Re: Radar, sonar and more

Now that's exactly what I'm looking for ... I can
almost *taste* that soupy atmosphere now.

Thanks for all the input guys.

--- Matthew Seidl <seidl@vex.cs.colorado.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:35:39 -0800 (PST), Cleats
> Balentine writes:
> >The information I'm getting is helping ...
> especially
> >when it comes to the sonar question.
> >
> >About the radar, I'm looking for some (potential)
> >natural occurring atmospheric disturbance that
> could
> >prevent the use of radar.
> >
> >For instance, our intrepid explorers have just
> entered
> >an unknown atmosphere and discover that, for some
> >reason, their radar doesn't function properly. Is
> >there even the remote possibility that could
> happen?
> 
> I'm guessing here, as my phyics and wave-mechanics
> classes were a LONG
> time ago, but there are definitly some things that
> would play heck
> with radar.
> 
> 1) Dust storms, or anything that gets solid
> particles up into the air.
> Especially ones that are very reflective to radar. 
> Too many bounces.
> 
> 2) I'd guess that some complex molecules, especially
> organic plastics,
> could absorb the radar.  So go for a soupy jungle
> atmosphere and say
> that there's so much of this stuff in the air it
> really degrades the
> signal.  Maybe the organic soup even LIKES the
> radar.  Yummm.
> Energy. :)
> 
> 3) Radar is mostly useless in things like forests,
> so go for world
> trees.  A la the Hyperion books.  A world covered
> with tree's a mile
> high.  Withen the forest, the trees would make radar
> mostly useless.
> 
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