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Originally Posted by PQ
So you guys really believe it's better to invent things by a 'spinoff' or accident? No way.
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I believe when you limit your opportunities, you're only hurting yourself.
And I attempted to search of the opposition...but, I couldn't think of what to search for. No idea what to type into google. Secondly, I imagine anything that would come up would be laughable...only because of my predispositions on the subject.
I will digress, and get back on topic: Water on the moon.
To the science-geeks, it provides another way to research the history of the universe. Ice acts a lot like fossils in that it forms in layers, and each layer has something special about it. (it's how we figured out "global warming" is simply a climactic pattern)
To those who don't spend their lives in a laboratory studying samples, but still like to look ahead; it provides concrete evidence that life can be supported on the moon. This has limitless applications. Refueling stations for the shuttle, a lunar space station to compliment the ISS, we could create a short-term life support station for tourists, or even start a colony to relieve the physical land shortage on this planet. It means that there are more minerals, etc up there...and we can mine the dark side of the moon if we wanted to (see a previous post in here about uranium). Since there's no atmosphere up there, we could test dangerous technologies like a full-blown fusion reactor (or something).
To those who don't pay attention to this sort of thing, don't care about it, or don't want to care about it. It means nothing. Absolutely nothing.