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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107
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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (327)2/4/2003 10:41:39 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (3) of 627
 
Bill, Well, I am a chemist and I can say it is quite possible to make O2 from water with electricity. They would have to rig a production apparatus from whatever they could find on board, but with ingenuity it is doable.
Remember there is a lot of plastic pipe and containers already there and they would be free to gut that and make production cells. They would have to separate and vent the hydrogen to the void. They would have to make enough to make a difference in survival time.
This is in effect a mind experiment in potentials, but I can not see any absolute barrier to them being able to improvise electrolytic cells to make O2 from water and get rid of the H2.

As for the ability to detect a missing door or a sprung door, there is another entry method they can use. The successive skip mode whereby the enter very gradually and skip off the atmosphere and then descend agin. Each skip is slower than the lst and as velocity is bled off they will extend the time over which the re-enter and reduce the rate of heat generation. Possiblt they could make this wrok. I do not know if that program for skipping is in the onbaord computer, it is hard to do manually.
Now more evidence of stuff falling off earlier, over California by one eyewitness with video.

Bill
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