I’m extremely amateur, but I saw something a little surprising tonight
(between 8:40 and 8:50 PM mountain time) Looking at the moon through my
Celestron, there were two very bright white spots jsut *behind* the
terminator in Palus Nebularum. Tried taking some photos, but as my setup
is jamming a digital camera in the eyepeice, the results were
disappointing. The spots did not move over ten minutes. Changing the
eyepiece up and down in magnification did not get rid of them.A little
help?

Do you think this could have an impact on the feasibility of solar
power satellites?

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/split/701-1.html
http://www.aip.org/png/2004/221.htm

I see nothing in here about whether these devices would be more suita-
ble or efficient for collecting solar power than today’s silicon-based
solar cells.  Or whether they might be cheaper to produce one day.
Maybe it’s too early to tell…

I’m just wondering…  If they prove to be much *lighter,* being made
out of carbon rather than heavier elements–I’m thinking of the dif-
ferece in mass between glass and plastic bottles–then they might just
push the feasibility of SPSs further into the range of the economical-
ly profitable, where every kilo less is ten kilos of fuel saved…

What do you think?

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I always wondered if space is infinitive how was made…
I think that energy(like fotons)transforms into thing that we see as
rock
planet…Like sun will dissapear when will give all energy out but
this energy will be united and the new object will rise like
planet,sun.The empty space is place where is no energy only
planets,stars…are transformation of energy,but how so many
different minerals(LIKE Fe,Cr,Si…)on earth are transformed is
mysteri maybe, becaus the earth is closer to sun and gives more
energy than pluton which is lyuid
And what is your opinion?
 :wink: I appologize my english is not so god

I wanted to ask everybody a question?
After watching that TV programme tonight about did NASA really send man to
the moon I was most interested in what the conspiracy theory and wondered
what everybody thought on the subject.
What I found most interesting is if it did happen how did the astronauts
survive going through Allen radiation belt
Is that really posible?

Regards
Mike

This guy has it all worked out.  

"http://hsfeatures.com/features04/cevschirradh_1.htm"

 - Ed Kyle

As seen in the projected path of the hurricane Jeanne, it will hit
Florida just a few kilometers south (between 0 to 128 Km) of KSC…

The projected path follows the coast as the storm will move north,
passing almost surely very near the KSC on Sunday evening.

Since 160kph winds extend 75 Km from the storm center, the KSC will
have to sustain them. Last hurricanes went with winds only 60% of that,
what caused only minor damages. Since the energy of the wind is
proportional to the speed squared, this means an energy almost 4 times
as much…

I hope everything is well fixed  :-(

How would you suppose they would go about recovering the payload of particles?

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