MOON EXPLORATION

MOON EXPLORATION

Postby Pablo S. » Sat May 17, 2008 4:43 pm

-What 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.

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?
Tsuki-Yomi was the Moon god according the oldest Japanese religion, Shinto, which means "the way of the gods." Tsuki-Yomi was born from the right eye of the primeval being Izanagi. Tsuki-Yomi initially lived in the Heavens with his sister, the Sun god, Amaterasu.
But once, Amaterasu sent her brother as her representative to the goddess of food, Uke Mochi. To celebrate, the goddess of food offered him a wonderful meal, created from her mouth and nose. Tsuki-Yomi was so disgusted that he killed her. When Amaterasu learned of her brother's misdeed, she was so angry that she did not want to see him anymore. Since then, brother and sister have lived apart, alternating in the sky. That is why the day always follows the night.

-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?
The goal of the program as articulated by President Kennedy, was accomplished with only two major failures. The first failure resulted in the deaths of three astronauts, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, in the Apollo 1 launchpad fire. The second was an in-space explosion on Apollo 13, which badly damaged the spacecraft on the moonward leg of its journey. The three astronauts aboard narrowly escaped with their lives, thanks to the efforts of flight controllers, project engineers, backup crew members and the skills of the astronauts themselves.

-How has information about the Moon been of use here on Earth?
I don't know this subjet well, but I try to find something in the future
Pablo S.
 

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