Green is Urth Redux

Jeff Wilson · 13 Jan 2011, 04:28 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:28:12 -0600
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
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On 1/12/2011 9:03 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> On 1/12/2011 6:03 PM, David Duffy wrote:
>>> The moon can keep an atmosphere, once provided, for 10000-20000 years
>>> per top-up IIRC. Those Barsoomian air plants would do the trick nicely.
>>>
>>> http://www.terraformers.ca/Terraforming-the-Moon.html
>>
>> I've heard this before, but I have yet to see how the figure was
>> obtained. I cannot find it on the cited website, if that was your
>> intention.
>>
>
> No. But I presume you can google as well as me ;) Geoffrey Landis gives
>
> http://www.geoffreylandis.com/moonair.html

I am not ashamed to admit it never would have occurred to me to google 
for lunar air pollution.


> Anyway, I don't know if Wolfe necessarily went through all these
> calculations ;)

Probably not, but we know he goes to a lot of movies. :)

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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