Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Wed, 6 Mar 91 01:27:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 01:27:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #232 SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 232 Today's Topics: Re: liquid SCUBA -- possible? ALIENS SPOTTED? Weird signal Jonathan's Space Report, Mar 2 Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription requests, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Mar 91 02:18:36 GMT From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sarah!bingnews!kym@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (R. Kym Horsell) Subject: Re: liquid SCUBA -- possible? In article <1991Jan29.140435.6547@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gabriele@riverdale.toronto.edu (Mark Gabriele ) writes: >...and I should point out that although the trials on humans may not >have been done yet (it might be urban legend), the trials on rats and >mice (which I have personally witnessed) showed that the lungs are not >designed to breath fluids of that density. Basically, the diaphragm >muscle gets too tired to continue breathing after a fairly short time >(I don't know what this time restriction would be for a human). So, >after you're in the capsule, they'd better not delay the countdown.... I have read of at least one operation on a human patient where, for reasons that do not _exactly_ remember, their lung (sic) was filled with sterile, oxygenated water (I presume saline to cut down on osmotics)& circulated with a pump. I presume this gets over the tiring of the diaphram. I don't know whether this was a one-off/of or whether this is now routine practice for, e.g. operations on lungs. -kym ------------------------------ Date: 4 Mar 91 13:57:42 GMT From: eru!kth.se!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!oksalahti@bloom-beacon.mit.edu Subject: ALIENS SPOTTED? There was a very brief comment in the finnish news on the 1st of March that said: They (astronomers?) have received signals in Australia that would seem to be coming from other (intelligent) lifeforms. The signals are in some way similar to humans ECG-curves. Does anybody have more specific information on the matter. For example why would they suspect that the "sender" is a lifeform and where are these signals coming from. PS. Just curious. Mikko Oksalahti. Comp.Sci.Dep. University of Helsinki Email: OKSALAHTI@cc.helsinki.fi (internet) OKSALAHTI@FINUHA (EARN/BITNET) ------------------------------ Date: 4 Mar 91 09:40:51 GMT From: magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!saffe@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Petri Savolainen) Subject: Weird signal There was something interesting in local news broadcast here in Finland. They told that an australian radiotelescope had picked some strange signals. Speculated that the signal might even be "something...". Now does anyone know something more about this? Or where from can more information be obtained? Saffe ------------------------------ Date: 4 Mar 91 16:42:27 GMT From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!freedom!xanth!mcdowell@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan McDowell) Subject: Jonathan's Space Report, Mar 2 Jonathan's Space Report Mar 2 1991 (no.66) ---------------------------------------------------- The flight of STS-39/Discovery has been delayed. Discovery will be rolled back for repairs, while the STS-37/Atlantis flight (Gamma Ray Observatory deploy) remains scheduled for early April. The latest Ariane launch has been delayed till early March. Viktor Afanas'ev and Musa Manarov continue in orbit aboard the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-11/Progress M-6 complex. They will return in early May, and are to be replaced by the Soyuz TM-12 crew, Anatoliy Artsebarskiy, Sergey Krikalyov and Helen Sharman. Ms. Sharman, a British citizen, is flying an 8 day mission as part of the Juno project financed by the Moscow National Bank, and will return with the TM-11 crew. The Salyut-7/Kosmos-1686 space station complex reentered over Argentina on Feb 7. The Kosmos-2123 navigation satellite also carries the RS-12 and RS-13 amateur radio transponder packages. Kosmos-2124 was launched Feb 7 by Soyuz from Plesetsk; it is an imaging recon satellite and is expected to remain in orbit until early April. Eight small 'lightsats' carrying military communications transponders were launched from Feb 12 from Plesetsk on a single Kosmos R-14 launch vehicle; they were assigned the names Kosmos-2125 through Kosmos-2132. A Proton vehicle launched Kosmos-2133, a Soviet geostationary communications satellite on Feb 14. A Soyuz launch vehicle orbited Kosmos-2134, an advanced imaging recon satellite from Baykonur on Feb 15. Another navigation satellite, Kosmos-2135, went into orbit on Feb 26. This is the fourth Kosmos R-14 launch vehicle to be used in a month; R-14 launches often occur in groups like this. The 80th Molniya-1 satellite was launched into elliptical 12-hour orbit on Feb 15; it is used for Soviet government communications. ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 1 | |OV-103 Discovery LC39A | |OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 2 | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML1/STS-37/ET VAB Bay 1 | |ML2/STS-39/ET/OV-103 LC39A | |ML3/STS-40 VAB Bay 3 | ----------------------------------- (c) 1991 Jonathan McDowell. 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