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Lunar Polar Ice Not Present

pclark999 writes "The New Scientist reports that radar probes of the lunar polar region has disproved earlier theories regarding large sheets of polar ice in craters permanently in the shade. "

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  1. No ice on the moon??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we put Vanilla Ice there?

    1. Re:No ice on the moon??? by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny
      > Can we put Vanilla Ice there?

      "...at best, a cubic kilometre of lunar soil would have to be processed to extract just a cubic metre of water..."

      As long as we distribute him like that, I'm all for it.

  2. Shoot. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    That means no brewery on the moon. So much for my dreams of being a drunken astronaut.

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    1. Re:Shoot. by SirLantos · · Score: 5, Funny

      You could always join the Russian space program.

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  3. Out of ice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right, no ice for beer on the moon, everyone off to mars...

  4. Dammit! by HiQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I owned that ice! Who took it????

  5. No polar ice on Earth, either, by Tex+Bravado · · Score: 4, Funny

    before long :-)

  6. An outrage! by DarkHand · · Score: 4, Funny

    This means that my great grand childrens' lunar snow cones bought at LunarDisney(tm) will cost 10 times as much! We shouldn't stand for this highway robbery!

  7. This guy is everywhere! by fitten · · Score: 4, Funny

    Team leader Bruce Campbell

    Did he vanquish the Mooninites, too?

  8. They need fancy schmancy equipment to tell them by clifgriffin · · Score: 0, Funny

    that?

    I dissproved this theory a long time ago using duck tape, a pair of binoculars, and a laser pointer.

    I have proof too.

    Blogzine

  9. Aw, crap by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I'll never be able to unload www.luxury-moon-ice-cubes.com.

  10. Did you write this too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth

    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

    Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

    Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

    Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

  11. Dude! by Bendebecker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's my ice?

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  12. Well maybe it WAS there... by iworm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's get this clear: they used a really really really really powerful radar, and then found that the ice "wasn't there". Uh huh. But now the moon does have strange clouds of water vapour... Whoops.

  13. Polar ice isn't the only myth here... by goldspider · · Score: 3, Funny

    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

    Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

    Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

    Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

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  14. Scratch that by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bummer, I guess I'll have to leave the ice skates at home.

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  15. Re:Time for plan B by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I suggest you cancel your suscription to Popular Science...it's obviously rotting your brain.

  16. Re:Well, more accurately by vslashg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not sure why you couldn't have methane mind...

    Because every time you got a good idea, you'd be distracted and say "That smell again! What's that smell?"

  17. Wrong by JahToasted · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Russian space programme is a very professional organisation, and I know for a FACT that there absolutely no drunken astronauts there. For shame! They are drunken cosmonauts, not astronauts.