Where the Buggalo Roam - question

S04E06 Where the Buggalo RoamliveMar 4, 2002, 12:02 AM ET2 hours after the credits7 posts by 6 posters
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Don Del Grande

While I was watching "Where the Buggalo Roam", a thought came to me (insert appropriate joke here): how come the humans can breathe on Mars, and Jupiter, and pretty much every other inhabited planet in the universe, but not the Moon?

Don Del Grande, [email] Maybe the people who built Luna Park were just too cheap to build the hidden planetwide oxygen generators that the other planets in the solar system have (and the other planets just happen to have
Dave↩ Don Del Grande

In article , Don Del Grande wrote:

the moon doesnt have an atmosphere. mars does (though isnt it very thin?) i dont know about the other ones. isnt jupiter's atmosphere made up of ammonia?

Larry↩ Dave

On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 03:50:06 -0500, Dave wrote:

They never went to Jupiter, just to a moon. Which may have an atmosphere, but it would still be very cold.

Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium.

They were also able to breath on Mercury, but they never left Amy's car, which they did on Jupiter's moon.

--Larry

Michael Herzog↩ Don Del Grande

"Don Del Grande" schrieb

In 1ACV09 "Mars University" it was mentioned that Mars has been terraformed. Fry then finally risked to breath the atmosphere. ;)

Cynically Depressed↩ Michael Herzog

In article , "Michael Herzog" wrote:

Also, Mars would be easier to terraform because there is at least some water on Mars to make an atmosphere out of <http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html>, but there doesn't appear to be enough water on the moon. It's much easier to extract oxygen from water
Larry↩ Cynically Depressed

On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:42:15 -0500, Cynically Depressed wrote:

Mars also has enough gravity to hold a breathable, but thin, atmosphere. The Moon does not. The average speed of an oxygen molecule at room temperature may be above escape velocity and solar winds would push molecules away. I seem to recall that the Moon had a very tiny amount of argon gas from radioactive decay.

--Larry

Brion K. Lienhart↩ Don Del Grande

"Don Del Grande" wrote in message news:[email]...

The real answer: Because it's funnier that way.