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   From: BushIsATraitor@hotmail.com   
      
   > "VistaKing"  wrote in message   
   > >>     And you believe that the above is the HIGHLY SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT"   
   > >> that   
   > >> NASA uses?   
   > >   
   > >  Yup, essentially that's it.   
      
      
   "krp"  wrote   
   >     WHO BOY!  I know when I am outclassed!  Is the thermometer an oral or   
   an   
   > anal model?   
      
     Depending on the satellite, different kinds of thermometers are used.   
   Some are themocouples, some resistive temperature sensors, some Emissitivity   
   type, some are based on rectifying and amplifying thermal noise - thermal   
   transistors.   
      
   Educate yourself ShitStain....   
      
   http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd06oct97_1.htm   
      
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