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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 TangoTrotFox »

hanniabu wrote: post #70
mirimir wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but eight years? Edit: What I'm getting at is that this seems a profound result, with perhaps crucial implications. Not some minor detail, of only arcane interest.

If only they had a more reasonable budget for their undertakings

I think it's important to question what this means, lest we reward inept agencies with more money. Not to say that the agency that did take this long would necessarily be inept, but if you give access to the sufficient data for let's say a post-doc of appropriate background, would it be reasonable for this single person earning scraps, as post-docs are wont to do, to take e.g. 8 years? It's just quite a peculiar issue.

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

Skunkleton wrote: post #39
ionwake wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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On mac others might want to:

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Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

ionwake wrote: post #35
subcosmos wrote: post #20

Good. We need strong customs enforcement there too.

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Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by siruncledrew »

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.

Nestle is going to try to buy Moon land now.

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by _mrmnmly »

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, >

I see the slogans now: "same great Vyatutas, but from space!"

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by ReverseCold »

ionwake wrote: post #35
subcosmos wrote: post #20

Good. We need strong customs enforcement there too.

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But... why?

I guess there's no chance of link rot this way...

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by pebers »

vanattab wrote: post #63
strainer wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's actually a very interesting idea I have never thought about? How slow would the water fall down and when splashed? Would you have to be careful not to smack the water a whole bunch least you suspend to much mist in the air to make it hard to breath for a while? What would it look like to splash around? I would love to see some cool physically based gpu renderings of what hydro stuff would look like in low g.

Quite a few of the consequences are discussed here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/124/

Re: Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

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Post by mixmastamyk »

madza wrote: post #11
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.

Forgive me. It’s been stuck at the back of my brain for 30 years now. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/

John Matuszak… had forgotten the guy existed, brings back some memories.
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