Significant Discovery

" Welcome back to fox -- 22 minutes now past the hour well the latest NASA discovery has sure made a splash back here on earth they found a significant amount of water on the moon so what does this mean for the future of space exploration and mankind. -- this morning by -- you kokua easy professor of theoretical physics. And the author of physics of the impossible it's now out in paperback grateful picking up its -- to see this morning that -- Okay so what are the implications for mankind now that we have found with that. Rocket that we shot into the -- the surface of the of the moon that we found this water there what are the implications for -- This is a potential game changer NASA has had paid -- you realize that -- is worth five times pound for pound. Find time to value of gold on the -- This could change the -- space exploration and living off the land using the ice on the moon and because if we then go to the moon. We could then set up permanent bases there for deeper exploration is that right that's right hydrogen can be used for rocket fuel the oxygen in the water can be used her breathing. Water could be purified and drunk. And also water is a good shielding against solar flares in cosmic rays in outer space. This was an eighty million dollar gamble. It's it's it's simply pay it off in spades so is this politically important -- to President Obama a lot of people saying how can we afford this right that mission. But we blasted I think in the surface cost eighty million dollars. Does this gamble pay off. Politically for President Obama puts pressure on a mom because he Augustine record has said more or less the yanks are not common. We're not gonna go to the -- we're not gonna go to Mars with the present budget. If we can shave off millions by finding water on the moon in -- living off the land. That cuts the cost of the space program and that puts pressure on Obama to perhaps give the green light for a manned space mission to the moon. Why when we watched that video media universally meeting here on the show we're watching it live here on FOX & Friends and you should see more people were saying in a -- Twitter sphere and on FaceBook people were saying. -- was kind of a dog we didn't see much it wasn't much deceit but it was really what the scientists and -- a few days later that was really important right. Back in October NASA got a black guy because it wasn't but we were expecting the money shot. Well for a scientist this isn't the money shot -- got sensors showing twenty -- gallons of water. In a crater sixty feet across that's huge 1%. 1% water in the composition of underground rock. And it wasn't expected to be much like what we saw on Jupiter what -- that comment tour the well for it which comment was what -- media Shoemaker Levy nine whatever smashed into Jupiter. We saw this massive explosion and we learned quite a bit about the planet there right. Where we've been spoiled by Hollywood -- we expect to have fireworks and I'll sort of some umpire pyrotechnics take place. But space is different we scientists are looking for the water follow -- water that's come on track. In the space program where this water that might be life. Plus rocket fuel air to breathe some water to drink. Water he is really the stuff of life. And you know for those people who pay I was -- sort of frustrated by this but I think this is something its wholly American about this hole in this idea -- venture beat adventure and adventurous spirit going out there and exploring the universe. In a money that we spend on the space program has massive implications you see all the time in your work right. Think of what happened when LBJ went on television to announce the fact that our first weather satellite in the sixties war and the great state of Texas that a hurricane was coming. Thousands of lives were saved billions of dollars of property damage were averted and then LBJ announced quote the space program has paid for itself today. -- and that's so true. Yeah and that spirit well if you -- who is also launching a new show yet -- on the Science Channel starting in December. Tells us that it's called scifi science teleport patient -- forest feels and I -- her award to hide. You name it we cover it on the Science -- December 1 a weekly show. Twelve episodes of everything you've seen on the silver screen is it safe to say good geek stuff. I think that's good friendly here if you've got to Philip -- can appreciate that nice to see this morning good luck with the show okay."