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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Iwinder
X-rays found in space are less energetic than those used in medical x-rays. The spacecraft had more than enough shielding against them.
Originally posted by hellobruce
Originally posted by Elvis Hendrix
1.8 million images captured... but the public is allowed to view 170,000 images...
Have you put in a formal request for all of them? Or do you just whine about it here?
Is that your best input to the thread? A childish dig that a 8 year old girl would make! If you have nothing of worth to ad to a thread, keep your whining to yourself.
Originally posted by Elvis Hendrix
Is that your best input to the thread?
Originally posted by hellobruce
Originally posted by Elvis Hendrix
Is that your best input to the thread?
From that I take it you have not actually bothered to put in a formal request, as you are actually not interested in the photos, you just want to have a whine about NASA!
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by Iwinder
The shielding used for an x-ray is actually the worst kind of shielding possible for a space craft. The particle under discussion determines the kind of shielding required. If you use the wrong kind of shielding, then you end up with a whole lot of particles being emitted from the shielding, making it much more dangerous. It has to do with the stopping of the particle hitting the shielding.
When you are in space, you want something with a low atomic mass. This prevents the "spalling" effect of more particles.
Interesting radiation primer
www.clavius.org...
Bremsstrahlung is the effect in question.
www.ndt-ed.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Iwinder
X-rays found in space are less energetic than those used in medical x-rays. The spacecraft had more than enough shielding against them.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by Elvis Hendrix
Hey we all have hard drives mate. Why not release the lot? what are they afraid of?
somebody must have cherry picked the very small proportion of released images.Or did they just ramdomly allow a batch out without looking through them?
I repeat: do you think any human being went through every single image to select the 170,000 images in question? The standard frame rate for a motion picture is 24 frames per second. If you projected all 170,000 images as a movie film, the film would last 118 minutes. Do you think 1/24 of a second is long enough to check for things you want to keep secret? Imagine how long it would take to examine a million images. Clearly, the data processing is not done the way you seem to think it is done.
We actually went to the moon. It wasn't staged. They may have staged some photos to hide what is really there. But spreading this isn't reality.
Originally posted by Elvis Hendrix
1.8 million images captured... but the public is allowed to view 170,000 images...