Re: Bad News for 'Moon Hoax' Buffs

From: bz (bz+sp_at_ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:58:14 +0000 (UTC)

"Brad Guth" <ieisbradguth@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1111432642.193047.67790
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> bz,
> Thanks for all the feedback, it'll take a wee bit more of an effort
> than what I'm offering at this time in order for myself to fully
> appreciate your contributions, of which I'm certain are perfectly
> honest and to the point.
>
> I'm not actually the village idiot

If I thought you were, I wouldn't bother. :)

> suggesting there's more than 1.4
> kw/m2 available as incoming or outgoing. What I'm trying to offer is
> that a lunar parking lot that's chuck full of Lamborghinies, some as
> plated with pure silver, some plated with real gold, and others being
> either pure moonsuit white and/or somewhat unfortunately basalt black
> are at different temperatures

They heat up at different rates, so they will be at different temperatures,
part of the time, but they should all approach the same (approximate)
equilibrium temperature. Minor differences due to orientation.

> and, due to the fact that the desert
> these Lamborghinies are parked within is nearly an absolute vacuum,
> with that terrific insulating factor

The vacuum is NOT an insulating factor. It just removes convective heat
transfer. You still have radiation, which proceeds BETTER through a vacuum
than through a gas. You still have conduction. I have no idea how the
vacuum effects that, but I would GUESS that it removes some 'layers of air
that act as insulation' and thus speeds up heat transfer by conduction.

> plus the rather dusty fact that's
> due to the meters deep piles of magic clump-moon-dirt being up to the
> side windows of these Lamborghinies, that chances are better than good
> there are any number of variables and certainly a bloody host of nearby
> geological attributes and possibly even a thin but sufficiently dense
> layer as speculated by 'tj Frazir' of a near-surface atmosphere
> contributing to the thermal influx and subsequent demise upon your
> black Lamborghini.

The dust will just slow down heating and cooling. Max and min temps will
probably be close to the same.

...
> only create further walls-of-wards that usually turns folks off, that
> plus my favor returning puns are seldom taken in proper context.

Consider that the film may have been specially formulated. I would be
willing to bet it wasn't from the local drug store film racks. The
processing may have been done with the end in mind of restoring the color
balance to what the eye would expect to see. Filters may have been used on
the cameras to enhance the color balance. It is amazing what can be done to
salvage bad picture, when they are of value. I have some old photos that my
Grandfather took as a boy in Alaska in the early 1900's. They were very
badly faided. A friend took them and by using high contrast film and
processing them carefully, was able to 'pull good images' out of the faided
prints. Of course, now it is easier to scan them and process them
digitally, but some people like to keep their fingers in the developer, as
it were

Puns are their own punishment. Pun on. I depreciate puns as much as the
next person. Since they are depreciated, I have a lot of interest in them. 

-- 
bz
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infinite set.
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