Date: 2009-11-13 06:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
All indeed true.

(also, I'm grinning within a little at the researchers who seemed convinced that if their probe found water there'd be a plume of steam from its impact point: clearly it ain't necessarily so!)

Date: 2009-11-13 07:00 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-11-13 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/vinyl__/
I didn't read the story you linked to, but I know that NASA's plans for the water are to use it to set up a permanent base on the moon as a jumping point for further space exploration. The water that's on the moon is not so much mine-able as it is convertible to oxygen and other things.

Date: 2009-11-13 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Dude, I must sound like a moron :P

Going to edit... sans "mined" et al.

Date: 2009-11-13 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
It's not about getting water for people on Earth who need it most.

There is plenty of water but it's hard to get it into a usable form and get it to the people who need it. If people in the Sahel need water, it'll be easier and cheaper to purify salt water or even ship water from Canada than to extract water from the Moon for them.

Finding resources in space is not about bringing those resources back to Earth, it's about using them in space. If we ever travel to the Moon again, and especially if we plan on spending long periods of time there instead of just going up and coming back, we want to know whether we have to bring water or if we can find some there. Water is one of the heaviest and therefore most fuel-expensive things to launch.

Date: 2009-11-13 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
[nods]
Yeah, pretty silly thing to write.

I'm in a negative mood.
*goes to edit again*

I love informative comments :)

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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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