with Greenland melting & Carlisle always getting flooded, can we put a big lake on the moon?? it would reduce the sea level & mean less flooding.
Is it possible?
2006-09-17 12:09:33 · 12 answers · asked by howaytheladlee 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
but then we'd be stuck with carlisle forever
2006-09-17 12:11:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If by lake you mean a body of water that is open to the atmosphere/space then the answer is no. Water is liquid only under very specify8c conditions of temperature and air pressure. On earth water boils at 212 F with standard air pressure of approx 14 psi. With zero air pressure on the moon the boiling point for water is well below the surface temp on the moon. Thus an open body of water would simply boil away in a very short amount of time. Now putting the water in a sealed underground cavern is doable but a different answer.
2006-09-17 21:08:58 · answer #2 · answered by kissedonthecheek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is gravity on the moon shock !! its about 1/6 of the gravity on earth, unfortanately this mystic lake would actually boil away because of the lack of pressure, MUCH MORE importantly how the hell are you going to transport millions of tonnes of water to the moon. it just aint feasable, here i will do some math for you. for example Lake Erie one of the 5 Great Lakes of north america with the smallest Volume has a volume of 484km^3 thats 484,000,000,000m^3 just so you can understand that number it is close to half a trillion metres cubed of water, so if you tried to move that much water to moon, in a space shuttle that could perhaps carry 20 metres cubed of water, per journey, it would take a fleet of 5000 space shuttle going to and from the moon as fast as they could (about 8 days there and back) constantly for over one hundred thousand years to make a lake on the moon of the same volume. im not sure we can wait that long or ever make that many ships but nice idea anyway.
2006-09-17 20:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by thejur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moon has no atmosphere, so any water on it's surface would just boil away as soon as it got hit by the sun's rays.
By the way, the moon's gravity is, if I remember rightly, about 1/8th Earth gravity, so any water on it's surface would stay until it was evaporated by the heat in the vacuum.
2006-09-17 19:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by reader19492003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We probaby couldn't put a big lake on the moon because there is no gravity, therefore allowing the water to just float away.
2006-09-17 19:11:22 · answer #5 · answered by definitivamente06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we can't. If someday they invent a transporter like in star trek, then we can. Until then, water is too heavy to send to the moon.
;-D Maybe it could be sent to a desert on Earth!
2006-09-17 19:14:43 · answer #6 · answered by China Jon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You left out some steps here, I think. Do you mean, "take water from Earth and put it on the Moon?"
If so, er, no.
2006-09-17 19:39:07 · answer #7 · answered by wm_omnibus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not possible, and the moon has a third of the earths gravity for all the knobs who think it has none..........lol
2006-09-17 19:18:30 · answer #8 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we could
it would be a lot of lifting
probably spill some too
any fish in the lake
2006-09-17 19:17:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Zero gravity, water would float away
2006-09-17 19:12:11 · answer #10 · answered by ♀♥♂☮Trippy Hippie☮♂♥♀ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋