[KevO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NoWorries', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'M')aybe they'll find oil on the moon, too. All we would have to do is build a 230,000 mile oil pipeline to the moon, but that wouldn't be a problem! The 800 mile Alaskan pipeline provides us with good experience in doing this.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', 'Y')es but to do that they'd have to disarm all nukes then they might have the money, but let's face it, there will never be nuclear disarmanent

[KevO]

Who'd a thought it? What a day!

Water on the Moon (Hoagland said there was didn't he once?)
Nuclear Disarmanent agreed. One world currency.

The latter is all thanks to the financial crisis. and when you have one currency, you have one government and we may even get to see it
and it's not rense.com, Tsarion or Icke (though they have said so.... eek!)

re the one world currency $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome argue that the financial crisis resulted from imbalances between savings and investment in major economies, which have led to large current deficits, as evident in the United States, and surpluses, as enjoyed by China.
Beijing was the first to call for a new global currency as an
alternative to the US dollar as the US deficit rocketed -- the White
House estimates it could reach nine trillion dollars over a decade

[DefiledEngine]

Earth first! We'll stripmine the other planets later.

[RedStateGreen]

Water on the moon is good if you want to put a colony there.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', 'W')ater on the moon is good if you want to put a colony there.

[VMarcHart]

Is moon gas unleaded?

[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I') always knew they'd would find oil on the moon with all that cheese. All we need to do is build a space terminus at to geosynchronous orbit (35784 km) Two opposing elevators are built out toward the moon/earth for transfer of the thermaldepolymerized cheese.

[frankthetank]

Yeehaw! Another celestial body we can inhabit at some point! Sure we never went there, but someday the Chinese or Russians will make it !

Seriously..this is cool stuff. I've been reading about how hard it would be to survive there, and there are a lot of issues. This could solve one major one.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's official: There's water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydrogen for rocket fuel.

NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced Friday. The findings confirm suspicions reported previously, and in a big way.

"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.

[mos6507]

I want one of these, and I want it now.

[highlander]

So what if there is water. It likely came from some comet slamming into the moon. All those craters indicate a quite unpleasant place to try to colonize.

[hillsidedigger]

The Moon is not protected from solar radiation the way Earth is.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'I') want one of these, and I want it now.

[heroineworshipper]

Is China going to allow uncensored internet access from the moon after they get there & plant the communist flag?

[sicophiliac]

Yes this is exciting news, if only our government wasn't bankrupt and NASA wasn't underfunded. The moon also has potential for energy as its got large quantities of thorium and perhaps helium 3 for nuclear fuel. Solar power wouldn't be a problem either given there is no atmosphere to block light and also there's abundant silicon to mine. Furthermore we could construct massive radio telescopes on the dark side of the moon where wed have a better chance of picking up signals from possible extraterrestrial civilizations. I do still hold out a little hope that someday space exploration will progress but its not looking too good at the moment.

[hillsidedigger]

It won't happen, there is no more than a few at most, sporadic visits by people to the Moon.

The peak of civilization has been passed and soon is the fall of the level of technology probably never to rise again on this planet.

People to too stupid to overcome our most basic programming.

2010 is nearly here. Are there combined American-Russian missions to Jupiter?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'I') want one of these, and I want it now.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', '
')2010 is nearly here. Are there combined American-Russian missions to Jupiter?

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', '
')2010 is nearly here. Are there combined American-Russian missions to Jupiter?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', '
')Were you in a familiar TV show or movie?