moon bombing

I've always wondered how people can live down under, but if they've got a breathable atmosphere ...

http://twitter.com/LCROSS_NASA

Looks like the bomb-data is saying there's sub-surface water on our moon.

. . . and California is going to court to get it.

If ya gotta explode bombs to get it, how ya gonna build a base there?

gonna make swimming dangerous

I think they bombed it to see if it was there - to expose it. It's not much good to us exposed as it'd evaporate. I think we'd sink some sort of plumbing into the ground to extract it.

That's what they do with the Oglallah Aquifier. Course, the plumbing has to be deeper each time they make a new hole.

I guess I'm just being pessimistic. My thoughts are like "Oh goody, new territory to exploit.

At least we won't be taking it from anyone or wrecking ecology (or maybe I'm not so sure about that last point).

Probably no ecology. Still, if you use more than you put back, you are going to run out. I don't know if that's a problem, or not.

but what about the moon men

I knew there'd be mention of moon men, but I like the picture better!

If there was groundwater of sorts on the moon wouldn't it make the cheese moldy?

"more tea, grommet?"

Indeed, or maybe it'd just keep it from drying out? Maybe we should send Wallace and Grommit back up to check it out.

I wholeheartedly agree. This needs to be NASA's next great expedition!

Yesterday --

(CNN) -- NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station.

The discovery was announced by project scientist Anthony Colaprete at a midday news conference.

"I'm here today to tell you that indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit; we found a significant amount" -- about a dozen, two-gallon bucketfuls, he said, holding up several white plastic containers.

The find is based on preliminary data collected when the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, intentionally crashed October 9 into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus crater near the moon's south pole.

After the satellite struck, a rocket flew through the debris cloud, measuring the amount of water and providing a host of other data, Colaprete said.

The project team concentrated on data from the satellite's spectrometers, which provide the best information about the presence of water, Colaprete said. A spectrometer helps identify the composition of materials by examining light they emit or absorb.

Balance of article:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html

is sting going to whip up a rewrite of one of his police songs

"little sips are what you'll take
drinking on the moon"

Ill bet that the "water" theyre talking about is bound up as hydrates or hydroxides in minerals, like drywall.
Youd probably have to mine it and bring it to a reactor to extract water and maybe oxygen. Then youd create a nice pile of "mine tailings"