NASA Says Moon Has More Water Than Great Lakes

jerryjamesstone writes "The US Great Lakes have some competition: the moon. Yes, that old thing in the sky may hold more than all of the water contained in the Great Lakes, according to a NASA-funded study. From the article: 'Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, along with other scientists across the nation, determined that the water was likely present very early in the moon's formation history as hot magma started to cool and crystallize. This finding means water is native to the moon.'"

So wait...

[0100010001010011]

There ARE whales?

libraries of congress...

[Anonymous Coward]

how many libraries of congress would one unit of great lakes flood?

Cheating Moon

[captainpanic]

Whereas the lakes are, well, lakes... the moon is a sort of kinda planet. Planets tend to be bigger than lakes, and therefore I call this cheating.

Obviously, there are planets that are also a giant lake... the earth itself for example is quite wet. But those lakes we shall call oceans. So, oceans can compete with planets, but lakes can't. Ok?

-- wait, that's no moon!

Don't they know that already?

[Seriousity]

In all seriousity, I thought they would have discovered this when they la-

Oh wait, that's right, they never did.

Units

[tomalpha]

How much is that in terms of the size of a more standard unit of measurement [bbc.co.uk] ?

Yes but...

[clickclickdrone]

The stuff on Earth is cheaper to get to (for now)

Re:Cheating Moon

[chill]

Dude, people are still getting over the whole "Pluto not a real planet" thing and here you are promoting Luna to the status of a planet! Have you no SHAME, sir?

Re:The US great lakes?

[Rheostatik]

Well, we are the 51st state, according to douchebags.

Well this gives a sensible answer to one question

[Chrisq]

Never again will we be stumped by atheists when they ask where did all the water go after the flood. We can now tell them that it went to the moon, and scientists have proved it.

Re:Yes

[Hognoxious]

How much Wisconsin does the moon have?

Re:Cheating Moon

[icebike]

When "Dude" was last in vogue, Pluto was still a planet.

Re:So wait...

[jamesh]

There _were_ whales. The whalers on the moon hunted them to extinction.

Re:Cheating Moon

[captainpanic]

In my defense, I promoted Luna to a "sort of kinda planet"... and as far as I am concerned, Pluto is allowed to compete with the great lakes as much as it wants.

Actually, I think this is more complicated than it seems. Planets, moons, oceans and lakes. And then the water may be solid, liquid, gaseous. Bloody hell! We should install a committee to investigate the matter! It will report its findings around March 2017.

-- All your water are belong to us.

Yo dawg

[Anonymous Coward]

I herd you like lakes

Re:Can we drink it?

[delinear]

[...] or at least give it to our plants, ehh?

There's no indication of whether it has electrolytes. That's what plants crave.

Re:So wait...

[DMorritt]

I think he meant "We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there aint no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune." http://theinfosphere.org/The_Series_Has_Landed [theinfosphere.org]

Of Course!

[fabioalcor]

That's because cheese contains water!

Re:libraries of congress...

[Anonymous Coward]

better question.. What are you like after a SECOND cup of coffee?

Nice work!

Re:More than the Great Lakes? [citation needed]

[3waygeek]

Firstly, the water is in the form of hydroxyl and the mineral apartite

Well then, the South Africans should have no problem extracting the water, given their recent history.

Re:but then...

[endymion.nz]

Yards... kilograms... argh. At least you're making an attempt to catch up to the 20th century :)

Re:So wait...

[SpaceCadets]

But it was for research! And they found conclusivly they taste great.