Posted on 07/15/2018 7:36:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Funny how it started as water on the moon.
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Not just water on the moon, but the whole space boondoggle.
Eart orbiting sattlites are tremendously useful, but all the rest is insane.
There is more gold in one asteroid than all the world’s gold and mines. Not to mention platinum, silver, iron, copper, titanium, etc. There helium-3 on the moon, which would make a far better nuclear fuel than anything we have. There are also strategic advantages that come with occupying the high ground. Space is full of potential you just don’t see yet.
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You speak nonsense!
Show us the gold in any asteroid!
No asteroid has ever been brought to Earth to examine.
Most meteorites found on earth are mostly iron. You can tell an iron meteor as it falls through the atmosphere displaying a bright white light.
A gold meteor would appear purple but dark and hard to even see.
It’s common knowledge in planetary science that heavy metals are far more abundant in asteroids, because on earth they all sunk to the core while it was molten. But in asteroids, which are the building blocks of planets, those heavy metals are still present. Do you have a specific reason for calling this nonsense?
The reason H2O on Earth’s Moon would be underground is that surface water would boil off in the vacuum & low gravity, ice would sublime, etc. But conditions a few feet down are much different. By your reasoning, the well @ my home must be dry — luckily, conditions 50 ft. down differ from the surface.
As for oxygen, there is lots of oxygen on & in the Moon. Just not in breathable form. It is in the rocks. Look it up.
I agree about the green men and cheese, however. ;-)
You still did not answer my question: If many moons have from some to huge qty’s of H2O in them, why would Earth’s moon not have at least some?
I don’t think there is ice on the moon but if there was, I don’t care.
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