NASA found water on the moon! For real! A "significant amount," in fact! (CNN)
NASA: water on the moon
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I want to drink a Blue Moon beer brewed from actual moon water.
We're whalers on the moon.
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales,
So we tell tall tales,
And sing a whaling tune.
Pesco, can we have a BoingBoing moon base now?
Sadly, Dr. Smith used it all to take a shower because he felt 'icky'.
life: just add water.
Good lord, I hope the farkers haven't invaded Boing Boing. All they can do is quote that stupid Futurama joke whenever someone mentions the moon.
Just a note: "significant" has a very specific scientific meaning that doesn't always overlap with its lay usage. Finding "a significant amount" simply means "we have numbers to prove we aren't imagining this." It doesn't sound as dramatic, but for a scientist that can have all the offensive punch of a really solid "your mother" insult.
Call me then there is a latte on the Moon. I'm a busy man, can't waste time with trivialities.
By my reading of the article, it sounds like they found about 24 gallons of water.
Not enough to keep a lunar Las Vegas lush and green, perhaps, but enough to qualify as "significant" I should think.
A similar article on the BBC says they found "as much as a dozen 2 gallon buckets". Why they couldn't just say 24 gallons or 91 liters remains a mystery.
It's astronaut urine. And to explain the 24 gallons, well, Tang does that to you.
Tang was invented well before NASA was in existence.
Please remember that the measurement comes in two parts, and most news outlets are only reporting the first part.
(why do I even bother? oh yea, because I want people to get the facts straight)
I don't get it. Why can't they use sane units, like volkswagen beetles, or football fields?
so how many school buses worth of water is that?
or Smoots?
I guess its time to reminisce the moon bombing days last month
The whole moon-bombing video with NASA Geeks: http://bit.ly/complete-moon-bombing-videos-plus-comments-from-the-world
I must admit, I am one of the people who are a bit disappointed about the project, though this is a really goodnews if they found water on it :D According to the link that I posted it seems NASA is planning to have a moon-base on the moon at estimated Year 2024
I just hope this "water-finding" is not a hoax and will not be a new conspiracy. Wheu
Statistically significant, or usefully siginificant?
...but they found even more Astroglide on Uranus...