simpleton876

What a heated discussion I have started! I was mostly just wondering out loud if I had just had one of those 'OMG, I've got it! It's so simple!' revelations. Clearly, its not lol. Great input from everyone though Oh and welcome to the forum Simpleton.

Hey Everybody, Long time lurker, first time poster here; been playing & loving KSP for about a year now. Not sure if this possibility has been covered already or if I'm posting in the right area - so advance apologies if so. I was watching a video about Mercury on YouTube just now - Crash Course's - and the guy mentioned deep 'holes' at Mercury's poles that I though must have been the inspiration for the Moholes. He says the parts of these holes that are in constant shadow get cold enough to allow water ice from comet impacts, etc to stick around. That led me to think, 'hey, water ice in the moholes'. Then to think that 'hey, good old H20 is a perfect universal resource'. H20, can be broken into Hydrogen which can be used for fuel, and oxygen for the oxidizer and/or breathable air (possible usage in Life Support!). It's so simple; I don't think its much of a stretch of the imagination to find a resource like that all over the Kerbol System.Now, granted, I'm pretty sure breaking H20 into its component elements is a rather inefficient proposition IRL, and I don't know for sure if Kerbals breath Oxygen. For that matter I'm not sure any of these 'Real Life' elements - or their properties - exist in the KSP universe. Still, it was such a revelation I thought I had to share it. What do yall think? -Simpleton