11-February-2008, 06:54 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 12,286
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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff
With regards to whether or not fluctuations in cosmic ray flux (largely correlated with the solar cycle) has any significant impact on recent trends in global climate, see here and here and here.
The other issue is that the actual mechanism for forming clouds via cosmic ray interactions with Earth's atmosphere, what kinds of clouds are formed from such, and how these clouds would impact Earth's radiative energy budget (and on what time scale) remain speculative. |
And here!
My advice? Move South, not North.
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.
If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard D IRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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