Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons

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🙂

YouTube video

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 [from Earth]; 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

Yep, but it doesn´t mean the water came from the earth. Theres icy comets and asteroids not to mention the water on Mars. In fact H2O is the 2nd most common molecule in the universe so there´s bound to be a lot about.

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

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

Yes we´ve know it for years. But the ammount, evidence and the discovery of other deposits is quite important and new

Would there be any organisms in that water?

Originally posted by Deadline
Would there be any organisms in that water?

that´s an interesting point, theres organisms on earth which can survive really harsh conditions. Not sure how the dangerous radiation would effect life forms on an object without an atmosphere.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
that´s an interesting point, theres organisms on earth which can survive really harsh conditions. Not sure how the dangerous radiation would effect life forms on an object without an atmosphere.

I'm thinking of this in two ways:

1: Proof of alien life.
2: Don't drink the ****ing water it will kill you and start a new disease.

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?

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

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?

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

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