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NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon
tcd004 writes "The PBS NewsHour reports: there is water on the moon — along with a long list of other compounds, including mercury, gold and silver. That's according to a more detailed analysis of the cold lunar soil near the moon's South Pole. The results were released as six papers by a large team of scientists in the journal, Science Thursday. [Note: Nature's papers are behind a paywall; for a few more details, reader coondoggie points out a a story at Network World.] The data comes from the October 2009 mission, when NASA slammed a booster rocket traveling nearly 6,000 miles per hour into the moon and blasted out a hole. Trailing close behind it was a second spacecraft, rigged with a spectrometer to study the lunar plume released by the blast. The mission is called LCROSS, for Lunar Crater Observer and Sensing Satellite."
Twas a Miner 2049'er, and his daughter, Clementine!
She tripped and fell out an airlock.
Miners trapped in mine collapse on the moon...
And I thought the miners in South America had it rough waiting for rescue.
Call Yukon Cornelius!
The moon men announced that they are diplomatically officially in a "huff" with the Earth, and that no rare Earth metals would be shipped from the Moon to the Earth.
Off the record, sources close to the moon men said, "Get your own damn rare metals from your own planet!"
Sources to close for comfort to NASA officials have commented, "Do we have to bomb the Moon again, until they get it?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
This is a great discovery, but what are we going to do with it? The obvious thing is to mine it out, but wouldn't lightening the mass of the moon have a (probably quite bad) effect on it's tidal effects to the earth?
No, they said it was in gold nugget rings, big thick chains, and little post earrings. All of which should be sent straight away to Cash For Moon Gold dot com!
"Dag burnit! Darn NASA done jumped my claim!" -- Grizzled Moon Prospector
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
We all know that the moon is not in fact made out of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbeque spare ribs? Would ya eat it then? I know I would. Heck, I'd have seconds, and then polish it off with a cool Budweiser.
The teachers will crack any minute, purple monkey dishwasher.
We better get on this. We must not allow a mineshaft gap!
Who has the mine rights? The us? USSR? China? NASA it self? Neil Armstrong?
Actually, I own thousands of acres on that particular site...I bought it for $20 here: http://www.lunarregistry.com/
Mr. T was quoted as saying "I pity the fool who broke my bling!". Tossing the remains of the crushed probe aside, he flexed his forearm and made a fist. "I'm going to introduce the fool to my arm-y friend, Major Pain!".
Mercury, gold, silver, ..
Jesus christ you're lazy!
That's OK; he's a lot smarter than the science team who are clearly morons for not once taking into account their own spacecraft parts during the years it took to put the program together.