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Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by onemoresoop »

hyperpallium wrote: post #36
onemoresoop wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even sand from the moon would sell for a lot of buck, no need to transport that little water from the moon to Earth where it's abundant, but im sure people would buy end drink that for ridiculous amounts of money.

Your own Personal Moon Sand is incredibly precious... and incredibly attractive to thieves. Let us store it for you. And what safer place to store it than the Moon? And why go there when it would only facilitate theft of your own Personal Moon Sand? Taking orders now.

And also own an acre of land on the moon. Sale is on a first come first serve basis. Only $24.99 per acre *other fees may apply

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by glandium »

toast0 wrote: post #31
excalibur wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or they could sell it in different concentrations. You can get 1% moonwater for $1000/bottle, or 99% moonwater for $100K/bottle.

I think you could do better selling it homeopathic. 1x10^-12 is way more expensive!

10^-12 is only a 6C dilution. The dilution advocated by Hahnemann is 30C, which is 10^-60. Oscillococcinum is at 200C (10^-400).

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by ianai »

cgriswald wrote: post #37
excalibur wrote: post #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.

OR, we could call it H2Moon and heavily imply it is moon water but actually just source it from the local water and run it through a filter, even during droughts.

When can we start?

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by samstave »

throwaway66666 wrote: post #21
excalibur wrote: post #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.

Forget about Lunar Water man, that's so 2002. Let's distill moon stuff and make MOON BEER and MOON VODKA. Oh yeah, >

It comes with a bent swizzle spoon just to confuse people.

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by strainer »

dawnerd wrote: post #3
excalibur wrote: post #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.

I think the wealthy would rather take a vacation to the moon.

I like the idea of sploooshing around in a sublunarrean swimming pool at 1/6th g.

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by Aspos »

kajecounterhack wrote: post #45
Aspos wrote: post #44

So, moon base at a pole can have: 1. Direct sunlight at all times 2. Direct LOS comms to Earth 3. Access to water. Am I correct?

Wrong on #1: moon doesn't have direct sunlight at all times. https://imgur.com/a/rOyNvDG

Aren't poles always illuminated?

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by Aspos »

Aspos wrote: post #48
kajecounterhack wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wrong on #1: moon doesn't have direct sunlight at all times. https://imgur.com/a/rOyNvDG

Aren't poles always illuminated?

Answering my own question: no. Poles would be always illuminated if Sun, Earth and Moon would be rotating along the same plane.
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