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- NeddieSeagoon, on 11/14/2009, -0/+56"a dozen two-gallon buckets" - Why not just say 24 gallons?
- joelcass, on 11/14/2009, -1/+52So are you saying there will be sales AND tech support in one place?
- handballdemigod, on 11/14/2009, -1/+46For the same reason they said "Frozen Water" and not Ice.
- Dinkmers, on 11/14/2009, -2/+38It just goes to show that all problems can be solved by blowing things up.
- joelcass, on 11/14/2009, -0/+35or janitors?
- codyman, on 11/14/2009, -1/+35no cheese though :-(
- Mangeof, on 11/14/2009, -0/+31because they're scientists.
- reeds1999, on 11/14/2009, -2/+28This certainly shrinks the the the time before we will see a Chinese or Indian colony on the moon.
- ArmedRebel, on 11/14/2009, -0/+16If there ever is some sort of "moon-base", I hope I'm alive to see it.
- kplo, on 11/14/2009, -3/+19Kaboom! Splash!
- bkurilko, on 11/14/2009, -0/+14Stop calling it a ***** bomb! Jesus.
- marciot, on 11/14/2009, -2/+15Which begs the question, has the military found water in Afghanistan yet?
- TSK05, on 11/15/2009, -1/+13False. First of, the water in the Indian mission was minuscule compared to this.
Second, the water discovered in the "Indian" mission was actually an analysis using THREE separate missions - TWO of which are American. But because an Indian mission was involved, that's all they reported...
The three missions are Cassini - American, EPOXI - American and Chandrayaan I - Indian - dromni, on 11/14/2009, -1/+13There has been cumulative evidence of water in the Moon for the last 10-15 years or more. However, this was the first experiment done in an active, controlled way (instead of passive data acquisition), and the first to reveal that there are *lots* of ice in there.
- Shmebber, on 11/14/2009, -0/+12It's syntaxgs. You're allowed to tease him a bit, but insulting him is just uncool.
- Shmebber, on 11/14/2009, -0/+9Water... would... fly off?
So uh, there's this thing called Gravity. And it works pretty well. - bkurilko, on 11/14/2009, -0/+9Some craters at the poles are permanently shadowed.
- atchon, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8Crashes would be even more awesome.
- BinkyStuttocks, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8Explosions: the cause, and solution to all of our problems!
- earlvanze, on 11/15/2009, -0/+8no one. ur drink sucks.
- ertz, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8FTA: "Scientists said the "exciting" findings had gone "beyond expectations" as fully formed ice was found in a crater on the planet." Correct me if I´m wrong, but isn´t it a moon and not a planet?
- digitalArtform, on 11/14/2009, -2/+10Since they found the water first
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/spac ... - tek69, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8I think he just drinks to much before typing. He's like our own version of mushmouth from fat albert.
- tek69, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7"Excuse me um janitor, would you take this downstairs for me?"
"sure thing scientist, just do me a favor and mop all this ***** up, i'll be right back." - sneakyness, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7They say it that way so that it's easier to visualize.
It's the same reason you're supposed to think about the total cost of something in pennies when you're weighing options, it helps your brain to retain a better grasp on the scale. - borez, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7Methanol too... we can build a racetrack up there.
- Frostek, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6I vote that we don't let any of those crackpots from Youtube visit the Moonbase.
They don't deserve it after all their previous actions.
(Claiming that the moon landings never happened, constantly slagging off NASA / ESA / astronomers, talking bollocks about alien moon bases, etc, etc.)
As far as I'm concerned, they can be left behind, whilst the rest of humanity goes to the stars. - beerbal, on 11/14/2009, -8/+14Sept 29th 2009: Indian lunar mission discovers water on Moon. http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-09/200 ...
Oct 9th 2009: Nasa *proves* once and for all there's water on the moon.
First Place: India
Second Place: NASA
That's all. - ArmedRebel, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6Not reading, I guess.
- TSK05, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5Side note - the instrument that the Indian mission used was contributed by NASA - it's not Indian.
So what we're up to is that two NASA missions and an Indian mission found small amounts of water on the moon everywhere on the surface at the same time and the Indian mission used a NASA instrument. Congrats to the Indians but to say "India: 1, NASA 0" is misleading at best. - bkurilko, on 11/14/2009, -3/+8I ***** don't even know where to begin insulting you.
- beerbal, on 11/14/2009, -1/+6Yup. But this is NASA! It must be much better water. Oh, and also now we *know* for sure.
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Link: http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-09/200 ... - rilus, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5Moon is a name for the satellite planet orbiting the Earth. So, it's a planet and the moon. People just use "moon" as generic name for all satellites but it's actually a proper name for a specific satellite. Similar to using the word "sun" for all stars with orbiting planets.
- TSK05, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5No. beerbal was comparing two separate findings. One found miniscule amounts of water everywhere on the lunar surface and one found large amounts of water in a particular spot. What he should have done is compared the first finding (as it is the only one that was done partially by an Indian mission). If he did that, he would find that:
Three separate missions found water at the same time (well, the analysis of their data was done at the same time anyway). Two of them are American and one is Indian. That means the Indian lunar mission wasn't first - the two NASA missions happened at the exact same time. And IMO EPOXI is the one that really gave the most convincing evidence (that's debatable though). - theseventhdawn, on 11/14/2009, -2/+7DIdn't India discover and reveal this news in September?
- kelpdip, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5Scientists use SI. This guy is probably PR.
- Frostek, on 11/14/2009, -1/+5A ***** MOONBASE!
Is that easy enough to comprehend? ;-) - explodingzebras, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4everybody takes a test, where they have to write a comment on a youtube video, the ones with the dumbest comments stay behind...
- earlvanze, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4When you don't know what something is made of, smash things into it! - my chem teacher
- DulcetTone, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4Is there anything America can't achieve through bombardment?
- Malnilion, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3This was on the front page literally within the last 24 hours...and from a more reliable source than the telegraph.
- odiroot, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2Maybe they've found Evian.
- PanthusDire, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2Next time they shouldn't use water balloons to bomb the moon....
- NeddieSeagoon, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2And don't forget digital storage capacity, which is now officially measured in "number of MP3s"
- topsuplstore, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2CANNONBALL
- gsm54321, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2***** Mars,
We need to start designing rovers that can gather this up and use it. If we could get a supply of water in space a lot of the cost of space travel goes out the window.
If we could also get rovers to actually build structural components and distill rocket fuel we'd be able to finally get off this rock. The only think we'd need to move up the gravity well are complex items like electronics, engines, and people and if we built a centrifugal gravity system then the people could stay there for years saving even more on crew replacement. - DeskFlyer, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2Water balloons in space. Duh.
- cmost, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2To quote Wanda Sykes: NASA is just busy work for really smart people. "Did you know there used to be vodka in this glass? Now go on and write a little paper about that..."
- explodingzebras, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2like they always measure the height of huge dinosaurs or whatever by saying how many double-decker buses high it is.
And it's the length of two football pitches. - diggbigwig, on 11/14/2009, -1/+2Houston, we have splash-down.
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