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Originally Posted by 01101001
IDW shouldn 't have started a Q&A thread if IDW didn't want a Q&A thread.
There is no ball. There is no court. There is no game.
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Originally Posted by Interdimensional Warrior
It is the basic physics that cannot be argued against that will prove or disprove my contention that the spacecraft would be unable to shed heat in the vacuum of space through the conversion of heat energy buildup from Solar radiation and internal heat sources into thermal radiation which the spacecraft can shed in space. I have used a car parked in the Sun as an example in the past. Two things though, the car is under the protection of the atmosphere and the magnetosphere, and air molecules are moving over it to cool it.
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This led to my questions:
What would stop Apollo from radiating to space? What makes it different from other spacecraft or the Earth for that matter?