[net.space] correction

Dale.Amon%CMU-RI-FAS@sri-unix.UUCP (04/27/84)

Read 'Space station' instead of 'Space shuttle' on my previous post. It'll
make more sense!!

nemo@rochester.UUCP (02/28/85)

From: Richard Newman-Wolfe  <nemo>


Whoops.  The little dohicky with the paddles actually rotates the *other*
way in a *partial* vacuum due to a totally different effect.  Namely the
dark side absorbs more photons and heats up, transfers the heat to the gas
near the surface, which then expands, pushing the paddle away.  
Ne (face radiating a good deal of heat) mo

ST401385@BROWNVM.BITNET (03/14/86)

    In Space Digest V3#207, I posted that the solar intensity in space
is 1350 kw/m2.  I meant 1350 WATTS/m2, which is 1.35 kw/m2, of course.
                                            --GL