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Mars Curiousity rover radiation
How close can an astronaut get to Curiousity without receiving
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On Jan 5, 11:51*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: How close can an astronaut get to Curiousity without receiving too much radiation from its plutonium? You could safely have sex with the thing if you really wanted to. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar *territory." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --G. Behn fred knows that from experience |
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"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
... bob haller wrote: On Jan 5, 11:51 am, Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: How close can an astronaut get to Curiousity without receiving too much radiation from its plutonium? You could safely have sex with the thing if you really wanted to. fred knows that from experience I've worked with nuclear material and such things, Bobbert. Have you? Your greatest acceptable risk is a toner spill... Insults aside Bob, Fred is right. It's an alpha-emitter. Put a piece of paper between you and it, and you're fine. (hell, I've wanted a Pu-238 water heater for awhile. But for some reason the government doesn't seem to want to let me have one. :-) -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net |
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Mars Curiousity rover radiation
On Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:51:27 AM UTC-7, Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: How close can an astronaut get to Curiousity without receiving too much radiation from its plutonium? You could safely have sex with the thing if you really wanted to. Thank you for saving me the embarrassment of having to ask my real question. Now, regarding the spacesuit.... |
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On Jan 6, 3:21*am, wrote:
On Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:51:27 AM UTC-7, Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: How close can an astronaut get to Curiousity without receiving too much radiation from its plutonium? You could safely have sex with the thing if you really wanted to. Thank you for saving me the embarrassment of having to ask my real question. Now, regarding the spacesuit.... Actually a somewhat greater life element of thorium is even better, and a whole lot safer as well as cheaper, although you'd need a 2 meter sphere of that heavy stuff in order to do any real good of safely heating things up, plus a little plutonium on the side for the initial jump-start. As long as the plutonium fueled RTG is physically contained in something that's not going to degrade or physically fall apart, it's about as failsafe as silly putty. However, you should never have more than 10 kg of that plutonium stuff in any one confined place. |
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