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John A. Eddy, the man who gave us the label Maunder Minimum - Socrates II - 6/18/2009 7:23:30 PM
- Frank J. Low, infrared astronomy pioneer - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 3:53:57 PM

A FLAMING object seen crashing .. - Eric - 6/20/2009 7:28:30 PM
- Gin Gin isn't in "central Queensland" - Adam - 6/22/2009 6:07:33 AM

Still searching for Venusian satellites - Socrates II - 6/20/2009 6:38:41 PM

Another scientific consensus bites the dust - gbaikie - 6/10/2009 9:56:41 PM
- 5×10^25 is hardly significant. It is only couple of kilogram or so, depending on the molecule. - David F Mayer - 6/11/2009 4:13:16 PM
  - Now, factor in "ice comets"... - TB - 6/13/2009 4:14:43 PM
    - Warning: High bogosity factor. (n/t) - Adam - 6/14/2009 11:50:46 AM
      - Why do you say that? (n/t) - David F Mayer - 6/19/2009 9:39:07 PM
        
        No evidence for them (n/t) - Adam - 6/20/2009 6:29:14 AM
  - re: If the loss rate stays the same. - Johannes - 6/12/2009 4:07:13 PM
- Failure to communicate - pwokenyaw - 6/10/2009 11:47:48 PM
  - re: Failure to communicate - gbaikie - 6/11/2009 12:25:53 AM

Dinosaurs not bird ancestors after all? - TB - 6/13/2009 2:17:08 AM
- New dinosaur gives bird wing clue - Adam - 6/17/2009 9:54:57 PM
- Ruben's full of crap - Adam - 6/14/2009 11:49:05 AM
- The link disappeared during the great flood - azstrummer - 6/13/2009 3:30:52 PM
  - Now THAT was climate change. - Bowser - 6/13/2009 6:32:49 PM
    - According to the story, everyone else was tainted. - Lee - 6/13/2009 8:03:57 PM
      - Hence the origin of the phrase, "taint me!". (n/t) - ER - 6/14/2009 12:23:33 PM
- Apparently, though, they did descend from something with femurs. - Bowser - 6/13/2009 3:57:22 AM
  - Hey, knowing is half the battle - mip - 6/13/2009 4:00:00 PM
- If true, it would mean that feathers evolved on two separate occasions. (n/t) - Lee - 6/13/2009 3:04:30 AM
  - Not unusual - TB - 6/13/2009 4:00:08 PM
    - Never EVER happens. Parallel evolution does not work that way. - David F Mayer - 6/16/2009 4:00:29 PM
      - I tend to agree - TB - 6/16/2009 4:32:23 PM
        
        Biological Relationships Are Based On Homology, Not Analogy. - David F Mayer - 6/19/2009 9:37:15 PM
        
        re: Biological Relationships Are Based On Homology, Not Analogy. - TB - 6/20/2009 4:30:41 AM
    - Is that why so many things taste like chicken? (n/t) - dtb - 6/13/2009 4:58:24 PM
      - The creationists are getting more and more devious - Socrates II - 6/16/2009 1:18:13 PM
        
        Then there is the "Navel Theory". - David F Mayer - 6/16/2009 4:03:58 PM
        
        I've actually had that argument used on me. - TB - 6/16/2009 4:37:59 PM
        
        Virtual History - Adam - 6/20/2009 6:28:01 AM

Which one of you came up with the idea the lightning occurs on Mars? - Jefferson-Washington - 6/18/2009 10:18:04 PM
- Not me - nick hoffman - 6/19/2009 5:57:18 AM
  - Seems self-evident that it's possible. - TB - 6/19/2009 4:54:29 PM
    - Also, inspite of thin martian air, thunder would still be loud. - Jefferson-Washington - 6/19/2009 9:19:44 PM
  - Me Neither........ - carl - 6/19/2009 2:51:02 PM
- re: Which one of you came up with the idea the lightning. occurs on Mars? - Marcia - 6/18/2009 10:27:13 PM
  - re: Which one of you came up with the idea that lightning occurs on Mars? - Jefferson-Washington - 6/18/2009 10:34:03 PM
    - URL to the news article - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 5:02:29 PM
      - Thanks. ;-) (n/t) - Jefferson-Washington - 6/19/2009 9:44:31 PM

Le Bourget 2009 - Raoul - 6/19/2009 6:54:23 PM

Hywind by StatoilHydro - gbaikie - 6/19/2009 4:29:18 PM

Shuttle Delayed Again to July - Hydrogen Leak - phil - 6/18/2009 1:50:07 PM
- re: Shuttle Delayed Again to July - Hydrogen Leak - Spacer - 6/19/2009 12:22:45 AM
  - 16 Inch Seals? - carl - 6/19/2009 1:53:00 PM
- MSNBC reports .....NASA Probes Possibilty of SABOTAGE - carl - 6/18/2009 9:04:04 PM
  - re: MSNBC reports .....NASA Probes Possibilty of SABOTAGE - Marcia - 6/18/2009 10:23:49 PM
    - Note:Updated MSNBC Article has Softer Slant - carl - 6/18/2009 10:33:52 PM

"First evidence of a shoreline on the red planet" - podrock - 6/19/2009 12:29:23 AM
- "as recently as 3.4 billion years ago" - nick hoffman - 6/19/2009 5:54:25 AM
  - re: "as recently as 3.4 billion years ago" - phil - 6/19/2009 1:15:18 PM
- re: "First evidence of a shoreline on the red planet" - Shalbatana Vallis area: - Marcia - 6/19/2009 4:47:41 AM

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!, Betelgeuse!! - Lee - 6/11/2009 2:22:09 AM
- BTW - The fellow in that first article image... - Socrates II - 6/11/2009 1:40:54 PM
- Betelgeuse shrinks and inflates regularly (n/t) - Raoul - 6/11/2009 5:24:53 AM
  - Astronomers already know that. This is different. A supernova in 14 months; any bets? - Jefferson-Washington - 6/11/2009 7:49:27 PM
    - Good bye GPS. - ER - 6/13/2009 1:36:03 PM
    - I'll predict Dec 21, 2012. (n/t) - Lee - 6/12/2009 3:07:56 PM
    - Just how far is Betelgeuse from Earth? - Socrates II - 6/11/2009 8:38:04 PM
      - 520 light-years is the apparent distance indicated by Hipparchus' astrometric results . - Jefferson-Washington - 6/11/2009 9:35:13 PM
        
        Actual Crab Nebula distance - Socrates II - 6/12/2009 1:31:41 PM
        
        Mentally reversed what you said, sorry - Socrates II - 6/12/2009 1:39:22 PM
        
        It just occurred to me. The LIGO facilities may soon have something to detect. - Jefferon-Washington - 6/12/2009 6:23:32 PM
        
        A scary thought - Socrates II - 6/12/2009 1:24:54 PM
  - Yes, it has been known to be variable for a long time. - ER - 6/11/2009 3:52:09 PM
  - It's those fad diets. (n/t) - TB - 6/11/2009 1:37:42 PM
- re: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!, Betelgeuse!! - ER - 6/11/2009 2:39:18 AM
  - I don't think it would happen with Betelgeuse. - Lee - 6/11/2009 3:19:52 AM
    - While this is not quite the same, of course... - Socrates II - 6/11/2009 1:09:43 PM
      - Supernova destruction zone relatively small - Socrates II - 6/12/2009 6:11:16 PM
        
        I'm not concerned with being trashed by a SN. - ER - 6/13/2009 2:18:28 AM
        
        We should be working on shielding our systems - TB - 6/13/2009 4:03:27 PM
        
        We can start small by protecting personal electronics. - Jefferson-Washington - 6/13/2009 8:14:13 PM
        
        Wanna buy an EMP-resistant computer enclosure? - nick hoffman - 6/15/2009 8:11:36 AM
        
        re: Wanna buy an EMP-resistant computer enclosure? - lanlananhanh123 - 6/19/2009 12:05:11 PM
        
        Now that we're speculating.... - ER - 6/14/2009 12:47:30 PM
        
        Requiem for Faraday - Ainz - 6/18/2009 10:21:16 AM
        
        It's been part of tactical military planning for decades, both for offense and defense. - ER - 6/13/2009 4:56:17 PM
        
        re: It's been part of tactical military planning for decades, both for offense and defense. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/18/2009 8:29:59 AM
        
        "none of it seems to be trickling down to civilians" - TB - 6/16/2009 4:23:31 PM
        
        Edges. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/18/2009 8:41:54 AM
        
        As Tom Clancy said in The Hunt for Red October - Socrates II - 6/16/2009 5:25:20 PM
        
        Recall from Dr. Strangelove - Socrates II - 6/15/2009 2:01:07 PM
        
        Does shrinkage equal doom? - Socrates II - 6/16/2009 1:47:30 PM
        
        re: Does shrinkage equal doom? - ER - 6/16/2009 6:31:38 PM
        
        Speaking of supernova... - Socrates II - 6/17/2009 2:01:25 PM

Microbe wakes up after 120,000 years - Bowser - 6/18/2009 6:50:30 AM
- That's nothing, the record is over 250 MILLION years! - nick hoffman - 6/18/2009 12:32:17 PM
  - I think these are complementary situations, both impressive. - Bowser - 6/18/2009 6:18:30 PM
    - re: I'd love to know how closely extraterrestrial DNA matches the earthbound stuff - nick hoffman - 6/19/2009 5:59:38 AM
  - Ignore my post below, I didn't read nicks article fully! (n/t) - Marsbug - 6/18/2009 3:48:14 PM
  - Haven't those claims been challenged? - Marsbug - 6/18/2009 3:37:33 PM

Space Colonies - gbaikie - 6/17/2009 3:14:03 AM
- This species of "homo" will never make it work. - Bowser - 6/17/2009 6:59:14 AM
  - re: This species of "homo" will never make it work. - gbaikie - 6/17/2009 9:48:06 AM
    - Hiding under the bed and other things - Socrates II - 6/17/2009 1:14:40 PM
      - To add - Socrates II - 6/17/2009 1:20:28 PM
        
        re: To add - gbaikie - 6/18/2009 12:02:40 AM
        
        astroterrorism - TB - 6/17/2009 3:54:27 PM
        
        It works both ways...space colonies will be quite vulnerable to attack. (n/t) - ER - 6/17/2009 5:01:48 PM
        
        And vulnerable to blockade and economic embargo, boycott, etc. - ER - 6/17/2009 5:03:39 PM
        
        Space Patrol - Adam - 6/17/2009 10:04:57 PM

JPL ATHLETE rover - sawyer - 6/16/2009 2:21:13 PM
- More on robot lunar recon - Sawyer - 6/16/2009 3:10:50 PM
- re: JPL ATHLETE rover - Doug Ellison - 6/16/2009 2:30:47 PM
  - When cost over runs hit Project Constellation, that robot craft will be cancelled. - Jefferson-Washington - 6/17/2009 6:11:15 PM

Another issue for future electrical grids - TB - 6/17/2009 5:58:28 PM

Kepler looking at Red Dwarfs - Buck Galaxy - 6/7/2009 3:03:45 AM
- The supernova hail. an active SETI technique. - ER - 6/7/2009 7:05:29 PM
- re: Kepler looking at Red Dwarfs URL problem fixed here - phil - 6/7/2009 3:48:53 PM
- The SETI implications - ER - 6/7/2009 11:48:42 AM
  - M Tidal Locking - phil - 6/7/2009 3:58:25 PM
    - two exceptions to tidal locking - pwokenyaw - 6/9/2009 5:29:30 PM
      - re: two exceptions to tidal locking - phil - 6/9/2009 7:58:33 PM
        
        New paper on tidal influences for habitable zones - pwokenyaw - 6/17/2009 5:47:45 PM
- What are alien "Keplers" seeing? - TB - 6/7/2009 4:32:31 AM
  - re: What are alien Telescope Arrays seeing? - mip - 6/7/2009 2:00:11 PM
    - Goal: deploy telescope array at 12% speed of light - mip - 6/7/2009 2:28:25 PM
      - LOL - mip - 6/7/2009 2:42:51 PM
  - Good point. - ER - 6/7/2009 11:38:03 AM
    - re: "depends a lot on our aliens, too." - TB - 6/7/2009 7:53:25 PM
      - Signal attenuation. - ER - 6/8/2009 12:57:34 AM
      - re: "depends a lot on our aliens, too." - ER - 6/8/2009 12:42:53 AM
        
        Star Trek Syndrome - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 1:03:06 PM
    - Line of sight - Socrates II - 6/7/2009 1:18:45 PM
      - re: Line of sight - RobVG - 6/7/2009 4:55:37 PM
        
        re: Line of sight - TB - 6/7/2009 7:49:04 PM
        
        Inverse Transit Method - mip - 6/7/2009 11:29:16 PM
        
        It works just the opposite... - ER - 6/7/2009 6:44:42 PM
        
        What Doppler effect? - RobVG - 6/8/2009 3:21:06 AM
        
        re: What Doppler effect? - ER - 6/8/2009 10:36:12 AM
        
        Who's on first? - ER - 6/8/2009 12:23:54 PM
        
        I don't know - RobVG - 6/9/2009 2:30:35 AM
        
        High dispersion spectroscopy - ER - 6/9/2009 3:11:37 AM
        
        Amazing - RobVG - 6/9/2009 3:37:24 AM
        
        Hubble did his work in the 20s and 30s with photography and the 100 inch telescope. - ER - 6/9/2009 10:43:02 AM
        
        Humans did send a "digital time capsule" to the Gliese 581 system in 2008 - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 1:23:13 PM
      - Dwarf denizens - ER - 6/7/2009 1:36:09 PM
        
        Just as we used to think most solar systems would look like ours... - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 1:29:34 PM
        
        Selection effect - ER - 6/8/2009 1:37:44 PM
        
        I know, but... - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 1:59:43 PM
        
        They had good reasons for being wrong...as always. - ER - 6/8/2009 3:54:33 PM

Le Bourget - Raoul - 6/16/2009 8:49:51 PM

Formic Acid found in the Tagish Lake Meteorite - Socrates II - 6/11/2009 7:39:25 PM
- Ants in space! (n/t) - alcaray - 6/11/2009 7:52:57 PM
  - Life may also need plate tectonics to happen (n/t) - s - 6/12/2009 1:40:41 PM
    - re: Life may also need plate tectonics to happen - Socrates II - 6/12/2009 2:22:58 PM
      - Life helps planets last longer; DNA analog may explain how life originated - Socrates II - 6/13/2009 3:49:51 AM
        
        Life will be a bit short of breath - Adam - 6/16/2009 10:14:24 AM
        
        Doing the Math on Life - Socrates II - 6/16/2009 1:40:48 AM
        
        Interstellar Drives via Black-Hole - Adam - 6/16/2009 10:46:48 AM

Reagan and the ISS - Bowser - 6/9/2009 4:51:26 PM
- re: Reagan and the ISS. Yes, he would be appauled... - Marcia - 6/10/2009 8:34:25 PM
  - trying to rewrite history again, Marcia? - E.P. - 6/10/2009 9:43:21 PM
    - re: trying to rewrite history again, Marcia? - Nope, sorry, I can't and neither can you. - Marcia - 6/10/2009 10:24:57 PM
      - Actually, Marcia, I get it right the first time - E.P. - 6/15/2009 9:12:57 PM
        
        Pot, Kettle, Black - nick hoffman - 6/16/2009 3:30:30 AM
  - re: Reagan and the ISS. BTW: Reagan would also have been VERY pleased because ISS is nearly completed. :) - Marcia - 6/10/2009 9:19:26 PM
- "SPACE TRUCK" with No Where to GO - carl - 6/9/2009 5:13:50 PM
  - Not no where to go, but no way to go. - Lee - 6/9/2009 9:22:56 PM
    - re: Not no where to go, but no way to go. - Marcia - 6/10/2009 8:59:07 PM
      - re: Not no where to go, but reason to go.... - Marcia - 6/10/2009 9:07:17 PM

Messages in the Snow - Socrates II - 6/15/2009 2:52:57 PM
- re: Messages in the Snow - Delbert - 6/15/2009 5:44:51 PM
- DX analog TV - ER - 6/15/2009 5:26:04 PM
  - Early 60's COLOR TV??? - carl - 6/15/2009 6:49:32 PM
    - You young whippersnapper! - ER - 6/15/2009 7:15:26 PM
      - Uphill both ways? (n/t) - nick hoffman - 6/16/2009 3:26:46 AM
- Tornado detector - TB - 6/15/2009 5:08:39 PM
  - Meteor detector - nick hoffman - 6/16/2009 3:25:41 AM
- BIG Bang and Skip - carl - 6/15/2009 4:40:01 PM

Space goals - gbaikie - 6/15/2009 11:53:04 PM

Boy Hit By Meteorite - Jack Herer - 6/12/2009 11:52:02 AM
- It wasn't doing 30, 000 mph by the time it penetrated the atmosphere - nick hoffman - 6/13/2009 10:27:18 AM
  - The Bad Astronomer's take on this story - Socrates II - 6/15/2009 5:47:58 PM

Planet Quest -- Any experts on interferometers? - mip - 6/12/2009 11:53:04 PM
- technology limitations on accuracy of measurements - Sawyer - 6/15/2009 3:14:06 PM
  - planet imaging - sawyer - 6/15/2009 3:23:08 PM
- re: Planet Quest -- Any experts on interferometers? - ER - 6/13/2009 12:45:19 AM
  - I recall hearing, a long time ago... - alcaray - 6/13/2009 9:04:33 PM
    - re: I recall hearing, a long time ago... - ER - 6/13/2009 11:23:19 PM
      - Interferometer Formula - mip - 6/14/2009 12:42:21 AM
        
        re: Interferometer Formula - ER - 6/14/2009 2:27:00 AM
  - re: Planet Quest -- Any experts on interferometers? - mip - 6/13/2009 1:03:19 AM
    - My guess... - ER - 6/13/2009 1:26:50 AM
      - it's curious that's for sure (n/t) - mip - 6/13/2009 1:33:49 AM

Has anybody Listened for the Phoenix Lander ....... - carl - 6/11/2009 4:53:13 PM
- not yet - still in deep winter - Doug Ellison - 6/11/2009 6:11:13 PM
  - Any orbital imaging being done? - azstrummer - 6/11/2009 9:13:12 PM
    - during the season long polar NIGHT? (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 6/12/2009 7:53:45 AM
      - The area has no sunlight at all? - azstrummer - 6/12/2009 8:23:22 PM
        
        None, for several months. - Doug Ellison - 6/13/2009 2:42:19 PM
        
        Great thanks - azstrummer - 6/13/2009 3:28:50 PM
        
        That's what we get for not equipping the orbiter with a flash. (n/t) - TB - 6/13/2009 4:01:17 PM
        
        Or Phoenix with nuclear power instead of solar panels - Socrates II - 6/15/2009 2:05:45 PM
        
        re: Or Phoenix with nuclear power instead of solar panels - Doug Ellison - 6/15/2009 2:32:54 PM

Incoming space rocks now to be military classified - Jeff F - 6/11/2009 1:28:33 AM
- Likely a reaction to N Korea's Missiles & Nukes - phil - 6/14/2009 9:21:33 PM
- I wonder how they will handle these potential impactors from space? - Socrates II - 6/11/2009 5:14:36 PM
  - re: I wonder how they will handle these potential impactors from space? - Jeff F - 6/13/2009 11:16:56 PM

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