Declaring “this is not your father’s moon,” NASA scientists said today that last month’s mission to punch a hole in the lunar surface found significant amounts of water in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon’s south pole.
“The moon is alive,” declared Anthony Colaprete, the chief scientist for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission.
NASA scientists went on to say that this gives credence to the widely-held notion that rain does not originate in clouds on earth, but is actually squeezed from the sponge-like moon, as its cycle causes it to contract from a full circle to a thin crescent each month. “We’re excited, as this may also explain the phenomenon whereby the tides are affected by the moon,” Colaprete went on to say.
Though there’s something awful desolate-feeling about the notion of actually living there. Remember the end of Space Cowboys, when Tommy Lee Jones, dying anyway of a terminal condition, decides to stay there?
I guess they’d have to use some colorful decor.
Well, I guess I can see a Scandinavian simplicity, but certainly in warms.
