It's Official: Water Found on the Moon

I guess now Celine Dion can make whomever she's singing to love her.<p>On a less silly note, there's so many of these "found water on X" stories that as a lay person, it's hard to tell what's an exciting discovery. I mean, it took a quick Google search to find a "water found on moon!" article dating back to 1998: <a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3299" rel="nofollow">http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3299</a><p>What's different between the lunar water ice in the 1998 article and the finding of lunar water ice now?

I would think it cheaper to send 32 ounces of water from Earth to the moon in a Dasani bottle, than to dig it out of a ton of rock. Maybe we can make a really long straw and just suck it up from the oceans directly.

32 ounces per ton? Imagine this huge solar-powered factory covering a mile, with a little trickle of water from the 'out' stage.

Hmm... a volume in shadow, shielded from sunlight, should have low temperatures and be a water trap? Water molecules generated by solar wind or from comets should bounce around until they got there.<p>I predict that we will soon see designs for trapping (and harvesting) "dew".<p>This is like Herbert's "Dune", will they find spices, too? :-)

Great. Now we can have bottled water from the moon. Of course we will just tap it here, but nobody will know!

I don't get it. Is there really water like we know it from earth or is it just inside some rocks? This article doesn't tell us.

&#62; When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back several samples of lunar rocks.<p>The Apollo Moon landing was fake.