The Official Space Thread! Water on the moon CONFIRMED

[xtop]

The Google Lunar X Prize obviously hasn't drawn quite the same number of competitors as some of the more Earthbound X Prizes, but it looks like things are starting to heat up a little bit, with Paragon Space Development recently teaming up with Odyssey Moon in an effort to deploy the first greenhouse on the surface of moon. Specifically, the team is hoping to grow a Brassica plant (a member of the mustard family) in a pressurized greenhouse like the one picture above, and possibly even see the plant re-seed itself within a single Lunar day (or 14 Earth days), which just so happens to coincide with the average growth period for the plant on Earth. Of course, that would only be one small part of the X Prize mission, which first and foremost requires teams to safely land a craft, send some live video back to Earth, travel at least 500 meters, send some more video, and carry a payload. So, still a little ways off, but don't let that stop you from checking out the (autoplaying) video after the break, in which Paragon's Taber MacCallum (a Biosphere veteran himself) explains the project to the folks at Engineering TV.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/researchers-tout-plans-for-moon-greenhouse-silent-running-seque/

i love space. i'd love to see the private sector get into space asap

 

[Horhay]

Filter it. Bottle it. Sell it for $100/8oz. bottle just because it's from the moon.

You know you are probably not that far off they are probably already thinking about it.

 

[Wreck]

so nasa found water on the moon. what do you guys think of that?

Any reason why it seriously took that long? I'm guessing it wasnt a large proportion?

 

[MASSgains88]

Any reason why it seriously took that long? I'm guessing it wasnt a large proportion?

NASA was focusing on Mars and forgot that the moon was so close.

They should have sent one of those robots to roam around on the moon and take samples. Then at least the robot could hang out there for a while until astronauts land on the moon again.

Crashing an expensive rocket into the moon for scientific research doesn't seem too efficient.

 

[Illiciter]

You're right.

"Any ideas?"

"Yeah... what we need to do is build a 3 billion dollar explosive device... and we'll detonate it by slamming it into the moon."

"Can't we just send a robotic drill to take samples?"

"Dude, explosives!"

"True."

 

[dboy99]

NASA was focusing on Mars and forgot that the moon was so close.

They should have sent one of those robots to roam around on the moon and take samples. Then at least the robot could hang out there for a while until astronauts land on the moon again.

Crashing an expensive rocket into the moon for scientific research doesn't seem too efficient.

after all this time they should have been to the moon dozens of times by now.wtf have they been doing?

 

[Illiciter]

after all this time they should have been to the moon dozens of times by now.wtf have they been doing?

dude... explosives.

 

[Horhay]

dude... explosives.

What happens when the pieces of the moon start flying on Earth?

 

[MacDaddyOJack]

What happens when the pieces of the moon start flying on Earth?

Package them, distribute, and sell for $100/ 0.8 oz rock.

 

[Illiciter]

Package them, distribute, and sell for $100/ 0.8 oz rock.

Got any rock?

 

[Horhay]

Got any rock?

LMAO!!