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Ice on the Moon!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...47_468x348.jpg

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6846639.ece

India�s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon!

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Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India�s first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface.

Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough � to be announced by Nasa at a press conference today � would change the face of lunar exploration.

The discovery is a significant boost for India in its space race against China. Dr Mylswamy Annadurai, the mission�s project director at the Indian Space Research Organisation in Bangalore, said: �It�s very satisfying.�

The search for water was one of the mission�s main objectives, but it was a surprise nonetheless, scientists said.The unmanned craft was equipped with Nasa�s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, designed specifically to search for water by picking up the electromagnetic radiation emitted by minerals. The M3 also made the unexpected discovery that water may still be forming on the surface of the Moon, according to scientists familiar with the mission.

So now we're walking towards finding water on the Moon. I must say, this idea has been bouncing around for a few years... i just wonder what will happen next if they actually find huge amounts of water on the moon...

Next step, moon base. Then decades after that, a super mecha war between Earth and the Moon.

On a serious note though. This could mean that there may be life on the moon. Lets hope we don't bring anything dangerous back home.

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...This whole "water on the moon" business really seems to throw out the elementary school textbook notion of just how special and unique life is right out the window. I think we can now reasonably assume very high probabilities that lifeforms exist beyond Earth, and that essential building blocks to comprise life probably can be found on more worlds than we once assumed.

You know, even though is a long shot there is also the possibility of transfer of life from earth to the moon. There are Meteorite impacts known to cast elements beyond the Atmosphere due to their impact.

So, even though is a long shot, it's not impossible for a decent sized chunk of our polar caps to have traveled to the moon after the polar cap being hit by a Meteor.

Sure, it wouldn't explain the size of the polar mass on the Moon, but it's a workable theory.

Love how they made the water HO2 instead of H2O in the pic

Please, like we're ever gona get around to building a moon base. We walked on the moon 40 years ago then closed up shop and never went back. 40 fucking years??!! We should have something on there by now! We keep saying we're gona do a manned mission to mars "within 20 years" and we've been saying that for well over a decade. I don't see us any closer to reaching that goal either.

Now don't get me wrong, I whole-heartedly agree with the idea of getting our arses in gear and investing in workable space travel, but we all know these space agencies are complete slackers when it comes to actually doing anything. Hell it took us 10 years to build the international space station and took 2 attempts to get hubble working, you really think we're going to get a permenant base on the moon within our lifetimes?? I don't think so.

Seeing as how we have no refrence for comparison for building Space Stations as ambitious as the ISS, 10 years doesn't sound so bad really.

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend (Post 974909)

I highly doubt there is life on the moon given that there's no breathable atmosphere and that also results in automatic blistering temperatures on one side while the dark side is easily too cold to sustain life as we know it.

I mean, it's just not a habitable place.

Not quite true blues.

Even a single cell organism can be consider a form of life. And we have knowledge of several species on earth that can survive conditions that scale beyond that of "life as we know it".

If we can find even some very basic frozen bacteria on the Ice in the moon, that could qualify as Alien life form.