Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons

[Denny Crane]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/water-moon-nasa-impact-probe/story?id=11939079

Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons

Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust.

But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.

That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.

If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.

 

[Denny Crane]

Seems like a good reason to reconsider colonizing the place. The silver, mercury, and other things they found might give it some commercial viability as well.

 

[barfo]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/water-moon-nasa-impact-probe/story?id=11939079

Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons

Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust.

But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.

That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.

If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.

Why in hell do we need 1500 swimming pools on the moon? Science, what a crock. Wastes money we could use to kill people here on earth.

barfo

 

[agoo]

Those single rate boxes from USPS would probably help out with the shipping costs too.

 

[Denny Crane]

At 1/6th the gravity, launching stuff off the moon back to earth (or mars) would be a lot more optimal than launching anything from earth.

USPS.

 

[DaRizzle]

I want to live there...I can get cable and internet there right?

 

[maxiep]

Fiji Water sells for roughly $2.00 a liter. How much would moon water sell for?

 

[barfo]

Fiji Water sells for roughly $2.00 a liter. How much would moon water sell for?

The price would be out of this world. Sky high. Astronomical.

barfo

 

[DaRizzle]

mmmmm...moon water...now thats gonna be a booming business.

anybody wanna loan me some cash?

Jay-Z will be poppin that shit like its water