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Anonymous Coward User ID: 767228 United States 09/23/2009 08:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wtf is this true? and how has no other space agency found this before? Quoting: SumoThat's what I was thinking. My thought too. Shouldn't this be the biggest headline everywhere? Water on the moon! That's simply amazing. (Although admittedly less so than the moon base and population of Annunaki/Reptilians/AncientEgyptians/Incans/Niburans/SpacePoodles who reside underground) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 766263 Canada 09/23/2009 10:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This picture is incredible! [link to www.timesonline.co.uk] Quoting: SumoBig bang • The Moon is 4.6 billion years old, about the same age as the Earth • It is thought to have formed from a giant dust cloud caused when a rogue planet collided with the Earth • It is 238,000 miles from the Earth • Gravity on the Moon is a sixth of that on Earth |
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Xenus User ID: 762820 Australia 09/23/2009 10:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA is still going to smash that probe into a crater in the south pole of the moon on the 9th of October to search for evidence of water. Something tells me they are not looking for evidence of water, otherwise they would have found it looooong ago. That crater is THE coldest place in our solar system. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 766263 Canada 09/23/2009 10:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA is still going to smash that probe into a crater in the south pole of the moon on the 9th of October to search for evidence of water. Something tells me they are not looking for evidence of water, otherwise they would have found it looooong ago. Quoting: Xenus 762820That crater is THE coldest place in our solar system. Is it true ? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 718510 United States 09/23/2009 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The water isn't floating in ponds and oceans, please be at least moderately scientifically intelligent, shall we? it is chemically bound up in other substances. Water can NOT exsist in the open on the moon in a free state, there is no atmosphere, zero pressure, and the temp extremes vary between freeze and fry to an order of magnitude. Even as solid ice, it would sublimate off into space as vapor. it may be technically water, but in no form you could recognize or do anything with without refining it via some process to sperate and concentrate it as H2O. |
The Commentator User ID: 587619 United States 09/23/2009 10:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Gosh being to the moon as we have been you would think we would of seen some water or signs of it.... Unless we havent been there yet.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 714023Or if we didn't look at the right place at the right time. But then that conclusion requires you actually know something so I don't expect it to come to your class of mind. non sufficit Orbis Being a zetatard means never having to make sense. "Nancy pays me to post on Her threads" Free Store admits to being a paid zetadrool shill NO max/bridget EVER!!!!! NO luser EVER!!! NO clunker EVER!!!!! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 762820 Australia 09/23/2009 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA is still going to smash that probe into a crater in the south pole of the moon on the 9th of October to search for evidence of water. Something tells me they are not looking for evidence of water, otherwise they would have found it looooong ago. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 766263That crater is THE coldest place in our solar system. Is it true ? If you had bothered to read the article you would see that it is (until we find something even colder). However they chose the crater first and then sent the probe out, which then measured the temperature ranges at different times and in different orbits around the moon. [link to www.space.com] ""Diviner has recorded minimum daytime brightness temperatures in portions of these craters of less than -397 degrees Fahrenheit," said David Paige, Diviner's principal investigator and a UCLA professor of planetary science. "These super-cold brightness temperatures are, to our knowledge, among the lowest that have been measured anywhere in the solar system, including the surface of Pluto."" The question we should be asking now is, why would NASA not have simply used the same instrument that was on board the Indian probe to find water? After all that is exactly what NASA is trying to achieve with their probe, isn't it....? Not to mention the instrument which detected water belongs to NASA. WTF? "The M3, an imaging spectrometer, was designed to search for water by detecting the electromagnetic radiation given off by different minerals on and just below the surface of the Moon. Unlike previous lunar spectrometers, it was sensitive enough to detect the presence of small amounts of water. M3 was one of two Nasa instruments among 11 pieces of equipment from around the world on Chandrayaan-1" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 767228 United States 09/23/2009 10:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The water isn't floating in ponds and oceans, please be at least moderately scientifically intelligent, shall we? it is chemically bound up in other substances. Water can NOT exsist in the open on the moon in a free state, there is no atmosphere, zero pressure, and the temp extremes vary between freeze and fry to an order of magnitude. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 718510Even as solid ice, it would sublimate off into space as vapor. it may be technically water, but in no form you could recognize or do anything with without refining it via some process to sperate and concentrate it as H2O. I'm not a chemist, so a sincere question here. If the temp was -300-some K in the crater, would sublimation occur or could ice exist at that temp even in the absence of pressure? |
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The Commentator User ID: 587619 United States 09/23/2009 10:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The water isn't floating in ponds and oceans, please be at least moderately scientifically intelligent, shall we? it is chemically bound up in other substances. Water can NOT exsist in the open on the moon in a free state, there is no atmosphere, zero pressure, and the temp extremes vary between freeze and fry to an order of magnitude. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 767228Even as solid ice, it would sublimate off into space as vapor. it may be technically water, but in no form you could recognize or do anything with without refining it via some process to sperate and concentrate it as H2O. I'm not a chemist, so a sincere question here. If the temp was -300-some K in the crater, would sublimation occur or could ice exist at that temp even in the absence of pressure? Sublimation would happen, but the current thinking is the rate of loss is matched by incoming hydrogen from the Sun via the solar wind. Hope this helps. Of course as we learn more that may well be proven wrong. non sufficit Orbis Being a zetatard means never having to make sense. "Nancy pays me to post on Her threads" Free Store admits to being a paid zetadrool shill NO max/bridget EVER!!!!! NO luser EVER!!! NO clunker EVER!!!!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 750880 United States 09/23/2009 10:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This picture is incredible! [link to www.timesonline.co.uk] Quoting: Sumoold news Thread: WATER ON THE MOON!!!!! |
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Xenus User ID: 762820 Australia 09/23/2009 10:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The water isn't floating in ponds and oceans, please be at least moderately scientifically intelligent, shall we? it is chemically bound up in other substances. Water can NOT exsist in the open on the moon in a free state, there is no atmosphere, zero pressure, and the temp extremes vary between freeze and fry to an order of magnitude. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 718510Even as solid ice, it would sublimate off into space as vapor. it may be technically water, but in no form you could recognize or do anything with without refining it via some process to sperate and concentrate it as H2O. "Water gets even weirder at colder temperatures, where it can exist as a liquid in a supercooled state well below its ordinary freezing point. Recent evidence suggests that supercooled water splits its personality into two distinct phases-another oddity unseen in other liquids. And last year, water surprised scientists yet again, when they found that at -63 degrees Celsius, supercooled water's weird behavior returns to "normal."" [link to findarticles.com] And a full list; [link to www1.lsbu.ac.uk] Are you an expert in how water behaves? You write as if you know everything yet your ignorance is showing. |