why is there water on the moon?

dudes
remember how last month nasa crashed a rocket into the moon?
apparently the preliminary chemical analysis of the dust plume created shows that it contained water.
astronomy pic o th day 18 nov 09
so how did water get on the moon, eh?

why not?

yeah man what's yr deal, water should be available to anyone or any planet

fuckin fascist

obama is trying to take away the moons water

first they came for the water on the moon
and i said nothing, because i wasnt on the moon, and didnt know about the water, or anything

so the revolting onion men can keep hydrated.

In case the moon gets thirsty?

i think he wants to give it to ppl that haven't worked to earn their water, imo

maybe you should be asking why there is a moon in the first place @_@

honestly not even convinced there is

it probably tastes gross.

cheese water ew

how could the moon control tides without water, duh

also how could the moon control menstruation without water, duh

also how could the moon control werewolves without water, duh

I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but water's on the moon)

sorry i guess that was redundant since obviously tides, menstruation, and werewolves are all kind of the same thing

the underground rivers of the moon course with silver blood

Water got there when Neil Armstrong took a pee behind the moon lander.

thus the moon creation myth was born

how else did the sea of tranquility get its name

lil moon kids will be hearing about the time god peed life into the moon for years to come

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who in 1969 made his historic Apollo 11 moonwalk with Neil Armstrong, was pleased to hear the latest discovery, but still believes the U.S. should focus on colonizing Mars.

"People will overreact to this news and say, `Let's have a water rush to the moon,'" Aldrin said. "It doesn't justify that."

what, are you gonna punch them in the face if they say that? you old ass?

If you attempted to pee on the moon your urine would turn into steam the second it exited your body.

http://www.guzer.com/photo/science-fair/science-fair-1.jpg

no it would probably just slosh around in your space suit

unless you're dumb enough to get your dong out on moonland

do you want your dong to blow up like arnold schwarzenegger's head in total recall?

Sort of.

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But that's not a problem if you're standing on the dark side. Hence the line in the closing track of Pink Floyd's famous album: "I'll pee here on the dark side of the moon".

HA AHAHHAHHA HAA

If you attempted to pee on the moon your urine would turn into steam the second it exited your body.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:58 PM (2 minutes ago)

tell it to our lord and savior Neil Armstrong when you get to the gates of moon heaven, unbeliever

"People will overreact to this news and say, `Let's have a water rush to the moon,'" Aldrin said. "It doesn't justify that."

buzz u r grossly overestimating the public's interest in space

Another consideration is that the force of your micturation might be enough to cause your body to reach escape velocity in the moon's reduced gravity field. You could pee yourself into the oblivion of space, or if you're lucky, straight into the sun.

moon babies

you obv dont realize that Neil Armstrong put the laws of force and gravity into the world to TEST YOUR FAITH xpost

LETS HAVE A WATER RUSH TO THE MOON!!!

GUYS!!

I'm peeing on an Apollo 11 mission patch right now. Let's see if it bursts into flame.

it doesn't justify that, xp

listen 2 buzz

FOR SCIENCE

BUT THE MOON WATER!!

Ooooh, a water rush? Count me in!

Wait - what's a water rush?

Haven't you even seen the Day After Tomorrow? I thought you knew about things.

STOP ASKING QUESTIONS AND GET TO THE MOON STAT!!!!

I'm peeing on an Apollo 11 mission patch right now. Let's see if it bursts into flame.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:07 PM (1 minute ago)

it will just turn into wine, dont you people read your bibles sheesh

i want water from moon drink it turn into cheese moon man

TAKE A MOON WATER BUTT!!

If you believe that, I've got some lunar water rights to sell you.

i'm thirsty should i go to the moon

this is all so stupid, we've known there was water on the moon since at least the early 70s. Gerard K O'Neill talks about it in the High Frontier.

(sorry now back to the COMEDY JOEKS!)

hey if you guys are rushing to the moon, i'm totally in, feeling kinda parched tbh

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Gerard K O'Neill talks about it in the High Frontier.

Maybe your buddy Gerard was "high" when he talked about "Moon Water"

WE R RUSHING 2 THE MOON ASAP!

GOING 2 MOON BRB

ay cankels Science Fair Judges Sought

when come back bring water

Coca-Cola has already bought the moonwater rights from NASA and they are bottling it and selling it as $200/oz Moon2O (except with the 2 as subscript) and the Hollywood Elite such as Paris Hilton et al are going to drink it at their parties and it is going to piss Buzz Aldrin off so much

I would like to drink water from Paris's moon

when you say that do you mean her butt

i can't answer you, i am in space capsule on way to moon

bring tang in case the water tastes all cheesy

it's up to a rag tag bunch of rollerskating orphans to free the water... on the moon

we also have a golden retriever named Bitsy

Buzz doesn't want us going back to the moon in case someone finds the poop he did there.

that is the second glorious mystery

mr que as moohdai

Hey... speaking of poop... do you think outhouses on the moon... do you think their doors... have Earths cut out of them...

the moon doesn't have outhouses, it has two kinds of craters:

1. regular craters
2. "poop" craters

^ this expertise is why they call him "mr.que moon"

DAD

Dad?

your dad makes television references?

did i say 'dad'? i meant 'slocki'

n/a is gbx's dad?

no slocki is

Actually it probably isn't astronaut pee. I remember watching a schools TV programme in 1989*, and one of the kids in the audience asked Buzz how they pee'd. And Aldrin's reply was "we used to use something that looked like a condom". So unless LCROSS hit one of this dead on, it's probably not that.

*which marked the occasion when it had only been 20 years since the moon landing, and now it's 20 years since that programme

there's water on the moon because lizard people use it as a freezer

come to think of it why the hell is there water on EARTH?

MOON MADNESS

dudes
now the science peeps are looking back at photographs of saturn's moon enceledus from 2005
that may show evidence of _UNDERGROUND OCEANS_ dig it
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0911/enceladus12_cassini.jpg

last night the band i'm in played a show with these dudes called this magazine is haunted and they said one of their songs was about water on the moon. srsly

Giant steps are what you take
water on the moon...
I hope my leg don't break
water on the moon

Oh snoball, you do make me laugh sometimes

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1004/apollodrinkingfountain.JPG

^there's a damn drinking fountain up there?!?

Please attend the EAES-WISEST Visiting Scholar April 5th lecture:

“Water on the Moon”
Dr. Maria Zuber, Professor and Head, Department of Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Sciences at MIT
April 5th, 4pm in UIC Lecture Center D4

"Water on the Moon"
One of the primary conclusions of the Apollo program was that the Moon
is “bone dry”. This result was re-enforced by subsequent analyses that
supported the formation of the Moon by the impact of a Mars-sized
protoplanet into the Earth not long after the solar system formed.
Subsequent spacecraft observations, however, raised the possibility
that some water might be preserved in craters that rarely or never see
the sun near the Moon’s poles. Recently, new observations from a NASA
orbiter and impactor showed that hydrogen, possibly in the form of
water ice, exists there and elsewhere. This presentation will
reconstruct the evolution of our understanding of lunar water, and explain the
significance of the findings.

For questions or if any accommodations are required to participate in this event,
contact Linda Siebert, WISEST Director at siebe✧✧✧@u✧✧.e✧✧ or at 5-0849

"lunar water" an incredibly beautiful phrase to my ear

"moon sweat"

oxyhydroxides=moon pie/oreo

Didn't god put it there 5000 years ago?

'moon poop'

APOD for today has more on this subject

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1010/mooncabeus_lcross_big.jpg
Pictured above from LRO, areas in false-color blue indicate the presence of soil relatively rich in hydrogen, which is thought likely bound to sub-surface water ice. Conversely, the red areas are likely dry. The location of the Moon's South Pole is also digitally marked on the image. How deep beneath the surface the ice crystals permeate is still unknown, as well as how difficult it would be to mine the crystals and purify them into drinking water.

water but no whitey

no water kill whitey

this is dumb.

are we really that useless as a planet that we'd have to spend an astronomical amount of money to mine water on the moon, instead of just taking care of the fresh water we have here?!

B..b..but if we don't go there and mine it all the Fundamentalists will get there first.

Then they'll use the water to bombard our cities!

I thought ILC had settled this once and for all

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are we really that useless as a planet that we'd have to spend an astronomical amount of money to mine water on the moon, instead of just taking care of the fresh water we have here?!

we have to get off this planet if we're going to survive as a species

water on the moon means we could set up a station there, people could survive, it could be used as a fuel depot, etc.

water on the moon means we can go surfing on the moon

why do we have to leave the planet?

why not grow inward, like toenails?

manifest destiny motherfucker, only dead things float downstream, etc

because this species is in the process of altering the planet's ecosystem to the degree that it will no longer be able to sustain us and we'll go the route of the dinosaurs

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more importantly, if we leave the planet, why would we go to the moon instead of a place that would actually be getting away from whatever dangers are going to befall earth in the future?

exit, planet bust

this planet is going to disintegrate in 5 billion years, we need to move out before then

plus we need people all over the place to prevent the heat death of the universe. still a lot of work to do on that front and the universe isn't exactly getting any younger

basically population growth is outstripping our ability to alter and control the ecosystem - its totally conceivable that this planet could sustain billions more humans, but the social engineering required to make that practical is way beyond what we're currently capable of. we can't even manage a framework to adapt to global climate changes. so we either figure out a way for the species to continue to expand and reproduce - which requires expanding our species' reach beyond this radioactive polluted crap-hole - or the species is going to extinguish itself.

xp

people cannot prevent the heat death of the universe. they cannot create new energy.

more importantly, if we leave the planet, why would we go to the moon instead of a place that would actually be getting away from whatever dangers are going to befall earth in the future?

because to get there you need FUEL, most of which you are going to expend getting out of earth's gravity well. So if you can stop at the moon and re-fuel on your way to Mars, that makes a huge difference. It's easier to get to other planets from the moon than it is to get to earth - the moon has no gravity.

thx for all the joek answers tho guys lol

tbqh I think it's sad that most people are like "lol space" w/out giving any consideration to the actual science/mechanics/rationale involved way to go guys

i don't see us figuring out deep space travel, finding a hospitable planet and getting their before we toast this place. or sort our shit out. not saying "lol space" so much as if i had to order likely scenarios from most likely it would go like this:
1 - we destroy our planet and ourselves
2 - we get a grip and figure out how to live sustainably
3 - we move to another planet

but i do get what you're saying about why water on the moon is good news.

I don't think scenarios 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive but yeah the odds are kinda against us at the moment and scenario 1 seems most likely

otoh commercial low orbit space travel looks like it's going to happen within the next decade or so. baby steps.

I would feel a tiny bit more hopeful even if there were just, y'know a handful of people living somewhere other than Earth within the next few decades. a small sliver of hope that if we all go up in a puff of smoke there will still remnants of a semi-intelligent gene pool out there

this is freeman dyson stuff isn't it? though he's noted as a climate change skeptic now. i think his point is that the chance of another end-of-the-dinosaurs collision with a comet or meteor is non-zero. something will kill us eventually if we stay here.

I'm familiar with Dyson but I don't think this "we must get off this planet to survive as a species" angle is in any way unique to him. tons of scientists note this.

we must get off this planet for the fuck of it?

i mean, what happened to spirit of exploration and all that?

we're goin nowhere here why can't we go somewhere there

they're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see the moon from land here in america, from a city on the west coast

Does the rebel scientist who 'sneaks a sip' of moon water get a glimpse of the Gods or just a MAJOR case of the montezuma's revenge. I ask real the real questions.

well there's unlikely to be any organisms in it so it's probably like drinking the purest water evah

that's what they'd like you to think

I've seen enough sci-fi films to know it could happen.

love seeing dyson get name dropped!

I'm really not understanding why people are so desperate for us to survive as a species.

what are you, some kind of species traitor

There's gold on the moon. Fuck, maybe right now some private company are mining it as we speak. They're using a percent of the profits to pay off the scientists. Then in a month they'll come out and say "Wait, nvrmnd, we were wrong, there actually isnt gold on the moon!" And they'll be right!

Also the moon water is spiked with LSD.

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dudes there is gravity on the moon it's just mad less cuz it's mass is mad less than earth's
also since i wrote this i have become familiar that there is mad water in space, at first i was like woah dude water how and then when i started to look around more there's a shit ton of hydrogen and as the elements evolve getting more electrons and shit it aint that far to oxygen and blammo electrostatic forces and there's the water which likely freezes pretty soon after that making particles that then are set to acquire more mass as more particles stick to that one and soon enough blammo earth

o_O

lol space is serious business

I'm really not understanding why people are so desperate for us to survive as a species.

― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:22 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

this, really

ya. pretty otm.

ON THE MOON!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RP5AP2YTL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

I'm really not understanding why people are so desperate for us to survive as a species.

Cos survival has taken the place of God as the end-all-be-all meaning of existence in the minds of post-existentialist intellectual thought.

no it hasnt what are you talking about

YOU SAID THERE WAS WATER ON THE MOON AND INSTEAD IT'S JUST MORE GODDAMN COCKSUCKING

Who gonna be the first to drink space water? some dare, i telly you.

i'm not big on survival as a species but i'm huge on survival as an individual

Sure, thats good, Kerm, until you are told to eat space worms as a total meal. gotta think about the friends.

http://sharetv.org/images/guide/206053.jpg

I endorse dorks with high somethings. i wanna be the the dork to drink a gallon of the this dirt water.

My brother, 40, always used to say he didn't want to bring a kid into an overpopulated world where we were fucking up all the resources etc. Now he's settled down with a woman and bought a house and they're trying for a baby. I'd rather drink moon water.

also since i wrote this i have become familiar that there is mad water in space, at first i was like woah dude water how and then when i started to look around more there's a shit ton of hydrogen and as the elements evolve getting more electrons and shit it aint that far to oxygen and blammo electrostatic forces and there's the water which likely freezes pretty soon after that making particles that then are set to acquire more mass as more particles stick to that one and soon enough blammo earth

― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:43 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

how do they work

.nick xpost....................

Moon water is pretty much like mozzarella water. Nasty stuff imo, I for one won't drink that shit.

revolting onion men, on the other hand...

otoh, mozzarella water is hella good 4 ur skin, like comparable to virgin blood, would kill for moon fluid tbh

otooh, is the point

dudes, be science like stfu. 000oo--o

science is never being like stfu

I'm really not understanding why people are so desperate for us to survive as a species.

― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:22 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

cause intelligent life is the universe observing itself, which is pretty woooooooaaah dude; and without it you kind of wonder what the point of it all would be. and we're the only intelligent life we know.

Pretty sure humans aren't the only intelligent life we know.

yeah well i've never heard of a dolphin composing a symphony, or a chimp passing gcse physics.

Well they are kind of slack on the academic side of things, maybe they just don't see the point.

My brother, 40, always used to say he didn't want to bring a kid into an overpopulated world where we were fucking up all the resources etc.

This is an impressive feat of rationalization.

xp Ok sure we can call dolphins and chimps intelligent but I think it's unquestionable that our intelligence is of a different order to the other mammals on the planet. Some of them have self-awareness and awareness of other minds but they don't have language, and they don't have that curiousity about themselves and about the universe that drives us to create and discover.

speciesist!

maybe dolphins once had vast cities and rode in spaceships but noticed it was all a bit rubbish and renounced it all (this is sort of the douglas adams theory i think)

yeah, or were wise enough to never want it in the first place. duh, spaceships are AWESOME!

Now they know there's water on the moon, perhaps they'll be a bit keener on visiting?

I for one welcome etc

yeah well i've never heard of a dolphin composing a symphony, or a chimp passing gcse physics.

Symphony are good for what, exactly? Testing, also?

How do we know dolphins aren't cognizant of multiple physical dimensions, and spend all their time telepathically communicating with intelligent pan-dimensional entities that we will only discover with artificial intelligence in 2100?

woah dudes

also this moonwater business was the cover story of science magazine last week-
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol330/issue6003/images/medium/covermed.gif

COVER Surface temperature map of the south polar region of the Moon acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment. Blue and violet areas are intensely cold impact craters. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft struck one of these craters (near the center of the frame), revealing the presence of water ice and other frozen volatiles. See the six research papers beginning on page 463. Image: David A. Paige/UCLA/JPL/GSFC/NASA

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/330/6003/434

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGY4Z8xEmFw&list=PLN61gg9VNXPomdZu0UY_wwoDkjSdAB_uE&index=7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGY4Z8xEmFw