Joshua Buffone

I was reading about solar flares in one of my "Space" books, and I came across a section on solar wind. I read regular info that I mostly knew; it causes the aurorae borealis, its caused by solar flares, ect. What I thought to myself, though, is that if we have solar winds containing electrons and protons with energies between 10-100 eV, and with large amounts of internal and kenetic energy touching close to our ionosphere, why havent we sent something up in our atmosphere to harvest what could be an endless and abundant energy source? Dont we have the technology to do such a thing?

Thank you. I feel like I've failed my teachers, though, for you have used the exact vocabulary and logic that our teachers have taught us, and yet I have asked questions like I didnt know the answer to them. I am grateful that you've re-awakened my knowledge of light. What I wonder about now is color. All colors have an individual wavelength correct? Then why can color be seen differently by different people? Ex: I could take two people in the same lighted room and show them my blue book (which, by the way, is "All Quiet on the Western Front"), yet one of them could have a different color experience that another. If my blue book has only one frequencey in this lighted room, why can this happen? Is it some sort of differentiation in their brains? Is it misinterpretation?

I can assume from your first paragraph, Mr. Skeptic, that glacial cores are hardly possible, nigh impossible. I am confused how Mars would lose the atmosphere. I know that if it doesnt have enough gravity to kep something down, that something will fly away, but why would it take millions of years? Is the whole oxygen-filled dome idea possible? Maybe if we used the carbon source from the warmed up CO2 to grow plants for creating oxygen for the domes? Would that be possible, or would we need to many plants?

I was in my room, with my lamp on and a book in my hand. The book was blue. I set down my book, nearer to my lamps light, and saw how the blue of the books front page became somewhat brighter. I then turned off my lamp and was now in a pitch black room. I could not see any color whatsoever from the book anymore. I noticed this and went into the living room, where we have a dimmer-switch lamp. The room was pitch black, like my room. There was no color from the book. I slowly brightened the lamp, and as I did so, so did the colors of the book. At very dim light, the book was a dim, dark blue, and as I brightened the light, the blue would become brighter, and more majestic. Going solely on my observations, I inferred that light was an amplifier of color. Am I correct? Answer my three questions below, please. Is my blue book blue even without the presence of light? Is light really an amplifier of color? What makes an object a certain color?

Your right about the movie name. They did emply the whole core was subliminized. I knew that the whole glacial core idea was impossible for a planet of Mars's size, but could it work on a small, distant-from-the-sun planet (I cant say Pluto, its not a plant )? Is there any way a hollow planet can exist?

Have you ever seen the movie "True Lies" with Arnold Schwarzenegger? If you have, you might know why Im posting this thread, if you havent, heres why. In the movie, Mars is now inhabited by colonists from Earth and they live in oxygen supplied domes. Seems reasonable enough for a sci-fi flick. Then movie basically states that all of Mars's core is a giant glacier that, once undergoing sublimation caused by an alien reactor, will release so much oxygen and life-sustaining gasses that Mars will have an atmosphere suitable for human life. WTF?! This was more than far-fetched to me. I thought that if a planets glacial core went through sublimation, and then gas burst through the crust of the planet to make an atmosphere, wouldnt the planet then be hollow, and dangerously unstable? This would mean that the planet would inevitably cave in on itself! Right? Ok, so heres the main purpose for the thread. Three questions: Is a planet with a glacial core even possible? (I think not, due to heat inevitably created in the center of the planet) If you actually had a galcial core that went through sublimation and turned into gas , would it actually create an atmosphere for the now hollow planet? (I really think its unlikely, but maybe plausible?) Would a hollow planet of Mars's size actually be able to sustain itself? (I think not, since mountains and canyons would have no support underneath, thus statring a planetary cave-in) I know alot was just Hollywood, but I do want to get to the bottom of these questions. Sincerely, Joshua Buffone