I saw this piece on the CNN's web site about NASA's plan to send people to the moon by 2018. What really struck me as strange is this excerpt:
I suppose one could make water from extracting hydrogen and oxygen from rocks and then making water from it but does any one see the dilemma in consuming untreated water from ice on either the Moon or Mars? Wouldn't that be an unsafe condition for the astronauts, drinking water that could contain germs from another planet (it's more an issue for Mars then for the Moon).
And even if you do treat the water to make it safe to drink, wouldn't that be killing the lifeforms you are trying to go out of your way to find in the first place?
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And even if you do treat the water to make it safe to drink, wouldn't that be killing the lifeforms you are trying to go out of your way to find in the first place?
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