Re: Terraforming the Moon

From: Brad Guth (ieisbradguth_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: 17 Feb 2005 16:06:14 -0800

The likes of 'habshi' and 'Orbitan' seem to offer the right sort of
positive intentions, and asking those sufficiently right sorts of
questions. However, as usual we have exactly what sucks about this
forum, that being the likes of NASA's incest cloned borgs
'j...@specsol-spam-sux.com', 'Uncle Al' and 'Morituri-|-Max' (all phony
baloney individuals hiding their perpetrated cold-war butts behind even
phonier names) that are intentionally not being all that helpful nor
specific, usually answering with more questions that'll only support
their ulterior motives and hidden agendas (and that's simply not even
playing fair), as per giving their usual absolute negatives about
absolutely anything related to the moon without the physics nor science
backing that up.

Clearly we do NOT have a viable method of delivering squat to the
surface of the moon because, for the most part the moon has no
atmosphere to assist that delivery, and secondly is the fact that we
have NO such manned fly-by-rocket lander or even access to any Russian
robotic lander as to base any such delivery of getting something
robotic to the surface of our moon, short of using the impact method
that'll work just fine and dandy for those LUNAR-A probes, yet even the
LUNAR-A mission has been on hold for over a decade.

habshi; "We have sent people to the moon and can do it again"

This is where 'habshi' is running amuck, in that we have in fact sent
spendy and damn risky missions towards and orbited the moon but, that's
about it.

My notion of merely DEEP IMPACTING the moon with artificial loads of
dry-ice having cores of frozen Rn is just for starters, whereas
obtaining at least a 1000:1 impact value of essentially vaporising
lunar basalt into releasing it's 50% worth of O2.

With each increase in final impact velocity comes the greater kinetic
energy release that goes up by the square of the speed. It may become
possible as to obtain a million to one return upon each and every tonne
that we manage to deep impact into the moon.

As per information nicely provided on the actual DEEP IMPACT mission
that's going for a comet, of their 372 kg impact probe that's inclusive
of a 144 kg wedge of solid copper, and of that item supposedly
impacting at a final combined velocity of 10.3 km/s is supposedly going
to become worth generating a crater of 91 meters by 30 meters, thus
displacing and/or vaporising roughly 100e3 m3 worth of what's got to
weigh at least 2 g/cm3 unless it's a snowball that can't possibly exist
or perhaps more than likely at best being dry-ice worth 1.56g/cm3.
Although, there's actually not much reason in the laws of physics for
said block of dry-ice to not have vaporised and dispersed as it arrives
anywhere within the orbit of Mars, especially if it's of such dirty
dry-ice which is most likely the case since space stuff is often
sharing a relatively low albedo.

Even if the shot becomes a total miss, at least I've already learned
something that's been another one of those need-to-know tidbits as
kindly being withheld from all of the contributions by others that
oddly claim as knowing all there is to know.

Regards, Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm