Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.bu.edu!dartvax.dartmouth.edu!not-for-mail From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium) Newsgroups: sci.physics.electromag Subject: Re: PISCES Project; Univ of Illinois support Date: 5 Sep 1997 19:16:19 GMT Organization: anti-Seaborg lobby to name elements with God names, not human names Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5uplq3$8at$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> References: <5u9dh9$27f$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <5u9fqe$3lv$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <5uc1dv$8ao$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <5ucoo7$j35$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <5uiak8$99m$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <5unrmt$9mv$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiewit-off-bp-163.dartmouth.edu X-Newsreader: InterNews 2.0.2@kiewit-off-bp-163.dartmouth.edu[U] X-Authenticated: Archimedes.Plutonium on DND host dartmouth.edu Xref: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu sci.physics.electromag:19770 Organization University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; engineering dept In article tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin) writes: > Dearest Doctor Plutonium, your new Pisces Project has me so excited today I am > full of goose bumps all over my body that I ran to the engineering building to >ask if a Moon tube to drain out the oceans was feasible. And I talked with Seth >Hutchinson E-mail: seth@uiuc.edu , and with Donna J. Brown E-mail: djb@uiuc.edu > and both agreed with me that a Moon tube taken up in a spacecraft and nailed >down on the moon and with osmosis pressure will eventually drain water from the > Pacific. We are computing how close the Moon has to be with Earth for it to > work. > > In article <5unrmt$9mv$1@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> > Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium) writes: >> >> Could we accrete the Moon to Earth and make a new and better Earth? >> Perhaps not. So instead what if we brought the moon as close to earth >> as possible in a stable orbit and then space rocket a water tube to the >> moon and by forced osmotic pressure such as trees get water to their >> leaves (I should have saved this post to scandalize someone with). >> Making sure that the moon tube does not get caught up in earth to moon >> orbit. And ensuring plenty of hose line. >> >> Some type of forced pressure pump will start the earth's ocean water >> and the osmosis will keep the flow continuous. Tim ask some professors there at U of Illinois how close the Moon can orbit Earth in a stable orbit? I.E. how close can we harbor the moon?