BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!

Subject: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:03 PM

There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday, and considerable amounts of it.
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"Indeed yes, we found water," Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference.

The confirmation of scientists' suspicions is welcome news both to future explorers who might set up home on the lunar surface and to scientists who hope that the water, in the form of ice accumulated over billions of years, could hold a record of the solar system's history.

The satellite, known as Lcross (pronounced L-cross), slammed into a crater near the Moon's south pole a month ago. The impact carved out a hole 60- to 100-feet wide and kicked up at least 24 gallons of water.

"We got more than just whiff," said Peter H. Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University and a co-investigator of the mission. "We practically tasted it with the impact."

For more than a decade, planetary scientists have seen tantalizing hints of water ice at the bottom of these cold craters where the sun never shines. The Lcross mission consisted of two pieces — an empty rocket stage to carve into the lunar surface and a small spacecraft to measure what was kicked up, but it too slammed into the surface.

For space enthusiasts who stayed up, or woke up early, to watch the impact on Oct. 9, the event was anticlimactic, even disappointing, as they failed to see the anticipated debris plume. But NASA later said that a plume was indeed photographed; the live video stream was not properly attuned to pick out the details.

The water findings come from analysis of the slight shifts in color after the impact, showing telltale signs of water.

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:23 PM

So on the moon you find water in a place where the sun don't shine?

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:34 PM

"Ok, Captain...I've dug it up, and put it in this bucket. But how do I defrost it and get it into my suit supply?"

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:37 PM

A crater 60 x 100 for 24 gallons. Seems like if that water is to be exploited strip mining the moon is called for. Why not? It already looks like Sudbury.

Sudbury Moonscape

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: maeve
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:37 PM

"There's a hole in the bucket, dear William..."

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:38 PM

Keep a movin Dan
Don't you listen to him, Dan.
He's a devil not a man
And he paints the lunar land
With water.



Now it's a music thread.

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 01:39 PM

As I said, they confirmed our results from the mid 1990's.


Check Clementine / DSPSE

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 02:08 PM

24 gallons of water in a crater 60 x 100 feet? That's more than you'd get in the same size crater here.

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 02:53 PM

Giant sips are what they take.
Water on the moon ♫쳌ô

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 05:30 PM

Won't the lunatics get mad if we take away their ice water?

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 06:21 PM

Did they find any Swine Flu shots with all that money? Or mosquito nets? or... you know... useful things.

Yeah, I know. We gotta spend $ on research because ya never know... sorry... just bein an asshole yet again posting a thought for consideration. No need to shit on me for whatever reason. But, I know it will happen.

Sure as there's water on the moon.

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 06:33 PM

Ya' know...........I'm sure there was a time in my life when this would have been really exciting but now it just strikes me as who gives a shit. Wait a minute.......maybe I always thought that.............But listen, keep me posted if they find Bourbon huh?


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 06:42 PM

Shucks, they got water and moonshine, Spaw. Gotta have water cuz the moon is so rough ya can't drink it no other way.

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:00 PM

Conspircy guys say it actually was filmed crashin' into Sudbury, not the moon....and on a Saturday night, while the girls were out to bingo, just as Stomp'in Tom Connors predicted.

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:08 PM

Big deal!

Now if they'd found Scotch or Bourbon...

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:10 PM

The water's there for the bourbon. No trees, though. It isn't branch water!

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 11:31 PM

'Big deal!

Now if they'd found Scotch or Bourbon...'

Well, it obviously is a big deal, Charley. Why, haven't you noticed it is even memorialised in today's Google variant heading? How much bigger a deal can you have than THAT!

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 09 - 09:46 AM

Whoo hoo! Let's go! Then we can have another Australia and beget another *really* interesting generation

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Nov 09 - 10:13 AM

"Google variant heading"? So that was that was all about!

But now it's just so much water over the Mare Incognitum.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: WATER on the MOON!!!!
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Nov 09 - 12:17 PM

I know what I was thinkin...

ANOTHER non-renewable resource to EXPLOIT!

I can't wait to get to the moon and hire native labor to shovel up the free di-hydrogen monoxide. Gonna be a great day for state-funded capital development I tells ya!

Robo (J.R.)matic