Re: On the Subject of Ice

Brad. see the Ice. Just look at the photo:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/Icerich.html
I see what looks as though salty, possibly of extremely limited volumes
of a saltwater ice with a more than likely an involvement of mostly CO2
as dry-ice or of any number of other ice like elements that may even
include a wee bit of h2o. I also see a infomercial motivated fool
that's way up there on that brown-nosed hill.

Albedo and/or spectrum alone isn't sufficient hard-science to go by,
now is it?

If I painted a few white spots on a big-ass nasty chunk of coal that
was getting remotely photographed at 82 m/pixel, whereas those spectrum
and albedo charts would look damn near the same.

Upon something that small, I'd also have to say the micro-gravity
compacted nature of 0.000001 g/cm2 is going to be about all that's
doable. Thus at a given micro gram/cm3 isn't going to amount to all
that much of any fluid volume.
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Brad Guth

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