http://spaceweather.com/
30 October

"Fast-moving protons, accelerated by the recent explosions on the sun,
are streaming past Earth. This is what scientists call a proton storm.
The ongoing storm rates an S3 on NOAA's space weather scale.
Passengers and crew in commercial jets at high latitudes may receive
low-level radiation exposure (approximately 1 chest x-ray)."

Your typical ass-tronaut residing within International Space Station
Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is missing atmospheric shielding
equal to about three feet of solid lead (760 mm of mercury). Fast
protons hitting metal will give penetrating x-rays.

ISS, "Houston, how hot is it up here?"

Houston, "Not to worry guys - it's no worse than a big bunch of chest
x-rays..." soto voce "...every 20 minutes for three days."

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Net!

Uncle Al wrote:
http://spaceweather.com/
30 October

"Fast-moving protons, accelerated by the recent explosions on the sun,
are streaming past Earth. This is what scientists call a proton storm.
The ongoing storm rates an S3 on NOAA's space weather scale.
Passengers and crew in commercial jets at high latitudes may receive
low-level radiation exposure (approximately 1 chest x-ray)."

Your typical ass-tronaut residing within International Space Station
Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is missing atmospheric shielding
equal to about three feet of solid lead (760 mm of mercury). Fast
protons hitting metal will give penetrating x-rays.

ISS, "Houston, how hot is it up here?"

Houston, "Not to worry guys - it's no worse than a big bunch of chest
x-rays..." soto voce "...every 20 minutes for three days."



According to the saying : what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
they become radiation hardened.

Seriously. At the expense of positional stability, they could
protect themselves by powering up a superconducting coil.


Rene

Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Uncle Al wrote:
http://spaceweather.com/
30 October

"Fast-moving protons, accelerated by the recent explosions on the sun,
are streaming past Earth. This is what scientists call a proton storm.
The ongoing storm rates an S3 on NOAA's space weather scale.
Passengers and crew in commercial jets at high latitudes may receive
low-level radiation exposure (approximately 1 chest x-ray)."

Your typical ass-tronaut residing within International Space Station
Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is missing atmospheric shielding
equal to about three feet of solid lead (760 mm of mercury). Fast
protons hitting metal will give penetrating x-rays.

ISS, "Houston, how hot is it up here?"

Houston, "Not to worry guys - it's no worse than a big bunch of chest
x-rays..." soto voce "...every 20 minutes for three days."


According to the saying : what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
they become radiation hardened.

Seriously. At the expense of positional stability, they could
protect themselves by powering up a superconducting coil.

Three feet of lead shielding would work. So would a having a mission,
doing it, and going home. None of that obtains.

You wouldn't want to be living inside (or rather next to - note where
the hot protons are directed) a multi-tesla huge supercon solenoid if
you had to move around, much less top off the liquid helium dewar.
You wouldn't want to be living inside International Space Station
Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha charged to a million volts positive
by ejecting accelerated electrons, either.

Before you put man in space, you should have a reason to do so. We
went to the moon to **** off the USSR, and Mir reciprocally. No more
USSR, no more space propaganda. NASA is a mouth and a rectum without
a surrounding animal.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Net!

Uncle Al wrote in message ...
http://spaceweather.com/
30 October

"Fast-moving protons, accelerated by the recent explosions on the sun,
are streaming past Earth. This is what scientists call a proton storm.
The ongoing storm rates an S3 on NOAA's space weather scale.
Passengers and crew in commercial jets at high latitudes may receive
low-level radiation exposure (approximately 1 chest x-ray)."

Your typical ass-tronaut residing within International Space Station
Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is missing atmospheric shielding
equal to about three feet of solid lead (760 mm of mercury). Fast
protons hitting metal will give penetrating x-rays.

ISS, "Houston, how hot is it up here?"

Houston, "Not to worry guys - it's no worse than a big bunch of chest
x-rays..." soto voce "...every 20 minutes for three days."

I think that would be more like 'braised' than 'deep fried'.

Paul Cardinale

Before you put man in space, you should have a reason to do so. We
went to the moon to **** off the USSR, and Mir reciprocally. No more
USSR, no more space propaganda. NASA is a mouth and a rectum without
a surrounding animal.

Not to worry, if the chinese continue to achieve 10 x more with 10 x
less then NASA's days are out numbered.

JS

John Schoenfeld wrote:
Before you put man in space, you should have a reason to do so. We
went to the moon to **** off the USSR, and Mir reciprocally. No more
USSR, no more space propaganda. NASA is a mouth and a rectum without
a surrounding animal.


Not to worry, if the chinese continue to achieve 10 x more with 10 x
less then NASA's days are out numbered.


Time to outsource then.

Rene

Uncle Al wrote in message ...
http://spaceweather.com/
30 October

Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is missing atmospheric shielding
equal to about three feet of solid lead (760 mm of mercury). Fast
protons hitting metal will give penetrating x-rays.

ISS, "Houston, how hot is it up here?"

Houston, "Not to worry guys - it's no worse than a big bunch of chest
x-rays..." soto voce "...every 20 minutes for three days."

There is probably some way, they could read the geiger counters or
semiconductor equivalent circuits directly, or in their computer
system.

Although they are probably by now, versed enough to know what the
detected radiation levels mean. If not, they could surf the internet
in order to make sure of the relative meaning of the values that would
be coming from their detectors.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:40:07 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar
wrote:

John Schoenfeld wrote:
Before you put man in space, you should have a reason to do so. We
went to the moon to **** off the USSR, and Mir reciprocally. No more
USSR, no more space propaganda. NASA is a mouth and a rectum without
a surrounding animal.


Not to worry, if the chinese continue to achieve 10 x more with 10 x
less then NASA's days are out numbered.


Time to outsource then.

Rene

Time for Lunar Chinatown.

wrote in message . ..
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:40:07 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar
wrote:

John Schoenfeld wrote:
Before you put man in space, you should have a reason to do so. We
went to the moon to **** off the USSR, and Mir reciprocally. No more
USSR, no more space propaganda. NASA is a mouth and a rectum without
a surrounding animal.


Not to worry, if the chinese continue to achieve 10 x more with 10 x
less then NASA's days are out numbered.


Time to outsource then.

Rene

Time for Lunar Chinatown.

You extrapolate boldly, but for the meantime the've achieved the Spam
in a Can level. Lets see them get to the Moon a few times: or build
some really good lunar mock-ups in Xinjiang province.