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Ina
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What I am interested to know - the water they are hoping to find will be frozen at something like minus 280 degree or so. Won't it take far too much energy to warm it up for use to be a viable source for us humans? They were even talking of using it to create energy (hydrogen). With my limited knowledge of all things chemical and physical - won't it use more energy to make it usable than you can ever hope to gain from it?
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Smooth Hound
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| its a shame they dont put the same effort and resources into looking after this planet, then there would be no need to look for the great escape from it. |
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JamesB
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I think they would have to move it to the light side of the moon then they could use solar energy.
Despite space exploration being interesting, I consider it a waste of money due to the vast sums involved. We have the technology to get a man to Mars but the cost is a enormous. Obviously the money could be better spent on earth.
Personally, I think NASA should be scaled back a lot.
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Fia
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| Smooth Hound wrote: | | ... then there would be no need to look for the great escape from it. |
I don't see it that way SH, not an escape but an exploration in search of knowledge. Of course I'd like us to be more understanding and grown up about what our species has done to our planet and work towards solutions. But we are such tiny wee blip in the universe I, for one, am fascinated about what lies out there in the vastness of the universe.
It's why I'll lie on my back and watch stars 
it seems that pale blue dot is appropriate here 
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coire
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I agree with Fia. Curiosity is what makes human's human, our desire to understand is one of the great and appealing things about us. Maybe they mainly want to know about the water in order to assess the feasibility of a Moonbase alpha - however I think there are far worse uses of money and resources than even sending rockets to the moon to see if they go 'splash' (as it were ......  |
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Smooth Hound
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i agree , im interested, its natural as you say, but theres a bit of me that says, that now weve scaveanged our planet beyond its limits, it seems we are moving on to scavenge the moon, where next.
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IainC
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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| JamesB wrote: | | I think they would have to move it to the light side of the moon then they could use solar energy. |
Ummm... It was my impression that the moon peforms the same kind of rotation as the earth, so there is no "light side" and "dark side" permenently |
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