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Oldest water fountain found - gbaikie - 12/18/2008 11:13:30 AM

The International Year of Astronomy 2009 ! - Raoul - 12/17/2008 11:13:58 PM

Bussard's fusion not ruled out. - Bowser - 12/17/2008 8:18:03 AM
- re: Bussard's fusion not ruled out. - phil - 12/17/2008 3:48:20 PM

Blog: Another Cosmic Threat? - Jacob - 12/12/2008 7:01:49 PM
- re: Blog: Another Cosmic Threat? - Vince - 12/13/2008 1:37:35 PM
  - At least we won't have to worry about the Gravity Wave Threat - Socrates II - 12/16/2008 2:16:01 PM
    - No Big Rip, either - wheh! - Socrates II - 12/17/2008 3:08:28 PM

Amazing new images and data on Enceladus (from the Cassini flyby in Oct) - Vince - 12/16/2008 4:39:48 AM
- Tectonics - dtb - 12/17/2008 1:55:07 AM

6 gees for 2 seconds - gbaikie - 12/14/2008 11:23:22 PM
- re: 6 gees for 2 seconds - gbaikie - 12/16/2008 12:31:45 AM
  - re: 6 gees for 2 seconds - gbaikie - 12/16/2008 2:39:25 AM
    - "Oops, stupid mistake" - Nick Hoffman - 12/16/2008 4:06:44 AM
      - Take it to Flame (n/t) - gbaikie - 12/16/2008 4:50:58 AM

Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, New Zealand - Eric - 12/15/2008 11:29:12 AM
- re: Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, New Zealand - ER - 12/16/2008 3:28:10 AM
- re: Video - Eric - 12/16/2008 1:33:18 AM
- Portents of Doom in the Heavens - Moderator Nick - 12/15/2008 9:29:34 PM
- Asking the logical, obvious question - Socrates II - 12/15/2008 6:39:24 PM
  - Some recent meteorite falls are associated with 'bad smells. - Jacob - 12/15/2008 10:21:07 PM

2011 ushers in banner years for planetary science - sawyer - 12/14/2008 4:54:59 PM
- re: 2011 ushers in banner years for planetary science - Jacob - 12/14/2008 10:03:17 PM
  - And for those who can only wait about two years from now - Socrates II - 12/15/2008 2:03:42 AM
    - I still say it contains at least a few nanograms of asteroid dust. - Jacob - 12/15/2008 10:25:59 PM

NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - phil - 12/11/2008 6:16:12 PM
- re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - E.P. - 12/15/2008 5:28:41 PM
- Garver wants to dump the Ares1 and use Delta IV and Atlas V - Buck Galaxy - 12/14/2008 12:00:52 AM
  - Direct - E.P. - 12/15/2008 4:55:36 PM
    - [Give or take a few hours] - Moderator Nick - 12/15/2008 9:33:35 PM
  - Man-rating an existing rocket - Raoul - 12/14/2008 9:58:14 AM
    - re: Man-rating an existing rocket - gbaikie - 12/14/2008 8:54:16 PM
    - re: Man-rating an existing rocket - TB - 12/14/2008 3:37:42 PM
    - Interesting, Raoul. The devil is in the details. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/14/2008 2:10:06 PM
- Would someone with the political smarts to get that far be so dumb? (n/t) - Bowser - 12/12/2008 3:23:28 PM
  - Heh. - TB - 12/12/2008 8:52:19 PM
    - Huh? - Bowser - 12/12/2008 9:01:02 PM
- re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/12/2008 6:20:16 AM
- *His* rocket program? - McFly - 12/12/2008 3:33:54 AM
- re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 11:34:53 PM
  - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 11:52:03 PM
- What rocket for Orion ? - Raoul - 12/11/2008 9:17:26 PM
- re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 7:59:24 PM
  - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 8:04:38 PM
    - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 8:34:37 PM
    - I have a recommendation for his replacement - azstrummer - 12/11/2008 8:21:23 PM
      - What's wrong with Lori Garver? (n/t) - TB - 12/12/2008 5:15:28 PM
      - re: I have a recommendation for his replacement - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 8:50:58 PM
        
        Squyres - azstrummer - 12/11/2008 9:01:40 PM
        
        re: Squyres - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 9:23:41 PM
        
        re: Squyres - azstrummer - 12/11/2008 10:23:52 PM
        
        re: Squyres - Socrates II - 12/11/2008 9:21:03 PM
        
        re: Squyres. - Oh, but he's a good candidate... - Marcia - 12/14/2008 10:55:39 PM
- re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 7:01:56 PM
  - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team. - Direct human spaceflight... - Marcia - 12/14/2008 11:12:02 PM
  - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 7:29:35 PM
    - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - Marcia - 12/14/2008 11:33:39 PM
      - re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - gbaikie - 12/15/2008 2:32:31 AM
- re: NASA Admin Griffin Obstructing Obama Transition Team - vince - 12/11/2008 6:58:39 PM
  - Lurid Time Magazine Headline - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 7:15:10 PM
    - re: Lurid Time Magazine Headline, - That is interesting. - Marcia - 12/14/2008 11:41:45 PM

Archimedes and the 2,000 year old computer - Socrates II - 12/15/2008 2:50:10 AM

Carolyn Porco on Cassini - Raoul - 12/14/2008 9:36:22 PM
- re: Carolyn Porco on Cassini. - Marcia - 12/14/2008 11:51:33 PM

British moonLITE probe approved. - Jacob - 11/29/2008 8:57:18 PM
- Some good news...and a question. - Jacob - 12/14/2008 11:01:04 PM
- not yet formerly approved - that's a story saying it may be approved in December (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 11/30/2008 12:00:42 AM
  - South Korean lunar lander - Socrates II - 12/4/2008 1:08:41 PM
    - re: South Korean lunar lander - Jacob - 12/4/2008 6:34:04 PM

Moons of exoplanets - Raoul - 12/14/2008 4:23:41 PM
- Discoveries should be coming...soon. (n/t) - Jacob - 12/14/2008 10:01:00 PM

Spaceship Earth - Raoul - 12/14/2008 9:50:32 PM

VASIMR on the ISS - Raoul - 12/14/2008 7:11:02 PM
- re: VASIMR on the ISS - Marcia - 12/14/2008 9:33:42 PM
  - Franklin has flown 7 times with the Shuttle, yes! - Raoul - 12/14/2008 9:37:59 PM
    - re: Franklin has flown 7 times with the Shuttle, yes! - Ah, ok, then. - Marcia - 12/14/2008 9:46:57 PM

Full Moon !!!!! Canon EOS 450D with 300mm zoom 1/4000th of a second - Raoul - 12/12/2008 6:36:04 PM
- Oneupsmoonship - Pentax K10D with Doggy Cambron 500mm Mirror - S - 12/13/2008 7:55:40 PM
  - Image notes - S - 12/13/2008 8:28:58 PM
    - re: Image notes - Raoul - 12/14/2008 9:49:14 AM
      - Vibrations - S - 12/14/2008 7:26:35 PM
        
        re: Zooming but not too far - Raoul - 12/14/2008 8:32:06 PM
- re: Full Moon !!!!! Canon EOS 450D with 300mm zoom 1/4000th of a second - arnaud - 12/13/2008 10:44:06 AM

Endeavour up in the air.. - Raoul - 12/11/2008 9:35:43 PM
- It landed in Houston yesterday. - REB - 12/12/2008 2:44:04 PM
  - Pictures without links. - REB - 12/12/2008 2:45:46 PM
    - Back at the Cape - Raoul - 12/14/2008 5:48:47 PM
    - Is my mind just going, or... - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 3:01:23 PM
      - There was such a project with a smaller shuttle and a ssme at the rear of the plane (n/t) - Raoul - 12/12/2008 4:32:56 PM
      - That was in Moonraker. - REB - 12/12/2008 4:14:36 PM
        
        Also, "Superman Returns" - TB - 12/12/2008 7:21:06 PM

Peter Diamandis at huffingtonpost - gbaikie - 12/12/2008 9:25:16 PM
- it appears the fpspace server has been under continuous attack since this story broke (n/t) - E.P. - 12/13/2008 4:08:36 PM
- Time - gbaikie - 12/12/2008 10:45:22 PM
  - re: Time - gbaikie - 12/13/2008 5:57:15 AM

Ahh, Arabia Terra. - Marcia - 12/8/2008 9:13:03 PM
- Ahh, Arabia Terra. - Marsbug - 12/12/2008 12:47:04 PM
- re: Ahh, Arabia Terra. - Marcia - 12/8/2008 9:42:59 PM
  - re: Ahh, Arabia Terra. - Marcia - 12/11/2008 9:21:18 PM
    - Did ground water shape Mars? - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 3:29:47 PM
      - re: Welllll... - BRFelix - 12/13/2008 1:55:47 PM

Planets of Solar Type Stars - phil - 12/9/2008 9:46:34 PM
- re: Planets of Solar Type Stars - gbaikie - 12/10/2008 12:53:11 AM
- And they just detected carbon dioxide on an exoplanet - Socrates II - 12/9/2008 10:00:37 PM
  - And a Super-Earth and Neptune-mass planets in multiple systems found - Socrates II - 12/10/2008 5:27:03 AM
    - Only Super-Earth water worlds may have life? - Socrates II - 12/10/2008 12:33:36 PM
      - re: Only Super-Earth water worlds may have life? - gbaikie - 12/10/2008 8:29:25 PM
        
        re: electricity works underwater - Nick Hoffman - 12/11/2008 2:20:37 AM
        
        re: electricity works underwater - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 6:23:46 AM
        
        Fleet of Worlds - Adam - 12/11/2008 11:42:45 PM
        
        re: Fleet of Worlds - gbaikie - 12/12/2008 12:49:58 AM
        
        re: Fleet of Worlds - gbaikie - 12/12/2008 9:08:13 PM
        
        Would a water world be better at surviving impacts from planetoids and comets? - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 9:17:40 PM
        
        re: Would a water world be better at surviving impacts from planetoids and comets? - gbaikie - 12/13/2008 12:10:51 AM
        
        1950 DA - gbaikie - 12/13/2008 5:08:01 AM
        
        re: Fleet of Worlds - gbaikie - 12/12/2008 2:34:49 AM
        
        Metals, yes, fire though? - Adam - 12/12/2008 3:36:33 AM
        
        How about hydrothermal vents? - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 2:53:17 PM
        
        Oxidants from above - Adam - 12/13/2008 5:37:25 AM
        
        Not sure that's it - Adam - 12/10/2008 9:48:16 PM
        
        re: Not sure that's it - gbaikie - 12/11/2008 12:56:12 AM

The Grandaddy of all quantum wierdness - Jody - 12/11/2008 11:00:33 PM
- As you say. We keep coming back to this one... - Nick Hoffman - 12/12/2008 3:49:06 AM
  - Easy explanation - zed - 12/12/2008 6:44:11 AM

Goldilocks Zone..Discussed HERE? - carl - 12/9/2008 7:24:30 PM
- Well it hasn't on 7 planets out of 8... - Adam - 12/10/2008 10:38:41 AM
  - The Jovian moons might be a better bet - Socrates II - 12/10/2008 12:08:09 PM
    - I know that... - Adam - 12/10/2008 10:01:02 PM
      - It's not surprising. - ER - 12/11/2008 1:17:39 AM
        
        re: It's not surprising. - phil - 12/11/2008 3:25:52 PM
        
        Fifty years ago - Socrates II - 12/11/2008 4:03:22 PM
        
        3rd GRADE TEACHER Said there were CANALS - carl - 12/11/2008 5:19:36 PM
        
        There were, at least in theory, until 1969 - Socrates II - 12/11/2008 6:13:26 PM
        
        Old maps of the Red Planet - ER - 12/11/2008 9:36:16 PM
        
        Ahh, good 'ol MISS ENRIGHT - carl - 12/11/2008 8:14:03 PM
  - And we haven't taken a really close look at any of them. (n/t) - ER - 12/10/2008 11:34:01 AM
- I don't believe it. Life will find a way. (n/t) - ER - 12/9/2008 11:02:46 PM
  - Or are We TOO Slow to recognize the Signs? - carl - 12/10/2008 4:43:21 PM
    - It's all a process, and there has to be something left for future folks to learn. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/10/2008 6:12:01 PM

Unprecedented 16-Year Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole - JEKing - 12/11/2008 12:58:53 AM
- re: Unprecedented 16-Year Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole - Vince - 12/11/2008 4:16:31 AM

How to Live on Mars - phil - 12/10/2008 7:21:41 PM
- I See PBS Series - carl - 12/10/2008 7:36:30 PM

Griffin on Space Commerce - gbaikie - 12/9/2008 7:50:32 PM

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