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

[Shady Dealer]

well the mons all well and good buti'd prefer the idea someone posted earlier about living under the oceans i say we build a modern Rapture

 

[AkJay]

It's not like ''Yey! There's water on the moon!'' and puff, you can live on moon.

Well obviously, Buzzkillington. All they are saying is that it opens up new possibilities. Try having some fun instead of being a Negative-Nancy.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Maybe Dr.Evil will finally be able to have his secret moon base! Yay!

 

[Laughing Man]

Well... uh... so what?

All we have to do is, first of all get to the moon again, then get all the crap that is needed to build some sort of launch site to the moon, we then need to build it all and then have to build a vessel using the resource that is able to make it to Mars. All very well and good but we don't even have the first item needed for this massive operation and that's a space vehicle that can actually get a man to the moon.

The shuttle can't do it and even if it could it is due to be retired in 2010 does anyone know if NASA even has plans for a replacement and if so is it a close Earth Orbiter designed purely to replace the shuttle or is it something new that will actually get to the moon?

 

[LeonLethality]

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.

but if we could perfect the technology to live underwater getting there would be probably be easier and less expensive that taking a ship into space don't you think?

 

[Danny Ocean]

It had better have been there, H2O is starting to let down its title as the most common molecule in the universe.

Besides H2, right?

 

[axia777]

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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.

Why thank you. Wasn't trying to be funny though.

Here is another great article on the subject matter too!

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/nasa-announces-significant-quantities-of-water-on-the-moon.ars

Well... uh... so what?

All we have to do is, first of all get to the moon again, then get all the crap that is needed to build some sort of launch site to the moon, we then need to build it all and then have to build a vessel using the resource that is able to make it to Mars. All very well and good but we don't even have the first item needed for this massive operation and that's a space vehicle that can actually get a man to the moon.

The shuttle can't do it and even if it could it is due to be retired in 2010 does anyone know if NASA even has plans for a replacement and if so is it a close Earth Orbiter designed purely to replace the shuttle or is it something new that will actually get to the moon?

Well listen to you mister negative pants. If everyone had that attitude nobody would have ever even gotten into orbit.

 

[Silk_Sk]

Yes! America's already got dibs.

 

[fogmike]

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

I call shotugn on the bit with the water XD

They bombed the moon??? I really need to move out from this rock I've been living under...

But the science got done

Either I see what you did there or I'm imagining things...

I'm making a note here, huge success.

 

[axia777]

I like this quote from the Arstechica article:

Based on the strength of the signal and size of the plume, NASA estimates that about 100kg of water were kicked up in the impact plume, which Colaprete says is enough to indicate that there were actual ice deposits within the crater. In a response to a question, he suggested that this would make it wetter than South America's Atacama Desert.

 

[omega 616]

It had better have been there, H2O is starting to let down its title as the most common molecule in the universe.

H2O is far from the most common molecule, try perovskite, that is only on earth but since we haven't found water any were else (except maybe the moon) then I think it counts.

Since the planets are made of gas (some of which is frozen) and rock so I would say H2O is far from the most common.

Sorry its a little off topic.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

It was all a cover up... they saw Transformers and got mixed up and thought that Megatron was on the moon, so they nuked it...

 

[DrunkWithPower]

I didn't find it a waste, I say we bomb every planet. Nothing scientific, just for my entertainment.

No, no, we need to do it in the name of science. See how big an exploision we can get! The shits and giggles come after we've perfected our uber-de-duper nuclear bomb.

OT: This opens up a world of possibilities.(implied pun intended) I think its good we'er using weapons on somehing other than eachother.

I was thinking intergalactic domination, kill them before they know we're coming. A man once said "kill them with kindness", why? When a well placed nuke solves all our problems years before to other plan. ( I'm being facetious, I've been watching A LOT of faux news and it's getting to me)

 

[llewgriff]

Hey, there's water on the moon, sweet. Now, about that curing cancer...

Yeah you're right I mean why aren't the rocket scientists curing cancer, I mean it's not rocket science right who cares if they have no skills in the field?

 

[bug_chaser]

Meh. Lemme know when they find beer on the moon.

 

[axia777]

Meh. Lemme know when they find beer on the moon.

If there is water then they can grow hops and grain with imported soil. If they can grow those then they can make Moon Beer! Mmmmm, Moon Beer.

 

[Howlingwolf214]

Just what Humans need. More planets to screw up.

 

[Ariosona]

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 .

Oh god i am a complete idiot xD
I confused mars with mercury. I deserve any flame posts i get now for my complete inability to think about what im posting.
And yeh i could understand the other points now that i realise mars is further away.
As for the 4th point, the article said there wasn't much water on the moon, so food production wouldn't really work unless we kept shipping our water up there. And with regards to launching further into space, we just come to the same problem, except we're getting colder and colder.

Now i just hope there aren't any stupid mistakes in this post v_v

 

[Steelfists]

The Human Empire is on it's way!

Hells yeah.

 

[Ariosona]

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.

Ah right yeh that makes sense, as I replied to the other guy, i just stupidly didnt think about my post, and got mars confused with mercury.

But now assuming it was mercury, surely the temperature would still be a huge factor for having water reserves, because aslong as the temperature is above 100 degrees, as im sure it is, then the water would either just evaporate.
Unless it was trapped in a pocket inside the planet, but then the gravity factor would prevent that.

Anyway, i guess thats besides the point as it isnt mercury. I was wrong, you were all right, now to go stare at an image of our solar system for hours upon hours.