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Ian Woollard wrote:

> bill t wrote:
>
> > You can add about a meter of water more and get rid of the film
> > altogether.
> > A cute side effect is that you will get higher humidity.
>
> I've a feeling that keeping the humidity low is better
> by and large. It reduces the growth of molds and fungus
> for one thing. (Think: Mir.)
>

Hello Ian,

Having high or low humidity is really only of interest from a comfort
standpoint and you will not have the same type of problems encountered
in Mir, at lest not near a habitat window. Mir has a micro-G
environment and as such allowed droplets to float in air currents to
hard to reach places. In a habitat, away from the axis you will have no
more trouble than you would in a normal environment, providing you have
no abnormal conditions, which is always possible.

>
> Perhaps it is simpler just to ditch the water and use this
> special technique called 'washing the windows'? Keeping the
> UV out is trivial with plastic covering.
>
> Incidentally how *do* you replace a window in a habitat?
>

You don't you just patch as needed or place the new one outside of the
old and when you have a seal you remove the old from inside or place a
temporary patch outside and replace, then remove the patch.

Darren Brown