Re: Terraforming the Moon

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_sirius.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:00:05 GMT

In sci.physics, habshi
<habshi@anony.net>
 wrote
on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:25:43 GMT
<4219d25e.5357268@news.clara.net>:
> What about putting a transmitter on the moon? It neednt
> even have any height as the moon can be seen from all over the earth.

[rest crunch]

Psst.

In order to make this super obvious to everyone, assume
that there's an inveterate TV watcher -- we'll call him
Sleepless Jobless Joe Slob :-) -- and then ask the obvious
question as to whether he can watch Moon TV 24 hours a
day from a TV broadcasting antenna on the moon.

In order to make it even more obvious assume that his
brother, Normalsleep Jobless Norman Slob, watches TV during
12 hours a day during full moon (or 12 hours a night during
new moon).

The hard worker of the family, Bill Slob, likes to watch
his favorite show on weeknights at 8 PM on Moon TV.

See if you've figured out the rather obvious problem yet... :-)

As a secondary problem, ask whether Joe can watch MoonTV
during new moon, and how he would do so. (Yes, he can
actually watch it during the day, as the moon is hanging
around somewhere near the Sun. The problem is at the
transmitter end -- where does the station get its power
from?) 

-- 
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