Moon-Bombing Mission Finds Significant Amount of Water in Lunar Soil

It's a holy cow moment for impacts, according the pessimist at the briefing, pessimist usually when they find the obvious get all the glory.

According to the briefing they are now questioning some of their past model findings on the moon including finding traces of organics. Water and organics trace amounts were ruled out by Apollo findings because they thought it was from contamination after returning to earth. If you look at the past models most are made to be broken, this is a fact throughout the history of human thought...

Here is one place you can go to see the briefing:

www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1

Now we shown that we have water ice what are we waiting for, lets dig a hole, find a cavern or do something for a natural long term stay.

One thing we do know is how to get there, there is no guesswork. , let's go -- stop the bellyaching about where to go and just g-o-o-o-o-o

Someone needs to photoshop frosty the snowman or perhaps the snowman from charlie 3 into some Apollo photos.

well....I thought we already knew bout water on the moon years ago?!
and yes the obvius gets ALL the attention while the astrocomb
which provides the most precise measurements of redshift in history while being smaller, simpler etc. etc. gets ignored

the astrocomb is not even the most obscure genious invention out there that could be talked about by the media...but NOOO they want sensational hysterical stories like the overrated swine-flu.

Hmm It's kind of exciting but I can't decide how I feel about using the moon's water. Are we just going to destroy and trash the moon too=/ Just to me a profit

But then we could use it as a pit spot to travel even further in the solar system

There's the water, now the moonbase. The moon base should connect to the new space elevator idea somehow. An even better idea would be to somehow make an ice bridge to the moon from the space station. It would be interesting to see.

So they decided to bomb the moon... S-M-A-R-T. I think they missed Al-Qaeda... AGAIN!

While it will be good to know where water is for a moon base, where are we going to get the funding for it? Lets keep the focus on how to make earth better before we go off making ideal space colonies.

Creating ideal space environments has long proven to be one of the best ways to improve this world. Tang, microwaves, velcro, etc.

Do you really thing the tech that will put a two mile ribbon into space will have no other benefits to mankind?

Would not terriforming Mars not be a good experiment in planitary engineering that does wet our own bed?

Is there really that much difference between cities in the stars and cities undersea in a world to polluted and irradiated that surface life is impossible?

Moon bases, however, need not be manned. The moon is close enough to have only limited lag time on robotic command (not like the painstakingly slow work of moving a Mars rover). Considering how inefficient man is at working with so few Gs and so much protective wear and that the moon would only delay, not stop, bone density loss, there really are no reasons to send man to it.

Robotically harvesting hydrogen and oxygen from moon water gives us a rocket fuel source that is already in space, drastically cutting the costs of opperating in space (particularly fueling up an interplanitary ship for human travel).

told ya, if there's more water, it would make for less of a show. Great work, NASA, LRO-LCROSS teams.

Hopefully, this news might spur the current administration to take a more aggressive approach to NASA's planned return to the Moon. With ample resources available in situ, there isn't any real excuse not to begin expanding the human presence off planet, other than lack of political willpower. For those that think we should address all of our problems on Earth before attempting to establish colonies in space, what good will it do us as a species if we fail and civilization (and possibly the human race with it) dies and we don't have a back-up plan? Moving beyond the confines of one world is humanity's only hope of long-term survival, and we now know that we have the resources to do it, beginning with the Moon.

When you think about cleaning up earth and focusing on that first.Think about this. Lets get the bases and colonies set up first. Why? Less people on earth means less garbage and destruction to nature by man. Opps! and women. IDK if that would help. Just bored at work.

They could have used that bomb for something more useful...