It was quite cogent, Sake. . . I was totally uninterested in much of anything for a couple of days except my misery. LOL!
Moving along. I have spent a good deal of time trying to find additional information regarding alternative research on comets. As you're no doubt aware, there's not much out there. Maybe the same people are too busy banging the drum for algore warming or other "conventional wisdom", I dunno.
There is quite a bit of research in the field, but the orthodox cosmologists scrub anything that does not agree with their views. . . and they have even forced Wikipedia to remove the entry for the Electric Universe from existence, claiming it is Pseudoscience, even though it has been kicking their behinds in every prediction in cosmology for about twenty years, and can explain everything that is being discovered in deep space with easily understood plasma mathematics and re-create it in the microcosm in the laboratory and model it using that math without resorting to inventing magical fudge factors such as invisible and unfound "dark matter" and "dark energy" to get their math to work.
Comments referring to such predictions from Electric Universe Cosmologists on forums relating to comets and other astronomical events are routinely deleted by the orthodox cosmology gatekeepers. It is a circling of the wagons to protect the status quo of their preferred theories. Think how the Global Warming crowd treats any one who questions their religion. . . it challenges their money stream. . . and they'd have to rewrite the textbooks.
Although their instruments detected no water ice on(or in?) the comet; what to make of the water vapor their instruments detect escaping from the comet. Anywhere from a teacup full to over a gallon per SECOND.Might it be trapped in a highly vesicular chunk of rock. The rock itself appears to have been formed under "extreme" conditions.
Try this on for size. The water is FORMED by the high-energy plasma-discharge interacting with the solar wind, which is made up of stripped protons. OH molecules leaving the comet, being pulled of by the electrons from the negatively charged body in the positively charged atmosphere it is encountering as it moves closer to the sun, interact with the plasma of the solar wind to for H2O. In fact, in the Deep Impact mission, what they saw was chemically PURE water and OH radicals escaping from the point of impact:
"In the Deep Impact data we're essentially watching water molecules form and then dissipate right in front of our eyes," said (Dr. Jessica M.) Sunshine, who said her first reaction to the M3 data was skepticism.
Absolutely pure virgin water that only existed in the collimated high-energy plasma ~90° from the point of impact, but NOT in any other angle of the matter being ejected from the point of impact! The ONLY water found on comet Temple 1.
Interestingly enough, that thought occurred to me but having ZERO background in science; in particular chemistry, I didn't even know where or how to begin a search to see if it was even possible. Gratifying to know that my thought processes still function properly -- more or less.
I did some scouting around to see what I could find out generally about Tempel1. Ran across several articles stating water ice or water ice patches were discovered on the comet. Conflicting and contradictory information is everywhere apparently. I discovered one article in my wandering in particular that gave me severe indigestion. If you have time, see what you can make of this item from HERE:
How hot is it on Tempel 1? Researchers made a temperature map of the sunlit side and found the hottest point nearly directly under the sun. It's 329 degrees Kelvin under the sun and 260 in the shade.The problem I have is reconciling the fact that from this same article it states 72°F is roughly 295°K. Nowhere near hot enough to cook off anything. Confusing for the layman.
The coldest temperature is important because the temperature at which ices such as water, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide turn directly into gas is below 200 degrees Kelvin.