On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 6:09:00 AM UTC-6, casagi... wrote:

The probe just sent showed totally lit up surface features of Pluto. The Sun gets through.

Lit up enough to see isn't the point. Pluto is 39.42 times as far from
the Sun as the Earth, and that equates to a relative solar intensity,
less by a factor of 1554 ! We probably get more by Moonlight !

Sunlight travels for billions of light years hardly diminished. That is how far away we can see stars even though maybe not individually.



Watch the science channel. Scientists are saying this on "How the Universe Works."

Where's the hard evidence ? No one can know what's beneath the
surface.

Scientists can tell by the fact that Pluto is geologically alive and the fact that it has an atmosphere and what the atmosphere is made of. They can also tell by surface features. You would be amazed what scientists can find out by simple deduction.


Chemists are smarter than you think. A little research and they have it down. It is not that hard for them to get oxygen out of water when they have an important reason to do so. Right now they do not have one, since oxygen can be obtained so much more easily in other ways.

Getting Oxygen ( and therefore also Hydrogen ) from water, would
require an expenditure of energy, at least equal to the energy of
combustion, of that same Hydrogen with that same Oxygen, back into
water. This is very big time, and yielding far too small an amount to
be practical for breathing purposes.

Then they can get the oxygen from the water by watering plants in a greenhouse. You figured it out for yourself. You did not even need scientists to do their research.

Why are you making this difficult? Don't you want to go to Pluto some day to spend a few months mining whatever there is to mine there? Or maybe to send your kids or grandkids if you don't want to do it yourself?