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- From: giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Louis Giglio)
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.180901@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet)
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- Reply-To: giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Louis Giglio)
- Organization: NASA/GSFC
- References: <BxEt07.G32@techbook.com> <1992Nov9.192439.1354@iti.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:09:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.192439.1354@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W.
- Sherzer) writes:
-
- |> >* A livable atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, not oxygen.
- |>
- |> Which comes as a rude suprise to the astronaust who lived
- |> weeks on end on pure oxygen.
- ^^^^ ^^^^^^
-
- I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with either party, but I want to point
- out that
- this can't possibly be correct. The oxygen had to be diluted with
- something.
- They would have died otherwise.
-
-
-
- Louis Giglio
- Severe Storms Branch
- NASA/GSFC
-