Brad wrote:
Thanks for the moral and intellectual/scientific support. However,
for years I've argued that naked water ice as being highly unlikely,
especially since the moon supposedly used to be a molten ball of
basalt and metals that should have provided damn little if any
unvaporized water to start with. This is not to say that within and
especially under that thick and fused basalt crust isn't any hope of
finding geode pockets and/or layers of brines that could still exist.
Icy comets encountering our moon would have totally vaporized each and
every cm3 of whatever delivered ice, unless they somehow soft-landed
in the dark. There's just not sufficient gravity nor any protective
atmosphere to have held onto whatever comet derived ice, and still no
direct vapors from any hidden ice.
Unlike our half freeze dried plus half worse than boiled to death
naked moon of such a crystal hard vacuum that's devoid of any surface
ice, those Venus clouds have a great deal of carbonated and/or acidic
water plus having cloud crystals of ice by night.
“Guth Venus” 1:1, plus 10x resample/enlargement of the area in
question:
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https://picasaweb.google.com/102736204560337818634/BradGuth#slideshow/5629579402364691314>
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hanson wrote:
Brad, you are not gonna sell your notion with your
belletristics. The enlargement in your link above
means and says nothing.
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Here is why: Whether you look at some white
deposit from 20 yards or 2" or your enlargement
will not tell you whether it's white Chalk, Gypsum,
Silica, BaSO4, SrSO4 or Ice or mixtures thereof.
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If you wanted to use magnification as a tool for
the identification, you need to enlarge it so big
that you can make out the minutes structure type
& classification of its individual crystals.
That ID systems requires magnifications of
several 100 times if not many thousand times
(electron microscopy).
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Another way of Tele-identifying stuff is by using
different light sources, like Black light/UV as is
used to ID scorpions or gem-stones at night
in the desert. This principle of photographing the
light reflection of the moon ice with different
filter was used to "identify" the moon ice.
You have no access to such a procedure.
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So, for you verify what "they" have claimed you
need to go to a procedure that you have access
to and such a method is for instance the phase
type diagrams for Ice. This will tell you, not how
YOU guessed, but in their own terms whether they
could be correct in their guesses / assessment.
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Here are some random links I picked for you from google.
Check one vs. the other. See whether there are faulty
misleading or missing staments in the diagrams, etc...
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http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/viewobject.aspx?id=gch6304>
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http://ergodic.ugr.es/termo/lecciones/water1.html>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_diagram_of_water.svg>
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http://www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/people/finney/soi.html>
When you check the above 4 links you will see that you
have alreay cause to throw rocks at them. Show why!
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Now also look at & compare the sloppy work done in here:
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/other/ice_other_planets/ice_on_mars/no_liquid_water/
Have fun with that, dig deeper and then make your case
for (a) &/or (b). If you are successful in showing it that
way, then you can even claim that your OWN type/way &
method of investigation can beat the official published tripe.
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Good luck, have fun and take care, Brad
hanson