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Re: The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

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Post by dreamcompiler »

krapp wrote: post #30
userbinator wrote: post #28

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There is a whole controversy and analysis about that particular syllable Oh FFS... this guy went to the Moon and all people can argue about is what he said? How far we've fallen...

Be glad people still believe anyone ever went to the moon at all. That may not be the case in a few more years.

Pretty soon it will be possible for tourists to visit the moon and see the litter we left with their own eyes.

In fact, job 1 needs to be building fences around the landing sites so people don't trample all over them.

Re: The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

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Post by krapp »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #31
krapp wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be glad people still believe anyone ever went to the moon at all. That may not be the case in a few more years.

Pretty soon it will be possible for tourists to visit the moon and see the litter we left with their own eyes. In fact, job 1 needs to be building fences around the landing sites so people don't trample all over them.

We're still in the "millionaire celebrity ego-trip to nudge against the Karman line" stage of commercial space travel. "Pretty soon" is nowhere near a likely timeframe for crowds of tourists clomping around on the moon.

Re: The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

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Post by llmguy »

schiffern wrote: post #23
laidoffamazon wrote: post #22

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The scenes where they identify the square peg/round hole problem and where John Aaron and Ken Mattingly get the power draw down are some of my favorite in any movie. Must watch for any engineer

I love how their solution was not to fit the square peg into the round hole, but to use the suit air hose system to pull air through the filter instead. They achieved the important function ("flow cabin air through the filter") in a totally different way. https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/15day4-mailbox.html https://spacecenter.org/apollo-13-infographic-how-did-they-m...

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Re: The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

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Post by cheschire »

llmguy wrote: post #34
schiffern wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how their solution was not to fit the square peg into the round hole, but to use the suit air hose system to pull air through the filter instead. They achieved the important function ("flow cabin air through the filter") in a totally different way. https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/15day4-mailbox.html https://spacecenter.org/apollo-13-infographic-how-did-they-m...

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pretty sure you can't call it spoilers if the movie itself is 30 years old.

Re: The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

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Post by elihu »

Angostura wrote: post #26
wolfi1 wrote: post #7

and I thought the most famous carbon dioxide absorber would be caustic potash solution

I was thinking ‘Amazon rainforest’ or perhaps ‘ocean’

I was going to guess "trees".

A not-at-all-famous-but-maybe-it-should-be CO2 absorber is azolla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

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