I'm Writing Fiction about the Moon: Some Basic Questions!

Mary Shafer ) wrote:
: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:30:43 GMT, "Bruce Sterling Woodcock"
: wrote:

:
: "Mike Rhino" wrote in message
: news : "Eric Chomko" wrote in message
: ...
: How about a case where one of the poles points in the direction of the
: orbital plane? IOW, at one point in the orbit the north pole points at
: the
: sun and on the other side of the orbit the south pole points toward the
: sun. Unlike the Earth's or Mars' ~25 deg. axis tilt this other is more
: on
: the order of a 90 deg. axis tilt.
:
: Uranus comes pretty close with an axis tilt of 97.86 degrees.
:
: http://www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm
:
: And Pluto is about 120 degrees, and Venus about 180 degrees.

: I'm confused here. How can you tell it's 120 deg, not 60? Or 180,
: not 0? Is the northness of the pole based on rotation direction or
: something?

Yes, I believe that rotational direction is the issue WRT axis tilt.

Eric

: Mary

: --
: Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
:

Unfortunately, this following rant isn't fiction, it's perhaps science
future, or at least it a whole lot more truth and honesty than you'll
discover elsewhere. At least I don't have to impose any "so what's the
difference" nor morals based upon the sorts of toilet "high standards
and accountability" as those of our resident warlord.

"Moon Dirt isn't just Moon Dirt, it's absolutely Everything Dirt"

Even though water might become a nice sort of lunar attribute to
discover, but it's the moon dirt that's invaluable for the survival of
humanity, as well as for the future of survivable space explorations.

The one absolute thing we can do efficiently from Earth, on behalf of
the moon, is exporting of water to the moon. With few individuals
needed on the surface or within the LSE-CM/ISS, water is not a
problem, especially with Earth's global warming ongoing and entirely
unchecked and only getting itself worse off, thus we've got way too
much water. Exporting it as slush hydrogen and/or h2o2 is simply an
alternative, whereas accommodating plain old h2o can be cheaply
delivered via robotic landers with absolutely no fear of losing
another astronaut nor chancing any contamination of the moon should
something go terribly wrong.

I have absolutely no doubts that once upon a time Mars had a
sufficient atmosphere, and surface water, thereby a warmer and
radiation protected environment, possibly even long enough to have
sustained either natural evolution and/or of some well intended
terraforming on behalf of establishing some life similar to human.

Unfortunately, there are certain limits to which life and of it's
DNA/RNA as we know it can coexist within the confines of what Mars has
had to offer for the past few thousand years, and certainly things are
not getting any better. Whereas Venus still offers a survivable
atmospheric buffer zone that's also loaded with all sorts of natural
energy opportunities.

The more the likes of the Mars core cools itself off, the worse
becomes any opportunity for that planet to revive itself, short of
receiving a massive infusion of artificial energy, such as what 1000
terawatts per year as derived from our lunar He3 might have to offer.

The moon never sustained life, but it may have provided itself as a
truly long-range capable transporter and/or transponder of life, even
of life as we know it.

Some good readings: SADDAM HUSSEIN and The SAND PIRATES
http://mittymax.com/Archive/0085-Sad...andPirates.htm

The latest insults to this Mars/Moon injury:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-moon-02.htm

Some other recent updates:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-gwb-moon.htm

http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-interplanetary.htm

http://guthvenus.tripod.com/moon-04.htm

John Schutkeker wrote in message . 92...
(Brad Guth) wrote in
om:

navigate itself through the crystal clear CO2 ocean of Venus.

???

What's your dumbfounded problem with that?

Venus atmospheric CO2 is crystal clear below those cool nighttime
clouds, as well as relatively calm, and the density is nearly 1/12th
that of water here on Earth.

Taking into account the 91% gravity and of the 65+kg/m3 of buoyancy,
with that you could literally "go fish".

Actually the density within a Venus death valley is more like
85+kg/m3, and that only gets cooler and denser at night, a nighttime
that's a season of 2900+ hours worth.


As for the moon may have never sustained life, but it may have
provided itself as a truly long-range capable transporter and/or
transponder of life, even of life as we know it.

Some good readings: SADDAM HUSSEIN and The SAND PIRATES
http://mittymax.com/Archive/0085-Sad...andPirates.htm

The latest insults to this Mars/Moon injury:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-moon-02.htm

Some other recent updates:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-gwb-moon.htm

http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-interplanetary.htm

http://guthvenus.tripod.com/moon-04.htm

Henry Spencer wrote:
No, what quickly settled Pluto's axial tilt was the discovery of
Charon (Pluto's moon) in the early 1980s.

1978.

I'll pick up my T-shirt at Noreascon.
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Keith F. Lynch ) wrote:
: Henry Spencer wrote:
: No, what quickly settled Pluto's axial tilt was the discovery of
: Charon (Pluto's moon) in the early 1980s.

: 1978.

What came fisr the discovery of Neptune's rings or Pluto's moon?

: I'll pick up my T-shirt at Noreascon.

Hold on to your shirt...

Eric

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Henry Spencer wrote:
No, what quickly settled Pluto's axial tilt was the discovery of
Charon (Pluto's moon) in the early 1980s.

Keith F. Lynch ) wrote:
1978.

Eric Chomko wrote:
What came fisr the discovery of Neptune's rings or Pluto's moon?

Pluto's moon. Neptune's rings were first detected by a stellar
occultation in 1983. And were confirmed by Voyager 2 in 1989.

Since 1989, Pluto has been the only planet in our solar system never
to have been visited by a probe.
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