100 billion tons of ice on Mercury

http://rt.com/news/scient...rcury-water-claim-965/

Scientists have confirmed for the first time that the planet Mercury holds “at least 100 billion tons of water ice” and also has “organic material” in the permanently-shadowed craters at its north pole.
The alleged findings came from NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft, which has been in orbit around Mercury since 2011.
Theories that Mercury – also known as the Swift Planet – could potentially contain forms of water were already being discussed back in 1992. Back then, Earth-based telescopes had picked up “bright areas” in and around the planet’s polar regions.

How do you feel l the discovery of large quantities of water ice on mercury will affect the space program?  Do you see humans one day colonizing Mercury?

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Apparently, the latest Sun released with a CPU on par with the WiiU.

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Wonderful. So we can live on the poles where the pressure is .00000000001% different and it's always pitch black and frozen. 

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Wonderful. So we can live on the poles where the pressure is .00000000001% different and it's always pitch black and frozen. 

Ah but you see temperature isnt dramatic, we could live on the artic circle so to say, below the frozen water but above the scorching sun, while the pressure is very low, so is on mars, the moon, etc. It is actually easier to deal with a vacuum than it is to deal with high pressure.

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Apparently, the latest Sun released with a CPU on par with the WiiU.

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Wonderful. So we can live on the poles where the pressure is .00000000001% different and it's always pitch black and frozen. 

Ah but you see temperature isnt dramatic, we could live on the artic circle so to say, below the frozen water but above the scorching sun, while the pressure is very low, so is on mars, the moon, etc. It is actually easier to deal with a vacuum than it is to deal with high pressure.

It's still don't think it's habitable for human life. Mars is still a better contender for colonization. Even though there aren't reports of water or anything, it's in a better place to live in at least.

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Wonderful. So we can live on the poles where the pressure is .00000000001% different and it's always pitch black and frozen. 

Ah but you see temperature isnt dramatic, we could live on the artic circle so to say, below the frozen water but above the scorching sun, while the pressure is very low, so is on mars, the moon, etc. It is actually easier to deal with a vacuum than it is to deal with high pressure.

It's still don't think it's habitable for human life. Mars is still a better contender for colonization. Even though there aren't reports of water or anything, it's in a better place to live in at least.

We can inhabit everywhere. 

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Don't see why we'd need to inhabit Mercury.  Just because it has ice, doesn't negate the fact it's a horrific place to try and  colonize.  They have found near-Earth type planets already that also appear to have water.  Those would be more ideal, even if they are far.  Hey, we apparently invented the warp drive though so distance won't matter.

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Wonderful. So we can live on the poles where the pressure is .00000000001% different and it's always pitch black and frozen. 

Ah but you see temperature isnt dramatic, we could live on the artic circle so to say, below the frozen water but above the scorching sun, while the pressure is very low, so is on mars, the moon, etc. It is actually easier to deal with a vacuum than it is to deal with high pressure.

It's still don't think it's habitable for human life. Mars is still a better contender for colonization. Even though there aren't reports of water or anything, it's in a better place to live in at least.

We can inhabit everywhere. 

Definitely cannot. As you're walking around in your established colony on Mercury with self sustaining oxygen levels protected from the suns harmful uv rays and heat, suddenly a crack appears in a crosswalk bubble like structure, akin to those seen in Star Wars. Suddenly you die from the gases flowing into the crosswalk as you gasp for oxygen. Slowly but surely you're dead.


If we can't live at the bottom of our oceans, what makes you think we can live on a planet that close to the sun?


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Warpdrive. What?

We should focus on terraforming mars, then we think about mercury.

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We should focus on terraforming mars, then we think about mercury.

We should work on maintaining our own planet better before trying to completely transform another.

We need to terraform mars because this one won't last longer.


I know this stuff i studied.

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Kon


We need to terraform mars because this one won't last longer.


I know this stuff i studied.

This planet will be fine for a long time. You'll be dead several hundred times over.

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Mercury can't be colonized by humans. It's in an extreme uninhabitable zone. Too close to the sun. Pressure + Heat would kill us. I don't think it'd even be possible even if we dug deep into the planet. Not to mention, why would anyone wanna live so close to the sun? 

Yet there is 100 billion tons of frozen water. 

Wonderful. So we can live on the poles where the pressure is .00000000001% different and it's always pitch black and frozen. 

Ah but you see temperature isnt dramatic, we could live on the artic circle so to say, below the frozen water but above the scorching sun, while the pressure is very low, so is on mars, the moon, etc. It is actually easier to deal with a vacuum than it is to deal with high pressure.

It's still don't think it's habitable for human life. Mars is still a better contender for colonization. Even though there aren't reports of water or anything, it's in a better place to live in at least.

We can inhabit everywhere. 

Definitely cannot. As you're walking around in your established colony on Mercury with self sustaining oxygen levels protected from the suns harmful uv rays and heat, suddenly a crack appears in a crosswalk bubble like structure, akin to those seen in Star Wars. Suddenly you die from the gases flowing into the crosswalk as you gasp for oxygen. Slowly but surely you're dead.


If we can't live at the bottom of our oceans, what makes you think we can live on a planet that close to the sun?


@Bman

Warpdrive. What?

You do know chemistry, correct? The only reason we look at mars is because its the closest planet to our own, the benefits of mars are simply because it contains vast amounts of water and rust. Yes, rust. Ferrous Oxide, Iron and Oxygen. through simple processes you can extract the oxygen. Mercury is also a giant ball of iron, now with evidence of water, Water is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom. Again, you can extract the oxygen fairly easily, BUT where there is iron and water there is rust, so technically, it is just as feasible of a place to live as mars. 

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Kon


We need to terraform mars because this one won't last longer.


I know this stuff i studied.

This planet will be fine for a long time. You'll be dead several hundred times over.

I come with sources, you see i studied this for years.
http://www.cracked.com/ar...-you-before-lunch.html

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I now have a sudden urge to play a bunch of RTS

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