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11-13-2009, 06:15 PM #1all your razor are belong to us
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There's water on the MOON!
Got in the flash right now...the LCROSS rover has located what is descibed as not just a little but 'a significant amount of water' just under the soil on moon's south pole.
Can anyone say permanent space station on the moon by 2050?
‘Significant amount’ of water found on moon - Space.com- msnbc.com
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11-13-2009, 06:22 PM #2Little Bear
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Very very cool!
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11-13-2009, 07:10 PM #3Rusty nails
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Of course. Manned by Taikonauts. Originally Posted by red96ta
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11-13-2009, 08:45 PM #4Senior Member
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Let me know when they find an atmosphere we can breath and I'll consider making a move.
Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.
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11-13-2009, 09:14 PM #5Senior Member
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we find water on the moon, and we're already deciding how to spend it. When will we learn, I wonder.
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11-14-2009, 12:08 AM #6
In a few years some company will find a way to bring it here bottle it and sell it to the rich guys for atmospheric prices.
No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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11-14-2009, 12:12 AM #7Senior Member
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I'd pay a lot for a bottle of moon water. That's a good idea.
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11-16-2009, 09:06 AM #8Senior Member
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If we look after the earth's resources a bit better we needn't spend billions of $$ on the little water the moon has.
The moon is no more than a distant a desert without an atmosphere. Its waters will never be replenished.Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
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11-16-2009, 10:01 AM #9Super Shaver
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The idea is not to go there and get water to bring down here. The idea would be to avoid having to spend even more money to ship water up there. They want to consider setting up a base which would be an ideal vantage point on the solar system for observation and exploratory missions. Originally Posted by Kees
If there were an ecosystem up there I could see the value in what you're saying, but the moon's water supports no such ecosystem unless we bring it with us. Originally Posted by gregs656
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11-16-2009, 10:47 AM #10Senior Member
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Money can be printed. The moon's water cannot be replaced. Originally Posted by xman
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.
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