NASA: Evidence Of Water Found On Moon

mmph
not too shabby at all

"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete, the mission's principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center.

ok, so i was excited. (water wars? never! peak water? revise!)
now i shall wait for a more sober and rational assessment of the implications of this discovery

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Is the moon alive?

So if there is water, there could be something living in it right?

Significant amounts of water found on moon, NASA says

Declaring "this is not your father's moon," NASA scientists said today that last month's mission to punch a hole in the lunar surface found significant amounts of water in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole.

"The moon is alive," declared Anthony Colaprete, the chief scientist for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission.

According to Colaprete and other researchers, the mission measured about 25 gallons of water in the form of vapor and ice after punching a hole about 100 feet across in the surface of the moon. While that's not enough to fill a bathtub, it could be evidence there is enough water at the poles for future astronauts to use to live off the land. And it's far more than anyone expected following the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s, which pronounced the moon a dead, forbidding world...

 

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I think the water got there over billions of years from comets etc crashing into it, not from within.

 

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But couldn't life have started on earth the exact same way?

 

Sure. I believe that the potential for life is constantly being seeded throughout the universe, just a matter of where it lands and what that environment can offer it.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080916-st-space-life.html

 

its not water, its ice, well permafrost is more like it.

 

Where? How much?

 

from BBC:

By the way, it's going to be very helpful for future of permanent bases on moon. We'll use the water, and moon will shrink. Then we'll put new things to balance the lost weight of moon, such as our sins...

 

24 gallons of water on the polar caps or where? How can they be sure?

 

They are not sure, they are just telling another story to cover up economic crisis. Or it is actually only a gallon but they are exaggerating...

 

Yes, I didn't mean to imply it was liquid like a spring or stream.

It's going to take some work to make it useful.

 

I wonder when somebody will claim that it was already written in Qur'anic verses...

 

Moon is extremely hostile to harbor any life...its vacuum.

 

If it's in a shadow then I would imagine that it is just there because it didn't drift away from heat. There is probably a slightly more liquid form towards the edges of the shadow. Maybe a small amount of life where the temperature is an exact liquid that only evaporates very slowly.

 

So drinking moon water would be equivalent to licking the frost in you your ice box?
Eww!

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uke:

 

Will you take buckets full, seal the buckets, let it heat up then press the water out or heat it until you boil all of it out. The only hard part is getting to the moon.

I would think under those pressures water has not liquid phase, but maybe under the weight of the soil...

No more like licking frozen mud during winter.

 

the moon is a vacuum?

 

He means the moon has no atmosphere.

 

The water at a vent can reach 400 °C (752 °F), but does not usually boil at the seafloor because the water pressure at that depth exceeds the vapor pressure of the aqueous solution. The water is also extremely acidic, often having a pH value as low as 2.8 — approximately that of vinegar.

There is life here. What is its atmosphere?

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I'm just telling you what Draqon meant. I'm not arguing any point.