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Anyone else not super impressed? Water is important for carbon-based life, but so is a bunch of other stuff like air, carbohydrates, aaaaaaaaaaaaaand also life
by rotrux 8y ago
Anyone else not super impressed?
Water is important for carbon-based life, but so is a bunch of other stuff like air, carbohydrates, aaaaaaaaaaaaaand also life...or at very least a very serious mix of reactive chemicals...From a causation perspective I gotta go back to the carbohydrate thing:
O-chem vs phys-chem. Find me a planet with a bunch of nitrogen/carbon in addition to ~7pH hydrogen/oxygen and I'll get excited. Promise.
- lovich 8y agoAtomic or molecular hydrogen and oxygen aren't readily available so water is a necessity that is hard to produce on the moon. Every necessary resource that can be locally sourced decreases how hard it is to start a permanent base drastically. For instance, if theres water we can more easily grow plants which will both cycle air with us humans _and_ provide carbohydrates
- taormina 8y agoWell, now that we've found water, getting a sample of that water and checking it for all of those things you mentioned would be the next scientific step.
- infinity0 8y agoNobody's trying to impress you mate
- rotrux 8y agoWow I upset some people. Sorry, I won't talk smack about the moon anymore.