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Water left in the apollo descent stage? - Marsbug - 11/18/2008 2:14:58 PM
- re: Water left in the apollo descent stage? - Well, I just have to respond to this one... - Marcia - 11/20/2008 12:43:23 AM
  - re: Water left in the apollo descent stage? - Well, I just have to respond to this one... - Marsbug - 11/20/2008 11:30:49 AM
    - In fact there are aqueous solutions in orbit around mars....... - Marsbug - 11/20/2008 12:04:08 PM
      - Hell pathfinder had a silver zinc battery with similar electrolyte..... - Marsbug - 11/20/2008 2:00:07 PM
        
        A Russian space mission will be carrying microbes to Mars and back - Socrates II - 11/20/2008 2:06:50 PM
- re: Water left in the apollo descent stage? - pwokenyaw - 11/18/2008 6:15:28 PM
  - Water left in the apollo descent stage? - Marsbug - 11/18/2008 9:29:17 PM
    - Surveyor Cam had Microbes on it - carl - 11/20/2008 9:25:24 PM

GREASE GUN EXPLODES, Astro Loses Tool BAG!!! - carl - 11/18/2008 11:32:31 PM
- Maintenance task - RobVG - 11/20/2008 3:58:10 AM
  - re: Maintenance task. - Thanks Rob. - Marcia - 11/20/2008 4:37:31 AM
- re: Luckily, Bowen had a spare bag with duplicate tools! - Marcia - 11/19/2008 9:46:20 PM
  - Tsk tsk, send a woman to do a man's job... (n/t) - RobVG - 11/20/2008 12:45:54 AM
    - re: Tsk tsk, send a woman to do a man's job... - Shame on you... they've sent MANY. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 11/20/2008 12:49:21 AM
      - Sorry Marcia, forgot the winky ;) (n/t) - RobVG - 11/20/2008 1:16:45 AM
        
        Do women have Winkeys these days? - nick hoffman - 11/20/2008 11:13:11 AM
        
        re: Sorry Marcia, forgot the winky ;) - Winky exemped, thought just the same on my part. (n/t) - Marcia - 11/20/2008 2:39:58 AM
        
        re: Sorry Marcia, forgot the winky ;) - IOW, don't make me go there. - Marcia - 11/20/2008 2:44:57 AM
        
        re: re:- again, winkey exempted. - no 'winkey' need apply in this case. (n/t) - Marcia - 11/20/2008 2:49:17 AM
        
        OK-OK!...UNCLE! (n/t) - RobVG - 11/20/2008 3:34:49 AM
- re: Gone - Raoul - 11/19/2008 9:41:14 PM
- Astro Loses Tool Bag - TB - 11/19/2008 6:33:20 PM
  - Far more complicated than we think!!! - Raoul - 11/20/2008 6:38:28 AM
    - Not really. - TB - 11/20/2008 7:28:26 AM
- Maybe someone will turn it in. (n/t) - ER - 11/19/2008 1:44:31 PM
  - Lost and FOUND - carl - 11/20/2008 9:10:50 PM
- Lost her Handbag? - nick hoffman - 11/19/2008 7:21:29 AM
- That comes out of her check. I hope NASA gives her a picture, anyway. - Bowser - 11/19/2008 7:04:29 AM
  - re: - I'm sure she feels bad enough. As far as 'upkeep' issues, this mission is not one of the easy ones. - Marcia - 11/19/2008 10:02:47 PM
    - Remember when... - Socrates II - 11/20/2008 2:00:53 PM
  - They also have one missing spider - Socrates II - 11/19/2008 6:11:08 PM
    - TOO Much LIS Movie Here - carl - 11/20/2008 9:12:13 PM

Lies, Opinions and a Few Facts about AGW - S - 11/17/2008 8:11:07 PM
- Btw, a must see - gbaikie - 11/19/2008 3:34:14 AM
- re: Lies, Opinions and a Few Facts about AGW - Brian Ganek - 11/18/2008 2:13:44 PM
- Back HERE, actually -- corrected HZ ink - S - 11/17/2008 10:29:17 PM
- The H20 - 95% myth is proof that the cited info is nonsense - pwokenyaw - 11/17/2008 9:56:12 PM
  - The H20 - 95% myth, What About Sublimation - Brian Ganek - 11/18/2008 2:26:15 PM
    - re: The H20 - 95% myth, What About Sublimation - pwokenyaw - 11/18/2008 6:27:29 PM
      - YOU didn't but "S" did (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 11/18/2008 11:32:10 PM
  - You need to read more carefully - S - 11/17/2008 10:08:25 PM
    - by volume, not effect... - nick hoffman - 11/18/2008 10:41:24 AM
    - A runaway greenhouse effect is quite unlikely. - Dr Clayton Forrester - 11/18/2008 3:36:44 AM
      - re: A runaway greenhouse effect is quite unlikely. - Post Sputnik - 11/18/2008 7:49:06 PM
        
        Figure of speech, somewhat analogous to the term "reaction cross section" occuring at nuclear scales". - Baffler - 11/18/2008 8:50:01 PM
        
        re: Euphemisms - Post Sputnik - 11/18/2008 10:56:52 PM
        
        the H and K lines of ionized calcium - ER - 11/18/2008 11:44:55 PM
        
        re: the H and K lines of ionized calcium - Post Sputnik - 11/19/2008 2:18:24 AM
        
        Well, if you're appealing to Wiki...I won't be outdone. - ER - 11/19/2008 3:12:07 AM
        
        There's a whole lotta shakin goin on ... - Post Sputnik - 11/19/2008 3:55:40 AM
        
        That's for sure, Dude. (n/t) - ER - 11/19/2008 4:24:36 AM
      - Thanks - S - 11/18/2008 7:10:00 PM
        
        I'm the OTHER Doc Forrester. - CF - 11/18/2008 7:24:12 PM
        
        "This is amazing!" - S - 11/18/2008 7:35:48 PM
      - re: A runaway greenhouse effect is quite unlikely. - gbaikie - 11/18/2008 5:43:29 AM
        
        This is amazing! (n/t) - Dr Clayton Forrester - 11/18/2008 1:48:31 PM
        
        Doc! Haven't seen you since Oak Ridge! (n/t) - McFly - 11/18/2008 2:45:18 PM
        
        I was wondering how long it would take. - ER - 11/18/2008 2:58:01 PM
      - A few degrees isn't going to do anything - zed - 11/18/2008 4:44:11 AM
        
        A sustained and systemic temperature rise, even a small one, will have a cumulative effect. - CF - 11/18/2008 1:51:38 PM
        
        You'll have to be more specific about the "cumulative effect" you refer to (n/t) - zed - 11/19/2008 1:53:03 AM
        
        re: You'll have to be more specific about the "cumulative effect" you refer to - ER - 11/19/2008 3:48:18 AM
        
        re: You'll have to be more specific about the "cumulative effect" you refer to - gbaikie - 11/19/2008 4:49:25 AM
        
        You'll have to be more specific about the "cumulative effect" you refer to - ER - 11/19/2008 12:20:29 PM
        
        re: You'll have to be more specific about the "cumulative effect" you refer to - gbaikie - 11/19/2008 8:37:43 PM
        
        re: more specific - TB - 11/19/2008 6:36:35 PM
    - re: You need to read more carefully - pwokenyaw - 11/17/2008 11:04:32 PM
      - re: You need to read more carefully - gbaikie - 11/18/2008 1:09:47 AM
- re: Lies, Opinions and a Few Facts about AGW - gbaikie - 11/17/2008 9:04:51 PM
  - "Anyone that know anything about theory of CO2... - ER - 11/18/2008 5:40:36 AM
    - The actual numbers, like anybody cares. - TB - 11/18/2008 3:59:13 PM
      - re: The actual numbers, like anybody cares. - gbaikie - 11/18/2008 11:51:39 PM
        
        continuing - gbaikie - 11/19/2008 12:36:27 AM
      - New Scientist articles, comments on AGW - S - 11/18/2008 7:49:24 PM
      - Thanks, TB. - ER - 11/18/2008 6:41:39 PM
        
        "runaway" greenhouse effect - TB - 11/19/2008 4:29:27 AM
        
        re: "runaway" greenhouse effect - ER - 11/19/2008 2:59:01 PM
        
        Agendas - TB - 11/20/2008 8:03:43 PM
        
        Never mind, I just re-read it, and my questions were answered. (n/t) - ER - 11/18/2008 6:47:47 PM
      - 50% from clouds - pwokenyaw - 11/18/2008 6:24:18 PM
        
        I messed up, I meant 50% from water vapor. (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 11/18/2008 6:25:24 PM
    - re: "Anyone that know anything about theory of CO2... - gbaikie - 11/18/2008 7:59:03 AM
- So AGW is a right-wing conspiracy? - ER - 11/17/2008 8:37:21 PM
  - AGW methodology - S - 11/17/2008 9:16:53 PM
- re: Lies, Opinions and a Few Facts about AGW - Post Sputnik - 11/17/2008 8:34:56 PM
- re: Lies, Opinions and a Few Facts about AGW - gbaikie - 11/17/2008 8:31:42 PM
  - Safe storage - S - 11/17/2008 8:52:26 PM
    - re: Safe storage - gbaikie - 11/17/2008 9:16:39 PM
      - re: Safe storage - Marcia - 11/18/2008 4:38:45 AM
        
        re: Safe storage - Marcia - 11/18/2008 5:26:21 AM
        
        Safe storage? - S - 11/18/2008 7:47:06 PM
        
        re: Safe storage - lance - 11/18/2008 2:16:08 PM
        
        re: Safe storage. - Thanks! - Marcia - 11/19/2008 9:55:07 PM

Second spacewalk live! (n/t) - Raoul - 11/20/2008 6:10:02 PM
- re: Second spacewalk live! - Raoul - 11/20/2008 6:39:46 PM

Obama and NASA's future - Raoul - 11/20/2008 5:22:55 PM

Another “Roadmap” - gbaikie - 11/19/2008 9:45:41 AM
- So long as Earth remains the focal point of the majority of humanity - Socrates II - 11/20/2008 2:15:57 PM
  - re: So long as Earth remains the focal point of the majority of humanity - Marsbug - 11/20/2008 4:02:13 PM

The Heavens from Paranal (Southern Hemisphere) - Raoul - 11/19/2008 9:32:34 PM

Pan-STARRS will soon be watching the skies for incoming space threats - Socrates II - 11/19/2008 2:43:34 PM

Aqueous processes on Mars. - Marcia - 11/11/2008 12:39:44 AM
- There's wet, and then there's wet - dtb - 11/12/2008 2:59:37 AM
- Before or after the dynamo loss? - Raoul - 11/11/2008 7:15:05 AM
  - Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began - Socrates II - 11/16/2008 1:37:37 AM
    - Evidence for vast oceans on ancient Mars? - Socrates II - 11/18/2008 2:47:37 PM
      - No Evidence shown for vast oceans on ancient Mars - Nick Hoffman - 11/18/2008 11:07:07 PM

Endeavour below ISS Live on NASATV - Raoul - 11/16/2008 9:24:09 PM
- re:Heidy and Steve walk in space right now! - Raoul - 11/18/2008 7:34:57 PM
  - re: re:Heidy and Steve walk in space right now! - Raoul - 11/18/2008 8:08:57 PM
    - ISS Lube JOB - carl - 11/18/2008 9:44:00 PM

You might find this site interesting - Laurie Street - 11/18/2008 4:54:50 AM
- It is. There are some great new perspectives for an old, hidebound liberal. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/18/2008 2:01:45 PM

Good news for wind energy - gbaikie - 11/18/2008 1:24:21 AM

Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2 emissions - gbaikie - 11/13/2008 9:18:00 PM
- re: What about the brown clouds? - Johannes - 11/15/2008 12:28:59 AM
  - man-made Atmospheric Brown Clouds - JEKing - 11/15/2008 5:16:25 AM
    - Dude! How about a courtesy flush? (n/t) - ER - 11/17/2008 8:40:24 PM
    - Wasn't me! (n/t) - TB - 11/16/2008 7:09:15 AM
    - re: man-made Atmospheric Brown Clouds - gbaikie - 11/15/2008 7:20:53 AM
      - [religious Spam deleted] - Moderator Nick - 11/15/2008 11:17:59 AM
      - Yeah, uh-oh, a rapid 2 deg.C rise in temperatures worldwide - zed - 11/15/2008 9:23:50 AM
        
        I was thinking - zed - 11/15/2008 9:33:38 AM
        
        No, you weren't (n/t) - ARRELL - 11/17/2008 4:13:33 AM
        
        You're not going to stop climate change - zed - 11/17/2008 4:46:04 AM
        
        And I though Obama supporters were all about change. - Lee - 11/18/2008 1:03:58 AM
        
        thought (n/t) - Lee - 11/18/2008 1:08:03 AM
- I knew foolishness would come out of this - pwokenyaw - 11/13/2008 9:57:46 PM
  - This hasn't been the first time he's been caught at this. - ER - 11/14/2008 1:25:03 PM
  - re: I knew foolishness would come out of this - gbaikie - 11/14/2008 1:36:01 AM
  - Don't expect him to understand the issues... - ARRELL - 11/13/2008 10:54:19 PM

The Moon-Mars debate - Raoul - 11/16/2008 10:48:47 AM
- Swiiss watchmaker, Romaine Jerome, may have a commercial justification for Lunar missions. - Jacob - 11/16/2008 8:45:49 PM
  - Jack Schmitt leaves The Planetary Society - Raoul - 11/17/2008 8:11:39 PM
  - That's sad. - ER - 11/17/2008 12:47:34 AM
  - The Russians recovered lunar samples with a Robot mission - nick hoffman - 11/16/2008 8:53:33 PM
    - re: The Russians recovered lunar samples with a Robot mission - gbaikie - 11/16/2008 10:40:43 PM
  - Sorry!... My numbers were off by a factor of 10. - Jacob - 11/16/2008 8:52:24 PM
- re: The Moon-Mars debate - Post Sputnik - 11/16/2008 4:48:14 PM
  - About the small bodies - Raoul - 11/16/2008 7:37:58 PM
    - re: About the small bodies - Post Sputnik - 11/16/2008 8:16:34 PM
- re: The Moon-Mars debate - gbaikie - 11/16/2008 12:07:22 PM
  - re: The Moon-Mars debate - Raoul - 11/16/2008 12:43:04 PM
    - re: The Moon-Mars debate - gbaikie - 11/17/2008 2:30:09 AM
      - Using the Moon - as a cemetary - Socrates II - 11/17/2008 3:27:51 AM
        
        re: Using the Moon - as a cemetary - gbaikie - 11/17/2008 4:39:20 AM

Just anounced on NASA TV - Delbert - 11/13/2008 7:50:03 PM
- From various news sources - Adam - 11/13/2008 10:12:32 PM
  - Not the first - Raoul - 11/13/2008 10:42:01 PM
    - perhaps the first PROVEN - Nick Hoffman - 11/14/2008 12:09:07 AM
      - The first one was also proven with pictures taken a long time after - Raoul - 11/14/2008 6:31:50 AM
      - Who's taking credit.... - z - 11/14/2008 12:46:03 AM
        
        Fomalhaut's Debris Disk and Planet: Constraining the Mass of Fomalhaut b From Disk Morphology - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 3:39:00 AM
        
        Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light Years from Earth - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 3:48:13 AM
        
        Fomalhaut b on APOD - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 2:52:53 PM
        
        re: The exoplanets - Raoul - 11/14/2008 10:44:22 PM
        
        Two different star systems - zed - 11/15/2008 6:58:56 AM
        
        HR 8799 on APOD - Socrates II - 11/17/2008 5:04:31 PM

Hold on to your hats! This latest news is just astonishing! - Jacob - 11/15/2008 6:20:17 PM
- Pony up a Hundred Megabucks to Space Adventures - Adam - 11/16/2008 6:04:47 AM
  - It's the economy. - Jacob - 11/16/2008 8:15:42 PM
  - re: Space Adventures - Raoul - 11/16/2008 11:09:10 AM
    - Figured as much - Adam - 11/17/2008 11:43:25 AM
- re: Hold on to your hats! This latest news is just astonishing! - gbaikie - 11/15/2008 10:10:19 PM
  - The media might savage such an idea. - Jacob - 11/16/2008 1:53:17 AM
    - re: The media might savage such an idea. - gbaikie - 11/16/2008 3:32:14 AM
      - re: The media might savage such an idea. - gbaikie - 11/16/2008 6:09:55 AM
        
        Yea, I noticed my typo a little too late. :-( (n/t) - Jacob - 11/16/2008 8:19:49 PM
  - GSLV Mk III. - Jacob - 11/16/2008 1:44:37 AM

I'll never see Fomalhaut in the 'same light' again. - Jacob - 11/15/2008 6:30:53 PM
- The discoverers - Raoul - 11/15/2008 10:44:00 PM
  - To learn more, we may need the help of radio-telescopes. - Jacob - 11/16/2008 8:06:46 PM
- You're lucky. - RobVG - 11/15/2008 7:48:16 PM
  - Visible upto mid-latitudes, northern hemisphere, in autumn. (n/t) - Jacob - 11/16/2008 7:53:50 PM

Endeavour on its way. - ER - 11/15/2008 2:01:30 AM
- Pictures from the ground - Raoul - 11/16/2008 10:56:25 AM
- re: Endeavour on its way. - Marcia - 11/15/2008 8:53:26 PM
  - You're in Miami, right? - ER - 11/15/2008 9:07:04 PM
    - re: You're in Miami, right? - Marcia - 11/16/2008 3:19:02 PM
- Cool! I wish they'd gone ahead with the Vandenberg site. (n/t) - TB - 11/15/2008 4:21:50 AM
  - I remember watching a Vandenburg launch... - ER - 11/15/2008 4:36:47 AM
    - I see a launch now and then, but not like a Shuttle. - TB - 11/15/2008 4:47:09 AM
      - I saw Saturns taking off from Tampa, on the Florida West Coast. - ER - 11/15/2008 1:18:11 PM
      - What's the point of human spaceflight? (n/t) - zed - 11/15/2008 9:37:46 AM
        
        What's the point of a baby? - nick hoffman - 11/16/2008 12:32:50 PM
        
        re: What's the point of human spaceflight? - ER - 11/15/2008 12:57:28 PM
        
        There are some things that humans do better than robots - E.P. - 11/15/2008 5:42:30 PM
        
        Yes, but most of the things we HAVE to do can be done just as well by robots. - ER - 11/15/2008 6:38:35 PM
        
        Humans will go into space in a big way when they figure out how to make money at it. - TB - 11/16/2008 3:06:28 AM
        
        Growing biological components - zed - 11/16/2008 3:42:19 AM
        
        I think the technology needed to sustain life in space is the problem - zed - 11/16/2008 1:15:18 AM
- For our friends abroad... - ER - 11/15/2008 2:17:46 AM
  - Another home improvement mission - what science is being done on ISS? - Socrates II - 11/15/2008 3:22:41 PM
    - What science is being done with ISS? - E.P. - 11/15/2008 5:39:26 PM
      - Next to nothing. - ER - 11/15/2008 6:49:18 PM
        
        Sorry, this post was meant to respond to Soc II. (n/t) - ER - 11/15/2008 7:12:10 PM

Handyman on Endeavor - Eri - 11/15/2008 3:18:08 PM
- In a different way, this guy has The Right Stuff (n/t) - nick hoffman - 11/16/2008 12:31:07 PM
  - If only they had asked him how to fix the Columbia wings... (n/t) - Robert Clark - 11/16/2008 3:16:02 PM

Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon - gbaikie - 11/14/2008 8:44:07 PM
- Now what will China do? - Jacob - 11/15/2008 6:05:14 PM
  - What do people in China think - nick hoffman - 11/16/2008 12:22:48 PM
- Chandrayaan-I - Raoul - 11/14/2008 8:58:18 PM
  - Aren't they stretching the term "landed" a little bit? - TB - 11/14/2008 9:30:44 PM
    - re: Aren't they stretching the term "landed" a little bit? - gbaikie - 11/14/2008 9:39:38 PM
      - The little MIP did not survive impact - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 10:00:13 PM
        
        Ranger - TB - 11/15/2008 1:08:00 AM
        
        Yes, it did have a retrorocket - Socrates II - 11/15/2008 2:20:27 PM
        
        With modern electronics, it would be easy. - TB - 11/16/2008 3:10:27 AM
        
        I remember watching live on TV when our first probe hard-landed on the moon. - ER - 11/15/2008 3:04:19 AM
        
        re: The little MIP did not survive impact - gbaikie - 11/14/2008 11:03:45 PM
        
        Technicalities - Socrates II - 11/15/2008 2:35:34 PM

Indian moon launch on NASA tv - Delbert - 10/22/2008 12:42:09 AM
- re: Indian moon launch on NASA tv - gbaikie - 10/22/2008 3:48:45 AM
  - re: Indian moon launch on NASA tv - hari chaitanya - 11/16/2008 9:47:44 AM
- Launch successful - Delbert - 10/22/2008 1:17:40 AM
- On it's way - Delbert - 10/22/2008 12:57:53 AM
  - re: On it's way - Raoul - 10/22/2008 5:35:54 AM
    - ESA report on India's first Moon launch - Socrates II - 10/22/2008 12:11:53 PM
      - re: ESA report on India's first Moon launch - Doug Ellison - 10/23/2008 12:50:38 AM
      - The ISRO's website has an interesting link. - Jacob - 10/22/2008 10:43:11 PM

World's oldest temple - TB - 11/15/2008 5:04:06 AM
- Utility versus symbology - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/16/2008 1:33:05 AM
  - Cyclopian structures. - Lee - 11/16/2008 4:15:19 AM
    - Cthuluhu is, of course, the oldest 'god' worshipped - Adam - 11/16/2008 6:10:40 AM
      - I went to a few services - Lee - 11/16/2008 8:13:48 AM
- They really need to learn to rephrase things. - Lee - 11/15/2008 5:21:32 PM

Sodium detected in Saturn E ring might point to a subsurface ocean on Enceladus. - Robert Clark - 11/16/2008 1:18:22 AM

NASA Restores Historic Lunar Orbiter 1 Image - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 2:15:13 AM
- Somewhat ironically, those images will be used to document recent impacts on the Moon - E.P. - 11/15/2008 4:53:01 PM
- with donated services by Keith Cowing from SpaceRef Interactive, Inc. - nick hoffman - 11/14/2008 10:19:56 AM
  - [Unnecesary remark by EP deleted] EP pls read below - Moderator Nick - 11/14/2008 11:47:03 PM
    - [Further personal insults deleted. EP is now Barred from Space] - Moderator Nick - 11/16/2008 12:52:48 AM
- Big image - TB - 11/14/2008 4:09:17 AM
  - Speaking of preserving old astronomical images - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 4:39:19 AM
    - re: Speaking of preserving old astronomical images - E.P. - 11/15/2008 5:44:51 PM
    - Some more old lunar space photos in need of cleaning up and preserving - Socrates II - 11/14/2008 5:08:21 PM
      - re: Some more old lunar space photos in need of cleaning up and preserving - E.P. - 11/15/2008 5:46:10 PM

The end of attack politics on the space frontier? - E.P. - 11/10/2008 4:15:33 PM
- Are you taking a pledge or something? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/11/2008 1:14:28 AM
  - No, but the cult of Mars has run out of steam. (n/t) - E.P. - 11/12/2008 9:41:29 PM
    - Sounds like an attack to me. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/15/2008 9:05:55 AM
    - re: Hmm, "the cult of Mars". - Marcia - 11/13/2008 12:43:26 AM
      - re: "the cult of Mars". - E.P. - 11/14/2008 10:13:26 PM
        
        You have not yet seen Phoenix' data. - alcaray - 11/15/2008 6:45:37 PM
      - 37 years ago today... - Socrates II - 11/13/2008 2:15:13 PM

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