Too all who said bombing the Moon was a waste of time....

[TheMatt]

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I barely care about the water thing though I think it's sorta neat.

I mostly just want to compliment your topic name. THAT, my friend, was fricking hilarious. Well done.

 

[Pegghead]

Brilliant! Now my dream of owning a zero-gravity brothel may very well come true.

 

[johnman]

Sorry to be killjoy, but I doubt there would be enough to provide for a handful of people for more than a week or two.

 

[pffh]

NASA kicks ass! First the Moon and then onto Mars!


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html

You are aware mars is too close to the sun to have sustainable water reserves right?

Plus I don't see the big fuss about moving to the moon, it's smaller than Earth, it doesn't look anywhere near as nice, we couldn't breathe there with out either living indoors forever or carrying huge ass oxygen tanks.

It'd be cool and all and a fantastic leap forward in science and the application of technology, but unless Earth gets super-over populated then I don't see why people would choose to live there.

#1 Mars is farther away from the sun then earth (mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune this is the order of the planets).
#2 They've already found water on mars.
#3 There is evidence that there are large amounts of liquid water underground on Mars.
#4 The moon base would be the perfect point to launch ships further into space (to mars for example) and could possibly be used for food production in the future .

 

[Burst6]

NASA kicks ass! First the Moon and then onto Mars!


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html

You are aware mars is too close to the sun to have sustainable water reserves right?

Plus I don't see the big fuss about moving to the moon, it's smaller than Earth, it doesn't look anywhere near as nice, we couldn't breathe there with out either living indoors forever or carrying huge ass oxygen tanks.

It'd be cool and all and a fantastic leap forward in science and the application of technology, but unless Earth gets super-over populated then I don't see why people would choose to live there.

It's for future space travel.

Because of earth's atmosphere a ship takes lots of fuel and materials to fly out into space. In space it only needs fuel to control speed. Because space is frictionless you don't need to fire jets continuously to travel. With that, a lot of energy is needed to send the ship to outer space from earth. Because the moon has no strong atmosphere, a moon base could make building, launching, and landing ships much easier. That is, if they make a good moon base.

also water can be recycled, i think they already do it at the space station. With special filters and machines, it's like drinking water, but it came out of your body earlier.

 

[McNinja]

if we can't breath on it and its that hard to get water colonizing on it will be difficult we should look to colonizing underwater that's where most of the earth is we would have a lot more room.

True, but the moon doesn't have thousands of pounds of pressure threatening to crush you intantlsy if there is even so much as a crack in the hull (depending on how far down, and not including the underwater hotel with the SAM missile defence system). On the moon all we have to worry about is oxygen. Mostly.

 

[StoneSycst]

I wonder how long it'll be before people start claiming parts of the moon.

 

[Robert632]

hurrah! bombing stuff proved useful for something other then massive death tolls.

 

[Spitfire175]

#1 Mars is farther away from the sun then earth (mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune this is the order of the planets).
#2 They've already found water on mars.
#3 There is evidence that there are large amounts of liquid water underground on Mars.
#4 The moon base would be the perfect point to launch ships further into space (to mars for example) and could possibly be used for food production in the future .

You, sir, have won the Escapist yearly astronomy and space exploration cookie.

 

[ffxfriek]

Perfect. Now we can actually think about colonization. And maybe someday,we'll have entire interstellar republic!

Or in simpler words,RAWK ON!

So you had the imperial march theme goin off in your head too, huh?

 

[pffh]

#1 Mars is farther away from the sun then earth (mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune this is the order of the planets).
#2 They've already found water on mars.
#3 There is evidence that there are large amounts of liquid water underground on Mars.
#4 The moon base would be the perfect point to launch ships further into space (to mars for example) and could possibly be used for food production in the future .

You, sir, have won the Escapist yearly astronomy and space exploration cookie.

Om nom nom, only half a cookie though trying to cut down on internet cookies.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

Man, I'd love to visit space before I die. I'd go as far as say "live" but I don't think we'll get that far in my lifetime : (

 

[Raikone]

Soon we can trade spices back and forth between earth and the moon and somehow make money off of it!

 

[Kasawd]

There is now an opportunity for a bottled water company to claim this water and sell it to us!

Moon water, damn it! Even knowing it's tap water, I'd still drink it!

 

[A3Bf72rVWE5hA]

well, i was hoping we could get rid of the moon completely. it doesn't seem neccesary for anything. other than the waves that i hate. OOOOHH LOOK, THE WATER'S MOVING!!!! THAT'S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!


although maybe i'm just jelous that i can't swim. and yes, i've tried, my boyency is just about a my eyes so that breathin is made impossible

 

[fix-the-spade]

Aww... I was hoping this was about the Cold War plan to Nuke the moon, that was way more badass.

 

[grimsprice]

Actually this was a report made before the Lcross hit the moon.

a swing and a miss.

-.-

So, two people out of the 35 posters on page one actually decided to read the article and pay attention. Hmmmmm. Interesting statistics.

You are aware mars is too close to the sun to have sustainable water reserves right?

You need to have some better learnins. Because someone already filled you in on the planetary order i'll add this: Proximity to the sun has little to do with water content, gravity and atmosphere are much larger factors. so yeah.

 

[geldonyetich]

So, two people out of the 35 posters on page one actually decided to read the article and pay attention. Hmmmmm. Interesting statistics.

You'd be surprised how few people actually bother to read anything more than the headline.

Ironically, the OP apparently didn't read the article he started the thread about. He probably could have at least read as far as the date, 23 September 2009, several days prior to the Oct 9th "bombing of the moon."

Actually, though, this article [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html] does indicate that the LCROSS impact did reveal some water on the moon's surface. It just got scooped by something else a few weeks prior.

 

[Nova5]

I do hope we can mine the hell out of the moon, then blow it up and fight in zero gravity amongst the shards of cheese(like that cool-looking new game on Steam, forgot the name).