Study Suggests Much More Water On the Moon Than Thought (phys.org) 71
davidwr writes: Two days after the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, the journal Nature Geoscience published a paper claiming there may be "thick ice deposits inside permanently shadowed simple craters" on the moon. The paper compares craters on the moon to similar craters on Mercury that are known to contain thick ice deposits. While the article is paywalled, the dataset, code, references, and supplemental information are available on the abstract's page. If the researchers' ideas prove correct, it would mean that there are millions of tons of ice on the surface of the moon -- far more than has been thought by most moon scientists.
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Later posts will discover more water in the submission, though.
Well, sure (Score:5, Funny)
There's very little thought on the Moon. It's easy for there to be much more water.
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I'm given to understand that there's even less inference than thought. Four digit ID? I smell Moon-man.
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There's very little thought on the Moon. It's easy for there to be much more water.
At least when the theme park gets built they will be able to have a log flume or two.
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There's very little thought on the Moon.
There's not much more on Earth either.
Can't wait for them to name a crater after... (Score:2)
...Sonja Henie
Re: Can't wait for them to name a crater after... (Score:2)
Peggy Fleming!
Well don't worry (Score:4, Insightful)
If humanity ever gets to the point of mining it it won't be there for long. Our track record with natural resources is pretty appalling and there's no reason to think this would change on another planet.
On the other hand.. consider coal.Re: Well don't w (Score:2)
Resource discovery sometime leads to accelerating discovery and exploitation of even more. ( and ultimately to its replacdment by newer resource paradigms. tak
Ecoal for an unfortunate example. A little coal exploitation led to steam power and steel which led to vastly greater coal explotatation. And now we can hopefully move beyond coal. so a a limited amount of acid on thr moon leads to... ad astra ?
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Coal mining led to steam power? Who knew?
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Re:Flat earthers (Score:2)
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his is an investment of a lifetime!
A trillion-dollar investment with a quadrillion-dollar payoff but don't worry; they don't want your money.
It's not about what; it's about where - Gravity wells, shitstain.
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A trillion-dollar investment with a quadrillion-dollar payoff but don't worry; they don't want your money.
Who is going to buy that "quadrillion dollar payoff", then ?
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with a market value well into the thousands of dollars!
Have you not noticed what water merely from a glacier here on Earth costs? Bottled Moon water would demand a serious premium.
Poor Dumb Me (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Poor Dumb Me (Score:5, Informative)
Odd how all the ice moons of jupiter and saturn still exist after billions of years isn't it not to mention saturns rings which are almost entirely made of ice. Clue - for ice to sublime it needs a certain amount of heat.
It amazes me quite how many scientifically clueless clowns lread a technical site like this. Are you a web dev by any chance?
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So you're implying that all web devs are clowns just because they are web devs ? Well you must be a fucking fun person to be around with. Nah.. you're just a bitter twat.
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Web development has taken over from VB as the baby walker of the programming world. A lot of people start off there but most eventually move on to grown up languages like C++, C# or Java. The ones that don't are either graphic designers out of their depth or just useless coders.
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"Web development has taken over from VB as the baby walker of the programming world."
Ha ha... I like that one!
"A lot of people start off there but most eventually move on to grown up languages like C++, C# or Java."
WERP? You just included Java as a "grown up" language? yea, I don't think I would call Java a mature anything other than a bastardized language being mangled everywhere it goes.
Though I will agree with your comment about useless coders, there are a lot of those around and probably the biggest r
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"as if any kind of programming turns you into a scientist, or even gives you scientific knowledge about non programming things"
Other way around - you have to have a certain level of intelligence to use languages like C++ effectively.
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"So you're implying that all web devs are clowns just because they are web devs ?"
He did not say this, though it would be unsurprising to learn that a web dev would think so.
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Had you considered the temperature that your bell jar was a factor in that experimental result?
Liquid water can't exist in a vacuum, but solid ice certainly can... if it's cold enough, and places on the moon that don't get sunlight are *definitely* cold enough.
Finally! (Score:1)
Now I know where to start my whaling business.
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Now I know where to start my whaling business.
Good news is, the whales will be easy to catch since the water is frozen as ice; they can't swim away.
What's the hangup? (Score:2)
Okay, so low-moisture, not no-moisture, but (Score:2)
Study? What study? (Score:2)
Just ask the Nazi, they built a base there in the 1980's. Surely they found something in the last four decades.
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Paywalls? (Score:3)
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Technologically, yes.
The cost to get it all going again, however, is definitely an impediment.
It's not like things were mothballed and put into storage. Equipment was decommissioned and dismantled. People were no longer being trained for the missions, etc.
And the net cost to actually send a person into space even after all of the other infrastructure is there hasn't dropped either, even though the technology has vastly improved sin
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How deep craters? (Score:2)
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Yeah, until someone invents batteries, lack of direct solar exposure will be a real problem!
We're running low on plutonium for those batteries.
Ignore this post (Score:3)
need to fix a fat finger mod.
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You're not the boss of me! I refuse to ignore this post. Not only did I read it, I commented on it too!