Water Found on the Moon

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I don't know if there's a post about this already..
What do you think?

Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.

They were wrong.

Woohoo!

..and the polar caps are made of what ..vanilla icing?

What's really sad about this is that, had they simply admitted this fact decades ago, when it became very clear there was water ice on the moon, we would be exploiting it's presence industrially NOW, The hydrogen assets alone would have brought us into the future we deserved, instead of ... this.

what pretty annoys me is, that the Apollo 11 orbited the moon before they landed on it. from the 'leaked' tape we have, we only can suspect about the existence of aliens there.. and they said nothing about water

Wasn't John Lear ridiculed for talking about the moon having water? News like this is frustrating because it just makes me wonder even more about what we AREN"T being told.

Originally posted by Maxmars
What's really sad about this is that, had they simply admitted this fact decades ago, when it became very clear there was water ice on the moon, we would be exploiting it's presence industrially NOW, The hydrogen assets alone would have brought us into the future we deserved, instead of ... this.

Uhhh...the water there can be used for creating a self-refueling station of some sort, not for creating fuel here on Earth. We have plenty of water here to do that.

If you mean it would have advanced hydrogen technology much faster though, then by all means I agree.

Originally posted by evanmontegarde

Originally posted by Maxmars
What's really sad about this is that, had they simply admitted this fact decades ago, when it became very clear there was water ice on the moon, we would be exploiting it's presence industrially NOW, The hydrogen assets alone would have brought us into the future we deserved, instead of ... this.

Uhhh...the water there can be used for creating a self-refueling station of some sort, not for creating fuel here on Earth. We have plenty of water here to do that.

If you mean it would have advanced hydrogen technology much faster though, then by all means I agree.

The latter, not the former. We could have had, by now, have a thriving moon-based industry and a new frontier to look towards. Instead we're trapped with lagging fossil fuel technology and wealth-crazed power whores screwing up the works!