Posted on 07/01/2005 7:10:20 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
What two mechanisms? Explain to me how a photon does not increase the net heat of a system it impinges on?
With respect to the planet Mercury, they believe that heat contributes to the surface release of sodium, given the high daytime temperatures, but the photon flux is still likely to play a major role, as on the Moon.
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"Once the shock has passed, the molecules cool into a cold, thin gas."
This also happens when you startle Muttly...Hmmmmmmm.
Science marches on.
There are, in fact, trace amounts of water, carbon dioxide, and methane in the moon's atmosphere: http://www.iac.es/galeria/mrk/atmo_lun.html, and the controversial viking experiment that was thought to generate CO2 from life processes produced CO2 from sterilized soil samples. Which probably means 1) either there is life on mars, which highly increases the likelihood that it was, in some manner, seeded from space, or 2) CO2 leaks out of sterile soil.
Well, perhaps you have a more specific reference? A photon is, as far as I remember, a fundamental force particle. How can it have an effect on anything in the macro world other than by raising an electron in an atom to a higher energy level?
Well, thank you, but I already posted that information in post 106. It is consistent with this information.
Interstellar Space A Likely Source of Organic Molecules
At these temperatures, many of the molecules and atoms that are normally present as gases condense to form ice mantles surrounding the dust particles in the cloud, much as your breath condenses into frost on a cold window. These ices are primarily made up of simple molecules like water (H2O), methanol (CH3OH), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ammonia (NH3), and methane (CH4).
That is not heat.
So,...you already knew there were traces of water in the moons atmosphere, when you sent me off to figure it out. Thanks a heap. I'd like to terminate this conversation at this point, and ask you to kindly stop posting to me.
Gosh amighty, blaming me for your lack of reading. Typical.
In the full context of what I said, that what you said was utterly meaningless, as usual.
Now you admit you are a liar. It meant something, you answered, calling it "opinion", which it was, "stated as fact", which was not done. Your name was aptly selected, since your logic is not rational, you wing it.
Opinion stated as fact.
It meant something, you answered, calling it "opinion", which it was, "stated as fact", which was not done.
You said: the chance of abiotic creation of life still remain practically ZERO
To which I replied:
"There is no way to know what the chances are, our knowledge is too limited." To which you replied:
It was opinion stated as opinion. What do you think the adjective practically means?
To which I replied in turn:
In the full context of what I said, that what you said was utterly meaningless, as usual.
Which is perfectly true. Your qualification of the statement by the word "practically" means the statement has no meaning, since you don't know what the odds are and can't explain what they are, so you don't know they are "practically zero." Since this is just your opinion then the odds could be very great for the "abiotic creation of life".
You just didn't like getting caught throwing your opinion out there like it meant something logically, which it doesn't.
Ditto.
Your silly game is silly, Mr Wingnut.
By the dark lines where something is missing. These are called absorption lines. This is 150 year old science using modern technology to get better sensitivity.
Amazing from 26,000 light years away. I just checked the Chemical Dictionary which mentioned use on stars. Thanks -- good info.
It isn't a game. It is an exercise in thinking, which you might realize someday, if you don't run out of eternity first.
Opinion stated as fact.
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