Text 337, 52 rader
Skriven 2006-10-29 00:00:46 av Scott Adams (1:112/91.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Stephen Adams
Ärende: Re: Hello All
=====================
-=> Quoting Stephen Adams to Scott Adams <=-

 > SA> Is there anyone out there who is interested in habitational zones of
 > SA> moons  of Jupiter like planets?
 
 >        Theres only a couple of moons in the Jovian system that
 >        could possibly support bases.  Do you mean man bases
 >        in terms of closed in airlocks or terraforming?

 SA> Rather than specifically discussing Jupiter and it's system, the sort
 SA> of  thing I was referring to is some of the recent work that has been
 SA> done on  determining habitational potential.  IIRC some of the research
 SA> shows that  tidal stresses on moons can create temperature increases
 SA> that move them into  a potential for life.  This was interesting in
 SA> terms of planets of  Jupiter-like properties or larger because these
 SA> are the planets that people  are getting good at detecting in other
 SA> solar systems.  I think that in terms  of manned bases, probably of the
 SA> airlock style, we are a long way off  technologically speaking but
 SA> almost certainly will happen on our moon before  anywhere else (it
 SA> would a neat thing to happen in our lifetimes).

     Yeah.  Sadly we won't see anything like that in our lifetime
     or our kid's lifetime.  Probably not terraforming our system
     for a century or two.  No one really cares about space at
     this point.  It will take a president who likes space to
     get our program going again.  We might see a temporary base
     on the moon and MAYBE a mars mission but I doubt anything
     else in our lifetime.

 >        I minored in college in astronomy loved it since a kid
 >        and almost becaome a astronomer myself but went into
 >        programming instead as it was a almost divine skill and
 >        didn't want ot waste it - astronomy was more less skilled
 >        in hobby terms.

 SA> This is one of the difficult decisions I've had to make in the last
 SA> little  while, but this course I have next term will help make the
 SA> decision.  The  prof who is teaching the course uses supercomputers to
 SA> run simulations of  astrophysical theorems and then uses the data from
 SA> those simulations to  refine the theories.  AFAIK he does a lot of his
 SA> own coding, so he stays  very up on issues in computing as well.

     Yeah.  I never got that far.  I minored in Astronomy and History
     since I loved both fields.   But alas i went into programming
     as it was my innate talent.  Because of that didn't get into the
     math involved with astronomy.  



... "Do you know what it is like when telepaths make love?" - Talia Winter
--- Fringe BBS
 * Origin: EWOG II - The Fringe - 904-733-1721 (1:112/91)