why is there water on the moon?

your dad makes television references?

did i say 'dad'? i meant 'slocki'

n/a is gbx's dad?

no slocki is

Actually it probably isn't astronaut pee. I remember watching a schools TV programme in 1989*, and one of the kids in the audience asked Buzz how they pee'd. And Aldrin's reply was "we used to use something that looked like a condom". So unless LCROSS hit one of this dead on, it's probably not that.

*which marked the occasion when it had only been 20 years since the moon landing, and now it's 20 years since that programme

there's water on the moon because lizard people use it as a freezer

come to think of it why the hell is there water on EARTH?

MOON MADNESS

dudes
now the science peeps are looking back at photographs of saturn's moon enceledus from 2005
that may show evidence of _UNDERGROUND OCEANS_ dig it
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0911/enceladus12_cassini.jpg

last night the band i'm in played a show with these dudes called this magazine is haunted and they said one of their songs was about water on the moon. srsly

Giant steps are what you take
water on the moon...
I hope my leg don't break
water on the moon

Oh snoball, you do make me laugh sometimes

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1004/apollodrinkingfountain.JPG

^there's a damn drinking fountain up there?!?

Please attend the EAES-WISEST Visiting Scholar April 5th lecture:

“Water on the Moon”
Dr. Maria Zuber, Professor and Head, Department of Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Sciences at MIT
April 5th, 4pm in UIC Lecture Center D4

"Water on the Moon"
One of the primary conclusions of the Apollo program was that the Moon
is “bone dry”. This result was re-enforced by subsequent analyses that
supported the formation of the Moon by the impact of a Mars-sized
protoplanet into the Earth not long after the solar system formed.
Subsequent spacecraft observations, however, raised the possibility
that some water might be preserved in craters that rarely or never see
the sun near the Moon’s poles. Recently, new observations from a NASA
orbiter and impactor showed that hydrogen, possibly in the form of
water ice, exists there and elsewhere. This presentation will
reconstruct the evolution of our understanding of lunar water, and explain the
significance of the findings.

For questions or if any accommodations are required to participate in this event,
contact Linda Siebert, WISEST Director at siebe✧✧✧@u✧✧.e✧✧ or at 5-0849

"lunar water" an incredibly beautiful phrase to my ear

"moon sweat"

oxyhydroxides=moon pie/oreo

Didn't god put it there 5000 years ago?

'moon poop'

APOD for today has more on this subject

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1010/mooncabeus_lcross_big.jpg
Pictured above from LRO, areas in false-color blue indicate the presence of soil relatively rich in hydrogen, which is thought likely bound to sub-surface water ice. Conversely, the red areas are likely dry. The location of the Moon's South Pole is also digitally marked on the image. How deep beneath the surface the ice crystals permeate is still unknown, as well as how difficult it would be to mine the crystals and purify them into drinking water.

water but no whitey

no water kill whitey

this is dumb.

are we really that useless as a planet that we'd have to spend an astronomical amount of money to mine water on the moon, instead of just taking care of the fresh water we have here?!

B..b..but if we don't go there and mine it all the Fundamentalists will get there first.

Then they'll use the water to bombard our cities!

I thought ILC had settled this once and for all

I Love Cars?
I Love Comics?
I Love Cooking?
I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX?
I Like Computers?

are we really that useless as a planet that we'd have to spend an astronomical amount of money to mine water on the moon, instead of just taking care of the fresh water we have here?!

we have to get off this planet if we're going to survive as a species

water on the moon means we could set up a station there, people could survive, it could be used as a fuel depot, etc.

water on the moon means we can go surfing on the moon

why do we have to leave the planet?

why not grow inward, like toenails?

manifest destiny motherfucker, only dead things float downstream, etc

because this species is in the process of altering the planet's ecosystem to the degree that it will no longer be able to sustain us and we'll go the route of the dinosaurs

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more importantly, if we leave the planet, why would we go to the moon instead of a place that would actually be getting away from whatever dangers are going to befall earth in the future?

exit, planet bust

this planet is going to disintegrate in 5 billion years, we need to move out before then

plus we need people all over the place to prevent the heat death of the universe. still a lot of work to do on that front and the universe isn't exactly getting any younger

basically population growth is outstripping our ability to alter and control the ecosystem - its totally conceivable that this planet could sustain billions more humans, but the social engineering required to make that practical is way beyond what we're currently capable of. we can't even manage a framework to adapt to global climate changes. so we either figure out a way for the species to continue to expand and reproduce - which requires expanding our species' reach beyond this radioactive polluted crap-hole - or the species is going to extinguish itself.

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people cannot prevent the heat death of the universe. they cannot create new energy.

more importantly, if we leave the planet, why would we go to the moon instead of a place that would actually be getting away from whatever dangers are going to befall earth in the future?

because to get there you need FUEL, most of which you are going to expend getting out of earth's gravity well. So if you can stop at the moon and re-fuel on your way to Mars, that makes a huge difference. It's easier to get to other planets from the moon than it is to get to earth - the moon has no gravity.

thx for all the joek answers tho guys lol

tbqh I think it's sad that most people are like "lol space" w/out giving any consideration to the actual science/mechanics/rationale involved way to go guys

i don't see us figuring out deep space travel, finding a hospitable planet and getting their before we toast this place. or sort our shit out. not saying "lol space" so much as if i had to order likely scenarios from most likely it would go like this:
1 - we destroy our planet and ourselves
2 - we get a grip and figure out how to live sustainably
3 - we move to another planet

but i do get what you're saying about why water on the moon is good news.

I don't think scenarios 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive but yeah the odds are kinda against us at the moment and scenario 1 seems most likely

otoh commercial low orbit space travel looks like it's going to happen within the next decade or so. baby steps.

I would feel a tiny bit more hopeful even if there were just, y'know a handful of people living somewhere other than Earth within the next few decades. a small sliver of hope that if we all go up in a puff of smoke there will still remnants of a semi-intelligent gene pool out there

this is freeman dyson stuff isn't it? though he's noted as a climate change skeptic now. i think his point is that the chance of another end-of-the-dinosaurs collision with a comet or meteor is non-zero. something will kill us eventually if we stay here.

I'm familiar with Dyson but I don't think this "we must get off this planet to survive as a species" angle is in any way unique to him. tons of scientists note this.

we must get off this planet for the fuck of it?

i mean, what happened to spirit of exploration and all that?