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Old 02-August-2007, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Interdimensional Warrior View Post
I never said heat couldn't radiate into a vacuum.What I did say is that that process alone could not shed the heat produced by the equipment, the astonauts themselves and the effects of solar energy being absorbed by the spacecraft. Remember, we are talking about a wide spectrum of energy coming from the Sun, reflective material is not sufficient to prevent heating.
Be warned that you have just made a quantitative argument. Please be prepared to defend will it quantities, calculations, etc. Unless you can back up this claim with numbers, you have no argument at all.
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