There be water on the moon..

[CAP1]

Do any of you even realize what this means for find life on other planets?

i've believed there HAS to be other life out there somewhere, for almost as long as i can remember. why you ask? well, i'll tell ya why.


because if mankind is the best that the Big Guy upstairs can do, then the entire universe is doomed.

[Motherland]

Do any of you even realize what this means for find life on other planets?

No because we've known there's lot's of water throughout the solar system on various moons of planets like Jupiter and Saturn for a while.
I don't see what a small amount of water on our own moon means for that pursuit.

Such as Europa

[Buzzard7]

Even with conservative numbers they have suggested at least 10,000 life bearing planets per galaxy.
Between 10-100 of those would have intelligent life.

[Dadsguns]

So its really not made of cheese???   

[Saxman]

Seeing as the moon is apparently a piece of the Earth plopped off by an impact during the formation of the planet, it would make sense.

Yyyyeah. Not like whatever water was on earth at the time the Earth got side-swiped wouldn't have been instantly vaporized by the energy of the collision at the time.

That, and the timeline of this theory places the impact during the time while Earth was still a semi-molten ball of "liquid hot mag-ma."

[druski85]

Yyyyeah. Not like whatever water was on earth at the time the Earth got side-swiped wouldn't have been instantly vaporized by the energy of the collision at the time.

That, and the timeline of this theory places the impact during the time while Earth was still a semi-molten ball of "liquid hot mag-ma."

Yup.  That thur water came from hits taken long after the moon was it's own entity. 

[OOZ662]

Tell me, what would the water vapor from that impact that came within the gravity field of the newly formed moon do?

[Die Hard]

Tell me, what would the water vapor from that impact that came within the gravity field of the newly formed moon do?

Fly off into space on the solar wind.

[Curlew]

great, now lets bottle it and sell it for $100,000 a pint

[OOZ662]

Fly off into space on the solar wind.

Sure, sure.

[Xtrepid]

great, now lets bottle it and sell it for $100,000 a pint

I can see the "bottled water" companies fighting over the rights...

Guess it will save on transportation costs for the Lunar Hilton.

X

[Anaxogoras]

Even with conservative numbers they have suggested at least 10,000 life bearing planets per galaxy.
Between 10-100 of those would have intelligent life.

That is a point of contention.  Ever hear of the Rare Earth hypothesis?  It might be that life (systems of increasing free energy) is common throughout the universe, but that almost all of it is microbial life.

We tend to think of the human being as the end-point of a linear process of progressive evolution, but we are anything but.  The more I learn about biology, the more we seem to be a result of fortunate blunders characterized by inefficiency and suboptimal adaptations...all of which is inversely proportional to complexity.  The more simple you are, the better adapted you are to changing conditions, and your adaptations to the environment are more likely efficient and optimal.  There's a lot to be learned from bacteria.

[Die Hard]

Sure, sure.

That's what it would do. Same reason the moon has a negligible atmosphere.

[LLv34_Snefens]

LOL, seeing the short video clip, I thought to myself: "Squeekers are everywhere"

[Nilsen]

Do any of you even realize what this means for find life on other planets?

Hoping they can take care of themselves. Dont want them to come here for free healthcare and welfare checks. Dont need no stinking out-of-work aliens.