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Ice store at Moon's South Pole is a myth: study
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Posted on 10/19/2006 6:41:12 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: RebelBanker
Thank you for the fine quote from Firefly. This was the single most important storyline in the history of drama. It depicted free people living lives of integrity outside the structure of Big Brother. No wonder it was cancelled.
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:08:57 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Here come I, gravitas in tow.)
To: presidio9
Not that ice pirate, but thanks for playing... :-)
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:10:37 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Expect a lot of democrat poll-smoking between now and 11/7)
To: Junior
Is the $100K per kilo based on rocket technology? I'd be very interested in other delivery mechanisms that would be too harsh for humans or electronic equipment, but would work fine on ice or liquid water. I remember the Canadian who was working on Saddam's Supergun originally started his work on using artillery to shoot things into orbit. Since the massive acceleration from such a gun would not be an issue for simple, raw materials, what do you suppose the cost per kilogram would be?
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:13:06 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: Vaquero
If you want to terraform Mars, the first thing you have to do is crank up the gravity to a level that will sustain an atmosphere dense enough to breathe.
Once you've solved that problem, the rest of it should be a piece of cake. =]
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:13:41 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Hegemony Cricket
Do I detect a young Ron Pearlman in this picture?
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:17:58 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: presidio9
WWBBD????
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:21:58 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: presidio9
Apu: Ooh, a head bag! Those are choc-full of... heady goodness!
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:25:15 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Junior
Find a passing comet full of ice and redirect it to hit the moon (try not to hit the earth while you're doing that).
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:26:15 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: DaGman
"Why is the federal government looking for more ways to waste money. There is no economic benefit in colonizing the moon. If this country had more money than it knew what to do with (i.e. nobody paid any taxes) I couldn't care less. Instead we are looking for more frivilous ways to spend more money."
Because the Moon is the first step to the rest of the solar system, and once we have a station there, we can reach anywhere else we need to go. There is a TREMENDOUS benefit, and not just economic, in doing so. Just ONE little benefit, we could move most industry off-planet, and make the greens happy without having to do the zero-population-growth BS.
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:27:38 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: Oberon
If you want to terraform Mars, the first thing you have to do is crank up the gravity to a level that will sustain an atmosphere dense enough to breathe.I am amazed at how many people think we just need to warm the planet and add atmosphere to get a decent pressure and temperature at the surface. What they fail to understand is that a higher gravity is needed. With the current gravity, warming the planet will result in a loss of atmosphere. With a higher temperature, the Boltzmann distribution of gas molecule speeds will have the high speed tail stretching well past escape velocity with the current gravity on Mars. Warmer Mars = less atmosphere. Or you could jusr dig really, really deep holes so the atmosphere would be of satisfactory pressure. Colonists on Mars would live in deep 'hobbit holes'. The hole depth would increase protection from cosmic radiation, too.
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:29:37 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: doc30
"What they fail to understand is that a higher gravity is needed. With the current gravity, warming the planet will result in a loss of atmosphere. With a higher temperature, the Boltzmann distribution of gas molecule speeds will have the high speed tail stretching well past escape velocity with the current gravity on Mars. "
Drop enough small asteroids on Mars, (and I'm talking a LOT of them!) and increase the mass while building up the gas pressure and temp, all at once... Of course, we probably ought to look the place over rather carefully first, as there isn't much that would survive the "rain" we caused. (Simplistic solutions for simplistic people...)
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posted on
10/19/2006 7:52:55 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: Old Student
Drop enough small asteroids on Mars, (and I'm talking a LOT of them!) and increase the mass while building up the gas pressure and temp, all at once... Of course, we probably ought to look the place over rather carefully first, as there isn't much that would survive the "rain" we caused. (Simplistic solutions for simplistic people...)You are right, not much would survive adding sufficent mass to increase the gravity of Mars. Such mass would add hundreds of kilometers to the diameter of the planet. Nothing original would remain.
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posted on
10/19/2006 8:09:58 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: presidio9
Easiest way to make ICE is to take the RICE and take away R and you end up with ICE. Add some algore global warmint and you get water. Add some surplus CO2 and you get club soda. Add some Scotch and civilization is fully suported.
To: Leo Carpathian
Easiest way to make ICE is to take the RICE and take away R and you end up with ICE. Add some algore global warmint and you get water. Add some surplus CO2 and you get club soda. Add some Scotch and civilization is fully suported.You have obviously given this a lot of thought. Have you applied for a job at NASA yet?
CA....
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posted on
10/19/2006 8:45:41 AM PDT
by
Chances Are
(Whew! It seems I've once again found that silly grin!)
To: doc30
I found an ancient article dealing with this:
http://www.allbusiness.com/professional-scientific/scientific-research-development/336939-1.html#
In 1992, it cost $20K per payload kilo while a supergun could do the same job for $500, or about 2.5 percent of the cost of a shuttle launch. If the cost per launch is $100K now (a number I ran across in the past year or so) it would still only cost about $2500.
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posted on
10/19/2006 9:34:16 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
To: Vaquero
That was one of my favorite episodes. I loved it, Hitler blaming the end on the bear, too funny.
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posted on
10/19/2006 9:37:35 AM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: presidio9
"Ice store at Moon's South Pole is a myth: study"
D@mn. We were this (holding two fingers really close together) close to getting Ted Kennedy to build a rocket for his fat @ss and a case of scotch.
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posted on
10/19/2006 9:40:09 AM PDT
by
exile
(Mrs. Exile - "Yes you're the greatest husband ever, now put on some pants")
To: doc30
"You are right, not much would survive adding sufficent mass to increase the gravity of Mars. Such mass would add hundreds of kilometers to the diameter of the planet. Nothing original would remain."
Oh, most of it would still be there. In itty-bitty-teensy-weensy pieces, but it would still be there...
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posted on
10/19/2006 11:01:57 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: Old Student
oh, and under a couple of hundred kilometers of later debris, too...
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posted on
10/19/2006 11:22:47 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: Junior
If that's the case, let's start building really, really big guns!!
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posted on
10/19/2006 11:48:54 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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