Albert Calvo
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:23 amWhat are the implications of the discovery of water on the Moon?
The discovery of water on the moon has many implications for the human race,some of which aren't immediately obvious.
Example:
As the human body is made from 70 pints of water, it would be possible for rogue scientists to set up human cloning factories on the moon.
Mineral water companies may relocate to the moon, where wage rates and taxes are much lower than on earth.
The next mission to land on the moon will be led by a team of specially trained NASA dolphins who will be parachuted in to the polar lakes.
Water on the moon may mean the existence of aquatic life such as amoeba, plankton or crocodiles there.
In the future, astronauts using portable freezers will be able to have their bourbons on the rocks.
Water on the moon is six times lighter than water on the earth due to lower gravity. Therefore it is necessary to drink six times as much as is required on earth.
Scientists predict that the chemical composition of the moon means that moon-water will taste much like the juice of cucumbers, which have a similar mineral composition.
Many cultures have stories and myths about the Moon. Can you find one that you like?
There is a very famous Chinese myth about this woman who is said to live on the moon. There are different variations of the myth but the basic story is that she and her husband were once immortal beings who were made mortal because of their bad behavior. They then attempted to achieve immortality again through the use of a pill but Chang'e got greedy and took too much of the pill and ended up floating up to the moon where she remained stuck over time. She is the subject of much Chinese poetry and is one of the central reasons for celebration each Autumn during the Chiense Moon Festival.
The Apollo 11 mission was the first to put men on the Moon. What can you find out about the other missions that sent men to the Moon?
Apollo 12 represented man's second opportunity to directly observe scientific phenomena on the lunar surface. Both the surface and orbital photography of the mission served not only to document man's second lunar landing and extravehicular activities of the astronauts, but also to identify scientifc areas and experiments for study in future missions.
How has information about the Moon been of use here on Earth?
On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program's conclusion was that the whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert (in Area 51, of course!). According to them, NASA did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon, but pressure due to the Cold War with the Soviet Union forced them to fake it.
The discovery of water on the moon has many implications for the human race,some of which aren't immediately obvious.
Example:
As the human body is made from 70 pints of water, it would be possible for rogue scientists to set up human cloning factories on the moon.
Mineral water companies may relocate to the moon, where wage rates and taxes are much lower than on earth.
The next mission to land on the moon will be led by a team of specially trained NASA dolphins who will be parachuted in to the polar lakes.
Water on the moon may mean the existence of aquatic life such as amoeba, plankton or crocodiles there.
In the future, astronauts using portable freezers will be able to have their bourbons on the rocks.
Water on the moon is six times lighter than water on the earth due to lower gravity. Therefore it is necessary to drink six times as much as is required on earth.
Scientists predict that the chemical composition of the moon means that moon-water will taste much like the juice of cucumbers, which have a similar mineral composition.
Many cultures have stories and myths about the Moon. Can you find one that you like?
There is a very famous Chinese myth about this woman who is said to live on the moon. There are different variations of the myth but the basic story is that she and her husband were once immortal beings who were made mortal because of their bad behavior. They then attempted to achieve immortality again through the use of a pill but Chang'e got greedy and took too much of the pill and ended up floating up to the moon where she remained stuck over time. She is the subject of much Chinese poetry and is one of the central reasons for celebration each Autumn during the Chiense Moon Festival.
The Apollo 11 mission was the first to put men on the Moon. What can you find out about the other missions that sent men to the Moon?
Apollo 12 represented man's second opportunity to directly observe scientific phenomena on the lunar surface. Both the surface and orbital photography of the mission served not only to document man's second lunar landing and extravehicular activities of the astronauts, but also to identify scientifc areas and experiments for study in future missions.
How has information about the Moon been of use here on Earth?
On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program's conclusion was that the whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert (in Area 51, of course!). According to them, NASA did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon, but pressure due to the Cold War with the Soviet Union forced them to fake it.