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NASA Says Moon Has More Water Than Great Lakes

Posted by samzenpus on from the water-and-cheese dept.

jerryjamesstone writes "The US Great Lakes have some competition: the moon. Yes, that old thing in the sky may hold more than all of the water contained in the Great Lakes, according to a NASA-funded study. From the article: 'Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, along with other scientists across the nation, determined that the water was likely present very early in the moon's formation history as hot magma started to cool and crystallize. This finding means water is native to the moon.'"

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  1. So wait... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

    There ARE whales?

    1. Re:So wait... by jamesh · · Score: 4, Funny

      There _were_ whales. The whalers on the moon hunted them to extinction.

    2. Re:So wait... by DMorritt · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think he meant "We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there aint no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune." http://theinfosphere.org/The_Series_Has_Landed

    3. Re:So wait... by SpaceCadets · · Score: 2, Funny

      But it was for research! And they found conclusivly they taste great.

  2. libraries of congress... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    how many libraries of congress would one unit of great lakes flood?

    1. Re:libraries of congress... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      better question.. What are you like after a SECOND cup of coffee?

      Nice work!

  3. Cheating Moon by captainpanic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whereas the lakes are, well, lakes... the moon is a sort of kinda planet. Planets tend to be bigger than lakes, and therefore I call this cheating.

    Obviously, there are planets that are also a giant lake... the earth itself for example is quite wet. But those lakes we shall call oceans. So, oceans can compete with planets, but lakes can't. Ok?

    -- wait, that's no moon!

    1. Re:Cheating Moon by chill · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude, people are still getting over the whole "Pluto not a real planet" thing and here you are promoting Luna to the status of a planet! Have you no SHAME, sir?

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    2. Re:Cheating Moon by icebike · · Score: 5, Funny

      When "Dude" was last in vogue, Pluto was still a planet.

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    3. Re:Cheating Moon by captainpanic · · Score: 2, Funny

      In my defense, I promoted Luna to a "sort of kinda planet"... and as far as I am concerned, Pluto is allowed to compete with the great lakes as much as it wants.

      Actually, I think this is more complicated than it seems. Planets, moons, oceans and lakes. And then the water may be solid, liquid, gaseous. Bloody hell! We should install a committee to investigate the matter! It will report its findings around March 2017.

      -- All your water are belong to us.

  4. Don't they know that already? by Seriousity · · Score: 4, Funny

    In all seriousity, I thought they would have discovered this when they la-

    Oh wait, that's right, they never did.

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  5. Units by tomalpha · · Score: 4, Funny

    How much is that in terms of the size of a more standard unit of measurement ?

  6. Yes but... by clickclickdrone · · Score: 2, Funny

    The stuff on Earth is cheaper to get to (for now)

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  7. Re:The US great lakes? by Rheostatik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, we are the 51st state, according to douchebags.

  8. Well this gives a sensible answer to one question by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never again will we be stumped by atheists when they ask where did all the water go after the flood. We can now tell them that it went to the moon, and scientists have proved it.

  9. Re:Yes by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    How much Wisconsin does the moon have?

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  10. Yo dawg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I herd you like lakes

  11. Re:Can we drink it? by delinear · · Score: 3, Funny

    [...] or at least give it to our plants, ehh?

    There's no indication of whether it has electrolytes. That's what plants crave.

  12. Of Course! by fabioalcor · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because cheese contains water!

  13. Re:More than the Great Lakes? [citation needed] by 3waygeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firstly, the water is in the form of hydroxyl and the mineral apartite

    Well then, the South Africans should have no problem extracting the water, given their recent history.

  14. Re:but then... by endymion.nz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yards... kilograms... argh. At least you're making an attempt to catch up to the 20th century :)

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