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Just noticed on the news that NASA 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.

They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.
Only gold & oil missing for the race to start

This is quite interesting as they can use the water to drink, create air and fuel for a base. Dunno what would help protect against cosmic ray s though.

News link below.

News link

Water will be the next to control/dominate resource, so the race has already begun.

That would be sad, spreading the human waring cancer into space

On the funny side, some people actually believe the water on the moon and space came about by the water being squirted out from the earth

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Can't look at that link right now, but a widely accepted theory to the moon's creation is that some very large asteroid/space object hit the Earth in it's infancy, sending out mass quantities of material ; this debris was trapped in Earth's orbit and eventually collided/collected together to form the Moon as we see it now.

So water on the Moon coming directly from Earth fits in that sense/scenario, so god damn it, it belongs to us anyways!

Water on the moon? *yawn*

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/news/sunwater.html

Would there be any organisms in that water?

Originally posted by Robtard
Water will be the next to control/dominate resource, so the race has already begun.

and we've got it all!!!!

Originally posted by inimalist
and we've got it all!!!!

Canadians?

Originally posted by Deadline
I'm thinking of this in two ways:

1: Proof of alien life.

Is the moon really far enough away for it to count as alien life?

Originally posted by Deadline
Canadians?

http://www.suite101.com/content/richest-water-countries-a21701

technically, Russia and Brazil have more, but in terms of our ability to trade and utilize it as a resource, only Finland is better, and they aren't in the top 10 for total amount.

it was more of a joke, there is a tongue in cheek "debate" up here about what to do with our water: trade it to America or wait for them to come get it.

The Water is probably from the same asteroid that created the crater.

Originally posted by Deadline
Would there be any organisms in that water? Wouldn't surprise me if there were. Seems the more we learn about life, the hardier and more tenacious it appears to be. If there is, it probably is not active: it could be in some sort of suspended state.

There are a series of short stories by scifi author Stephen Baxter where he postulates all sorts of life on nearly all the planets of our solar system. He's a "hard" scifi author too, ie, he's very knowledgable about science, and regularly consults with experts in various fields when he does backstory research.

Originally posted by Mindship
Water on the moon? *yawn*

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/news/sunwater.html water on the sun? eer

Short-lived water molecules in sunspots. As Bicnarok said, we've known this for years; and I still find it amusingly amazing.

did they find black bolt?

Originally posted by Deadline
Would there be any organisms in that water?
Perhaps. But not the kind that we would likely encounter on Earth.

Originally posted by Mindship
Water on the moon? *yawn*

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/news/sunwater.html That's awesome we should build lots of bases on the sun now!

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Better than that, we could power the whole place with solar cells.

With Carbon nano-tubes and memristors.

Originally posted by dadudemon
With Carbon nano-tubes and memristors. "Memristor." That's almost as uncool-sounding as the "bulk" (and at least there's humor behind "p-brane".

Originally posted by dadudemon
With Carbon nano-tubes and memristors.

Oh no, you opened the "carbon nano-tubes" can of worms

But when you think about it, they might be able to get carbon nano-tubes
to mini warp space and transfer all that energy, water, oil from the sun spots and helium (which is becomming a rarity on earth) to the earth.