Michael Coslo wrote:
Richard Clark wrote:

Isn't amazing how these academic idylls of civil discourse (populated
by gentlemany of infinite wisdom) crumble into viper's nests when you
arrive? The term correlation comes to mind, but I don't know what
word it would be in your vocabulary so as to make the concept
meaningful to you.

For others who haven't read that comic strip, Arthur has proven
Einstein was wrong! Well, proven in the sense that Arthur proves
anything. Which is to say "he said so." After all, there is nothing
mentioned about anything specific from Einstein (special theory?
general theory? the photon theory? the cosmological constant?). That
is best left to our imagination as Arthur has dismissed it all with a
wave of the hand, whiting out Einstein's name on the Nobel prize to
pencil in Art.


http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra...st_060223.html

Is a nice little understandable and believable bit on moon dust.

Created in a massively electrically charged environment by a constant
rain of micreometeorites.

http://faculty.rmwc.edu/tmichalik/moon8.htm

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9......


and with shapes that have both microspheres and


Ack! sorry - I pasted that too long url and accidentally sent the
message instead of undoing what I did. mea maxima culpa!

Point is, that the source and composition of the lunar dust is well
known. We can even duplicate it here on earth.

There isn't anything magic about dust that consists of a combination of
microspheres and hook ended fractured rocks. Put that in a highly
charged environment, and no strange and incomprehensible theories are
needed to explain why it sticks to things.

It's shape, size, and static......



And now for Art.

Art, the dust in not specifically something that is roaming around the
universe in packs. The dust or lunar soil is composed of fractured and
spheroidal minerals mixed in with meteoriodal material from the little
buggers that hit the moon and formed those fragements.

The reason that there is a lot of that stuff on the moon as compared to
the earth is because metoroids hit the moon with regularity, and once
formed, tend to stay there. On earth only the larger meteoroids make it
to the surface (yeah, I know a meteoroid is one that makes it to the
surface) and once there, they become assimilated, and are hard to find.

Occam's razor isn't always correct, but in this case.....

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -