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Comment Montreal Protocol is a coverup (Score 1) 90

Now analyze the consequences to Ozone from atmospheric nuclear detonations with mushroom clouds billowing up into this stratosphere.

I think it is 5 kilotons of Nitric oxide per megaton of explosive yield.

NO + O3 --> NO2 + O2
NO2 + O --> NO + O2
net O + O3 --> 2O2

Enough tonnage was detonated to destroy every molecule of Ozone 4x over in this catalytic reaction.

One way to mitigate the damage might be to crack down on Nitric oxide emissions from automobiles, to ban chlorofluorocarbons (and pin it on them), and even to spray reflective particles into the air to give UV a second pass through the stratosphere in an attempt to replenish the Ozone faster via the natural process.

Do you suppose nuclear powers would have liabilities for cooking off the Ozone? Is this why they no longer do atmospheric tests?

Comment Why land? (Score 1) 32

Earth air is a lifting gas on Venus. Why not inflate a bladder and float like a bobber to collect data indefinitely. Photovoltaics should work like a dream there too.

Could drop a tether into the depths to get a heat differential and maybe power it heat engine style too. Or send your sensors down to various depths and see if there's a biology containing layer.

Can you generalize the Google Project Loon outcome so it can be done on Venus as well?

If you're going all that way, you can do a lot more science with just a few modifications.

Comment Walled Gardens (Score 2) 485

Remember the early days of the Internet, before walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter existed, when you ran your own gopher or web server, your own services, published your own content, and search engines crawled all this to index it. Maybe I would finger you to see what was new.. And we still can.

We've lost something in the outsourcing and centralization.

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