Scientists Find Huge Quantities of Water Ice on the Moon

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Scientists Find Huge Quantities of Water Ice on the Moon

Illustration based on a NASA photo

There may be more than 600 million metric tons of water ice sitting in craters at the moon’s north pole. The discovery, made by an Indian spacecraft, could mean big things for human colonization of our nearest neighbor.

BBC:

A radar experiment aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water ice near the Moon’s north pole.

The US space agency’s (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water ice.

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By dihey, March 2, 2010 at 11:32 am Link to this comment

“Colonization”? LOL!

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By tom, March 2, 2010 at 11:26 am Link to this comment
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Great! Now the USA can construct a massive military outpost, er, embasssy, on the moon and waste billions more tax dollars while countless thousands die weekly right here on earth due to poverty and lack of water.

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By WykydRed, March 2, 2010 at 10:41 am Link to this comment

Ohhhh yes. What a happy thing to rape next! What will evah be NASA’s new flag? We came, we took, we ripped this thing a new one!

Personally, I hope every bit of ice is humongously poisonous to all human life and there isn’t one teentsy fleck of anything “valuable” in all of it.

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By Vic Anderson, March 2, 2010 at 7:09 am Link to this comment
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Let the Indians have at it! (NASA, SHUT UP!)

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By Lawrence, March 2, 2010 at 12:55 am Link to this comment
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Quick estimate that equivalent of water for 10,000 people for 450 years assuming 100 gallons per person per day. Or 100,000 people for 550 years assumeing 8 gallons per day.

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