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Moon May Have Once Had Water
Smivs writes "US scientists have found
evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed.The Moon is thought to have been created in a violent collision between Earth and another planet-sized object.
Scientists thought the heat from this impact had vaporised all the water.
But a new study in Nature magazine shows water was delivered to the lunar surface from the interior in volcanic eruptions three billion years ago.
This suggests that water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence."
Moon River... wider than a mile... I'm crossing you in style some day.
Stephen Baxter wrote about tapping the water in the Moon in his novel Manifold Space. Apparently the notion of deep wells of water on the Moon has been seriously contemplated by astrophysicists since the early 70s.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Tintin found glaciers on the moon decades ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_on_the_Moon
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
See subject (of my post and the article)
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
Where would the whales live?
I for one welcome our water-drinking mooninite overlords.
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Aren't they busy eating Big Macs, wiretapping citizens and invading sovereign contries?
Hook-nosed Jews stole water from the moon, just like they did from Palestine.
see subject (of parents post and the article)
"another planet-sized object"
Perhaps Xenu's spacecraft was bigger than we imagined.
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next they'll be telling us that Amy Winehouse, Oliver Reid and Dean Martin did too.
At the bottom of the
Coz it is close to us
-- Boycott Shell
I can picture it now. A nice full Earth, a glorious tranquil sea.... oh wait.
LOL, that's some party unity you moonbats have got going on there. My favorite is the classic non-apology apology, which is always qualified with something like, "I'm sorry IF you were offended," instead of "I'm sorry I said this." Translation: "I'm sorry that I got caught saying this on the record, but what came out of my mouth is in fact what's in my heart and mind."
Real source of water...
Why doesn't somebody just ask Sen. McCain?
I never bought that massive collision thing, something about it just doesn't seem right. Now there is some proof it isn't.
Worth watching developments of the LCross next year.
The title says
"..challenging SOME ELEMENTS of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed.."
There is NO indication that the collision theory is wrong. It just gives a bit more detail about where liquid water was at the time. From TFA:
"..."It suggests that water was present within the Earth before the giant collision that formed the Moon," Dr Saal explained.
"That points to two possibilities: Water either was not completely vaporised in that collision or it was added a short time - less than 100 million years - afterward by volatiles introduced from the outside, such as with meteorites."
I suggest that after the collision there was still a lot of water floating round the two bodies, which would have fallen back onto both, so there's no real mystery raised by discovering trace amounts of water.....
Water? WHO CARES!
Does it ever had oil?
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Since this is not the case, it seems not just obvious but inevitable that virtually all materials be found in some quantity within every signficant body in the solar system.
A-Bomb
Maybe one day,
We will land on the moon for real
and not a hoax from some sound stage in a desert in New Mexico , Nevada or California
You get the point .
Then they magically lost much of the Footage from the alleged landing
Maybe the government knows that present day technology would reveal it as a hoax
Now let's say an astronaut who supposedly landed on the moon, told the truth and said it was a hoax .
Would the government kill him ?, discredit him ? Ruin his life ? or cancel his pension? or all of the above?
I think any of the above threats would guarantee his silence, ,much of that movie is Allegedly lost
The bottom line is this
Nobody can prove we ever set foot on the moon , It may be the grandest fictional movies of all time. an again
Then there is the sound.
and much that isn't missing .
but Now folks the last time I checked , since about the 1920's , sound and image were on the same film Why not the moon landing? , too many holes in their story .
Could we have landed on the moon and man have set foot on it? Yes, but it boggles they mind that they cant prove it and allegedly lost much of what could prove or disprove it
Then, It boggles the mindas to why we are not routinely going there today , Technology got better right?
Water on the Moon?
Just go there and don't give me any BS that we don't have the technology, If we went there in the 1960's- 70'sDont yu think tat we would be routinely doing it it today?
Think about that!
I think it's a Hoax , Water on the moon ? great, but we could have just went there
and with Manned spacecraft , that is , if the whole moon landing wasn't BS
So... what process did they use to determine this happened three billion years ago?
*ducks to avoid ancient-earthers' fists*
Do they not realize the moon has water on its surface now, albeit in its solid state? I realize this is news and everything, but the title implies the moon no longer has water.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
There used to be water on the Moon, but Nazis drank it all during their visits to there at the end of WWII.
Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink...
That's the rest of our solar system in a nutshell.
That's no moon...
Water on Earth evaporates all the time, but it doesn't leave the planet. Why would water evaporating in the collision mean there would subsequently be no water on the moon?
Where do you think the whales were hiding?
The atoms from the molecules still exist. Heck, the molecules probably still exist except for the few torn apart by very extreme heat and then used to oxidize other materials which probably would have been the loose Hydrogen. Almost all igneous rocks on Earth's surface, contain some water. They were formed at temperatures that "vaporize water".
3 points: First, that's what you folks get for collaborating with Adolph Hitler to exterminate the Jews, so excuse me if I have trouble feeling sorry for all the bad karma you're now reaping (see Mohammad Amin al-Husayni).
Second, the Israel/Palestine issue is really a red herring to keep your eyes off of the failed theocracies that surround Israel. Keep the people agitated about the Jews and they won't notice that they're living in a hellhole that the rest of the developed world "left in the dust" centuries ago.
And third, Islam's dirty little secret: most Muslims who die violently do so at the hands of other Muslims, either because they aren't observing the proper brand of Islam, or because they're viewed as necessary casualties to send a political message. Ever hear of voting, you backwards apes? Or nonviolent resistance? How would Ghandi or Martin Luther King, Jr. be viewed today if they'd incited young men and women to strap bombs to their chests and detonate themselves in crowded markets or aboard buses? So excuse me if I have trouble sympathizing with people whose turbans are wrapped a little too tightly. My recommendation: lose the dirty towel and try getting some more pussy. Oh, and about getting more pussy, try not to act so repressed about it. I've been to Middle Eastern countries, and I know first-hand that you Muslim men are filthy horndog pigs just like men everywhere else. You make lewd calls to women walking alone through the streets, and then head over to the local mosque to lick the ground right afterward. This doesn't cause you any cognitive dissonance?
Uh, let's see... because there is not enough atmosphere to hold it in? I understand that meteorology isn't very popular but this is basic stuff.
Futurama and Dune, together!
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
The moon wasn't formed - it twas built
Now Lousiana has something else to teach.
Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
The moon has water.
The water is bound up in the rocky material, the same way it was on Earth 4.5 billion years ago (when Earth was still pretty much molten).
Earth did not have pooling surface water until hundreds of millions of years later. The moon apparently cooled quickly enough that free water did not exude from the rocky material. Either that, or the moon is small enough that any exudate just floated off into space rather than forming an atmosphere (H20 is lighter than O2 or N2, so that is plausible, since there is no other gas in the lunar atmosphere, either).
Slashdot articles are vetted by someone before becoming main topics, right? No? Yes? Is one of the criteria now how much controversy the wrong information in the article will cause?
So long and thanks for all the fish,
Robert Heinlein's The Man Who Sold the Moon's "Blowups Happen." Put it down and turned on the radio, and NPR says there used to be water on our satellite. Weird!
How else would they grow their moonajuana?
Moon MAY Have Once Had Water "US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior" So which is it? Should be phrased "US scientists have found evidence that water MAY have been held in the Moon's interior"
The moon has no atmosphere, it doesn't have the gravity to retain gases.
... until Enron got involved...
It's the only explanation for all the sharks with lasers that keep attacking my X1