The Chinese are working on this now... Some day we will be hitching a ride out to the verse on a Chinese built ship...

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

Sign me up. Better still, where do I get a job working on that project?

Sigh, this would be a strange turn of events. The Chinese importing thousands of American miners to do their dirty work for them. "They don't ask for much pay and they're easy to house. 40 or 50 of them will bunk together and they'll eat the most outlandish foods. They are hard to understand but some of their women are pretty hot."

Just imagine the look on their faces when they find out we faked the whole thing . .

Well this proves those plastic water bottles really do last forever...

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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra

Widely dispersed and requiring significant energy to recover and use. Living on the moon would be worse than being in jail by a large margin. It's a dead rock. A robotically mounted telescope on the moon would be cool but forget the colonial outpost.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

From what I learned in my Astronomy class, it was via Volcanic activity and such...

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78 Datsun 280Z
86 Peugeot 505
14 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

“Owning a car is like owning a dog. Every now and then, it craps on the carpet — but it’s still your dog.” - Jeremy Clarkson

But the oxygen and hydrogen molecules, either separately or together as water molecules, became part of the earth's crust as a result of bombardment with various comets and asteroids, and the moon is also made up of much the same material. Best explanation for the formation of the moon that I've heard is that a very large body collided with the earth and knocked a large amount of loose matter - earth and rock - into orbit, eventually coalescing through gravity's appeal. A lot of water could have been in that mix.

Of interest in this is how long water vapor exists on a body like the moon or Mars. Supposedly, Martian atmosphere is so thin because of untold billions of years worth of solar wind scouring any loose gas atoms and molecules out into space. I mean I only know from what I've read here and there but apparently Mars has only a weak magnetic field and was previously thought to have none. And as a result is unprotected from the full blast of solar radiation. The moon too has a negligible magnetic field and atmosphere. So one wonders if free water on the moon, not bound in some mineral equation, wouldn't have long ago evaporated and been driven off.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K