From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 06:15:37 MST
....and what's the deal with sensitivity to nuclear detonations in space?
doesnt the fact that the sun is a nuclear explosion 100 million times the
size of the earth sort of make such concerns a bit silly? i think we
should also outlaw emptying salt shakers into the ocean...so as to not
'oversalt' it and kill all the fish.
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
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From: Walter Watts <wlwatts@cox.net>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: virus <virus@lucifer.com>
Subject: virus: Exsqueeze me
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:07:38 -0600
From this months Scientific American letters to the editor:
SOLAR SOLUTIONS
“The Asteroid Tugboat,” by Russell L.
Schweickart, Edward T. Lu, Piet Hut and
Clark R. Chapman, discussed using larg-
er launch vehicles and possibly nuclear
push mechanisms to deflect threatening
asteroids into unthreatening orbits. These
ideas unnerved my sense of simplicity. Af-
ter reading Philip Yam’s story about so-
lar sails [“Light Sails to Orbit,” News
Scan], I wonder if painting the asteroid sil-
ver would turn the whole spinning nugget
into a “solar sail” opposed to the sun and
if this method would alter the orbit.
Would the solar wind be enough to push
such a painted asteroid away?
David T. Hanawalt
via e-mail
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Exsqueeze me, but some of the near-earth passing asteroids are the size
of Manhattan.
It might be a tad difficult to get that much silver paint into the
shuttle's cargo bay.
Walter
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