So we can move ahead with the exploration of the moon, set up a lunar base, and I expect we ll set up a lunar colony, and the water is there to be used. If that were not the case, we have to take all that water with us. And since it costs on the order of a thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars per pound to take anything to the moon, every drop of water you take to the moon costs a tremendous amount of money. That s correct. That s correct.
Water is also a sign of life.
Again, the moon s environment, itself, was totally hostile from its origin to the formation of life. And those compounds are destroyed. So all we have left are the remnants of the water that was brought there from the comets. So it will enable the moon to have life. Mr. Binder, you described the water on the moon as a type of frost mixed in with the soil.