RE: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-30 Thread Robert Crawley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket Come up with a proposal for a workable heating element. Join us, Luke. Come over

Re: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-30 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/30/2002 7:11:00 AM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A hot-water-heater heating element is extremely attainable. But can very likely be improved upon. Needs to have someway to keep corrosion off the copper. Salty water is great for turning orange copper

Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-29 Thread Bruce Moomaw
After reading the exchanges here on the test project, I have to say that virtually all of you are WAY too optimistic about our ability to do anything that hasn't already been done, or won't be done very soon, vastly better by NASA. Preliminary tests have already been started, on a Norwegian

Re: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-29 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/28/2002 11:07:49 PM Alaskan Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After reading the exchanges here on the test project, I have to say that virtually all of you are WAY too optimistic about our ability to do anything that hasn't already been done, or won't be done very

Re: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-29 Thread Julie Edwards
So it appears that there might be 2 camps forming... John's vision of melting thru thick ice and getting puplic support for Europa missions. And Bruce's suggestions of more technical projects that might lead to ideas that NASA could possibly be used on an actual Europa probe. Both ideas are

Re: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-29 Thread A.J. Mackenzie
You might be on point here. I'd like to hear more about this. Approximately one year ago, to my recollection, there was a big stir on the website when the Pluto mission was cut for budgetary reasons. The trouble is, Pluto is on an elliptical orbit, and at its closest approach to

Re: Bruce Moomaw, wet blanket

2002-10-29 Thread Joe Latrell
If you need webspace I can help there. I have a co-location box in a datacenter in Texas. My partner and I run it. The box is completely ours do with as we please (except for porn or warez). I can setup a domain and some webspace (say 250MB) if that will work. The current webmaster will have