Posted on 06/16/2004 2:30:59 PM PDT by ckilmer
I really, really doubt this hypothesis. It would require millions of comets to provide enough water.
If you could grap an ice comet and land it on the moon, you would have the missing ingredient to make lunar colonies possible. There wouldn't an immediate business application since just snagging the comet would cost $ billions and building the colony would be a lot more.
Maybe there were super-Democrats on primordial Earth, and instead of just crying a river, they went the whole hog.
What sort of dipsh*t 'scientist' can only percieve these two possibilities?
that is the most innane thing i ever heard. Must be government funded researchers wasting time and money.
Wasting European time and money -- it's from ESA.
This sounds to me like a case of money-scrabbling for their pet project.
Isn't that how some nazis believed the master race got here?
Seriously.
Silly -- the moon was formed from the recently discovered "cheesy asteroids."
The oceans came from runoff from the rain in Washington State. I thought everyone knew that.
I cast my vote for the water from comets theory.
The moon wouldn't have been able to retain the water, however.
It's Bush's fault.
Ping.
That's true. The moon is much smaller, though, and doesn't have enough gravity to retain an atmosphere. So if we land an icy comet on the moon for the water, we would have to throw a tarp over it right away or it would all eventually just boil off.
I have read that this theory surmises that we are constantly being "hit" with small comets of water all the time. Interesting theory. It would also explain water on Mars.
I believe our solar system once contained a lot more asteroids and comets than i does today.
This comet theory is, imho, just more liberal/left junk-science. It demonstrates once again the degrading effect of the liberal/left mentality on academia and scientific investigation. The classical and much more likely theory is that the earth's water was formed by the ignition of hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere. Mix hydrogen and oxygen in a testube and ignite it and you get a reaction in the form of an explosion, of which one of the by-products is water.
"The empirical habit of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc (english socialism)." --'1984'
"Science and technology were developing at a prodigius speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen... partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society. ...Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped." ---'1984'
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