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Author Topic:   Why Doesn't the Moon Have Life?
Coragyps
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Message 4 of 97 (115037)
06-14-2004 11:03 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Mission for Truth
06-13-2004 7:19 PM


What Mark said. To expand on that a little, though, the lack of water and of a noticeable atmosphere really goes back to gravity. The mass of the moon is just too low to hang on to an atmosphere at its distance from the Sun. Pluto has a similar mass, and has a little more atmosphere, but it's 200 degrees C colder out there, too.

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Coragyps
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Message 29 of 97 (394480)
04-11-2007 5:59 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by jjsemsch
04-11-2007 5:05 PM


Re: Life on the Moon?
Hmmmm. Thread necromancy.
Life has never been observed elsewhere in the universe.
We've started looking in two places to date: the Moon, where there's no water and a high vacuum, and Mars, where there's precious little surface water and a pretty decent vacuum. And we've only scratched an infinitesimal portion of Mars.
We have yet to look on the trillions of planets with water that we have only now developed the technology to find. And once we find them, it may take just a while to see if there's anything on them....

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