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| (...) Being in a vacuum, how would you heat the surroundng nothingness to 500 degrees? Aren't vacuums, by definition, a few degrees above absolute zero? --Electro-- (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Okay, you caught me on my technical imprecision. More precisely, I mean simply an evacuated chamber in which, I suppose, one could position IR lamps over the aforementioned paper sheet. For that matter, even in its approximate vacuum, the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Sure, it'll get hot, but boiling is way different from burning. (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Now we're getting somewhere! But what would happen to the paper once it got that hot? That's what I was trying to get at in the first place... Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Incident radiation. The paper may BE in a vacuum, but it, itself, is not a vacuum, it has density greater than 0. Hence paper is not a vacuum. Consider why some satellites spin. To keep their surface temperature within bounds, by allowing the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) So all we need to do to solve this is build and launch a satellite made out of paper. Think of how little fuel we'd need! Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Note that I think the LDEF had some paper/cardboard panels, you might try spelunking the NASA site for the writeup on what happened to them. I could be misremembering, maybe LDEF only had metal and plastic panels. But there were over 500 of (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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