If NASA are willing to hide simple things like water on the moon, for selfish reasons makes you wonder what other info they are hideing, and wont reveal till others find it out.
The presence of water is a major resource that they would not want another nation taking advantage of at a time in which they were not able or unwilling to take advantage of themselfs.
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Except that it's not a major resource. The only water on the moon exists in the form of microscopic molecules within the moon's surface dust. There are no lakes, rivers, seas, or even puddles. Just a handful of molecules. Wow, great resource! Let's feed the world with moon water!![]()
Just a hand full of molecules, on the whole moon and only in the surface dust? With the right technolgy even trace amounts could be extracted and stored for future use. Send a few machines up to collect and store it could save having to ship 10,000 tons in the weight of water for future projects on the moon. Without a doubt a great resource.
Would take a few thousand tonnes to set up the extraction, mining and purifications process.
you'd have to have machines and plants capable of sifting through and more importantly moving thousands of tonnes of dust to get any useful amount of water.
Maybe not depending on how they did it and more importantly the time frame they would be working to, how knows what the future will hold.
Well, if you dig the first hole twice the size of the first and place it in there, then theres no more waste to worry about!
1 liter per meter cubed.
So for your 10,000 tonnes of water weight saved that's roughly 10,000,000 cubic meters of earth (moon?) to move and process and that's at the "richest" spot
that's going to requires some pretty big machinery even if done on a small scale over a long time you're going to either have to move the dirt a long distance, dig a very deep hole, or move your processing plant and then ship it back to storage facility.
Well, if you dig the first hole twice the size of the first and place it in there, then theres no more waste to worry about!
Well, if you dig the first hole twice the size of the first and place it in there, then theres no more waste to worry about!
Like I said it would depend on how it was done and why would you need to move it to process it? It could be processed where it is.