Space.com says Moon Rocks are Disintegrating

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hoi.polloi
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Space.com says Moon Rocks are Disintegrating

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Disintegrating moon rocks — metaphor for the crumbling moon hoax? Thanks to comedian journalist Mark Wall at SPACE.com :
Some Apollo Moon Samples 'Crumbling to Dust'

Some of the moon soil collected by Apollo astronauts has deteriorated significantly during its four-plus decades on Earth, a new study reports.

Scientists found that the median particle size in a set of 20 different Apollo soil samples held in laboratories for research use has decreased by more than half since the samples were first measured 40 years ago.

"It might be accurate to state that the Apollo lunar soils are literally crumbling to dust," the scientists, led by Bonnie Cooper of Hanyang University in South Korea, wrote in the new study.
Moon soil? Can they actually say that? Do they know what soil is?
"Leaching by water vapor causes the specific surface area of a lunar soil sample to multiply, and a system of pores develops," they wrote in the study, which was published online last week in the journal Nature Geoscience. "These structural changes may be attributed to the opening of existing, but previously unavailable, pore structure or the creation of new surfaces through fracturing of cement or dissolution of amorphous particles."
http://www.space.com/30450-apollo-moon- ... ating.html

Cement, huh?
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"Today's propaganda is brought to you by the letter 'M' for 'Moon'.".

But what's the solution? Well, quite simple of course — put it back in "space" before it's too late!
"Based on other evidence, it's possible that even the samples stored in nitrogen may be compromised," Cooper said.

There is no known way to restore degraded samples to their previous state, she said, adding that off-Earth storage is likely required to keep extraterrestrial material 100 percent pristine.
I'm guessing they mean something like, "This lie is hard to upkeep, let's pretend to hide it in an inaccessible location and say the stuff that didn't make it there just vanished!" :lol:
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Re: Space.com says Moon Rocks are Disintegrating

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Haha, those NASAtanic "scientists".

Have you tried to Google this "Bonnie Cooper" of Hanyang University, hoi? The only links I get are from this "dust-to-dust" publication. Must be a world class scientist... :rolleyes:

Edit: thank you, Critical Mass!
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Re: Space.com says Moon Rocks are Disintegrating

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Selene wrote:Have you tried to Google this "Bonnie Cooper" of Hanyang University, hoi? The only links I get are from this "dust-to-dust" publication. Must be a world class scientist... :rolleyes:
Here are her latest contributions... she seems to use the term regolith on those.

The acknowledgements section on her paper on the 'lunar dust toxicity on rats' explains much...
Acknowledgements

This project was funded by the NASA Human Research
Program. We gratefully acknowledge the Apollo Sample
Curator for providing an Apollo 14 lunar regolith sample for
this study. We thank the members of NASA-assembled Lunar
Airborne Toxicity Assessment Group (LADTAG) and Non-
Advocate Review Committee, for their advice on the lunar
dust toxicity project, and L. Taylor and D. McKay for
technical advice on mineralogy of lunar dust. Technical
assistance from S. Bassett, S. Zalesak, S. Beck, C. Gonzalez,
C. Garza, D. Martin, R. Miller, staffs of NASA JSC Clinical
Laboratory and Histology Laboratory of the University
Texas Medical Center (Houston) is also gratefully acknowl-
edged. We also thank J. Krauhs and H. Garcia for editorial
assistance.
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