NASA finally finds water on moon

Yes, because NO scientists are focusing of any of that. ALL scientists on earth are working solely on how to rape the moon of all its natural resources. The word "science" does, after all, come from the Latin word "scientia", meaning "moon-rape".

Your argument is comparable to saying, "Why should we teach high school graduates when there are still people in the world who can't even read? We should should shut down Harvard, Yale, and all other universities, and instead first focus on making sure everyone can receive a childhood education."

Or, "Why should medical scientists try to develop new types of cures and treatments when there are already millions of people who don't have access to already-existing cures and treatments? We should postpone making new medical breakthroughs until everyone has access to the already-existing medical treatments."

In case you can't tell, both of those are really, REALLY stupid arguments.

"This is a good indication that human and science are going in the wrong direction"

Yes, discovering water on the moon is SO evil. God damn mankind! -_-

Funnicus page 2, I stopped watching 20 years ago, couldn't take it any more. It became a pay it over & over movie. Whenever some big company is put in place and soaking up money like a sponge as has also happened to NASA they gain inertia and nothing short of a large force can stop the madness (Daniel 2:44).

Propulsion rockets are a limited run, and yet because so much money has been put into flying turkeys no one will honestly state what you did. It has grown into a ""lesson" of the state for indoctrinating each next generation year by year to look to the Gov for hope, transportation, health and the coming resurrection.

NASA is too big to fail. Teacher's unions => too big to fail. Everything operating across multiple state lines is deemed too big to fail. Some of them really do need to fail because only when they are allowed to fail can something better take their place (and get their money, their funding to get started). As long as the wrong becomes a permanent placeholder enterprise (oil companies?) the money continues being poured into a poisoned well.

In truth we are all chained together on a treadmill from Hell, and it stays turned on.

Hope is a good idea cheeseANDCrackers but any life we find able to kick ass against the conditions on the Moon, Mars or any other rock around here will kick us backwards over Niagara Falls and keep on gettin' up. Pretty much like the movie Independence Day until of course we introduced them to a computer virus that they never ever would have suspected. Maybe we can give them Swine Flu next time.

And just maybe that's already the plan..... deliberate extinction of anything before we reach it.

God knows the "smart people" would never ask. I think the same people who invaded America and treated me like last week's crap must be the same people extending the hand of friendship to the rest of the fat slobs they suspect will give them a problem.

Sometimes, the fat slobs survive.

thanks; it lifts my heart to hear grandfather yellow crow.

Your face is an ugly place!

I care if theres water there and I think its safe to assume everyone who posted above you about how awesome this is probably cares too. Does being such a debbie downer ever get tiring?

Yeah, because the whole point of this was to figure out if the moon would be a prime real estate location. But really, did you think the whole point of this was just so we could move people to the moon?

mizpiz I don't make assumptions of why they are looking for water on the moon. Anyone can see that Nasa employees just make up things to keep their jobs, which is fooling around uselessly and taking claim for tang and velcro. So you get some tang and velcro for 7 trillion dollars. To the idiots claiming they will colonize the moon, I'd like to hear how they intend to do it. Let's see. pump about a million gallons of fuel up there to run bulldozers to move all the dust to the top of the planet, let's see what next? Build your house on the mesa near the seven drops of water they found. Maybe you can do some water skiing. I just wish these people could see how stupid they look to an intelligent person.

1. Funnicus, this solar system is drifting into a meteor field. Earth is a much larger target than the Moon being on the Moon is a much better place to be January 2012.

2. All earth's seeds have been put in a seed repository suitcase. All of humanity's knowledge & literature is on a hard drive.

3. The rats are ready to depart the ship.

4. Finding water on the Moon has told them the universe is a very big well. The go ahead has been given. The universe is human-friendly.

The Moon, once the Earth gravity lock is gone, is one great Noah's ark. I would lay money the "seed repository" also has a lot of animal DNA.

5. a very powerful ion drive was recently developed, strong enough propulsion to move the Moon over to Mars orbit (once Earth is broken up by asteroids and meteors).

6. They know how to terraform Mars.

Does the sky have to hit us in the head?

Veronaaa makes a great point y'all. The Moon's surface layer was like a bottle and NASA just blew a hole in it opening the bottled water to the vacuum of Outer Space. Suck goes the sound of the men working on the chain g-a-a-a-ang. ang.

Ungowah! Me Tarzan. Leave Escartman NOW. But Tarzan, boy says there's gold in the river. Men GO! AAAyyEEHAHHHH. {Elephant stampede]. Hippos in water, okay, queue the lions.

About 42% of the moon is made out of oxygen, which also happens to be sixteen times heavier than the other half of water, hydrogen. Trust me humans will colonize the moon. It's just a matter of time.

Makes sense to me. Rocks in space are just rocks. They don't even have bacteria on them.

If we going to strip mine and such for the things we need to build and we are going to place large dangerous energy sources somewhere might as well be somewhere that's not alive. Somewhere it wont harm us here on Earth.

I don't know about you but if someone asked me to chose which place to dump all our toxic waste, somewhere on earth or on the moon, I am thinking the moon.

Don't be overly concerned about extinction royulery. It doesn't last long. I mean er, hurt much. Whew. Almost came off looking real stupid there for a second. Thank goodness people can't read the last two sentences since I typed them in white letters.

How about no?

Because I want to learn more about our universe. They aren't going to send civilians to the moon as soon as they can, there will be scientist their for a long time before people start to actually move there.

hahahahahaha yeah we send something shooting into the moon, then oh whoa crazy we found water!

"Build a prison for all the Gitmo prisoners, killers, child molesters and crooked bankers" and make THEM drink their recycled urine? Hmm, actually drinking a little urine is good for you. It raises your immunity somehow. I never seem to be able to get used to the taste, nor the knowing it's URINE.

I'll let others go first who have no problem drinking urine. They've earned it. Tang flavored urine, microwaved.

We dont really need the water to drink, thats mostly handled by recycling urine. The water can pretty easily be seperated into hydrogen for fuel and oxygen for breathing.

sounds like a screen play - write up a treatment!

Naa they just found the spot where he took a piss

i'll go.

No only bone deterioration, but also long term exposure to higher rates of solar radiation than on the Earth. The long term prognosis would not be pleasant.

I don't see that being to much of an obstacle to a lunar base. Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days in space. I'm pretty sure someone could spend at the very least the same amount of time on the moon.

Obama needs to put money into a space elevator so we can THEN go to the moon.

Put some voodoo on the Moon and make it stand still.

Oh good lord man....take a physics class. The entire surface of the moon is exposed to a vacuum. The "water" exists in an areas were any exposure to sunlight causes it to instantly boil away. They didn't crack anything nor is there a massive hole where the vacuum is sucking the moon dry. Your logic would the be equivalent to shooting a rocket at a sand dune and coming to the conclusion that the air is sucking out all the sand from the ground.

Threw mud on your idol eh? I question everything. People chasing fame and money rush over questions of how much damage they're doing. They sometimes even assume every daisy they stomp on will magically regenerate.

Kind of like the reason we are where we are now. And the dummies knew Physics.

My idol? What does Liberace have to do with this?

People chasing fame?!? Aside from Buzz and Neil, the average American can't name the third astronaut from the Apollo 11 mission...yet alone the current head of NASA. Who, individually, is getting famous from this? And chasing money...have you actually met a government scientist from NASA? They don't exactly get paid much. In fact, they could make a lot more money outside of government work. But NASA does offer opportunities that aren't available in the civilian world...but making a lot of money isn't one of them.

Gravity Man...if you don't understand how a vacuum works, the basic structure of the moon, even the most basic understanding about jet propulsion, conservation of mass and momentum...generally anything to do with the current moon research...I guess I understand why you have to question everything. A lot of these things can be explained to you by, if you are young enough, by your high school physics teacher (assuming your school district is adequately funded in the sciences). If not the age of high school, I recommend taking a community college course in physics and astronomy. Its not as expensive as people think and a lot of community colleges, especially in rural areas, provide a vital service to their community. Even if you don't enroll, chances are, you can find a contact with someone much better informed than I, or any random person you find on the internet, that could help you understand physics better.

Seriously, have you never wondered why you have to press the gas in a turn to maintain the same speed or how an electric motor actually works? Learning is fun.