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goes o is go - dwc - 6/27/2009 11:09:12 PM
- Anyone else notice a hydrogen rich fire as main engine ignited? - Tom Charlton - 6/28/2009 8:48:25 AM
  - re: Anyone else notice a hydrogen rich fire as main engine ignited? - Doug Ellison - 6/28/2009 4:11:58 PM
    - Yes - Ainz - 6/29/2009 1:04:44 AM
  - re: Anyone else notice a hydrogen rich fire as main engine ignited? - dwc - 6/28/2009 3:51:27 PM

Kepler downloaded data should already contain 25-100 planets - sawyer - 6/26/2009 3:11:59 PM
- re: Kepler downloaded data should already contain 25-100 planets - phil - 6/27/2009 12:11:04 AM

Volcanic eruption seen from space - TB - 6/25/2009 12:08:35 AM
- re: three hi-res pics - Jack Herer - 6/26/2009 1:50:48 PM
- Today's APOD pick - Socrates II - 6/25/2009 2:28:45 PM

Now, Robots That Eat Flesh...what possibly could go wrong? - phil - 6/26/2009 1:01:34 AM

Buzz Aldrin Criticizes NASA's Manned Spaceflight Plans - phil - 6/25/2009 12:59:47 PM
- Aldrin's ego - Raoul - 6/25/2009 5:19:20 PM
  - Hey, Raoul; we all got clay feet. - Jefferson-Washington - 6/25/2009 9:50:55 PM
  - Yup. He cleverly lobbied his way out of any chance. - Bowser - 6/25/2009 7:32:52 PM
    - Shrinking wallflowers don't go to the Moon at all - Socrates II - 6/25/2009 8:12:36 PM
      - The first guy there came closer than Aldrin, don't you think? (n/t) - Bowser - 6/26/2009 12:14:06 AM
      - On the other hand, some of them have had a long streak of humility. (n/t) - alcaray - 6/25/2009 8:34:21 PM
  - Another reason - Socrates II - 6/25/2009 5:44:48 PM
- Forget walking on the Moon - Socrates II - 6/25/2009 2:09:59 PM
  - re: Forget walking on the Moon - phil - 6/25/2009 4:10:48 PM

Sea Launch - Raoul - 6/25/2009 9:01:58 PM
- They'll come back. - Jefferson-Washington - 6/25/2009 9:53:34 PM

"Feds lend Tesla $465 million to build electric car." - Bowser - 6/25/2009 1:47:37 AM
- re: "Feds lend Tesla $465 million to build electric car." - phil - 6/25/2009 1:57:34 AM
  - re: "Feds lend Tesla $465 million to build electric car." - pwokenyaw - 6/25/2009 6:11:20 PM
    - re: "Feds lend Tesla $465 million to build electric car." - phil - 6/25/2009 8:21:28 PM
      - the effect will be make electric cars more affordable relative to gas cars, so a net benefit to electric (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 6/25/2009 9:00:54 PM
  - There were plans for solar-powered automobiles in 1958 - Socrates II - 6/25/2009 2:13:46 PM

Remote submersible makes it to Challenger Deep - TB - 6/22/2009 10:40:20 PM
- If Europa's global liquid water ocean is 60 miles deep... - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 2:20:42 AM
  - re: If Europa's global liquid water ocean is 60 miles deep... - TB - 6/23/2009 4:59:10 AM
    - Check out Richard Greenberg's book Unmasking Europa - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 1:58:00 PM
      - It's not worth it for the weekend. - ER - 6/23/2009 7:51:26 PM
      - Any geologically-active place with thick ice will also have thin ice. - TB - 6/23/2009 2:42:32 PM
        
        I don't think Europa has active geysers, but... - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 2:54:15 PM
        
        re: I don't think Europa has active geysers, but... - TB - 6/23/2009 4:58:52 PM
      - Shocked - phil - 6/23/2009 2:10:32 PM
        
        oh... sarcasm... - Adam - 6/24/2009 9:31:24 AM
        
        typical reaction - pwokenyaw - 6/23/2009 5:53:10 PM
        
        re: typical reaction - ER - 6/23/2009 7:16:13 PM
        
        Just because it is human nature to have the big dogs run the playground... - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 7:10:45 PM
        
        Reasoning paradigms - Bowser - 6/23/2009 5:21:06 PM
        
        re: Reasoning paradigms - ER - 6/23/2009 7:13:21 PM
        
        predictive hypotheses and betting - pwokenyaw - 6/25/2009 12:23:39 AM
        
        Some very relevant quotes by Richard P. Feynman - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 8:21:03 PM
        
        Shocked - ER - 6/23/2009 5:00:54 PM
        
        "thin ice" - TB - 6/23/2009 6:11:17 PM
        
        If the testimony is contradictory, and the evidence incomplete - ER - 6/23/2009 7:27:13 PM
        
        re: If the testimony is contradictory, and the evidence incomplete - TB - 6/24/2009 2:33:40 AM
        
        Samurai, politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats and businessmen. - ER - 6/24/2009 1:12:25 PM
        
        re: Samurai, politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats and businessmen. - TB - 6/24/2009 3:31:10 PM
        
        Mostly businessmen - ER - 6/24/2009 4:14:01 PM
        
        re: Mostly businessmen - TB - 6/24/2009 10:10:59 PM
        
        Mostly businessmen - ER - 6/25/2009 12:29:12 AM
        
        re: Mostly businessmen - gbaikie - 6/24/2009 11:10:53 PM
        
        Using a manned Europan submersile as an astronaut test - Socrates II - 6/25/2009 7:13:07 PM

Augmented Reality Navigation - mip - 6/21/2009 4:22:19 AM
- re: Augmented Reality Navigation - dc - 6/21/2009 4:01:35 PM
  - No, not quite - mip - 6/24/2009 10:56:59 PM

The evidence for and against astronomical impacts on climate change and mass extinctions: A review - Socrates II - 6/24/2009 7:44:16 PM

Sonic Black Holes - Socrates II - 6/13/2009 5:25:20 AM
- Burning walls may stop black hole formation - Socrates II - 6/15/2009 3:06:01 PM
  - A MC simulation of showers induced by microscopic black holes - Socrates II - 6/16/2009 2:31:24 PM
    - Are Black Holes Elementary Particles? - Socrates II - 6/24/2009 7:37:55 PM

Divine Skies: The Artistry of Astronomical Maps - Socrates II - 6/24/2009 3:53:37 PM
- I respectfully disagree... - ER - 6/24/2009 6:35:01 PM
  - Actually I was mainly referring to the non-map celestial artworks - Socrates II - 6/24/2009 6:54:56 PM
    - In pre-telescope days, - ER - 6/24/2009 7:15:49 PM
- Art and science - Raoul - 6/24/2009 5:43:16 PM
  - How can you really "blame" culture for that? - Socrates II - 6/24/2009 6:27:38 PM

LRO has good LOI - Nick_H - 6/23/2009 9:39:07 PM

Yo! Listen up! LHC Explained - phil - 6/23/2009 12:35:42 AM
- re: Yo! Listen up! LHC Explained - Marcia - 6/23/2009 1:41:02 AM
  - re: Yo! Listen up! LHC Explained - Marcia - 6/23/2009 1:45:47 AM
    - CERN and Antimatter and Angels and Demons - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 6:54:00 PM

Cassini: the SHADOWS on the RINGS !!!!! - Raoul - 6/12/2009 6:11:10 PM
- And that big dot among them is the moon Daphnis - Socrates II - 6/12/2009 6:13:44 PM
  - The Kirkwood Derby, Part II. - ER - 6/13/2009 12:53:27 AM
  - And on that dot is a large black speck. - Bowser - 6/12/2009 7:02:30 PM
    - Saturn satellites as seen by Cassini Mission - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 5:30:09 PM

Halo thermal IR sources - ER - 6/9/2009 1:52:23 AM
- Thanks for the links, gentlemen. (n/t) - ER - 6/9/2009 3:53:26 PM
- Dyson Sphere search program - Sawyer - 6/9/2009 11:59:09 AM
  - Paper on the IRAS data search for Dyson Shells - Socrates II - 6/9/2009 2:42:30 PM
    - Another potential Dyson Shell searcher - WISE - Socrates II - 6/11/2009 11:34:41 AM
      - Solar System Analogs Around IRAS-Discovered Debris Disks - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 4:28:46 PM
        
        The very early Sol system would have been very bright in the infrared - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 5:03:48 PM
- re: Halo thermal IR sources - gbaikie - 6/9/2009 7:29:10 AM
  - Non Sequitur. - ER - 6/9/2009 10:37:33 AM
    - Dyson Spheres - TB - 6/9/2009 1:29:15 PM
      - I'm inclined to agree with you. - ER - 6/9/2009 3:48:39 PM
        
        Bigger... is it Better? - Socrates II - 6/9/2009 4:19:18 PM
      - That was the original Dyson plan in 1959 - Socrates II - 6/9/2009 2:31:26 PM
    - re: Non Sequitur. - gbaikie - 6/9/2009 12:35:35 PM
      - re: Why would an alien civilization capable of making Dyson sphere have an enormous amount waste heat? - nick hoffman - 6/9/2009 2:02:32 PM
        
        re: Why would an alien civilization capable of making Dyson sphere have an enormous amount waste heat? - gbaikie - 6/9/2009 11:54:04 PM
        
        A problem or two... - Adam - 6/10/2009 10:23:16 AM
        
        re: A problem or two... - gbaikie - 6/11/2009 11:03:35 PM

An International Heavy Lifter? - Ainz - 6/18/2009 6:49:18 AM
- re: An International Heavy Lifter? - Ainz - 6/23/2009 10:29:45 AM
- re: An International Heavy Lifter? - John F - 6/22/2009 7:27:02 PM
- Competition to weed out stuff is better - Sawyer - 6/18/2009 3:58:09 PM

Article on giant telescopes in the July, 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 8:13:49 PM
- Like baseball, no one person alone invented the telescope - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 2:49:53 AM

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!, Betelgeuse!! - ER - 6/17/2009 7:36:58 PM
- Well, when it does happen, it will be 650 years after the fact. (n/t) - RobVG - 6/18/2009 4:52:08 AM
  - I thought it was closer to 520 light years - Socrates II - 6/18/2009 1:31:28 PM
- I'd hate to say goodbye to the Hunter though. - Lee - 6/17/2009 11:08:51 PM
  - If you lived tens of thousands of years ago... - Socrates II - 6/18/2009 1:36:44 PM
    - Speaking of constellations... - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 1:36:21 PM
- People are blasÃ© - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/17/2009 10:03:40 PM
  - non-partisan request. - ER - 6/18/2009 12:19:30 PM
- re: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!, Betelgeuse!! - phil - 6/17/2009 7:46:24 PM
  - Hope that Betelgeuse does not become a magnetar - Socrates II - 6/18/2009 1:51:03 PM
    - re: Hope that Betelgeuse does not become a magnetar - Marcia - 6/23/2009 2:22:19 AM

LRO is go and still going towards luna (5:32pm ET). - Marcia - 6/18/2009 9:45:57 PM
- a mission definitely answering questions - phil - 6/19/2009 4:23:19 PM
- I'm excited about this mission - Buck Galaxy - 6/19/2009 4:02:49 AM
  - re: I'm excited about this mission - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 4:24:07 AM
    - Meanwhile, the very last HDTV images from Kaguya - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 11:50:14 AM
      - NASA uses Goldstone to make best map of lunar south pole yet - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 12:12:52 PM
        
        re: NASA uses Goldstone to make best map of lunar south pole yet - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 3:31:22 PM
        
        Lunar south pole image from Lunar Orbiter 4 in 1967 - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 5:06:40 PM
        
        APOD image of LRO launch, plus useful links - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 1:21:16 PM
        
        The view from the rocket during launch - Socrates II - 6/23/2009 2:14:55 AM

Another step for the human weightlessness experience - Raoul - 6/22/2009 8:47:28 PM
- re: Another step for the human weightlessness experience - Marcia - 6/22/2009 10:29:00 PM

TESS Fails NASA Mission Selection - phil - 6/22/2009 6:39:46 PM
- re: TESS Fails NASA Mission Selection - alcaray - 6/22/2009 9:10:04 PM

First ALSEP and now the laser Moon mirror project - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 3:41:11 PM
- Not possible, because... - Raoul - 6/22/2009 4:43:18 PM
  - re: Not possible, because... - John Frazer - 6/22/2009 7:08:49 PM
    - There are at least two soviet rovers (among them the Lunokhod) with a laser reflector as well! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/22/2009 8:44:53 PM

Re-Engineering Earth - Socrates II - 6/17/2009 6:16:56 PM
- re: Re-Engineering Earth - John F - 6/22/2009 7:54:20 PM
- Man hasn't had much luck with things like that. - Bowser - 6/18/2009 6:20:28 PM
  - re: Man hasn't had much luck with things like that. - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 1:58:22 AM
    - re: Man hasn't had much luck with things like that. - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 6:44:25 AM
- re: Re-Engineering Earth - gbaikie - 6/18/2009 4:55:48 PM
- This bothers me too. - ER - 6/17/2009 7:25:56 PM

Pilot dies on Brussels to Newark Flight - carl - 6/18/2009 8:37:16 PM
- That is EXACTLY there are TWO pilots. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 6/22/2009 7:50:03 PM

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