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Originally Posted by jrkeller
I happened to be over a godlikeproductions and I found this thread ... |
Oh Man! That one was a classic! My favorite exchange (abridged) was:
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HB: An Air Conditioner WILL NOT WORK in a vaccum. So much for their "air conditioned spacesits" is nothing but "FRIED AIR."
PAN: NASA didn´t use "air conditioning". They used a porous-plate sublimator, which will *only* work in a vacuum.
HB: Oh really? Where else is this "porous-plate sublimator" used? And how much does it weigh and size?
PAN: Porous-plate sublimators are used on every space suit that has a self-contained life-support system, including the shuttle and ISS suits. They are also frequently used by spacecraft themselves.
They are highly-reliable, well-understood bits of technology whose principles of operation are no mystery.
If water is allowed to leak very slowly into a vacuum, it will freeze into a solid around the object through which it has leaked. As a closed loop of circulating coolant is passed through that ice block, the ice removes heat from the coolant and then sublimates away in response, to be replaced by other water from a tank, or from power cells.
HB: If this is true they will need TONS of water just to keep them alive for a few minutes
PAN: LOL! Nobody here even knew what a sublimator was until someone told you. And now you´re an expert on how it works? How unbelievably arrogant.
Prove your answer. Go look up the metabolic heat of the human body and the heat of sublimation for a gram of water and prove that it would take "tons" of water. Put up or shut up.
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The HB did, in fact shut up (and, as near as I can tell, vanished from the thread), and the PANs calculated the amount of water needed, showing their work.
The thread also featured Jay putting a comprehensive smack-down on Sam Colby's site, and - as an extra added bonus - some "pearls of wisdom" from IDW, to wit:
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Originally Posted by Interdimensional Warrior
- "The Soviet Union (SU) and the United states (US) have never been enemies post ww2. That whole (cold war)conflict was fabricated..."
- "Apollo was a New World Order psy-op..."
- "Money is fake in that it has no real value... Kennedy was killed in part because of his introduction of the silver certificate, which was redeamable for 327 (?)grains of silver."
- "America is still under the rule of great britain."
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...and many more.