RE: Arthur C Clarke

["Todd Brautigam" <brautt@myapc.com>]

He is certainly best known for his SciFi, but he is well-versed in the sciences. I suggest doing a Google search on his name to learn more about his non-SciFi contributions... such as satellite communications.



>>> Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM> 11/15/02 02:16PM >>>

Arthur C. Clarke wrote fiction!  (Good stuff too!!)



I didn't say not possible - I said not with the elements currently

available on this planet.



Ted Rockwell wrote:

> 

> "When a scientist says something is possible, he is probably right.

> When he says something is impossible, he is probably wrong."

>                                 --Arthur C. Clarke

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Ted de Castro [mailto:tdc@xrayted.com] 

> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:08 PM

> To: Kai Kaletsch

> Cc: Ted Rockwell; Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS);

> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

> Subject: Re: Radiation-Proof Uniform?

> 

> Well then - according to the Co57 number - its 0.1 mm PB equivalent.  I

> doubt even that!

> 

> I have a nice calibrated set of Pb filters, and my own faxitron.  With a

> sample I could easily run a comparison.

> 

> The only numbers I believe are the Alpha or Beta numbers.  There is

> something very wrong with the photon numbers.

> 

> As for discounting "anything new".  Its just the physics!  There is no

> element that has the absorption coefficient they claim thus no way to

> produce what they have claimed to - on this planet.  It is also just

> physics that combinations of elements do not have enhanced shielding

> effects beyond what is predictable from the coefficients of each

> element.

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