Once a month the surface of the moon is charged up to hundreds

[HysteryDiagnosis]

if not thousands of volts, future expeditions to the moon will have to be aware of this phenomenon from a safety standpoint.

[SoxFan]

1. I'll remember this the next time I go there.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Hee! n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. I'm series, this is a HUGH finding, imagine stepping off the lunar

lander thingy and having your fillings snap crackle and pop... wouldn't be pretty in the least.

[SoxFan]

6. Oh, after the first time or two you get used to it

Nowhere near as bad as that damned heat on Venus

[Robb]

4. That's some monthly friend. nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Someone, preferrably the anti-electric crowd is supposed to say,

I call bullshit. Then I say, why not? What with all the crap flying around out in "empty space".

[RC]

7. I'm waiting for some nutz to come up with a plan for a pair of nano-tube cables from the earths

surface to somewhere just short of the moons orbit to capture all this "free" energy for use down here. :crazy: :silly: :dunce:

[On the Road]

9. Well, There Are Ways to Transmit Energy Wirelessly

Don't know if it would be feasible, but if the energy source is great enough and able to be harnessed easily, I don't know why it wouldn't be investigated.

[Odin2005]

8. Your woo-spam is getting tiresome.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. This isn't woo, it's fact. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. It's meaningless 'fact'

For instance:

In areas of fair weather, the atmospheric electric field near the earth's surface typically is about 100 volts (V) m−1 and is directed vertically in such a sense as to drive positive charges downward to the earth.

http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=atmospheric-electric-field1

If there's a potential difference of about 200 V between ground level and eye level, why on earth (so to speak) should we be concerned about a difference of a few thousand volts over about 250,000 miles? When there is a huge vacuum between the earth and the moon?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

18. The difference is that the moon is being charged by the earth and

that is something to write home about.

[Odin2005]

12. It's fact that is completely irrelevent in context with the woo you spew.

This does not in any way contradict the Standard Model.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. WTF are you talking about standard models?? I'm only suggesting

that the surface of the moon gets charged by the earth to several hundred possibly thousands of volts. There simply is nothing wrong with this statement.

[anigbrowl]

25. Yes, but so what?

The human body can easily build up a static charge of 50,000 volts. Engineers have long been aware of the need to shield electronics from static discharge as a design aspect of space exploration. There's nothing remarkable about any of this.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

27. If you say so... nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. If you're just reciting "common knowledge..."

1. Why bother reciting it.

2. What is it you want us to "see?"

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. You claimed that the moon gets charged to hundreds or thousands of volts...

but then the only link you provided was to some woo woo website.

Oh, and if you'd read your links, the moon is getting charged by the sun.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

31. The sun?? Incredible. Who knew?? n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. Pretty much everybody who knows how the sun works.

It's a big nuclear furnace which releases solar wind- both positive and negative particles. It's the opposite of what you'd expect if the sun was an electrode.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

42. The sun is mass of incandescent gas

A gigantic nuclear furnace,
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.

Yo ho! It's hot, the sun is not a place where we could live.
But here on earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.

We need its light.
We need its heat.
We need its energy.
Without the sun without a doubt there'd be no you and me.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Prove it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

17. Prove what? The OP?? It's common knowledge. n/'t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. Then it should be easy to prove.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

20. Surely you aleady know this and are baiting me up?? What's the sense?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. If you make the claim, you should back it up.

Why so paranoid?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

22. Not paranoid, just disappointed in the level of awareness concerning

such simple facts.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1007-preparing_for_a_walk_on_the_moon.htm



"The surface of the moon can become electrified from charged particles in the surrounding space environment," says Timothy Stubbs, Ph.D., a space scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

This electric event happens once a month when the moon passes through the earth's magnetotail. A magnetotail is caused when the highly-charged particles of the solar wind zoom past the earth and mix with earth's magnetic field, creating a long tail that extends into the moon's orbit. "The moon is actually sitting in a sea of charged particles," Dr. Stubbs says.

Each month, the moon enters the magnetotail for six days. As it crosses inside the magnetotail, the moon's surface becomes highly charged. If astronauts walked across the charged surface, they might feel a static shock -- just like walking across a carpet and then touching a door knob. It's not a deadly shock, but a powerful zap! It's easy to know when the moon is passing through the earth's magnetotail -- just look for a full moon.

No astronaut has ever landed on a charged-up full moon to know exactly what happens, so learning more now will help astronauts in the future.




http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080420123319.htm

ScienceDaily (Apr. 21, 2008) — Behold the full moon. Ancient craters and frozen lava seas lie motionless under an airless sky of profound quiet. It’s a serene, slow-motion world where even a human footprint may last millions of years. Nothing ever seems to happen there, right?

Wrong.

NASA-supported scientists have realized that something happens every month when the moon gets a lashing from Earth’s magnetic tail.

“Earth’s magnetotail extends well beyond the orbit of the moon and, once a month, the moon orbits through it,” says Tim Stubbs, a University of Maryland scientist working at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This can have consequences ranging from lunar ‘dust storms’ to electrostatic discharges

"These sorts of things that affect astronauts are things that we'd like to investigate before we return to the moon," Dr. Stubbs says.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. There, see? Now was that so hard?

Shame about the woo spam in your sig.

[Therellas]

13. someone explain what you mean by woo?

if its the probability that the poster believes somehow we could live in peace then i feel sick.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Woo woo- pseudoscience, quackery, scientific illiteracy.

People who put tinfoil on their heads, spin around in circles, and chant woo woo woo.

In the OP's case, S/he believes in the "Electric Universe"- that the sun is a giant electrode, comets are a form of electricity, and the craters on the moon are caused by space lightning.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

23. ... you're almost right. But not quite. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. Well, there's more to it.

There's the idea that black holes don't exist, that nebula are just big magnetic fields, and that magnetic fields require the presence of an electric current.

But it's all the same crap.

[Lagomorph]

29. Shhhhh....

...or we'll get stuck for the bill to run an extension cord up there.

[TransitJohn]

32. Will this shit ever end?

You preoccupation with this shit doesn't belong in General Discussion...take it to one of the loony woo-woo Groups, please.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

36. Uhhhhhhhhh no. Russia is over there, no one asked anyone to

read, edit or post in this thread. We are all adults here (hopefully) and we should be responsible for our own behavior which includes reading things that make us ill. Your mileage may vary.

[lpbk2713]

34. Is this another Kucinich thread?

:shrug:


Seriesly.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. It's another moon bombing thread.

[lpbk2713]

37. I remember that.

:rofl:

[NeedleCast]

41. Ahhhhh, that was good times

The comparisons of dropping an empty metal can on the moon to rape were particularly funny.

[Nikki Stone1]

38. Can you explain more about what this is and why it is important?

Thanks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

39. It's not important, he wants you to follow the link in his thread.

Which goes on about a loony, thoroughly debunked theory about how the universe and electricity work.

Not unlike his claims about earthquake machines.

[Stuckinthebush]

40. I want my new screen name to be "Magnetotail"

That sounds like a really perverted super hero.