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Old December 11th 04, 06:26 AM
Brad Guth
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Relocation of ISS to ME-L1 (part 3)

ISS at ME-L1 clearly represents no more of that nasty Van Allen zone
fallout, or having to swerve around or keep ducking below whatever's
sagging a bit with regard to the Van Allen 'South Atlantic Anomaly'
that isn't getting itself any smaller or less nasty. Supposedly this
zone of death dips to nearly 155 miles (250 km) off the deck, and
you're still hoping that the next round of nasty TBI worthy solar wind
isn't going to super-charge that already capable zone of death into an
even higher state of becoming even more lethal.

Perhaps if nothing else, team ISS should start charging medical
insurance companies big-time for their clients going to ISS, as for
obtaining their kemotheraphy, as even the secondary radiation of
hard-X-Rays arriving off the moon are most likely going to be similar
if not worse off than residing under the Van Allen belts, and certainly
the cosmic TBI dosage should be interesting next to those dust-bunny
impacts that'll be packing quite a nasty punch at 30+km/s.

Of course being fully exposed to as much as 1200 km/s worth solar flak
isn't going to be any walk in the park, although by adding a few tonnes
worth of that infamous clumping-moon-dirt (apparently retro-reflective
none the less) as could be easily and efficiently transported up to ISS
from the lunar surface via their deployed basalt/silica composite
tether shouldn't be ignored for whatever added worth there is of
accommodating extra density by way of shielding ISS with good old
basalt, of which that nifty 3+g/cm3 stuff can contribute to protecting
those individuals inside of ISS.

Remembering that if situated at ME-L1 there's no longer any ISS size
nor mass limitations, as well as there's not 1% the drag to deal with.

Of course, since there wouldn't hardly be any gravity whatsoever for
the ISS crew, this is where their extra shielded sleeping coffins/pods
would have to be spun at a sufficient rate as to induce an artificial
source of gravity, thus bone loss and mussel tone shouldn't be even as
bad off as what they're having to deal with right now. Of course, if
you get half a dozen of these coffins spinning and each a little off
balance could eventually shake a few nuts and bolts lose, thus pairs of
counter-rotating coffins as essentially floating within ISS might be
necessary as these sleep-units somewhat tethered though drifting about
within their respective ISS compartment.

Regards, Brad GUTH / GASA~IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm