Comments on: There’s Water on That Thar Rock! http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/11/16/theres-water-on-that-thar-rock/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Fri, 25 May 2012 23:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Calvin & Hobbes On The Moonhttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/11/16/theres-water-on-that-thar-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-687659 Calvin & Hobbes On The Moon Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:23:05 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=10981#comment-687659 [...] Moon, Let the Water Parks Begin!, Moon Water Found–Now What?, Water Is Wet–And So Is The Moon?, There’s Water on That Thar Rock!, and Top Ten Things Finding Ice on the Moon [...] [...] Moon, Let the Water Parks Begin!, Moon Water Found–Now What?, Water Is Wet–And So Is The Moon?, There’s Water on That Thar Rock!, and Top Ten Things Finding Ice on the Moon [...]

]]> By: Mr. Science Guyhttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/11/16/theres-water-on-that-thar-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-687643 Mr. Science Guy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:24:34 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=10981#comment-687643 -There's good science to do on the far side, as well--it's a perfect location for radioastronomy, quieter than anywhere else in the neighborhood. -Sensors on the moon would need more sensitivity than similar instruments in Low Earth Orbit, because of the greater distance. So there is a tradeoff; it's much easier to use a lunar colony to justify science, than to use science to justify the colony. What we have right now is a bootstrapping problem; there would be plenty of economic justification for more human activity in space, if there were already some economically viable human activity in space... -There's good science to do on the far side, as well–it's a perfect location for radioastronomy, quieter than anywhere else in the neighborhood.

-Sensors on the moon would need more sensitivity than similar instruments in Low Earth Orbit, because of the greater distance. So there is a tradeoff; it's much easier to use a lunar colony to justify science, than to use science to justify the colony. What we have right now is a bootstrapping problem; there would be plenty of economic justification for more human activity in space, if there were already some economically viable human activity in space…

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