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NASA's LCROSS Mission Proves Lunar Ice Suspicions
NASA is reporting that preliminary data from the LCROSS mission indicates that there really is water in one of the permanently shadowed lunar craters, just as they suspected back in September. "'We are ecstatic,' said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. 'Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water.'"
Base on the moon! Lets go fuckers!
Long live the BSD license
It refuses to account for its location on both November 22, 1963, and on September 11, 2001.
The enemies of Democracy are
Finally! Something we can mine the Moon for. This will spur space competition to get this valuable resource. I can't wait for my first sip of $10000 Evian Moon Mineral Water.
Nor has it publicly denied that it raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain