Here is the News: Water on the Moon Actually
Apparently there’s a bunch of water on the moon, or so NASA’s saying now. I only read the headline and can’t be bothered to read the full article, but water on the moon seems to be a big thing today, so The Nation is going to cover it. According to NASA (well, the teaser of the source article), some object which I assume to be a battering ram with the hitting part shaped like the head of an actual ram, was slammed into the moon, releasing a bunch of moon debris which had alot of water in it.
Now, the question isn’t what this means, but why the fuck is it news? Earth’s atmosphere is made up of more than several things, and three of those are hydrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, AKA water. And the moon is near Earth’s atmosphere unless it’s actually in it I’m not sure which but you can Google it if you want, so it stands to reason that some of that water will have dropped onto the moon. Plus if you’ve ever seen Forrest Gump, you know that sometimes rain can go up, which is another possible explanation. Either way, all the possible explanations for this are pretty mundane, so why does anyone even give a fuck?
Aliens, that’s why.
The thinking is that if there’s water somewhere, that place can support life. While Mary Jo Kopechne would probably disagree, I can see why this would be awesome: because aliens are awesome. Unless they’re the aliens from Signs, who water would completely fuck up. Point is, we’ve already had people on the moon, and they didn’t see no fucking aliens. If there were any, don’t you think Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear would’ve MENTIONED it? Or maybe during that video with the flag, one of them might’ve snuck into the background, holding up a sign, or waving, or doing something crazy to get themselves onto YouTube?
I’m all for there being Aliens, and us looking for them. It’s pretty much the only valid use of the vast amounts of cash the space program blows through. But you’re not going to find them on the fucking moon, and you’re not going to find them just because there’s some water. Water’s one of those things that just happens; it doesn’t just decide to be somewhere so things can drink it.
Does anyone think I’m wrong on this? Are there aliens on the moon? Are there aliens anywhere? And honestly, what are the chances we’ll ever come in contact with them if there are?
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I agree 100%….there ARE aliens (although, not the little green guys we think about) and they do like attention-we’re just not smart enough to find them. Not on the moon though-I think it’s made of cheese and they’re probably lactose intolerant.
That said, we probably will but-it won’t be us…it’ll be them contacting us….not ‘Independence Day’ style either. Like ‘Hey, what’s up? …just thought we’d check out this Earth thing you have going on’….
My favorite bit was the “Buzz Lightyear” reference- I chuckled the rest of the way through the article because of it. And yep, agreed with your point. Pretty sure there’s no aliens on the moon, but there’s PROBABLY life somewhere out there.
Theres as many planets in this universe as there is grains of sand in a desert. Also the universe is expanding so there are more being created every second. Not to mention the multiverse theory but i wont even go into that. Basically the chance of there being life elsewhere is somewhere north of 100%. The chance of intelligent life? Id say around .001% of the life. The chance of intelligent life being able to transverse the universe? Extremely south of that. However the chances are that there are some somewhere, but it doesnt matter because even if we make contact it wont be in any of our lifetimes.
Oh and the reason that scientists have such a hardon about proving that there might be water in different places is because it was the building block of life on earth. (It enabled single cell organisms to evolve). What they seem to miss is that just because that was the case there doesnt mean it will be the case elsewhere. Evolution in its essence is extremely random. So to bring it back to point, anyone who believes theres life in the moon right now is clutching at some pretty out there straws.
i could agree on the lines that human perception is limited to the third dimension. Or that it is affected to how we experience “time.” Our species existence might be the blink of an eye to something alien.
Can I accept aliens exist?
I could.
This is one of those “thinkers.” A little while ago the world was going to end because a particle accelerator at CERN was creating a black hole that might collapse the universe. Didn’t happen.
The Moon got bombed, but our scientific expectations as to how water reacts on the moon in event of an explosion may have been skewed by our data from Earth. Hey, the world was flat once, right? Ok, there is water there now. When I was a kid, Pluto was still a planet. Science is a young academic…
I wonder if Moon Water tastes any good….