Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: 2010 letdown (semi-SPOILER) Message-ID: <511@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 17:17:48 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.511 Posted: Sat Dec 22 17:17:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Dec-84 02:39:18 EST References: <4227@tekecs.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: Unix-like Operating Systems Consultant Lines: 25 Summary: [ Ding, dong, the glitch is dead... ] > Article <4227@tekecs.UUCP>, from patcl@tekecs.UUCP (Pat Clancy) +---------------- | The marshmellow analogy should perhaps have included an explanation. | The thing that ruined it for me was the trail of smoke left by the | Leonov's passage through Jupitor atmosphere. Smoke is particulate | matter which results from a chemical combustion process; ie., | something's burning up. The only thing that could have been burning | in this case was the balloon, but it seemed to (and had to) survive | intact. Certainly the heating of the hydrogen/helium atmosphere would | not have produced smoke. The space shuttle doesn't produce | a smoke trail when it reenters, even in an oxygen atmosphere. Ah, but who knows (Dave Bowman or his masters, and who else?) what's in the Jovian atmosphere? Perhaps there's free oxygen enough, or more likely something that reacted due to the heat to produce particulate matter, without combustion; a coagulation process? Don't reply unless you've a detailed analysis of the upper Jovian atmosphere to back up your views. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 (216) 524-1416 <<<<<< An equal opportunity employer: I both create and destroy bugs :-) >>>>>>