Ben Benoy
I'll take some of your questions here but not all. Not that I can't It's just that they're kind of lame. And by lame I only meen it's clear you missed some things.
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"Your first link shows a picture of the spacecraft with units that presumably"
"Presumably? Nothing presumed about it. they're labled radiators, they are radiators.
"radiate heat out into space. During normal operation, the electrical systems would be generating heat, and the panels you point out seem to be a way of ditching the excess heat. This suggests that the electrical systems generate a lot of heat. Which is in keeping with the assertion that electrical equipment was not that efficient."
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...rams/ad004.gif
The picture also shows (as I mentioned when I posted the link) One of two of the larger environmental radiators. Just scroll down on the picture, adjacent to the high gain antenna.
See a photograph here.
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS13/10075514.jpg
It's the large light colored panel from 12 o'clock to 7 o'clock just left and aft of the large gaping hole.
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Now, the next link is to a NASA kids site, and it says"
You don't think the NASA kids sites have good info?
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The Sun can heat up one side of the Space Station to 250° F (121° C)! That's hot enough to boil water. The other side of the Station, toward dark, cold space, can get down to -250° F (-157° C).
It doesn't say that it does do this, just that it can."
Ya...right.
"It then says that there are measures to prevent this happening, such as reflective surfaces, and heat exchangers. What's your point? "
Do you know what a heat exchanger is? You think it's just somthing they can just turn off with no consequences? It doesn't prevent heat from comming in. It just manages it in a effective way. That is (if you had read further)it's connected to a network of water pipes which gather heat from the spacecraft, transfer it to a gaseous coolant, compress the gas, the gas heats up, goes to the radiator and radiates to space.(In a nutshell)
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"Then there's the essay from Jim Lovell, and a cryptic remark about a red-handed lie (which metaphor I'm not sure I understand)."
He wrote it with his hand, so a red handed lie. I couldn't post on short notice a video of him saying it with his mouth, as I have seen, in which case I would have called it a bald faced lie. Recognise the metaphors now?
"As I understand it, the liquid cooled garment worn under the suit is just that, a jumpsuit you wear which takes heat from your body, transfers it to a liquid in the garment, from whence the heat is transfered to the outer layer and radiated away. So you don't sweat yourself to death. Don't think that I'd want to wear a cooling garment in 38 degree weather. "
The coolant in the garment can be heated, cooled or turned off.
The thermal garment is described by the astronauts themselves in interviews taken while they are putting them on immediatly before missions and by the manufacturer as "glorified long underwear" .
I posted a quote from an essay written by the commander of 13 saying he "wished for some good old long underwear." I post a picture of the "glorified long underwear" he was supposed to be wearing. I say that someone is lying. You say it's " a cryptic remark". If it looks like long underwear, acts like long underwear and the people who use and make it call it long underwear. It's long underwear. Put two and two together here pal I can't do it for you. Well I could do it but that could make you LAME. And if you lame you could limp. And girls don't like a guy who limp.
SAMU
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