Mining The Moon

In December of 2017, NASA plans to launch " the Lunar flashlight" into space to begin a six month trip to the moon to orbit around 80 times to find shadowed areas that contain water.

Doing this would expand our exploration and we humans could settle on the moon. The moon is about 1/4th the size of the earth and has many craters in it. We could fit about 1 billion people on the moon in side all of the craters, that about about a couple feet to about a couple miles.All though the moon has little to no atmosphere and little gravity, we could build build facilities that have aquaponic systems that could produce food and plants that could eventually produce enough  carbon dioxide and oxygen let humans and living things thrive. It wouldn't be impossible, but we could establish factories that burn to make energy and carbon dioxide and methane to build up an atmosphere and warm up the moon. This is all just an opinion and predictions, but it seems possible with all the technology that today and the speed at which its advancing.

To check out more on this article: http://www.space.com/27388-nasa-moon-mining-missions-water.html

Water Is Old

Scientists have found water older than Earth and Sun itself.

                 

                    On September 25, 2014, scientists have discovered that 30-50% of all of Earth's water is older than the solar system. The sun is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old. We all know that water has a chemical make-up of two hydrogen and one oxygen. Water was discovered about 4 billion years ago. Water is already old but how much older can it really be?

                     In the beginning of the solar system, many asteroids and colossal chunks of rock and ice smashed in the Earth constantly. As all of this bombarding happen to the earth and all of the other planets, gravity would have pulled in objects from farther solar systems. Asteroids that would have been pulled in to the forming planets could have contained water frozen tens of degrees above absolute zero (-459 degrees Fahrenheit). Once the earth has cooled and is comfortable the water in the rock already from those early donors would have melted out of the earth's newly formed crust. In addition to all of the carbon dioxide and methane being pumped in to the air, it would have condensed in the first thunderstorms filling the earth of the most important element that helped create life.

To read more on this article, click the link: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/25/scientists-say-its-older-than-the-sun-and-the-solar-system-and-odds-are-you-often-come-into-contact-with-it/ 

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