From: snidelyd@netscape.com   
      
   Paul F. Dietz  wrote:   
      
   > {...] but in vacuum you'll be   
   > constantly generating high energy ions and electrons in the surrounding   
   > plasma, and possibly causing runaway discharge due to their collision   
   > with surfaces and secondary ion production.   
   >   
      
   How much plasma is there on the Moon?  I would have thought that the   
   density of earth's atmosphere falls off rapidly after LEO (isn't drag   
   negligible by MEO?).  Does the solar wind have enough density to produce   
   arcing?   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)