Quest to find water on the moon moves closer to launch

spaceflightnow.com ^ | 15 Jan 08 | NASA

[RightWhale]

There are earlier threads about looking for water on the moon. The whole campaign is highly disjointed and irregular. Moon missions ought to be flying every day using off the shelf parts from Tandy. Dump the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and everybody would be launching stuff to the moon, not just NASA, India, China, Google, Japan.

[USMCPOP]

Rumor has it that water has been spotted in the vicinity of New Orleans.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Never mind the water. What the world needs now is OIL. Sweet oil! It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.

[RightWhale]

Out there are entire planets of oil.

[AntiKev]

You’re wrong. The technology is there to move beyond crude oil. We just haven’t done it yet because oil has been so cheap. Now that the price of oil is going through the roof, these methods become increasingly economically feasible. And no, I’m not talking about corn ethanol.

[RightWhale]

FedGov had $10 billion allocated to synthfuel in 1948. They forgot about it during the next 20 years of worldwide oil glut. No oil glut now, not since 1973, and why synthfuel wasn’t developed then would be criminal if that classification existed for national gov’t.

[ASA Vet]

Rumor has it that water has been spotted in the vicinity of New Orleans.

This good Samaritan was spotted, in the rumored water, salvaging beer for a hapless store owner.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

There will be no Mars human exploration without discovery of water on the moon. Payload just too great.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

FedGov had $10 billion allocated to synthfuel in 1948. They forgot about it during the next 20 years of worldwide oil glut. No oil glut now, not since 1973, and why synthfuel wasn’t developed then would be criminal if that classification existed for national gov’t.

You are so right.

[RightWhale]

Russians have announced they are going send an expedition to Mars. That will be awesome, especially the expense if they land rather than just fly by and we hope they get home all right although the odds are not good.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

They going to adhere the frozen H20 to one side of the exterior of the spacecraft to cut down on solar radiation? This is a dangerous mission and radiation will be severe. It’s not like Columbus taking off from Genoa.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

AntiKev, do you know what “facetious” means?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

They going to adhere the frozen H20 to one side of the exterior of the spacecraft to cut down on solar radiation? This is a dangerous mission and radiation will be severe. It's not like Columbus taking off from Genoa.

[for some reason this post did not take the first time around and so I'm trying again]

[Zuben Elgenubi]

first time that has happened to me. Sorry about the double post.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Out there are entire planets of oil.

Am I the only one who got paid today?

[RightWhale]

The database has been working sporadically for a couple weeks. It gets so nobody knows what has gone through or not until later when the webmasters get it going again for a while.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Thanks RW, I haven’t been posting that much so now I know.

[AntiKev]

Yep. But you never know with some people on this forum.

[USMCPOP]

Water on the Moon?

[ASA Vet]

Can't see photobucket stuff on this government computer.
Of course I'm on lunch break, why would you think differently?