NASA finally finds water on moon

Covered on the News Blog: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/13/water-on-the-moon/

@richjm - It seems like this is definitive evidence by physical contact - the Indian mission was via electromagnetic radiation.

What does everyone think? Should we go to the Moon? Will the Obama Administration put money into a lunar exploration program?

NASA found water in samples from apollo 11 and discounted it as contamination. Keep the work up!

This was the incentive for the 2020 goal of a moon base using the Ares/constellation mission package and the new long range, self contained laboratory inside of the new Lunar Rover. Water by far is the most expensive and space sensitive commodity to bring onboard a space mission. Water would have no particulates or life theoretically, and if it did than we will have a major scientific discovery that would further justify such a mission, but most likely the water would be perfectly safe and could provide long term missions and construction/power generation possible.

However, until NASA solves the problem of bone deterioration the most a person could spend on such a base is less than a year, and with the mission sensitive schedule a moonshot creates there is still much advancement needed before such dreams become a practical reality unless someone was willing to never return to Earth.

Hmmthe moon, water. Seems like a good place for the moonbats to move to.

did neil armstrong forget his water bottle?

Wouldnt it be awesome if they drink the water and begin to mutate into aliens, and start eating the astronauts that have dranken the water. Yeah baby, we dont have a clue what to do with that water. For all we know it could lead to who knows what in humans.

Build a prison for all the Gitmo prisoners, killers, child molesters and crooked bankers.

Horray! Water can neither be created, nor destroyed!

I wish we would just leave tthe moon alone.

Thats means now we can hang by the water cooler now ?

Cool... all those childhood fantasies of one day seeing humans colonize the moon are slowly becoming more of a reality!

To the moon, with all due haste!

Awesome, now let's get started on every sci-fi nerd's dream and start with the colonizing!

I guess that moon crash did more than throw dust into the air.

How about leaving the moon alone and taking care of the planet we've been given?

No shit why are we spending Large amounts of money on the moon when we have all kind of shit here to deal with say this kind of sound a lot like what Oh never mind I will just stir up shit again so I will keep it to my self

sweet googally moogally! a moon base may just save our bacon. earth is due for another e.l.e.; extinction level event.
funny about india finding the water, many americans dropped indian religion because of the belief that the moon was a heavenly planet and man could never go there.

Why should we care if we pollute the moon or mars or any other dead rock in space? The reason pollution is bad on earth is because of how it affects the living things. With a big dead rock...what does it matter?
And don't give me that crap about how "we don't know there is nothing living for sure".

i didnt even think there was enough gravity for water there......
ok silly me

and it only took em 6 billion years?

They will never colonize the moon. It's the stupidest idea ever! And who cares if there's water there? Not me. It's an ugly place actually.

"Oh, sending a rocket to the moon to find water would be pointless."
But seriously, who feels like an idiot now?

So?