Re: An oasis on the moon?

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:06:38 GMT

greg@see-web-page.edu (Greg Kuperberg) wrote:

:In article <424d8eb9.1007354869@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>,
:Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote:
:>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:23:38 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
:>greg@see-web-page.edu (Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor
:>glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:>>As O'Keefe plainly states it, testing new technology is reason #1 to
:>>return to the moon; evidence of ice is reason #2. Reason #1 is catch-all
:>>promotion for everything that NASA does. Reason #2 is wishful thinking.
:>That's your (uninformed) opinion, not a fact.
:
:I think it's my informed opinion, because when I work at it I can often
:understand space science literature well enough. This is what Bruce
:Campbell, lead author of the Arecibo interplanetary radar paper, says
:on his home page:
:
: Any ice within shadowed craters near the Moon's poles is likely in
: the form of small, distributed grains, making it potentially more
: difficult to extract as a lunar resource.
:
: http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/research/moon/radar_poles_detail.cfm
:
:Try making a cup of coffee out of that!

Apply heat. Condense.

Gee, that was hard.... 

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