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- From: giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Louis Giglio)
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.141701@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <BxEt07.G32@techbook.com> <1992Nov9.192439.1354@iti.org> <1992Nov9.180901@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov10.161213.7493@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:17:01 GMT
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- In a previous article I wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- As lots of folks have pointed out, I was wrong. I was stupidly assuming a
- one atmosphere cabin/suit pressure. One can match the partial pressure of
- oxygen in air by reducing the pressure of a pure oxygen atmosphere.
-
-
- --------------------
- Louis Giglio
- Severe Storms Branch
- NASA/GSFC
-