Brian Gaff wrote:
Well, its also perhaps one part of the Science community trying to
upstage the upcoming impact.
I'm intrigued also by the fact that a measurement made on a flypast
back in the last decade has just come to light as a confirmation to
the Indian results.
The thing is this.
On the moon, you get impacts all the time, a good number of these
bodies contain water ice. So is it very surprising that the effects
of evaporating water are detected?
The more intriging finding in my view, is the discovery of water ice
at much higher levels and closer to the surface at lower latitudes on
Martian fresh craters.


Brian

Timing is everything; An Example of the Lowest Form
of Science.

NASA finds ice on the moon
http://www.reuters.com/article/scien...36167620090924

This 'Big Discovery' comes just as the Augustine Report on NASA's
future is being released. A report which is /very harsh/ on the
notion of returning
men to the Moon. See below.

What curious timing? One might just think this 'science' is nothing
more than a politically motivated show, 'politico-science'...call
it, only meant
as a last-ditch effort to save the dying idea of building a Moon
Colony.
An idea even Tom Hanks considers without reason......

"I think in the history of the human race, the moon has been
the first place we've gone to and said, 'OK, we don't need
to go back there again.'" Hanks said.

"And maybe we should do it again?" Axelrod asks.

"Well," Hanks says, "the question would be why?"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in881421.shtml

Moon Water is .."THE REASON WHY". A drop of moon water per liter
of lunar soil..Wow! FORGET GLOBAL WARMING, we need to be
mining water on the flippin' moon for a Trillion Dollar Colony
instead.
ARE THEY LUNATICS? (literally speaking....yes they are)

AMERICA'S SINGLE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
for the next fifty years, a Gilded Safari to the Moon!
That's incredibly sad, if not tragic, considering what the world
will soon become due to fossil fueled climate change.

WHILE THE WORLD BURNS these 'scientists' hold a press conference
that's nothing more than a political dog-and-pony show.
To justify an immoral waste of taxpayer funds.
They should be fired.

And let "Moon Water" serve as the fitting epitaph for America's
manned space program.

Jonathan



Moon-Water-Factory or Space Solar Power?
Which makes sense?

Executive Summary
NASA'S SPACE SOLAR POWER EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
AND TECHNOLOGY (SERT) PROGRAM
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10202&page=1


SUMMARY REPORT
of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight

"The U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an
unsustainable trajectory. It is perpetuating the perilous practice
of pursuing goals that do not match allocated resources."
http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/press_...tineforweb.pdf



If this were true, it should be bigger news than we've seen so far. It
would change the whole paradigm of getting started in space exploration.