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It seems that the younger generation forgets that man has been navigating for hundreds of years before GPS.
Originally posted by LifeIsPeculiar
reply to post by XaniMatriX
If the sun were to burn people in space, then the higher you get in altitude the hotter it should get no?
Once you leave the atmosphere you will find yourself burning to a crisp on the sunward side and freezing solid on the shaded side. You will absorb radiant enery on the sunward side, and radiate heat away on the shaded side. This is why the spacecraft are continuously rolled. You can also assume that you will gather heat faster than you can get rid of it.
Did you ever read about commets or asteroids vaporizing when they come near to the sun? Those objects do not have an atmosphere, yet they never reach the sun. They get hot from the radiant energy, vaporize, and then those gass molecules generally drop to the sun due to the sun's gravity. The solid bodies rarely make it all the way to the sun's surface. (Vacuum, no atmosphere)
Originally posted by LifeIsPeculiar
reply to post by XaniMatriX
Also most of the heat comes from within the planet after the energy has made contact with the planet.
This is not true. The heat deep in the earth comes from pressure, residual heat from the formation of the planet, and perhaps nuclear activity. Have you ever been in a cave? Caves are a great deal cooler than the surface of the planet. It stays that way until you get deep enough to be affected by heat conduction from the magma layers. If heat were coming from the earth there would be no polar ice caps.
On the other hand, we have polar ice caps because the incident energy from the sun strikes at an oblique angle, which serves to reduce the affective area exposed to sunlight.
So, assuming you still haven't "seen the light", what makes planetary molecules special? Why does radiation from the sun impart heat only dirt, water, and air molecules and not spacecraft of frying pan molecules? This is key to convincing me that you are correct. (Which you are not, by the way.)
Sorry to do this, but have you been to space? can you your self confirm these popular beliefs?
What about mercury and Venus? by your logic,
would a person not burn up the higher they climb a mountain? doesn't happen does it.
My suggestion was just to make sure, so that the budget and the rover can be built properly after witnessing first hand the true conditions of space, not to get you guys giving me 9th grade lectures about space.
im not stupid i know all of the training they provide in schools about how this earth was formed and space and what not, but i have not been in space my self, neither has anyone else on this website to confirm the training we have been provided, and fed over years and years.
My suggestion was just to make sure, so that the budget and the rover can be built properly after witnessing first hand the true conditions of space, not to get you guys giving me 9th grade lectures about space
If NASA would have plugged one of them into a Lunar Rover before they left we'd still be getting live feeds right now.
Why send cameras to the moon when we already have many sitting up there....already plugged into antennas and control boxes.
Why would you waste your time and money to send a web camera to the moon to send us pictures back if the life expectancy is maybe a few weeks-months tops?
Sorry to do this, but have you been to space?
Originally posted by LifeIsPeculiar
reply to post by XaniMatriX
Sorry to do this, but have you been to space?
Sorry to do this ... but, do you believe that World War II happened? Did you see it? Do you believe that the Americas were settled by Europeans even though there were people already living here? Did you see it? Do you believe that the Romans conquered most of the known world? Did you see them do it? How do you know the Egyptian pyramids exist? Have you seen them with your own eyes?
It seems to me that you become a skeptic only when you encounter something you cannot fully understand. There is a cure for that. Read. Study. Enjoy the wonders mankind has wrought. Don't proudly bask in stubborn and premeditated ignorance.
World War 2 did happen, our grand parents were in it providing us with actual evidence, provided that they are still alive,
i have not attacked you or your knowledge of anything