moon everybody down their lol XD |
I'm not all that surprised. I mean, Hydrogen is a really common element, and Oxygen isn't terribly scarce, so H2O can form in a lot of places. There's water on Mars too. I mean, it's really cool news, but not a mind-numbing shocker.
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People need to start saying water-ice. There is difference between liquid water and water-ice. D: There is also water vapor in the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter and there is a liquid ocean under Jupiter's moon Europa, which has a high possibility of supporting life. O: But yeah, this is neat. Moon base? : 3 Not a colony though! The Moon's gravity is not strong enough to keep calcium and other nutrients in our body. So people who stay there long enough will either: 1. Become too weak to come back to Earth. 2. Die. : D Not to mention cancer, unless they put a foot of led into the walls/build the base underground. |
I would not move there because you would have to a space sute all the time.
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I think it's great. I don't know what else to say than more water for us.
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I'm waiting for them to drill a little deeper and discover that the Moon is actually hollow inside due to being an ancient alien spaceship. Yep. Any day now...
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Is there anything that, in the mind of America, explosives won't solve? XD
I am so thrilled about this news, although the water was mainly extracted from the plume of stuff shot up by the boom. |
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Don't you ever try to take that from us... Ever... |
Transporting water from the moon is waaaay too expensive as a solution to the water problem. Before we did that we would first use up all our hydrogen & oxygen to produce h2o.
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But yeah, moon colonists would have a very hard time coming back to Earth. The gravity would flatten them. Maybe it could be used as...a penal colony? |
Unless they can give me undeniable proof that the Moon exists, I won't believe there is water on it.
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This is certainly an interesting development. I wouldn't get your space suits on yet, but I can certainly imagine this being a huge step forward toward colonizing the moon. It's certainly possible that within one or two lifetimes, what we've previously only seen in sci-fi may become the stuff of reality.
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Now, I know this is hard, but let's try and use some common sense to answer that. |
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I would rather scientists focusing more on Europa then the Moon imo.
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The amount of water found on the moon was actually negligable, i.e. molecules-worth. It's also frozen; liquid water can't exist there because there isn't enough pressure, so it's not as big of a deal as NASA is letting everyone believe.
I think NASA is hyping the whole water-on-the-moon thing because they want the government to think there is a sensible reason to give NASA a larger budget, and they have been looking for a reason for another moon-landing. As long as the economy is doing poorly and tax money is being spent on other things, NASA will have to get creative in its endeavor to seem deserving of funding. |
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I thought it was confirmed before? Or was that Mars when they found a peice of ice in the dirt? Eithger way I wont be impressed until a Moon Fish is found d:
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When we move to the moon, we can then move to other planets, because everything'll be easier. But, then, we'll have wars on the moon. People'll conquer planets :/.
I'd live on the moon though, I'd weigh like 8 pounds I think, maybe less. I did a thing a science... and I'm fat on the sun :p. |
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I want them to focus more of their attention onto exploring Europa through a hydrobot. |
First of all, water wasn't just "discovered" on the moon, IT WAS ALREADY THERE! We will never get anything on the moon, because we have never been there in the first place. The moon landing was all a hoax, I watched a documentary on it. And I did an Essay on the subject, getting perfect. lol.
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So we gained the knowledge of water on the surface of the Moon. Get it? Also I can see why you believe the Moon landing was a hoax, but to be simple - it's not. |
wow!
I can't believe that there is water found in the moon... I'm very curious where did the water come from. |
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Actually, I think with the technology we have today, building a biodome on the moon is very possible. There are already underwater hotels. Those hotels were built to withstand water pressure, so if we can withstand more pressure, what's so hard to withstand less pressure? This is just the biodome though. Human bodies are a totally different story I'm sure.
As for living on the moon...I think we're better off living on Mars. The gravity difference isn't by much and so we'll be able to adjust to it. The moon would probably be best to farm plants for food and with the human population constantly growing, I think eventually we're gonna collapse Earth. It can't support us indefinitely, not with a growing population with growing need for food, water and shelter. I wonder if scientists have tried creating water. |
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The moon DOES have gravity. It has less than Earth, but it definitely does have enough gravity to hold down pebbles, rocks and ice. How water got on the moon in the first place is a different story. There's a lot of theories floating about trying to explain it but there's no definite conclusion. One theory is that comets that are flying nearby the moon melt somewhat when approaching the sun and the icemelt lands on the moon and accumulates there.
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Oh men, hope national geographic channel will tackle one of this issue. Maybe on their show just like "Naked Science" and much more... :D
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Don't drink the moon water, don't even touch it. Not. One. Drop
Back on topic, the moon is quite frankly inhospitable, it has low gravity, which is fine if you just can't reach the cupcake on top of the cupboard but a nuisance for everything else, if we COULD build a bio-dome, then i agree with Griffinbane that it should be used for farming. Mars on the other hand.... It does have quite a few more attractive features than the moon. |
I've got dibbs on president :D
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The Moon landing was the biggest hoax ever. I don't care who argues with me. The USA only did that to say they 'landed' on the moon first. It was all filmed in a place called Area 51 in arizona.
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I've always assumed the Moon came to become our moon through two ways. The first is that a large collision occured in the cooling of Earth, which would also explain the water on the surface of the Moon. Another is that the Moon came from somewhere else and was caught in the Earth's gravitational field.
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Also Area 51 is in southern Nevada. Not Arizona. |
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Anyways, I think we're closer to colonize Mars than the Moon. It has more water, the days last almost the same, and more gravity than the moon. If we could only thicken its atmosphere in some way, it would have a very similar temperature range to the Earth's. |
Yeah, I just posted the two most possible ways for the Moon to form. Obviously it's the collision theory because of the evidence (the Pacific Ocean).
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