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Wet Moon
It would seem there actually is a lot of water on the moon. Having what's effectively a big ol' fuel dump living at the bottom of a gravity well only 1/6th as deep as the pit we live in would be a Very Good Thing Indeed. Of course, finding it is not the same as getting at it, but at least we know it's there.
If God didn't mean for us to explore space, why did He put a giant Texaco in orbit around us?
Posted by: Bob Hawkins on September 23, 2009 08:44 PMOver in 1!!!
Posted by: scott on September 23, 2009 09:28 PMSo you would need to recover the water from 3 acres of moon soil to scrounge enough for 2 people to survive a month, assuming current 92% effective water reclamation technology.
That's quite a bit of ground to cover... and you'd need even more to save up a tank to keep you going during a dry spell, run a hydroponics farm, or turn it into rocket fuel.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on September 24, 2009 12:14 AMSo you would need to recover the water from 3 acres of moon soil to scrounge enough for 2 people to survive a month, assuming current 92% effective water reclamation technology.
That's quite a bit of ground to cover... and you'd need even more to save up a tank to keep you going during a dry spell, run a hydroponics farm, or turn it into rocket fuel.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on September 24, 2009 01:10 AMThat's just one source of the water. The use of solar-powered rovers to capture and store that water should be feasible and could serve as a stop-gap for losses that occur due to normal processes (as I understand it, perfectly airtight doesn't exist outside of the pr0n world, so there's always some leakage of air/water).
Posted by: Ron ap Rhys on September 24, 2009 01:41 PM