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Posted on 01/05/2007 12:31:14 PM PST by blam
These fresh sites should be the first goal of the next round of lunar landers.
No light pollution there!
We can’t see Sirius from here. Got a good look at Geminids though.
Was it one of those split-screen widescreens where you had the fire on the left and the movie on the right?
My "honey do" for the day will be installing the gas fire place bricks and burner in the master bedroom fireplace. That's our fall back when the weather is too harsh to venture outside for another load of wood.
Would it be possible to generate a magnetic field that could deflect solar radiation around spacecraft?
Yeah, I haven't seen the stars in weeks.
What did you watch? Showdown at Area 51?
I read the usenet groups instead. One guy said he went out and finally found Telstar...yadda, yadda, yadda, and it turned out that he froze his butt off to see a dead satellite whose song named after it was only worth $2.50 for the 45.
Perhaps you should look into the remote astronomy thing.
Kicking back in a lounge chair, dog at your feet, cognac at your elbow, iPhone in hand, gazing at the sky on the HD screen?
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Depends on energy, speed, charge, and mass of the radioactive particle coming in: A magnetic field will deflect a moving charged particle. A non-charged particle (a gamma ray or X-ray or neutron) won’t get deflected at all.
If the moving particle is at very high speed, or very high mass, it won’t get deflected enough by the magnetic field to protect the occupants of the spacecraft, or the internals of a instrument-only spacecraft.
The earth’s atmosphere actually protects us from almost all of the incoming cosmic radiation: the added protection of the earth’s magnetic field helps, but the mile-thick atmosphere blanket are more important.
It’s said that the CO and XO of an aircraft carrier - because they are up above the radiation shielding of the ship’s deck, get more radiation dose per year than the nuclear workers nearer the reactor, but further from the cosmic radiation and separated by steel deck plates from radiation coming from above. Airplane pilots and flight attendants get more rad’s than most nuclear plant workers do who are down at ground level. It’s just that the pilots are not monitored, so they can’t tell (er, don’t know) that they are radiated.
“Is “none” negligible?”
That depends Mr. Gore, was there any controlling legal authority?
Doesn’t atmosphere require gravity? The moons is like one sixth of earth’s. Less atmosphere to start and nothing to renew it.
No oceans, no lightning storms, no plant life, no volcanoes (anymore)=no atmosphere.
He be dead so likely won't answer.
Pornovision?
It's Bush's Fault and only a leader with extensive experience can mitigate these circumstances. I say we launch the Hildebeast to the Moon, (which can be a Harsh Mistress), along with her Bubba to fixthis problem.
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