09-25-2009, 11:01 AM
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Water found on the moon!
This is huge news. They have found water on the moon. Will this make it possible to colonize the moon now? Maybe we can open a Cross Iron Mills up there now.
http://ow.ly/r0h2
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09-25-2009, 11:07 AM
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Norm!
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Is it possible that its not water, but Xenu's satanic urine?
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09-25-2009, 11:09 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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Was there hot water and cold water?
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09-25-2009, 11:12 AM
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Disenfranchised
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Was it running water? My wife isn't much for roughing it.
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09-25-2009, 11:26 AM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Water = ice cubes = party time! I'll have a double McCallum's on the rocks please. No wait, this is a Friday, make that a triple.
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09-25-2009, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Probably playing Xbox, or...you know...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Is it possible that its not water, but Xenu's satanic urine?
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mmm...satanic urine
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That's the bottom line, because StoneCole said so!
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09-25-2009, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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This is huge news for people who want to build a base on the moon.
I had a NOVA episode taped from a couple months ago that I watched last night. To bring a 0.5L bottle of water to the moon right now, it costs $15,000.
If you don't have to bring water there, if you can mine it and purify it on the moon and use it for fuel and for agriculture and for everything, that's a lot better than having to fly in millions of liters of water.
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09-25-2009, 12:41 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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I call dibs on the Tim Horton's franchise on the moon.
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09-25-2009, 01:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Moon hockey anyone? Talk about a rising slapshot.
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09-25-2009, 02:02 PM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Quote:
Originally Posted by worth
This is huge news for people who want to build a base on the moon.
I had a NOVA episode taped from a couple months ago that I watched last night. To bring a 0.5L bottle of water to the moon right now, it costs $15,000.
If you don't have to bring water there, if you can mine it and purify it on the moon and use it for fuel and for agriculture and for everything, that's a lot better than having to fly in millions of liters of water.
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Instruments aboard three separate spacecrafts, one of them the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a NASA instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small, it added.
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a few ice flakes won't fill the local water cooler
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09-25-2009, 02:06 PM
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Norm!
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Bottle it and sell it for a thousand bucks a serving.
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09-25-2009, 02:07 PM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Bottle it and sell it for a thousand bucks a serving.
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would be more profitable to just fill the bottles with hose water and call it Moon Glacier fresh. Penn & Teller proved that people can't tell the difference
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09-25-2009, 02:08 PM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
would be more profitable to just fill the bottles with hose water and call it Moon Glacier fresh. Penn & Teller proved that people can't tell the difference
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Hey . . . I'm a respectable business man here.
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09-25-2009, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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crazy news. Love any type of space news
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09-25-2009, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
a few ice flakes won't fill the local water cooler
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Of course not. But the great thing is that with water being confirmed in essentially a desert, that means there is a greater chance for ice to be present in craters created by comets. Essentially, the water on the moon is brought there externally. The moon didn't create its own water. If there's water on the beaches, there's most likely even more water in the craters.
It is said that the estimate right now is 0.1-1% water, which would be enough to mine and actually.
LCROSS is due for impact in 13 days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LC...ain/index.html
and we will probably get even more water data after that.
I bet the LCROSS team is pissed the Indians beat them to the punch though.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0405/01.html
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09-25-2009, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Clearly the next step is to send up whalers.
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09-25-2009, 03:48 PM
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Scoring Winger
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I wonder how much water is there, that is the big question.
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11-13-2009, 01:30 PM
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I hate NASA wording sometimes. A "significant" amount to them could mean anything more than nothing. It's like how 1 is an infinite increase over 0.
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