Subject: Re: [FFML] [question][bgc] hardsuit environmental protection?
From: David Lerman
Date: 7/24/1997, 12:45 AM
To: Joshua Stratton <cpt@gryphon.ccs.brandeis.edu>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <henriqmh@dca.fee.unicamp.br>
CC: fanfic ML <fanfic@fanfic.com>


  Considering the short time (less than 1 second?) of exposure to the cold,
I would think that heat capacity is more important than heat conduction and
I'm pretty sure that ceramics have a significantly greater heat capacity
than metals.  

                                                                         dml