> You would be correct had the vehicle been pressurized to 1 atmosphere.
> However, your conclusion does not follow if the cabin pressure was .2
> atmosphere.
But in pure O2 lots of things burn that "shouldn't", like
asbestos fibers. This actually happened long before that
Apollo capsule burned up, and should have alerted NASA.
If our lunar atmosphere is pure O2, then every dust cloud
kicked up by a lunar buggy creates an explosion hazard.
It will have to be "diluted". Can nitrogen be generated ?
What other gases would work ? Helium would leak away too
quickly and incidentally create a Planet of the Ducks.
/fred :: baube@optiplan.fi
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Date: 10 Nov 92 15:21:54 GMT
From: Joseph Versagg <joev@sioux.eel.ufl.edu>
Subject: Lunar "colony" reality check
Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.sci.planetary
Sorry for rehashing what was posted earlier, or , even worse, what may now
be common knowladge, but what is this about ice at the poles of Mercury?
Since Mercury rotates, although slowly, ice would be baked off the surface,
then would leak into space due to the low gravity.
Also, to answer Nicks anti-lunar base stance: if you buy the theory, any of
them, that the moon was part of the earth, or was formed with it in the early solar system, then there is no reason that both bodies are composed of the same elements in similar quantities. Read: it has signifigant amounts of Si, Fe, C,
O etc. Is it mineable? Well we won't know until we get there(personally or through probes).
C'Ya
Joe
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Date: 9 Nov 92 19:01:42 GMT
From: Bruce Watson <wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Subject: Mascons
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <BxBp22.3Jr.1@cs.cmu.edu| roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
|...................................... The Earth does have an equatorial
|bulge (mentioned later in your post), which is caused by the rotation of the
|planet, which I believe has the main effect of perturbing the ascending node
|of high-inclination orbits.
The amount of rotation is proportional to cos(inclination), higher orders
neglected, so there is rotation at all inclinations except i=90 where it
is zero and i=0 where the ascending node in undefined.
--
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:34:07 GMT
From: "Michael V. Kent" <kentm@jec324.its.rpi.edu>
Subject: Metric again
Newsgroups: sci.space
If I remember the press release correctly, NASA is now providing metric
equivalents in parentheses after the standard British units. (Someone ought
to tell the PR people about precision in numbers when they do the conversion.)
In about a year or two, NASA will switch to providing standard metric units
with the British units in parantheses. Finally, after a few years the British
units will be dropped entirely.
I believe, also, that all new starts after 01 Oct 93 must be in metric.
As for SSF, there was considerable debate about two years back about whether
to convert it to an all-metric station. The cost -- in the tens of millions
of dollars -- was deemed too great. SSF is not metric.
Mike
--
Michael Kent kentm@rpi.edu
McDonnell Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tute Screwed Aero Class of '92 Apple II Forever !!
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:51:29 GMT
From: Paul Dietz <dietz@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: More lunar gravity questions
Newsgroups: sci.space
A "gal" is 1 cm/s^2. A mgal would be .001 cm/s^2, or about
