Water for that could come from Ceres perhaps.
That would leave most of the Moon mostly as is, and useful for what the Moon has to offer.
However if economics were to pressure for it, Callisto or comets would be another source of water of significance that you could get water from. However, I have trouble imagining that it would become a desired thing.
]]>4000km water layer at 1/5gees - equal to 800km at 1gee.
800 000m, +1 bar with each 10 meters equivalent ( 50 real ones ).
80 kilobars.
hmmm, it seems it shall stay liquid from surface to bottom.
I wonder how much water the dry moon will suck in, and how will behave all these aluminas and silicates on the bottom...
]]>The Air pressure at the summit of Mount Everest is one third what it is at the Ocean's surface, that means the oxygen percentage of this Lunar atmosphere would be around 60% to take account of this, it should therefore be no problems for humans to breath this atmosphere, the rest of the atmosphere would be made up of nitrogen and trace amounts of carbon-dioxide for the plants.
Remember that cartoon, the Jetsons? I can imagine skytowers projecting from stalks rising out of the ocean, flying cars should be easy to accommodate under one fifth gravity. If a skycar failed, I wonder what the terminal velocity would be when it hit the ocean?
Tom,
Interesting, what will be the conditions on the old lunar surface, under 4000km of water?
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http://www.transhuman.talktalk.net/iw/Geosync.htm -- useful tool.
If water soft-landed on surface, then the geological structure could be reversed? - water inside, floating crust of "foamed" rock outside? This technique could be widely used for terraforming icy bodies - extract the solids and lock the volatiles within? Such foamed crust could be very very stiff indeed - tessellated fractal mesh.
Water mantle and core ... thick but light crust on it ... = Saturn size planet but with fully terraformed solid outer layers.
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Back to super-deluvial moon, Tom, pressure/temperature/phase of the old Moon inside? Also, tidal and other interaction of the Moon increased 15+ times in mass? Clouds, albedo, size we are talking about real climate changer so close! Perhaps the water-ed Luna has to be put on highest possible orbit, too?
Interesting, what will be the conditions on the old lunar surface, under 4000km of water?
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http://www.transhuman.talktalk.net/iw/Geosync.htm -- useful tool.
If water soft-landed on surface, then the geological structure could be reversed? - water inside, floating crust of "foamed" rock outside? This technique could be widely used for terraforming icy bodies - extract the solids and lock the volatiles within? Such foamed crust could be very very stiff indeed - tessellated fractal mesh.
Water mantle and core ... thick but light crust on it ... = Saturn size planet but with fully terraformed solid outer layers.
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Back to super-deluvial moon, Tom, pressure/temperature/phase of the old Moon inside? Also, tidal and other interaction of the Moon increased 15+ times in mass? Clouds, albedo, size we are talking about real climate changer so close! Perhaps the water-ed Luna has to be put on highest possible orbit, too?
]]>Interesting, what will be the conditions on the old lunar surface, under 4000km of water?
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http://www.transhuman.talktalk.net/iw/Geosync.htm -- useful tool.
If water soft-landed on surface, then the geological structure could be reversed? - water inside, floating crust of "foamed" rock outside? This technique could be widely used for terraforming icy bodies - extract the solids and lock the volatiles within? Such foamed crust could be very very stiff indeed - tessellated fractal mesh.
Water mantle and core ... thick but light crust on it ... = Saturn size planet but with fully terraformed solid outer layers.
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Back to super-deluvial moon, Tom, pressure/temperature/phase of the old Moon inside? Also, tidal and other interaction of the Moon increased 15+ times in mass? Clouds, albedo, size we are talking about real climate changer so close! Perhaps the water-ed Luna has to be put on highest possible orbit, too?
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