tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270899075443508100.post6062032421720262648..comments2024-01-03T20:28:17.727-08:00Comments on Future Planetary Exploration: 2016 Budget: Great Policy Document and A Much Better Budget Van Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227978868817989527noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270899075443508100.post-37402260231728288412015-03-16T10:23:17.998-07:002015-03-16T10:23:17.998-07:00...I hope high energy neutrinos don't cause ca......I hope high energy neutrinos don't cause cancer. I guess the lobby here is for progressively better geoimaging using neutrinos.<br />Big fan of PRIDE concept here.<br />For the asteroid redirect mission, there are 3 main types of asteroids: Stony, Metal, Carbonaceous.<br />The stony seems useless. Maybe silicon signatures should rule out such asteroids. I like mining the Moon, but many like asteroids. For this reason, getting an asteroid with an ore body would be useful. Carbonaceous asteroids are useful if they have a little H2O for the purposes of looking for life signatures; I see new microscopes being invented just for the mission. Also, dark asteroids can be used to prototype the various albedo-altering asteroid contingencies. Lenses, lasers, sprinkling soot, small collisions meant to raise a plume...<br />For this reason if you go carbon, try to get a really dark patch and try to get a bit of H20.<br />Ideally, though it may be hard to handle and risk fragmentation, volatiles are good to have. Presumably an asteroid that is the product of a weak collision or had a little comet hit it and hasn't been near the Sun, is good.<br />I'm not too worried about whether an iron or carbon asteroid is picked because you get the other type the 2nd capture mission. Just not a rocky one.The Keystone Garternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270899075443508100.post-45155668890045061952015-03-10T09:39:14.452-07:002015-03-10T09:39:14.452-07:00Polishing off the Sensor Compendium. I have an ou...Polishing off the Sensor Compendium. I have an outline for imaging WMD labs in the distant future. The idea would be to look for fridge or bathroom or house sized caves or aggregations of 2075 industrial equipment, inside Earth. I'm thinking an AI lab would be able to be imaged, but a biolab maybe could be made too small.<br />I'm not aware of any regular neutrino sources. We would have to make an irregular one regular, or create particle guns that could effect such. We take these guns on the surface or in LEO or in GEO, and we shoot them through Earth at an Ice Moon.<br />I'm not familiar with many neutrino sensor types. Perhaps chemistry will uncover a good one. Plastic scintillators all over Earth would be an efficient use of oil. A basic strategy seems to be to use lots of water or ice to image the Cerenkov Radiation that follows a neutrino hit. A recent paper suggests ice not so good. So you use Enceladus, or Callisto, or Europa, as neutrino beam detectors. You shoot a neutrino gun to your ice moon neutrino array, and I think you can image subterranean WMD labs. Perhaps you can even image such labs under construction on Alpha Centauri from Enceladus. I'm not sure if the Ice Moons need uniform ater or if their water is too salty or something. If ice works that is even better. I'd like to see water harbouring Ice Moons be scouted as Cerenkov Detectors. I'd like to see the USA's non-laser particle beam weaponry be rechanneled to dual use applications that also may lead to the generation of a regular neutrino beam, or some sort of filter for neutrino sources of natural origin that effects the same.The Keystone Garternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270899075443508100.post-2552358652676721112015-02-04T12:49:49.012-08:002015-02-04T12:49:49.012-08:00This is great news. Let’s hope congress funds the ...This is great news. Let’s hope congress funds the Europa mission aggressively and it launches on the Aries V (SLS).<br />I hope the future funding holds for Discovery and NF. It would be nice to see a regular cadence for these type missions again.Sage Geo.noreply@blogger.com