[AR] Re: dumping LM Aquarius
- From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:08:57 -0700
Ooooo interesting! Hummm
Monroe
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> Subject: [AR] Re: dumping LM Aquarius
> From: Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, October 05, 2013 9:54 am
> To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> On Sat, 5 Oct 2013, Monroe L. King Jr. wrote:
> > Thermal imaging should be able to locate it.
>
> Thermal imaging doesn't work underwater, alas. Water is opaque to thermal
> infrared.
>
> There'll presumably be a plume of warm water rising from it, but not a big
> one, and rising through a couple of miles of ocean will diffuse it pretty
> broadly. (And any capability that there is for detecting such things is
> likely to be highly secret, because of the potential applications to
> remote sensing of nuclear subs, which put out *much* more heat.)
>
> Henry Spencer
> henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> (regexpguy@xxxxxxxxx)
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