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Researchers Use Sun Cycle to Predict Rainfall Fluctuations - gbaikie - 12/3/2008 12:48:49 PM

How the Milky Way Will Age & dim Over the Next 8 Trillion Years - phil - 12/2/2008 12:33:32 AM
- well spotted... - Adam - 12/2/2008 2:52:26 AM
  - It's too cloudy :-((( - Raoul - 12/2/2008 6:23:20 AM
    - Drat... - Adam - 12/2/2008 11:11:52 PM
      - Venus by the Moon (n/t) - Raoul - 12/3/2008 6:34:44 AM

Non-Periodic Comets are the Real Danger - zed - 11/29/2008 7:54:18 PM
- A few of those ships patrolling the Sol system might be a good idea for several reasons - Socrates II - 12/3/2008 4:11:02 AM

Identifying the Potential Biosphere of Mars - Adam - 12/2/2008 3:21:05 AM
- re: Identifying the Potential Biosphere of Mars - Eriita - 12/2/2008 5:22:18 AM
  - One technical point regarding rampart craters - nick hoffman - 12/2/2008 7:42:36 AM
    - re: One technical point regarding rampart craters - Eriita - 12/2/2008 11:08:32 PM
      - well, it started as "one", then I got carried away... - nick hoffman - 12/3/2008 2:50:42 AM
  - re: Identifying the Potential Biosphere of Mars - nick hoffman - 12/2/2008 7:08:29 AM

Fireball Update : Debris Field Found! - Post Sputnik - 11/28/2008 7:38:01 PM
- re: Fireball Update : Debris and Investigator Photos - Post Sputnik - 11/29/2008 8:14:03 AM
  - Yet Another Saskatchawan Meteorite Update - Post Sputnik - 12/3/2008 2:07:30 AM
- "value"? - nick hoffman - 11/28/2008 10:18:42 PM
  - re: "value"? - ER - 11/29/2008 12:33:28 PM
    - re: "value"? - gbaikie - 11/29/2008 2:03:30 PM
      - re: "value"? - ER - 11/29/2008 2:29:34 PM
        
        re: "value"? - gbaikie - 11/30/2008 1:11:19 AM
  - re: "value"? - gbaikie - 11/29/2008 3:49:22 AM
  - re: "value"? - Post Sputnik - 11/29/2008 2:53:09 AM

Earth has two Ls - gbaikie - 12/1/2008 8:51:10 AM
- re: Earth has two Ls - gbaikie - 12/1/2008 6:24:02 PM
  - Ooow, Christmas - gbaikie - 12/2/2008 6:38:33 AM
- What about the other Ls? - Socrates II - 12/1/2008 1:53:41 PM
  - It's Christmas - Noel! - Nick Hoffman - 12/1/2008 10:23:28 PM

Problems when satellites last too long - Delbert - 12/1/2008 7:40:05 PM
- How long is too long? - Nick Hoffman - 12/1/2008 10:32:10 PM
  - re: How long is too long? - gbaikie - 12/2/2008 2:19:31 AM
- Disrupting the need for more satellites - Raoul - 12/1/2008 8:55:33 PM
  - re: Disrupting the need for more satellites - gbaikie - 12/2/2008 2:26:28 AM
- re: Problems when satellites last too long... sounds like The Vikings and Voyagers... they last, we give them up. (n/t) - Marcia - 12/1/2008 7:56:48 PM
  - That is not true regarding the Vikings and Voyagers - Socrates II - 12/1/2008 8:30:38 PM
    - re: That is not true regarding the Vikings and Voyagers - Marcia - 12/1/2008 8:35:53 PM
      - Uh... - Socrates II - 12/1/2008 9:15:39 PM
        
        re: Uh... it doesn't take much thinking, just dollars in those days. - Marcia - 12/1/2008 9:21:48 PM

New Administration Asks Cogent Questions About ARES - phil - 12/1/2008 5:28:55 PM
- Is the Alternative any better? - Adam - 12/1/2008 11:10:48 PM
  - Agreed as to the putative advantage (n/t) - phil - 12/2/2008 12:21:43 AM

I think it's worth re-posting - gbaikie - 11/30/2008 6:41:22 PM
- Go SpaceX! Go Elon Musk! - Adam - 12/1/2008 11:06:31 PM

Phobos-Grunt may be the 'first' spacecraft to return martian surface samples. - Jacob - 12/1/2008 6:10:54 PM
- And P-G will deliberately take some microbes on the trip to Mars and back - Socrates II - 12/1/2008 7:07:04 PM
  - That Planetary Society hardware has just undergone some tests... (n/t) - Jacob - 12/1/2008 7:15:24 PM

Edwards landing - delbert - 11/30/2008 5:14:24 PM
- re: De-orbit burn right now!! (n/t) - Raoul - 11/30/2008 8:23:06 PM

From Venus, the Earth and Moon will look like this on december 1st at 16 UT - Raoul - 11/27/2008 5:06:33 PM
- re: From Home, same event (not likely to be seen this way) - Raoul - 11/30/2008 1:27:24 PM
- Moon impacts Straits of Gibralter! Earth destroyed! - Robert - 11/27/2008 6:21:06 PM
  - re: Meal - Brian Gyles - 11/28/2008 2:47:30 PM
  - Just think of the surf as the tides rise to 10 Km... (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 11/27/2008 11:00:25 PM
  - That's for Venusians, Robert! - Raoul - 11/27/2008 6:38:21 PM

Our place in the cosmos and the suvival of humanity - Laurie Street - 11/28/2008 5:07:09 PM
- I think NASA should get busy on genomics bigtime - zed - 11/28/2008 11:44:50 PM
  - artificial life forms - JEKing - 11/29/2008 5:33:29 AM
    - Nonsense - Post Sputnik - 11/29/2008 8:18:20 AM
- Further thoughts on atypical developments - JEKing - 11/28/2008 9:07:16 PM
  - re: Further thoughts on atypical developments - Mr Fibuli - 11/29/2008 4:15:13 AM
    - memes - JEKing - 11/29/2008 9:21:05 PM
      - re: memes - gbaikie - 11/30/2008 2:35:18 AM
  - It was all Galileo's fault. - ER - 11/28/2008 9:47:29 PM
    - re: It was all Galileo's fault. - Post Sputnik - 11/29/2008 1:06:57 AM
      - re: It was all Galileo's fault. - ER - 11/29/2008 4:38:02 AM
        
        re: It was all Galileo's fault. - Post Sputnik - 11/29/2008 6:09:15 AM
        
        So you believe technology drives science, not the other way round. - ER - 11/29/2008 11:23:25 AM
        
        point well made (n/t) - JEKing - 11/29/2008 9:41:04 PM
        
        Capitalism? - Lee - 11/29/2008 7:25:12 PM
        
        re: Capitalism? - ER - 11/29/2008 9:26:26 PM
  - Spin, spin, spin ... - Post Sputnik - 11/28/2008 9:18:08 PM
    - further ruminations - JEKing - 11/28/2008 11:34:30 PM
      - I *KNOW* that the Sun will rise tomorrow - nick hoffman - 11/29/2008 3:42:47 AM
      - re: further ruminations - Post Sputnik - 11/29/2008 12:51:42 AM

Space Biotechnology - zed - 11/29/2008 6:56:37 PM
- re: Space Biotechnology - Marsbug - 11/29/2008 10:02:50 PM
  - re: Space Biotechnology - zed - 11/29/2008 11:40:45 PM

"Network Security Breaches Plague NASA" - Bowser - 11/29/2008 4:56:37 AM
- A depressingly familiar story - McFly - 11/29/2008 5:32:40 PM
  - The length, depth and breadth and responses amazed me. - Bowser - 11/29/2008 11:22:09 PM

Endeavour separates from ISS - Raoul - 11/28/2008 3:36:45 PM
- re: From Poland, by Janusz Krysiak - Raoul - 11/29/2008 1:29:35 PM

The search for a strategy for mankind to survive the solar Red Giant catastrophe - Socrates II - 11/26/2008 4:57:29 AM
- 5 gigayears into the future - zed - 11/29/2008 5:04:48 AM
- Taube misses the obvious... - Adam - 11/27/2008 10:38:40 PM
- This seems a bit premature... - ER - 11/26/2008 4:14:01 PM
  - re: This seems a bit premature...- Not Really - Marsby - 11/27/2008 10:32:17 PM
  - As crazy as dinosaurs worrying about asteroid deflection... oh, wait - dtb - 11/26/2008 8:31:07 PM
    - re: As crazy as dinosaurs worrying about asteroid deflection... oh, wait - Marcia - 11/28/2008 12:59:15 AM
      - re: Sorry, earings = warnings - Marcia - 11/28/2008 1:01:13 AM
        
        re: Sorry, earings = warnings - Marcia - 11/28/2008 1:10:15 AM
    - They did come up with a practical lunar lander.... - ER - 11/26/2008 10:26:12 PM
      - You reckon that was a Launch-Pad accident? - Nick Hoffman - 11/26/2008 10:45:13 PM
    - I'm just tickled pink - Socrates II - 11/26/2008 9:30:55 PM
      - Far earlier - Raoul - 11/26/2008 10:09:43 PM
        
        Leaky Oceans or over-active Sun? - Adam - 11/27/2008 10:57:25 PM
        
        re: The Sun - Raoul - 11/28/2008 2:22:13 PM
        
        re: Far earlier - gbaikie - 11/27/2008 5:11:14 AM

Solar maps - gbaikie - 11/27/2008 1:45:18 PM
- [Solar POWER maps - not maps of the Sun] (n/t) - Moderator Nick - 11/28/2008 1:28:15 AM
  - re: Solar Irradiation maps - zed - 11/29/2008 4:52:03 AM
  - re: [Solar POWER maps - not maps of the Sun] - gbaikie - 11/28/2008 4:29:30 AM
    - re: [Solar POWER maps - not maps of the Sun] - gbaikie - 11/28/2008 6:35:01 AM
      - 13.4 years... - nick hoffman - 11/28/2008 10:26:22 PM
        
        re: 13.4 years... - gbaikie - 11/28/2008 11:52:15 PM

Thanksgiving meteor- Seattle - RobVG - 11/29/2008 4:09:50 AM

Is human spaceflight a national priority - gbaikie - 11/22/2008 11:14:03 PM
- re: Is human spaceflight a national priority - Marcia - 11/23/2008 8:08:41 PM
  - re: Is human spaceflight a national priority - gbaikie - 11/24/2008 12:56:31 AM
    - On topic of energy - gbaikie - 11/24/2008 1:16:06 AM
      - re: On topic of energy - gbaikie - 11/24/2008 4:15:12 AM
  - link? (n/t) - zed - 11/23/2008 9:30:16 PM
    - re: link? - Marcia - 11/23/2008 10:47:02 PM
      - Alan Stern on how NASA can reconnect with the public - Socrates II - 11/24/2008 4:31:31 PM
        
        re: Alan Stern on how NASA can reconnect with the public - Marcia - 11/29/2008 1:22:51 AM

Chart of Directly Imaged Exoplanets - phil - 11/22/2008 2:18:48 PM
- re: Chart of Directly Imaged Exoplanets - ER - 11/23/2008 4:02:41 AM
  - re: Chart of Directly Imaged Exoplanets - phil - 11/23/2008 2:08:38 PM
    - SuperJovians - ER - 11/24/2008 4:46:06 PM
      - Your excellent questions are unanswered - phil - 11/25/2008 7:03:52 PM
    - No Just So - Marsby - 11/24/2008 6:34:49 AM
      - re: No Just So - phil - 11/25/2008 7:29:35 PM
        
        Were Analytical Solutions Used For Galileo and Cassini? - Marsby - 11/28/2008 2:48:23 AM
        
        Come On Phil - You Know Better - Marsby - 11/28/2008 2:35:44 AM
    - On the origin of eccentricities among extrasolar planets - Socrates II - 11/24/2008 3:55:59 AM
      - Guess I should have read yours before responding - Marsby - 11/24/2008 6:37:46 AM
        
        Are exoplanets common around binary stars? - Socrates II - 11/25/2008 4:47:11 AM

Evidence of 4-billion-year-old subduction points to an early start for modern-Earth geology. - gbaikie - 11/27/2008 5:38:11 AM

distorted vews of the cost of space - dwc - 11/26/2008 9:29:57 PM
- re: distorted vews of the cost of space - gbaikie - 11/26/2008 10:29:58 PM
- I heard that same comment today, and I was baffled as well. - ER - 11/26/2008 10:23:16 PM

[Replies to "No to AGW thread"] moved to flame - Moderator Nick - 11/26/2008 9:13:52 PM

EU budget and the ESA - Raoul - 11/26/2008 7:15:26 PM

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