Thread: There's water on the MOON!

Originally Posted by xman

The idea would be to avoid having to spend even more money to ship water up there.

Money can be printed. The moon's water cannot be replaced.

You have no idea if there is or isn't an ecosystem up there, or the remains of one. You can assume, but you can not know.

We will probably pollute it long before we figure out if moon water has any value. Hell we dumped a bunch of garbage on the moon, including a junk car, with no apparent purpose.

Hmm, maybe it is time to check this tread:
Shaving on the Moon !!! - Straight Razor Place Forums

"Shaving on the moon...."

i recommend to any of you here that thinks bring water here is a good idea...Watch the documentary (Blue Gold) it's on netflix as a streaming movie! it's very sad but very true, also when even here on the earth if we tap a water source and then bottle and ship to another country or even state the water does not return to it's original aquifer! this is also why places like Florida have huge holes sink hole now, because they are using up all the ground water...!
if we respect the mother we can be here for a very long time, if we don't we're going bye bye very soon!

the tree huger known as Wulfgar

So they found water on the moon. Big deal. Hydrogen is about the most plentiful element in the universe and hydrogen readily combines with oxygen. One theory of the extinction of the dinosaur is that a comet collided with the earth and the resulting debris was sprayed out into the orbit the moon now resides and over time coagulated into the moon. The earth had water and oxygen at that time. Water would have more than likely been part of the debris since the theory also states that the impact was in the Atlantic near the Yucatan Peninsula.

So again, are we surprised that water is on the moon? What does water on the moon prove? It proves that there is water on the moon and nothing more.

Originally Posted by MinniesMate

One theory of the extinction of the dinosaur is that a comet collided with the earth and the resulting debris was sprayed out into the orbit the moon now resides and over time coagulated into the moon.

These are two separate meteor strikes you are thinking of. If a meteor strike is responsible for creating our moon it happened a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time before there was any life around here.

Originally Posted by xman

These are two separate meteor strikes you are thinking of. If a meteor strike is responsible for creating our moon it happened a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time before there was any life around here.

You are right. I had the two confused.

However, Wikipedia has the following to say about water on the moon:

The continuous bombardment of the Moon by comets and meteoroids has most likely added small amounts of water to the lunar surface. If so, sunlight would split much of this water into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen, both of which would ordinarily escape into space over time, because of the Moon's weak gravity. However, because of the slightness of the axial tilt of the Moon's spin axis to the ecliptic plane—only 1.5°—some deep craters near the poles never receive direct light from the Sun and are thus in permanent shadow (see Shackleton crater). Water molecules that ended up in these craters could be stable for long periods of time."

Originally Posted by MinniesMate

...—some deep craters near the poles never receive direct light from the Sun and are thus in permanent shadow (see Shackleton crater). Water molecules that ended up in these craters could be stable for long periods of time."

Mm-hm. And with the low gravity a lunar base might even find ways to capture water from passing comets which are usually stuffed with it.

Originally Posted by xman

Mm-hm. And with the low gravity a lunar base might even find ways to capture water from passing comets which are usually stuffed with it.

to what end?

Originally Posted by MinniesMate

So again, are we surprised that water is on the moon? What does water on the moon prove? It proves that there is water on the moon and nothing more.

It is evidence that life may exist outside out own planet as water is a fundamental building block for all life.