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> 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.
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It's almost as though science is a complex job that occasionally requires a lot of work.
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.
I'm not sure about this case in particular, but in general this is actually a good argument as to why something would take longer than usual. A lot of work has to be verified, especially groundbreaking work.
Water = fuel as much as it is important to life. Weaker gravity well + infrastructure should = cheaper exploration.
Just 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.
brundolf's response plus atmosphere, which can diffuse energy from near the equator to other parts of the planet via convection, although Venus ice caps are still colder than Earth's, so not sure anymore... The universe is a complex place.
> 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.
> 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, >
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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/
Water = fuel as much as it is important to life. Weaker gravity well + infrastructure should = cheaper exploration.
This is interesting, I didn't think of it like that. You're saying the moon should be used as a base because less energy is required to leave the moon. I wonder if those savings amortize the up-front cost of creating a self-sufficient moon base.
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$ base64 -d ~/tmp/wtf.txt uZbase64: invalid input Edit: I suck and forgot to remove the leading stuff. I love the internet today. If anyone is wondering it is SFW.
On mac others might want to: # filename - wherever you pasted the base64 string FILE= && base64 -D $FILE.txt >> $FILE.png && open $FILE.png
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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/