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Scientists have discovered that the surface of the Moon does actually contain deposits of the precious metal.

They made the “surprise” discovery after blasting a rocket into a lunar crater last year in order to find out whether it contained water.

They did find it but also discovered a treasure trove of elements – including traces of silver.

But the levels are far too low to make it worth opening a lunar silver mine.

More importantly large amounts of water were discovered at the bottom of the Cabeus crater.

Making up around 5.6 per cent of the surface material, it was present in sufficient quantities to be useful to future manned missions.

Less welcome was the detection of high levels of mercury in the soil, posing a potential risk to explorers.

The Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission involved deliberately crashing a Centaur rocket into a crater near the Moon’s south pole.

Material thrown up by the impact could then be analysed by instruments on the American space agency Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe.

The chosen target was the Cabeus crater, which lies in a permanently shaded region of the Moon where temperatures fall as low as 35 Kelvin (minus 238C).

When the rocket struck the bottom of the crater on October 9 last year it blasted out a hole 70ft to 100ft in diameter and 6ft deep.

An estimated two tons of material was thrown into a plume which reached a height of more than half a mile.

As the debris and vapour was illuminated by sunlight, its properties were measured for almost four minutes by the LRO’s instruments.

The findings, reported in the journal Science, showed that the crater soil was far more complex than expected.

Not only did it contain water, but a plethora of other compounds and elements including mercury, calcium, magnesium, carbon monoxide and dioxide, ammonia, sodium – and small traces of silver.

Dr Peter Schultz, one of the US scientists from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, said: “This place looks like it’s a treasure chest of elements, of compounds that have been released all over the Moon, and they’ve been put in this bucket in the permanent shadows.”

But Dr Schultz stressed that the discovery of minute traces of silver “doesn’t mean we can go mining for it”.

Dr Kurt Retherford, a fellow expert from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, one of the scientists operating the LRO instruments, said the biggest surprise was finding mercury at about the same abundance as water.

“Its toxicity could present a challenge for human exploration,” he said.

Related Moon Crater Has More Water Than Parts of Earth

Gonna try and do one of these monthly for about a year or so. Will mostly be Nanotech oriented, may leak over into neuroscience developments from time to time.

So, How close are we to grey-gooing ourselves? Let’s try to find out together, shall we?

Digging deep into diamonds – “The new device offers a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature, an essential element in making fast and secure computing with light practical.

The finding could lead to a new class of nanostructured diamond devices suitable for quantum communication and computing, as well as advance areas ranging from biological and chemical sensing to scientific imaging.”

A Stellar, Metal-Free Way to Make Carbon Nanotubes – Meteorite’s containing naturally formed space-Carbon Nanotubes could help us in their design and possibly shed a bit of light on the way carbon is seeded on planets

You live in a very unhealthy world and probably don’t take steps to reduce your risk of health problems, but have no fear – Medibots could be fixing your damaged equipment before you know it.

Artificial Skin will use Quantum Tunneling – so now your sexbots will actually feel your love through non-local entanglement sensors? Kind of:

“Peratech makes an electrically conductive material called quantum tunneling composite (QTC). When the material is compressed electrons jump between two conductors separated by polymer insulating layer covered with metallic nanoparticles.

QTC robot skin could perhaps let a robot know precisely where it has been touched, and with how much pressure. It could also be helpful in designing machines that have better grasping capabilities, and for developing more natural ways for machines to interact with humans.”

Organic Transistor Paves Way for New Generations of Neuro-Inspired Computers – “For the first time, CNRS and CEA researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionality of a synapse. This organic transistor, based on pentacene and gold nanoparticles and known as a NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organic Memory Field-Effect Transistor), has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired computers, capable of responding in a manner similar to the nervous system.”

Them gold nanoparticles sure have been worth all the years of failed alchemist looking for their philospher’s stone. See:NanoGold used in Cancer Treatment.

Of course, everyone’s been wigging out about the emerging actualization of William Gibson‘s Nanofaxes via “3D printing” which is actually tech that’s been in development for several years, mostly aimed at organ tissue printing.

The Self-Assembling Nanoparticles into Complex Nanostructures article over at H+ Magazine discusses the issue: “These parts, in turn, can be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products. The concept is that a functioning nanofactory will create virtually any product at the cost of only the input raw material and energy.”

and the idea receives further fanfare with a different perspective via Can Open Source Manufacturing Save Humanity?:

While this technology is very promising, consider that your governments are passing measures to stop you from trading purely digital information on the basis of copyright. Given their investment in production, don’t you think they will attempt to lockdown this developing science in one way or another?

KNOW YOUR FUTURE BETTER.

So, what’d we miss?

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David Goddard joins the host of Occult of Personality to discuss some finer points on the Western Hermetic tradition:

“Teacher and author David Goddard returns to the show in podcast episode 80. David’s books include “The Sacred Magic of the Angels”, “The Tree of Sapphires”, “The Tower of Alchemy”, and “The Dragon-Treasure of Hermes”. He is the co-founder of Rising Phoenix Foundation and was our guest previously in podcast episodes 54 and 62.”

Listen to this episode at Occult of Personality