Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
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Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#2> With enough ice sitting at the surface—within the top few millimeters—water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface.
OR: It could be collected, shipped back to earth, bottled, and sold to the wealthy at ludicrous prices.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#3> With enough ice sitting at the surface—within the top few millimeters—water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface. OR: It could be collected, shipped back to earth, bottled, and sold to the wealthy at ludicrous prices.
I think the wealthy would rather take a vacation to the moon.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#4> With enough ice sitting at the surface—within the top few millimeters—water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface. OR: It could be collected, shipped back to earth, bottled, and sold to the wealthy at ludicrous prices.
I think the wealthy would rather take a vacation to the moon.
Likely, but the ice-mining scheme will be much easier to pull off, and will therefore be possible sooner, and is therefore more likely to be the primary means by which these resources are exploited.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the wealthy would rather take a vacation to the moon.
Likely, but the ice-mining scheme will be much easier to pull off, and will therefore be possible sooner, and is therefore more likely to be the primary means by which these resources are exploited.
To save mass (and thus cost) they'll probably dehydrate the water before shipping it back to Earth. Their target market won't care.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely, but the ice-mining scheme will be much easier to pull off, and will therefore be possible sooner, and is therefore more likely to be the primary means by which these resources are exploited.
To save mass (and thus cost) they'll probably dehydrate the water before shipping it back to Earth. Their target market won't care.
Or they could sell it in different concentrations. You can get 1% moonwater for $1000/bottle, or 99% moonwater for $100K/bottle.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely, but the ice-mining scheme will be much easier to pull off, and will therefore be possible sooner, and is therefore more likely to be the primary means by which these resources are exploited.
To save mass (and thus cost) they'll probably dehydrate the water before shipping it back to Earth. Their target market won't care.
On the other hand, they also believe in homeopathy, so you would only need 1 litre of moon water to produce billions.
edit: excalibur beat me to it.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#8Just a question, is there any reason why whenever we detect frozen water its on the north pole or south pole of any circular object in solar system? I guess ones of them is sun heating up everything in the equator region.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely, but the ice-mining scheme will be much easier to pull off, and will therefore be possible sooner, and is therefore more likely to be the primary means by which these resources are exploited.
To save mass (and thus cost) they'll probably dehydrate the water before shipping it back to Earth. Their target market won't care.
They could also split it up, and ship the gases in compressed form.
Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
#10> With enough ice sitting at the surface—within the top few millimeters—water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface. OR: It could be collected, shipped back to earth, bottled, and sold to the wealthy at ludicrous prices.
“We’re taking waters. Would you like a water?”
“Why not?” said Novak.
Daizaburo signaled a crab. It began speaking Nihongo. “English, please,” said Daizaburo.
“Antarctic glacier water,” offered the crab. “A deep core from Pleistocene deposits. Entirely unpolluted, undisturbed since the dawn of humanity. Profoundly pure.”
“What a delightful conceit,” said Novak. “Very Vietti.”
“We have lunar water,” said the crab. “Very interesting isotopic properties.”
“Did you ever drink water from the moon, my dear?” Novak asked her.
Maya shook her head.
“We’ll have the lunar water,” Novak ordered.
--Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire.
(I should really reread that. Thanks for reminding me!)