What do you think about the latest discovery of water on the moon?

Aliens! For sure!

I’ll tell you after I watch this pre-video advertisement.

Don’t look for Lunar water bubblers in the near future.

Wonder if it taste better than my tap water.

It makes me thirsty.

It means it wouldn’t be quite as cruel to send Joe Lieberman and that Krupack guy from Michigan to the moon.

I read in the book Rare Earth that life of the one cell variety should be fairly common in the Universe. http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/dp/0387952896/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258133670&sr=1-1 The main limiting factor is liquid water. The author gives a strong argument for why multi-cellular life should be very rare, but he conjectured that microbial life may very well exist in other parts of the Solar System. So based on what he said, finding water on the Moon is real neat but not that surprising.

It’s interesting but I think if we’re talking about life on other planets, why do they necessarily need water? Different life forms could adapt to different living conditions…like we did….Not that anyone has said anything to imply this, but a lot of the time it seems like its implied that if there is no water somewhere, there is no life. I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Well, really, I have no idea like everybody else, but I don’t think that water = life, and I also dont think that no water = no life.

As I’ve intimated elsewhere, I think NASA et al have known about this for some time, and are just now getting around to making it public.

grumble grumble stupid corporate firewall/proxy. Allows the pre-video advertisement to play, but not the actual news video

@MrItty so sorry I tried to find one w/out ads but couldn’t! :(

Here’s a tiny article regarding the frozen water discovery.

Another from space dot com.

I think sending one of our more principled politicians would be a mistake.

It would be more productive for Leiberman to join the Republican party than the Moon Set.

bullocks. =)

Thank God no oil was found or we’d begin bombing immediately.

Oils been found in Alaska. why isn’t it being bombed??

Uh… perhaps because it’s already ours?

I am very excited about it not because there’s a particularly high probability of finding life, but because the existence of water on the moon might make terraforming it easier.

I’m sure Coca-Cola will start to bottle it and sell to us soon!

Well yes of course. Is your question on the subject any more necessary?

Luna Aqua.. It’s from out of this world! Coming soon to a specialty store near you!

@AstroChuck you are humorous. i chuckled :)

Within a year, Whole Foods will find a way to bottle it and charge $12 for each bottle.

Actually there are plenty of theories that the moon is a chunk of earth. That would easily explain the water.

Now we can setup a colony.

Guantanamo on the moon. No escape possible.

alcatraz is for bitches. the moon is where its at :P

Controlled spacing! Imagine the information harvest with just mentioning it.

And now there are tunnels, it seems.

@kevbo Hey, thanks for the update. I hadn’t heard of this yet! :)

Ted Stevens prefers to call them a series of tubes.

I like how the first thing they mention is how this tunnel could be beneficial to humans.