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MoonFaker: Moon Rocks Revisited. Episode 1, Water In Apollo Samples. PART 7

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Channel: Jarrah White · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Of all the topics discussed in my Moon Rocks Revisited series, the subject of lunar water is the one that received the most updating. As there has been tons of new developments made right from the word go. 

Earlier in my Exhibit D series, we pointed out that contrary to claims made propagandists and NASA, the rock samples supposedly returned by the astronauts do in fact contain water. This contradicted William Hartmann's Giant Impact Theory, which was proposed to account for the identical chemistry, mineralogy, ages and oxygen isotope ratios between earth rocks and moon rocks and the alleged lack of water in the latter. 

Since then, there has been further studies on the Hydrogen and Chlorine isotopic composition associated with this water, and back and forth debate between the scientific community as to whether or not this water came from comets or terrestrial contamination or the solar wind. Each of the three excuses applied to the presence of this water has its own set of problems.

Also, it appears that Phil Webb has responded to my earlier series. Rather than address the issue, Webb seems more interested in appealing to the cheerfully blind and going for volume to falsely accuse his opponents of logical fallacies, even if he has to make them himself. In many cases, it is evident that some of his false claims can be debunked using little more than his own source material!

In summary, Webb claims that the Apollo samples contain significantly less water than their terrestrial cousins. This can easily be proven false. In fact, had Webb bothered to read Friedman's "fascinating report" from 1970 - the very report that he cited - he would have known that the water content for the breccias is the same as that for freshly errupted Hawaiian basalts! And more recently, Alberto Saal's estimates that the lunar spherules contain as much water as their terrestrial cousins has been confirmed. Since 1970, scientists have been finding as much as 1,000 to 1,500ppm of water in the rock samples. More modern studies have found up to 6,000ppm. These numbers are consistent with those in terrestrial rocks.

Webb then insists that the water must be terrestrial contamination due to the supposed lack of hydrous minerals and ferric iron in the samples. Firstly, the contamination idea was rejected by the authors of his fascinating source. Secondly, the Apollo samples do contain hydrous minerals and ferric iron, sample 66095 is a notorious example of such.

Webb then claims that the trace water in the Apollo samples was confirmed remotely by Cassini, Chandrayaan-1 and Deep Impact. Although it could be pointed out that all three probes are either owned by NASA or are joint projects with NASA and their partners, all that really needs to be said is that only places where these probes found comparable amounts of water was in the lunar poles. Everywhere else on the moon water would be boiled away due to the vacuum of space and the +100C daylight temperatures.

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