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They tell us lots of things. Not going to believe or disbelieve there's an atmosphere at the moment. But I guess I forgot about that matter completely earlier.
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by phroziac
Haven't We've always been told Mercury was hot as hell. Its too close to the sun to be habitable. Blablabla.
The surface temperature that exposed to the Sun is hot, yes. The lack of any substantial atmosphere is what really makes it uninhabitable.
Infact a couple of landers have been sent to Venus and they show a couple photos of the ground because the camera is melting off the lander. But you'd think the camera would melt much before what it's mounted to, wouldn't you? WTF?
Perhaps you should look up the Venera program to see and understand how they were designed and built to withstand the heat for a limited time.
And the greenhouse effect is BS anyway, planets radiate heat out into space, they don't trap it all in....
It depends on how thick the atmosphere is and Venus has a very thick/dense atmosphere.
Originally posted by wildespace
reply to post by phroziac
I wonder what makes people like you think this way. Are your theories based on any kind of science? Or are you simply opposed to science and ready to come up with any alternative theories, as long as they are alternative?
Originally posted by andy06shake
reply to post by CALGARIAN
Average temperature on mercury during the day time is 350 degrees celsius. Night time its 170 degrees celsius. There is a tenuous, at best, atmosphere on Mercury. So the planet does not retain the heat it receives from the Sun as it rotates. The side facing the Sun is amazingly hot, around 700 Kelvin or 430°C!!! However temperatures can plunge to 110 Kelvin or -163 °C when it is on the dark side. So not quite 10000000000 degrees even the Sun don't get that hot. But what a wierd place to find Ice and organic material. Star and Flag.
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Originally posted by PaperbackWriter
Originally posted by andy06shake
reply to post by CALGARIAN
Average temperature on mercury during the day time is 350 degrees celsius. Night time its 170 degrees celsius. There is a tenuous, at best, atmosphere on Mercury. So the planet does not retain the heat it receives from the Sun as it rotates. The side facing the Sun is amazingly hot, around 700 Kelvin or 430°C!!! However temperatures can plunge to 110 Kelvin or -163 °C when it is on the dark side. So not quite 10000000000 degrees even the Sun don't get that hot. But what a wierd place to find Ice and organic material. Star and Flag.
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Well. I make no claims to be a scientific type genius but, wouldn't any water have long since evaporated, you know on the 350 degree side which seems more than a little low to me?
There is no way I am buying that Mercury has ice on it. What next, palm trees on Neptune?
I don't care what NASA claims. They aren't exactly filled with truthiness in most of their past claims.
Originally posted by PaperbackWriter
reply to post by phroziac
Water on the sun? Afraid I must have missed that. A ridiculous theory if the sun is a ball of fire.
I don't care if there are caves on Mercury. It's about like having a pot of water on the stove, it's still
going to boil away over time.
Have you ever heard of the helical theory of the helical spiral rotation of the planets?
I do not think that the planets rotate around the Sun. They chase after it, much like debris after a comet
in a pattern akin to DNA.
The Sun moves forward and each planets will be pulled in it's wake.
Mercury is the best evidence for this. If it were rotating it would have eventually been pulled into it's center by gravity.
If NASA wanted to come out with a big revelation, they should announce that.
But, they don't because it would frighten the atheist non-creationist scientist to have to admit that the pattern
repeats in an orderly pattern from the cells making up our bodies to the planets making up our solar system,
and the larger pattern of helical spirals that form galaxies.
Originally posted by phroziac
Originally posted by wildespace
reply to post by phroziac
I wonder what makes people like you think this way. Are your theories based on any kind of science? Or are you simply opposed to science and ready to come up with any alternative theories, as long as they are alternative?
No, I've found plenty of outright obvious lies from NASA and therefore am skeptical about everything they say. Please note that I did not say I am right, and I don't believe the whole moon landing hoax conspiracy theory (which has been thoroughly debunked), I do not believe in nibiru, and I don't believe there's been a giant tanker refueling the sun or blablablablablaaaaaaaaa.
But, what's up with the false color in images of Mars and Venus? Venus being recolored to make it look hot, Mars being recolored to make it look redder when it really pretty much just looks like Arizona? What's up with the atmospheric pressure on Mars being a near vacuum but theres ice there? Why are pictures of the moon airbrushed?
Originally posted by phroziac
But, ice on the closest planet to the sun? Really? That's amazing to me.
I find it hard to believe the camera is more melt proof than the mount it's on.