NASA Discovers Water On The Moon!

Like, actual water

National Geographic wrote:

It's official: There's water on the moon—and a "significant amount" of it, too, members of NASA's recent moon-crash mission, LCROSS, announced today.

I don't even know what this means, but I'm totally excited.

National Geographic wrote:

The confirmation of water on the moon raises the possibility that humans may one day be able to extract drinking water or breathable oxygen as well as the raw ingredients for rocket fuel from moon rocks, Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said at the conference.

National Geographic wrote:

Samples of water on the moon might also help shed light on the early history and evolution of the solar system, said physicist Greg Delory, a senior fellow at the Space Sciences Laboratory and Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

Oh, that's what it means.

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Yay! The anticlimactic moon-blowing-up found something after all!

They also found a weird, perfectly rectangular smudge on the images of the impact crater. It was assumed to be a technical glitch.

Holy crap. I didn't even consider the idea before now.

MANKIND

OFF TO MISUSE THE MOON'S NATURAL RESOURCES

FIRST EARTH

THEN THE UNIVERSE

WE ARE THE HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS

THE THINKING ANIMAL

THE MONKEY THAT KNOWS IT KNOWS

EVERYTHING IS OURS AND WE RESPECT NOTHING

LET THE RAPE AND PILLAGE BEGIN


GOAT YOU FUCKING HIPPY GET OFF THE SOAP BOX

Sods law says something evil is living in it.

Every time I hear shit about amazing discoveries in space I think, "Shouldn't you be paying a little more attention to the problems of our current planet and quit trying to set up bases on Mars and the Moon that won't be viable for years?"

Hey Harley, why don't you just fuck off and let the grown-ups talk?

My astronomy teacher had to be reminded that this happened, then didn't bother talking about why it was important. I hate this class :<

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Every time I hear shit about amazing discoveries in space I think, "Shouldn't you be paying a little more attention to the problems of our current planet and quit trying to set up bases on Mars and the Moon that won't be viable for years?"

Yes, because as everyone knows, no knowledge gained in pursuit of one task has any applications towards anything else, ever.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Every time I hear shit about amazing discoveries in space I think, "Shouldn't you be paying a little more attention to the problems of our current planet and quit trying to set up bases on Mars and the Moon that won't be viable for years?"

Every time I hear people bitching about the Earth not being perfect when we're doing or trying to do awesome things in space, it makes me want to bomb a third-world country.

Penguin wrote:

Every time I hear people bitching about the Earth not being perfect when we're doing or trying to do awesome things in space, it makes me want to bomb a third-world country.

Wow.

There's a real pattern emerging, isn't there?

Historically, yes. Personally, no.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Every time I hear shit about amazing discoveries in space I think, "Shouldn't you be paying a little more attention to the problems of our current planet and quit trying to set up bases on Mars and the Moon that won't be viable for years?"

This is why Carl Sagan's death makes me hurt inside.