Re: Space Policy Sucks, while there's Life on Venus

From: Captain! (SpammersMustDie_at_now.net)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:11:24 GMT

"Brad Guth" <bradguth@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7d49f6d1486df3c690f3353f095538e3.49644@mygate.mailgate.org...
> The alternate topic: "SETI/GUTH Venus, no kidding" seems to have become
> yet another intellectual nullification zone, which is interesting in
> that you'd think the likes of SETI/OSETI folks must be smart enough as
> to realize that our moon simply isn't an optional moon, it's here
> because Earth needs just such a moon. Any viable planet worth it's salt
> needs a planet friendly moon, or perhaps vise versa in the case of
> Titan. Water in the raw or even in the form of ice simply doesn't travel
> so well in space, as the absolute vacuum of space is also the absolute
> boiling point of said water, and that's regardless if it's frozen or
> not. Even the prospects of getting water-ice to/from our moon, since
> there's no such 99.99% reflective ice or other surviving snowballs in
> space, thus the law of 'energy-in = energy-out' pretty much insures the
> solid phase of water should become gas/vapor phase with nothing much
> coexisting as liquid in between. Because water isn't a natural solid,
> even sarshine energy should offer a sufficient influx as to convert
> whatever was ice into the vapors of raw elements (at least I can't seem
> to identify upon the science that proves otherwise).
>

i'm curious and honestly don't know: if water boils in the vacuum of space
then how does one explain the comets or the kuiper belt objects, etc..
is it because of impurities that these can exist?

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