# Water found on the MOON, guys! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375 "2009-09-24T14:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/21 "2009-09-25T00:46:37Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Darling, all you need to get MoonH2O back to earth is a big ol’ catapult. And all you need to get a big ol’ catapult to the moon is a honkin’ great rocket… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/22 "2009-09-25T04:00:06Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > And all you need to get a big ol’ catapult to the moon is a honkin’ great rocket… 😉 Safer just to wait for the Space Escalator. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/23 "2009-09-25T05:00:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” takes another step towards reality. So does _The Dispossessed_ ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/24 "2009-09-25T05:06:03Z")
Hmm. Further investigation is warranted. Provided we can secure a team of programmers and Kevin Spacey, plans should be put forward to dispatch Sam Rockwell within the next decade. ETA: This is actually pretty cool. Should it pan out, I may just have to reconsider my past policy of vehement objections to future moon missions, offered as though anyone involved ought to care what I think. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/25 "2009-09-25T05:15:39Z")
The Moon serves it’s purpose as an asteroid shield for Earth. There’s no need to complicate it’s mission… ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/26 "2009-09-25T05:21:06Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > \*Thought you were being an inconsiderate poseur with your Fiji water? Think again - each litre of Moon[sub]2[/sub]O requires several thousand litres of hydrazine and LOX rocket propellant to ship back to Earth. Why not use it to wash down your SUV and _really_ piss off those tree-huggers? > > **Nothing says I don’t give a shit like Moon[sub]2[/sub]O!**\* Win. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/27 "2009-09-25T06:54:40Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > We’re halfway to opening a bar on the moon. You can get a drink now, but the place still has no atmosphere. LunarPlexus would be an excellent name for a moon bar. Would you sell moonshine there? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/28 "2009-09-25T07:19:15Z")
M-O-O-N, that spells water. With apologies to Stephen King ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/29 "2009-09-25T13:32:56Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > LunarPlexus would be an excellent name for a moon bar. Would you sell moonshine there? I guess that would depend on whether or not the revenooers set up shop up there. I would sell t-shirts to Earth tourists, though. “If you think this bar revolves around you, go the fuck home!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/30 "2009-09-25T13:40:10Z")
Never mind water - when are we going to find out about the Amazon women? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/31 "2009-09-25T23:21:57Z")
I can’t see how this is new, I could clearly remember that the USAF found ice on the lunar south pole back in the 90’s. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375/32 "2009-09-26T02:07:12Z")
Well it’s not that new, just that the reading aren’t restricted to dark places in polar craters. The idea is that the stream of solar protons impacting the regolith bind themselves to oxygen atoms. Ideally you get H[sub]2[/sub]O but you can also get HOx where x is whatever the oxygen is already bound to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-found-on-the-moon-guys/511375.md?page=1)