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Another reason to revisit the Apollo 11 landing site - Raoul - 4/21/2009 3:45:39 PM
- They also knocked over the US Flag - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 4:07:53 PM
  - A reason to visit Mauna Kea!!! - lance - 4/21/2009 4:26:51 PM
    - re: A reason to visit Mauna Kea!!! - pex - 4/22/2009 3:47:20 PM
    - Uh, what's the connection between this and Apollo 11? - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 5:39:11 PM
      - re: Uh, what's the connection between this and Apollo 11? - lance - 4/21/2009 5:41:56 PM
        
        Post photos! - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 5:49:24 PM
        
        Bring a Sweater or Jacket or Two - carl - 4/21/2009 7:13:11 PM
        
        re: Bring a Sweater or Jacket or Two - lance - 4/22/2009 2:25:07 PM
        
        re: Bring a Sweater or Jacket or Two - pex - 4/22/2009 3:51:51 PM
        
        SOUTH POINT 2 - carl - 4/22/2009 7:36:08 PM

Why we shouldn't hide our problems from ET - Socrates II - 4/20/2009 8:10:58 PM
- More junk mail from this "Earth" place, Gorp. - ER - 4/20/2009 11:40:52 PM
  - re: More junk mail from this "Earth" place, Gorp. - phil - 4/21/2009 2:29:00 AM
    - Damn! Got a virus from it! - Robert - 4/22/2009 5:55:19 PM
    - re: More junk mail from this "Earth" place, Gorp. - LOL, Phil. - Marcia - 4/22/2009 12:30:33 AM
- Doesn't this kind of thinking require a huge amount of anthropomorphism? - TB - 4/20/2009 10:05:15 PM
  - If aliens wanted to wipe us out, they would have already done so - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 3:06:40 PM

Latest News on the Evidence for Aliens Front - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 6:29:15 PM
- All those discoveries make life more and more improbable! (n/t) - Raoul - 4/21/2009 6:37:00 PM
  - You cannot make a statement like that without some validation behind it - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 7:17:12 PM
    - Probabilities - Raoul - 4/21/2009 8:13:52 PM
      - It is still very early in the game - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 9:18:24 PM
  - re: No way! A SINGLE galaxy cotains hundreds of millions of stars. Hubble Deep Field - Vince - 4/21/2009 7:12:19 PM
    - What we see is an extraordinary variety of worlds !!! - Raoul - 4/21/2009 8:28:08 PM
      - There is plenty of evidence for liquid water under Europa's ice surface - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 9:05:41 PM
        
        We don't know yet what lies under the surface of Europa's icy crust - Raoul - 4/21/2009 9:36:37 PM
        
        This Web site goes into great deal about the Europan ocean - Socrates II - 4/22/2009 4:10:09 PM
        
        ESA NASA Jupiter missions - Raoul - 4/22/2009 5:01:55 PM
    - Try hundreds of BILLIONS of stars - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 7:20:59 PM
      - Oldest and most distant water in the Universe found - Socrates II - 4/22/2009 2:13:21 PM

Steve HAWKING Very Ill - carl - 4/20/2009 4:10:49 PM
- re: Steve HAWKING Very Ill - Marcia - 4/22/2009 12:42:37 AM
- re: HAWKING Very ill - Raoul - 4/20/2009 4:57:58 PM
  - His Birthdate ...Jan 8th, 1942 - carl - 4/20/2009 5:25:50 PM
    - He's getting better - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 3:50:14 PM
      - Good to hear - TB - 4/22/2009 5:10:54 AM
        
        I saw him "speak" in Boston in 2000 - Socrates II - 4/22/2009 2:01:48 PM
      - re: He's getting better - lance - 4/21/2009 4:30:21 PM

Two shuttles: - Marcia - 4/20/2009 1:44:13 AM
- re: Thanks! I agree, Hubble is worth the risk - it has opened our "eyes" to the universe. (n/t) - Vince - 4/20/2009 9:43:42 PM
- I love my broadband internet! =D - Lee - 4/20/2009 2:26:32 AM
  - re: I love my broadband internet! =D. - I'm sorry, Lee and everyone else for the long img download! - Marcia - 4/20/2009 2:43:11 AM
    - 2 seconds to download Great photo! (n/t) - phil - 4/20/2009 12:14:53 PM
    - Not slow at all. - Lee - 4/20/2009 4:17:45 AM
      - re: Not slow at all. - Thanks, guys! - Marcia - 4/21/2009 9:36:54 PM

After the HST deploy during STS 31, a picture was taken.... - Raoul - 4/21/2009 6:35:40 PM

New Lunar Design - E.P. - 4/20/2009 6:31:17 PM
- Will they call it "Eagle"? - REB - 4/20/2009 7:22:38 PM
  - re: Will they call it "Eagle"? - TB - 4/20/2009 10:08:29 PM
  - re: Will they call it "Eagle"? - REB - 4/20/2009 7:25:14 PM
    - I just hope they don't use it to store nuclear waste on the lunar farside - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 1:24:09 PM

About 90-95% of the people living in North America were killed by comet impact 13,000 years ago - E.P. - 4/17/2009 9:50:27 PM
- Toba volcano - Raoul - 4/18/2009 7:25:16 AM
  - Sometimes I think that it is too bad for the rest of Earth's creatures that Toba failed to wipe out Humanity. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/21/2009 2:06:07 AM
    - Why does humanity not deserve a chance to live? - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 1:20:16 PM
  - Probably not that fatal, but unpleasant none the less - E.P. - 4/18/2009 4:09:59 PM
- re: About 90-95% of the people living in North America were killed by comet impact 13,000 years ago - Dr. Lizardo - 4/18/2009 12:07:55 AM
  - re: About 90-95% of the people living in North America were killed by comet impact 13,000 years ago - E.P. - 4/18/2009 3:35:25 PM

How would we move Mars? - azstrummer - 4/12/2009 5:18:24 PM
- Terraforming & Electromagnetospheres - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/20/2009 12:05:41 AM
  - Who's to say that Mars, Venus, or even the Earth aren't already migrating into slightly different orbits? - Emperor Obama - 4/21/2009 7:09:32 AM
  - re: Terraforming & Electromagnetospheres - gbaikie - 4/20/2009 10:13:12 AM
    - The Solar Field (IMF) and the Planets - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/20/2009 2:15:40 PM
      - re: The Solar Field (IMF) and the Planets - gbaikie - 4/20/2009 9:58:22 PM
- Weird. - TB - 4/18/2009 9:12:03 PM
- There is a way....to move an entire planet - mip - 4/18/2009 3:04:42 AM
- Create a black hole just behind Mars which would slow its orbital velocity and act as a gravitational tether - Basement Tapes - 4/16/2009 3:45:19 AM
- Mars has no magnetosphere - E.P. - 4/15/2009 10:40:13 PM
  - nor does the Moon - Doug Ellison - 4/20/2009 6:57:51 PM
- How about Venus? - REB - 4/14/2009 12:51:10 PM
- re: How would we move Mars? - gbaikie - 4/13/2009 12:28:33 PM
  - As much water as there is on Mars, it is still extreemly dry. - Basement Tapes - 4/16/2009 3:41:16 AM
    - re: As much water as there is on Mars, it is still extreemly dry. - gbaikie - 4/16/2009 10:03:42 AM
  - re: How would we move Mars? - Marcia - 4/14/2009 7:21:05 PM
    - re: How would we move Mars? - gbaikie - 4/14/2009 10:26:47 PM
    - re: How would we move Mars? - IOW: - Marcia - 4/14/2009 7:23:11 PM
  - re: How would we move Mars? - gbaikie - 4/14/2009 3:18:58 AM
- Might not work because any atmosphere released by heat would soon be lost - David F Mayer - 4/13/2009 2:15:18 AM
  - What a load of crap - Adam - 4/17/2009 8:12:48 AM
    - Source, please. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/17/2009 1:49:17 PM
      - Freakin' common sense... - Adam - 4/18/2009 2:48:00 AM
        
        re: Freakin' common sense... - gbaikie - 4/18/2009 7:11:15 PM
        
        as the Sun's activity declined... - nick hoffman - 4/18/2009 1:21:22 PM
        
        thanks for the reminder - Adam - 4/18/2009 9:15:48 PM
  - Not necessarily - FrankC - 4/13/2009 7:50:45 AM
    - I don't see colonization of Mars as intractable. - David F Mayer - 4/13/2009 3:58:52 PM
      - Moving it closer though - azstrummer - 4/13/2009 9:05:39 PM
        
        Moving it closer would be VASTLY more expensive than any alternative. - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 2:57:58 AM
        
        Hey, if we're dreaming - azstrummer - 4/14/2009 3:09:49 PM
        
        It is NOT dreaming to propose a human colony on Mars. - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 4:45:31 PM
        
        re: It is NOT dreaming to propose a human colony on Mars. - gbaikie - 4/15/2009 12:40:27 AM
- Might not be necessary - TB - 4/12/2009 10:07:22 PM
- Why bother? - Adam - 4/12/2009 10:04:10 PM
- re: What about Earth, then? - Raoul - 4/12/2009 6:53:23 PM
  - Oh I've thought about that - azstrummer - 4/12/2009 7:07:13 PM
    - Why not move Earth instead? - Socrates II - 4/13/2009 3:27:13 AM
      - I suppose that we get Tinkerbelle to cover it with pixie dust and just fly it where we want it? - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 2:59:57 AM
        
        Actually moving a planet is quite feasible - mip - 4/18/2009 3:17:39 AM
        
        Don't yell at me about it - Socrates II - 4/14/2009 4:05:45 AM
        
        I like Science Fiction as well as the next guy, but let's stay with reality. - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 5:01:35 AM
        
        But if you take the Sol system apart... - Socrates II - 4/15/2009 1:55:39 PM
        
        I don't look that far ahead. I am interested what is possible with FORESEEABLE extensions of known principles. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/17/2009 5:36:57 AM
        
        Well, anybody can do that (n/t) - Socrates II - 4/17/2009 2:37:51 PM

Lyrid Meteors On The Way - phil - 4/20/2009 10:47:08 PM

Attack of Star Wars - delbert - 4/20/2009 4:40:45 PM

The sky next april 26 - Raoul - 4/19/2009 7:52:45 PM
- what happened to the picture Raoul? (n/t) - delbert - 4/19/2009 11:24:55 PM
  - It's a Starry Night representation - Raoul - 4/20/2009 5:28:59 AM

PG and E power company looking at space solar power - TB - 4/15/2009 11:12:11 PM
- Bogus, financial scam aimed at milking $; Pegs my skeptic meter. (n/t) - phil - 4/19/2009 6:23:26 PM
- How ridiculous. At current costs for lugging stuff to orbit, they could spend a trillion dollars - David F Mayer - 4/19/2009 3:11:10 PM
- re: PG and E power company looking at space solar power - Mr Fibuli - 4/19/2009 5:43:27 AM
- They won't exist 6 months from now - mip - 4/18/2009 3:01:00 AM
- Likewise. Will be a great thing... if it happens. (n/t) - Adam - 4/18/2009 2:49:16 AM

SpaceShipOne - Raoul - 4/19/2009 5:37:47 PM

The Altair Lunar Module - Raoul - 4/19/2009 9:15:31 AM
- And this is what Nasa has spent billions on? - Lee - 4/19/2009 2:47:09 PM

When will Ares 1/ Ares 5 be shut down and we get on with Direct - E.P. - 4/17/2009 9:47:06 PM
- The options - E.P. - 4/18/2009 4:26:58 PM

ISS Toolbag! - TB - 4/17/2009 4:50:08 PM
- Raoul... - TB - 4/17/2009 4:58:00 PM
  - Really kind of small! ! (n/t) - Raoul - 4/17/2009 5:09:28 PM

Water + salts + iron + sulfur = microbes partying on! - phil - 4/17/2009 4:17:32 PM

STS 125 and Hubble. - Marcia - 4/17/2009 5:45:18 AM
- STS 400 - carl - 4/17/2009 1:57:05 PM

Russian scientists test perpetual motion machine in space - JimO - 4/14/2009 4:59:56 PM
- It does not sound like a perpetual motion machine. - alcaray - 4/15/2009 6:11:37 AM
  - re: It does not sound like a perpetual motion machine. - TB - 4/15/2009 3:51:23 PM
- Sounds like an inertialess drive. - ER - 4/14/2009 8:23:19 PM
  - In a relativistic setting, they are one and the same. - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 10:15:36 PM
    - I'm not familiar with Minkowski space, - ER - 4/15/2009 12:16:37 AM
      - Yeah man. Physics isnt rhetoric. (n/t) - et - 4/17/2009 6:02:21 AM
      - No direct connection with classical, non-relativistic mechanics. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/17/2009 5:38:30 AM
        
        Gas Degeneracyand Pauli Exclusion are not "Classical". - ER - 4/17/2009 11:44:46 AM
        
        I meant "non-relativistic". Sorry. - David F Mayer - 4/17/2009 1:16:49 PM
- This is an April Fool joke, I take it. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 5:18:24 PM

Sorry, I love NASA, I love 'Suni', but, honestly.... - Marcia - 4/11/2009 5:32:48 AM
- Yeah, the whole thing got a little strange... - McFly - 4/11/2009 6:32:00 AM
  - Like Colbert or not - Socrates II - 4/11/2009 1:26:10 PM
    - Even if he doesn't "win" the name... - nick hoffman - 4/13/2009 1:36:07 PM
    - re: Like Colbert or not. - Hmm, ok, I guess that's why. Thanks! - Marcia - 4/12/2009 9:37:07 PM
      - They're naming a treadmill after Colbert - Socrates II - 4/15/2009 2:02:25 PM
        
        re: They're naming a treadmill after Colbert.- Yeo,,, fwiw.. - Marcia - 4/17/2009 6:47:54 AM

Shadows on Saturn's rings ! - Raoul - 4/15/2009 5:24:24 AM
- re: From Emily Lakdawalla (Cooool !!! ) - Raoul - 4/15/2009 8:17:07 PM
  - Mission to fly into the rings - soccer balls - Socrates II - 4/16/2009 3:09:11 PM
    - re: Shadows - Raoul - 4/16/2009 4:54:11 PM
      - re: Rocks - Nick Hoffman - 4/17/2009 1:00:36 AM
        
        re: Rocks - Raoul - 4/17/2009 5:26:15 AM

ISS construction animation - TB - 4/15/2009 11:18:56 PM
- re: ISS construction animation - Marcia - 4/16/2009 11:11:50 PM
  - re: ISS construction animation - Link. - Marcia - 4/16/2009 11:14:09 PM
    - re: ISS construction animation - Link.- Sorry, I was thinking of The Wrold Trade Center! - Marcia - 4/17/2009 3:22:30 AM
      - re: ISS construction animation - Link.- Sorry, I was thinking of The Wrold Trade Center! - Marcia - 4/17/2009 3:26:35 AM

Kepler Online...Photo - phil - 4/16/2009 11:37:16 PM
- re: Kepler Online...Photo - Marcia - 4/17/2009 12:08:32 AM

100 hours of astronomy - Raoul - 4/15/2009 6:50:03 PM
- re: 100 hours of astronomy Certificate !!!! - Raoul - 4/16/2009 8:31:36 PM

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