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NASA will announce an 'exciting' new discovery about the moon on Monday afternoon.
The contents on the announcement have been kept under wraps, but NASA have said it will “contribute to NASA’s efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration”.
LOL, I dont understand why NASA keeps doing this...saying they have 'exciting new discoveries' and will hold a press conference soon? Its usually something only scientists consider 'exciting'...to the lay person, they are expecting to hear NASA say they found aliens living on the moon, or ancient structures...but its NEVER this kind of 'exciting news'. LOL
LOL, I dont understand why NASA keeps doing this...saying they have 'exciting new discoveries' and will hold a press conference soon? Its usually something only scientists consider 'exciting'...to the lay person, they are expecting to hear NASA say they found aliens living on the moon, or ancient structures...but its NEVER this kind of 'exciting news'. LOL
I don't think the lay person is expecting to hear NASA say they found aliens living or doing anything else on the moon. I think most people are more realistic than that.
And personally, I think the discovery of water on the moon, and on the sunlit side at that, though it's not in liquid or solid form is exciting because it's a resource for future moon bases.
If this is the best NASA can do, they're obviously running on fumes. Sure bears no resemblance to the organization that had a real challenge, read adventure, and real exploration with going to the moon. This is just bland, armchair stuff by boring faceless bodies.
With H & O being two of the most abundant elements in the universe, and both highly reactive and stable when joined, I'd only be surprised it if they didn't find any.
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Originally Posted by Thoreau424
If this is the best NASA can do, they're obviously running on fumes. Sure bears no resemblance to the organization that had a real challenge, read adventure, and real exploration with going to the moon. This is just bland, armchair stuff by boring faceless bodies.
Please keep in mind that The Adventure of Exploration & Discovery was just the Public Justification for having a NASA...The real reason was to perfect rockery & ballistics for military purposes...Don't forget that only 25 yrs before we got to the Moon, the V2 was still an unreliable vehicle, little better than a kid's pop-bottle rocket. Nobody was any good at rocketry, and it wouldn't do to mount a 20MT H-Bomb on a fire cracker with a 75% successful launch rate.
The space efforts did give us huge advances in computer tech, materials science, communications and geo-positioning tech-- all of which could have been achieved without getting to the Moon. That was just done for publicity purposes, as is the new push to get to Mars. What a waste of money.
I have to say that I agree with rstevens here. To the layperson, this isn’t exactly the most exciting news, though it’s worded in such a manner that it initially appears that it is. Nevertheless, I think it’s very fascinating.
Why not consider this discovery "exciting"? For me, everything scientists find in space is exciting, even if it's water on Moon. However, maybe I'm too fascinated by space and all secrets it hides, who knows...
Why not consider this discovery "exciting"? For me, everything scientists find in space is exciting, even if it's water on Moon. However, maybe I'm too fascinated by space and all secrets it hides, who knows...
It’s fascinating to people interested in astronomy, but to those who associate space with franchises like Star Trek or Star Wars, it’s fairly inconsequential. The same goes for microbial life. What these people are interested in, is discovering sentient alien life. That would be the big game changer. I’m obviously in the same boat as you.
I don't buy it. Water means there is condensation on the moon. An empty planet like the moon with condensation means that the moon takes on possible similar features as the earth. And at one point there may have been other life forms on the moon. Water there means life forms were there too.
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