Re: Water Fuel Rocket Science

tomcat,
It most certainly would be quite nice to having a few megatonnes of raw
ice on deck. However, I'm not the least bit interested in phony
baloney fools that can't think for themselves, much less outside the
mainstream box, especially of those content with whatever
infomercial-science and of implying their naysayism against rational
logic as based upon some conditional laws of physics.
The fact of the matter is that there is snow on some of the Moon's
polar crater walls and lots and lots of ice/snow underneath the
surface. As far as whether it is 'solid' ice or 'flaky' snow is
immaterial. It is water and water can fuel rockets, and people too.
The fact of the matter is that your 100% conjecture is 100% based upon
our NASA's infomercial-science and on some godforsaken conditional laws
of physics that supposedly got us there in the first place. At best
there are a few 100% shaded layers of salty CO2 as a fluffy dry-ice
that could have sequestered a slight amount of H2O (I'd say less than
1%).

If you'll simply toss out most everything that's NASA/Apollo, and just
look at the other hard-science and then utilize only the regular laws
of physics, whereas then we're getting somewhere, instead of going
nowhere because of your having brown-nosed yourself along the skewed
path that our dishonest government that perpetrated the multi-decade
and subsequently multi-trillion dollar cold-war has ever since created
for us.

The regular laws of physics is what makes the likelihood of water-ice
as snow or much less as solid volumes coexisting upon the shaded
surfaces of our moon as likely as there being snow and ice on Venus or
that of a bonfire on Mars.

Even if there were a km deep layer of such fluffy (aka more than just a
little bone dry) snow, it wouldn't amount to a meter's worth of
compacted solids from which to extract good old water.

Only the remains of old salty ice from when our icy proto-moon
originally arrived with as much as hosting 262 km worth of surface ice
could there be the sorts of solid volumes that you speak of. Thus I'm
not excluding that possibility, just having a tough time of the
soft-science and of the subsequent infomercial-science that's been made
available thus far. We need a few of those micro surface probes and a
robotic mothership in nearby polar orbit for their data transfer, or is
that still too much to ask?

However, within the moon could be sufficient geode pockets or hallow
rilles hosting a combined volume that's potentially worth teratonnes of
salty ice or rather as most likely brines, which is even better since
our DNA has to be situated underground most of the time anyway.
-
Brad Guth

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