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Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons
ABC News ^ | Oct 21, 2010 | NED POTTER

Posted on 10/22/2010 11:23:14 AM PDT by ColdOne

Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust.

But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; lunarcapture; lunarorigin; moon; themoon; water
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To: Mojave

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch


21 posted on 10/22/2010 12:15:26 PM PDT by Flightdeck (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: EggsAckley
Obozo sez “we’ve been there before.”

He should go there... just to make sure!

22 posted on 10/22/2010 12:22:19 PM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: ColdOne

http://milesmathis.com/tide.html

The solar tide on the Moon should be 171 times smaller than the terrestrial effect. More importantly, the visible tide on the Moon should be symmetrical front and back. Is this what we find? Not at all. The Moon rotates relative to the Sun, so we would not expect to find a solar effect on the Moon, beyond a tiny constant shift in the crust opposite the direction of this rotation. The rotation of the Moon on its axis relative to the Sun does not cause a further tide from the Sun, or add to the tidal effect, but it acts to shift the tides we have already calculated, just as the rotation of the Earth shifts the ocean tides, causing them to travel.


23 posted on 10/22/2010 12:31:52 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: sodpoodle

Thank you for link!


24 posted on 10/22/2010 12:44:17 PM PDT by ColdOne (GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^))...../When Obama fails America Wins!)
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To: ColdOne

If we use water on the moon, it’s not like it’s going anywhere. It will still be there when we are done with it.


25 posted on 10/22/2010 1:51:46 PM PDT by Defiant (I'm a Fabian Co nstitutionalist. Roll back FDR and progressivism!)
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To: Pecos

English would do just fine there.

Anyway, remember of the primary arguments against a lunar base? What good will it do, there’s nothing there anyway.
Now we’re finding all kinds of elements.

IMAGINE if Nixon hadn’t slashed Apollo, and a subsequent moonshot might have discovered this, after all we did bring rocks back.

We had a commanding lead in space exploration.

Now, in the eloquent words of the President, “....we’ve already been there”.

This news just made me sad. Shortsightedness by Nixon and the Democrats robbed us.


26 posted on 10/22/2010 2:01:11 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: SampleMan

The mini-SAR radar of Chandrayaan-1 as well as LRO has detected what appear to be relatively pure water ice sheets at least two meters thick.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/multimedia/feature_ice_like_deposits.html


28 posted on 10/22/2010 2:42:21 PM PDT by HopDavid
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To: Defiant
If we use water on the moon, it’s not like it’s going anywhere. It will still be there when we are done with it.

Depends on how well the Authority extracts the moisture from the hydroponically-grown wheat that Luna ships to Earth.

29 posted on 10/22/2010 3:12:23 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Mojave

Well, yes, that is one caveat—any water that is shipped off the moon will be lost, but keep in mind, we will probably be bringing in more than we take. People coming to work on the moon won’t need to take any home if they return to earth, but they will probably bring some with them, in the form of bodily fluids, food and bottled water. The only ones taking water will be missions to Mars that leave from the Moon. I think the Moon gains water in that equation.


30 posted on 10/22/2010 3:45:51 PM PDT by Defiant (I'm a Fabian Co nstitutionalist. Roll back FDR and progressivism!)
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31 posted on 10/22/2010 4:12:17 PM PDT by KevinDavis (President Obama: The Crybaby in Chief...)
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Thanks ColdOne for the topic, and thanks KevinDavis for the ping.
 
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32 posted on 10/22/2010 7:49:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Front sight looks a little high, will most likely cause him to drop too low, otherwise, looks like a good nasa launch platform.


33 posted on 10/22/2010 7:52:17 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: swarthyguy

They were just following orders.


34 posted on 10/22/2010 8:13:36 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm


35 posted on 10/22/2010 8:16:27 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: ColdOne

The next faked moon landing will have to be filmed at a Beverly Hills swimming pool.


36 posted on 10/22/2010 8:21:50 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ColdOne

I wonder what Lunar Water District #4 will charge per gallon?


37 posted on 10/22/2010 9:23:28 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: ColdOne

I have to say it (even if Carl Sagan never did): “BILLIONS and BILLIONS!”


38 posted on 10/23/2010 9:27:26 AM PDT by mrreaganaut (When can the Martian Republic declare independence from Earth?)
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To: Revolting cat!

They should do it in a Houston bayou. :)


39 posted on 10/23/2010 3:23:02 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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