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- From: jwt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: black tiles on the space shuttle
- Message-ID: <725334983@romeo.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 01:56:24 GMT
- Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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- For Christmas I received a Space Shuttle model with instructions to
- paint the underside black. This brought up the question "Why is the
- bottom of the Shuttle black?" It occurred to us that a black surface might
- absorb a lot more radiation and that in space there might be greater
- exposure to radiation than on earth, so why isn't the whole shuttle white
- or perhaps silver to reflect as much as possible?
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- Perhaps a simple posted response would be better than everyone
- sending mail to me, only to have me follow up with a post.
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