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- From: rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: Next unmanned missions to Venus *
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:42:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.063904.27492@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff) writes:
- |> Hmmm, well, I guess if we were to make any kind of serious exploration of
- |> Venus's surface we would have to develop electronics componants that
- |> operate comforably at 900f. And metals that can protect the inards of the
- |> probe from terrential sulfuric acid down-poors..
- |> How WOULD we do that by the way? Anyone know??
- |>
- Remove the atmosphere of course... That might be quite a chore
- tho, kind of an anti-greenhouse effect device. A monster vacuum
- like in SpaceBall's maybe? B^).
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- -Rob
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