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Nasa is about to crash into the moon....

Will the Man in the Moon be upset?
Will they discover what sort of cheese it is made of?

Watch it all live - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

If they do find water on the moon, It will only open up more questions.

For example, The moon controls the movement of the water here on earth.You know, Tides, and stuff.




Does it follow that the earth has some kind of influence on the way Water behaves on the moon?

Or does some strange gravity thing on the moon suck the water down into it, which is why we havnt seen it before.

and..( for those cover up theory lovers out there) Could Nassa be dumping junk on the moon, to hide evidence of ufos?
Maybe one crashed there, and they are going to blow it up.

If they crash in to the bit I own can I sue them for criminal damage/trespassing?

First picture in now....

Somewhat annoyingly for NASA, while this probe was en route, the Lunar Prospector probe already found evidence of water just under the lunar surface. It also showed that water on the Moon is distributed in patches, so if you wanted to mine it you'd have to go prospecting for a rich water-field, not just sink a well at random.

Still, the LCROSS probe will help answer the questions about possible rich deposits at the south pole.

daleshrimpton wrote: Does it follow that the earth has some kind of influence on the way Water behaves on the moon?

Or does some strange gravity thing on the moon suck the water down into it, which is why we havnt seen it before.

Newton's third law says that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. The Moon exerts a pull on the Earth just as the Earth exerts a pull on the Moon. We go around the Sun in a weird waltz rather than in a smooth circle (actually an oval) with the Moon going around us.

However, gravity is an incredibly weak force and its influence drops at a rate of 1/distance^2 from a mass. Because of this, the Moon exerts a vanishingly small influence on the terrestrial water, but because there's so much sea to influence, the gross effect is noticeable. This is why water doesn't noticeably get pulled to one end of a lake - there's not enough of it to be influenced. The Sun also influences the tides, which is why you get very high and very low ones when the Sun and Moon pull in the same direction. Even so, you still need a hell of a lot of water.

Being a very weak force, ice isn't much bothered by the gravity of other heavenly bodies. Buried ice, or ice "keyed" into rocks and soil is even less bothered. Ice sublimates in space (goes from solid to gas with no liquid state), which is why you never see liquid water on the Moon's surface when the sun's on it.

Tomo wrote:

daleshrimpton wrote: Does it follow that the earth has some kind of influence on the way Water behaves on the moon?

Or does some strange gravity thing on the moon suck the water down into it, which is why we havnt seen it before.

Newton's third law says that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. The Moon exerts a pull on the Earth just as the Earth exerts a pull on the Moon. We go around the Sun in a weird waltz rather than in a smooth circle (actually an oval) with the Moon going around us.

However, gravity is an incredibly weak force and its influence drops at a rate of 1/distance^2 from a mass. Because of this, the Moon exerts a vanishingly small influence on the terrestrial water, but because there's so much sea to influence, the gross effect is noticeable. This is why water doesn't noticeably get pulled to one end of a lake - there's not enough of it to be influenced. The Sun also influences the tides, which is why you get very high and very low ones when the Sun and Moon pull in the same direction. Even so, you still need a hell of a lot of water.

Being a very weak force, ice isn't much bothered by the gravity of other heavenly bodies. Buried ice, or ice "keyed" into rocks and soil is even less bothered. Ice sublimates in space (goes from solid to gas with no liquid state), which is why you never see liquid water on the Moon's surface when the sun's on it.

Smart ars3

Anyone subscribe to the notion that gravity is so weak that it must in fact be leaking in from another dimension? I like that idea. I like it a lot. I'm a huge fan of the multiverse.

i think buzz just left his hot water bottle up there the first time, and its only just burst...

why didnt they find any water up there the first time eh eh eh?

and is it just a probe, no humans going up there?

hmmmm....bet they never went up in the first place...

It seems obvious to me that what they are in fact doing is destroying alien artefacts. This whole water thing is a cover up.

themagicwand wrote:Anyone subscribe to the notion that gravity is so weak that it must in fact be leaking in from another dimension? I like that idea. I like it a lot. I'm a huge fan of the multiverse.

What about the idea of that when you go to sleep, the Alternate Universe/reality you wakes up, and when you wake up he goes to sleep.

The Alternate reality you isn't a Psychic, he's merely just crazy.