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Originally posted by apc
Probably because all the idiots who think it's actually "blowing in the wind" have realized how oblivious they truely are... or not.
Originally posted by apc
If you'll note, I didn't engage in name calling. Sorry you took my statement personally.
We didn't land on the Moon because the aliens scared us off, or we did and there's enough invisible atmosphere to knock a flag around? These threads are a hoot! Hoot I say!
If it did, you would actually be able to see the gasses. It would scatter light, just like our blue sky.
The Moon DOES have an atmosphere
Originally posted by zorgon
Sorta like this maybe?
landoflegends.us...
Originally posted by jra
That is not a sign of an atmosphere. If the Moon did have an atmosphere thick enough for one to breath in. It would be noticeable by just looking at the Moon. We'd see a blue glow around it from light scattering, last time I looked at the moon I didn't see that.
This photograph continued decline of solar illumination but you can still see the faint glowing cloud along the entire edge of the lunar disk.
Originally posted by zorgon
So just how do dust streamers big enough to be photographed on this scale stay suspended in the "air"?
Moon Fountains
On the Moon, there is no rubbing. The dust is electrostatically charged by the Sun in two different ways: by sunlight itself and by charged particles flowing out from the Sun (the solar wind).
On the daylit side of the Moon, solar ultraviolet and X-ray radiation is so energetic that it knocks electrons out of atoms and molecules in the lunar soil. Positive charges build up until the tiniest particles of lunar dust (measuring 1 micron and smaller) are repelled from the surface and lofted anywhere from meters to kilometers high, with the smallest particles reaching the highest altitudes, Stubbs explains. Eventually they fall back toward the surface where the process is repeated over and over again.
Originally posted by jra
I believe it has to do with what started this whole thread. Electrostatic charging causes very small particles to become suspended above the lunar surface for periods at a time.[/quote]
Ah I see so static charge on the moon is STRONG ENOUGH to produce a cloud formation like this one from the Lick Observatory photo from 1946?
sounds like a lot of potential for getting ZAPPED by static if you ask me LOL
[edit on 16-12-2006 by zorgon]
Originally posted by zorgon
The Moon DOES have an atmosphere
Originally posted by Damocles
if the moon has such a dense atmosphere, why all the craters? sure the earth has craters but not like that.
Originally posted by apc
Originally posted by zorgon
The Moon DOES have an atmosphere
If you're going to quote me, please refrain from changing the context of my statement. I didn't mess with your fanasty, did I?
Previous studies [1-4] indicate that a levitated dipole would be favorable for a D-He3 fuel cycle based power source. The D-D cycle is the most promising because of the availability of deuterium. Recently we have considered utilizing a levitated dipole for the D-D cycle based power source. Fusion reactors based on the deuterium-deuterium (D-D) reaction would be superior to D-T based reactors in so far as they can greatly reduce the power produced in neutrons and do not requires the breeding of tritium.
SOURCE
Originally posted by apc
Or... wait a second... Im confused.]
Originally posted by apc
Ah. Well then. I think you're in the wrong thread.
Originally posted by zorgon
so back to my color moon pictures then... the ones that don't exist
Originally posted by zorgon
so back to my color moon pictures then..
. the ones that don't exist
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
a few points :
Originally posted by zorgon
point 1 this is the wrong thread for that
point 2 see point one
Bye Bye