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Where does the water come from?


There's more than a trillion pounds of water ice on the moon.


Mixed in with rock at low concentrations. Are you proposing shipping massive mining machines to the Moon?


This is a thread about building a magnetic shield to protect an entire planet. Shipping some gear to the poles of the moon to melt ice doesn't seem that crazy in comparison.


Mars has a lot of water, it is just solid.




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