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Pressure suits - Raoul - 10/30/2008 9:11:38 PM

Send up a HEATER - carl - 10/30/2008 8:26:19 PM
- Meant for Below - carl - 10/30/2008 8:26:53 PM

Testing the new Moon rover concept - Raoul - 10/26/2008 9:46:59 AM
- re: Testing the new Moon rover concept - Raoul - 10/29/2008 7:27:26 PM
- Someone needs to KISS that design. - Lee - 10/26/2008 2:42:21 PM
  - re: I agree. How many spare tires/wheels are they bringing? (n/t) - Vince - 10/30/2008 2:17:01 AM
    - Tires cannot be used on the Moon! (Far too bouncy) - Raoul - 10/30/2008 5:38:28 AM
  - Interesting point. - RobVG - 10/26/2008 6:10:22 PM
    - I would guess it would have dust covers. - Bowser - 10/27/2008 12:55:22 AM
  - re: Someone needs to KISS that design. - Marcia - 10/26/2008 6:00:34 PM
- Great, but it looks like a horrible traffic accident - nick hoffman - 10/26/2008 10:33:26 AM
  - Using the PLSS as an airlock is an engineering challenge but it solves all kinds of problems! (n/t) - Raoul - 10/26/2008 5:13:17 PM
- re: More pictures and movies! - Raoul - 10/26/2008 9:58:01 AM
  - re: More pictures and movies! - Ok, but tha't not a rover, it's a bus. - Marcia - 10/26/2008 6:11:09 PM
    - re: More pictures and movies! - Ok, but tha't not a rover, it's a bus... on stilts. - Marcia - 10/26/2008 7:04:06 PM
      - A movie of the pressurized vehicle - Raoul - 10/26/2008 8:44:01 PM
        
        Remember MOLAB? - Socrates II - 10/26/2008 11:43:13 PM
        
        MOLAB was unstable, according to the engineers. (n/t) - Raoul - 10/27/2008 5:37:50 AM

Who knew? - Jacob - 10/25/2008 6:29:55 PM
- Link please? - nick hoffman - 10/29/2008 1:28:15 PM
  - re: Link please? - TB - 10/29/2008 2:50:34 PM

[The Christian Man's Evolution moved to "Off Topic"] - Moderator Nick - 10/29/2008 12:45:07 AM

Accelerating Orion tests but deferring the Moon bound tests - Raoul - 10/28/2008 3:38:22 PM

Epsilon Eridani's Planetary Debris Disk: Structure and Dynamics based on Spitzer and CSO Observations - Socrates II - 10/28/2008 2:42:42 AM
- Interesting. Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud? (n/t) - Lee - 10/28/2008 3:16:37 PM

Next on NOVA: "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" - Socrates II - 10/25/2008 2:13:24 PM
- Mathematical Universe - z - 10/26/2008 2:24:59 AM
  - We can't have it both ways. - Jacob - 10/26/2008 6:40:20 PM
    - Detection threshold - z - 10/28/2008 12:31:34 AM

Another argument against life all over the universe - Raoul - 10/23/2008 4:58:42 PM
- re: I don't buy it. - Vince - 10/24/2008 3:10:10 AM
  - re: I don't buy it. - A good college try and I concur. (n/t) - Marcia - 10/24/2008 3:29:31 AM
    - Are we not strongly biased by our desire to find life out there? - Raoul - 10/24/2008 7:43:13 PM
      - re: Are we not strongly biased by our desire to find life out there? - phil - 10/24/2008 8:11:40 PM
- re: Another argument against life all over the universe - pwokenyaw - 10/24/2008 12:17:56 AM
  - Gas giants used to be considered protectors of smaller inner Earthlike worlds from comets - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 12:38:13 AM
    - re: Gas giants used to be considered protectors of smaller inner Earthlike worlds from comets - Marcia - 10/24/2008 3:33:46 AM
      - Comets are useful in the early days - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 12:57:09 PM
        
        re: Comets are useful in the early days. - No argument there. (n/t) - Marcia - 10/26/2008 6:06:32 PM
        
        Four online books about life from comets and space in general - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 2:25:34 AM
        
        re: Four online books about life from comets and space in general - Marcia - 10/27/2008 2:48:22 AM
        
        I wasn't preaching - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 3:02:34 AM
        
        re: I wasn't preaching. - I know you weren't. Still, good info. (n/t) - Marcia - 10/27/2008 3:32:02 AM
- How effective is the search for planets like ours? Can they see them yet? - Bowser - 10/24/2008 12:12:31 AM
  - Not yet, indeed; but it won't last too long (n/t) - Raoul - 10/24/2008 5:36:51 AM
    - re: Not yet, indeed; but it won't last too long - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 2:59:11 AM
- But didn't you read this... - Socrates II - 10/23/2008 5:48:54 PM
  - Why SETI will have missed any cost conscious ET civilizations - Socrates II - 10/25/2008 2:42:58 PM
    - Counting on Beauty: The role of aesthetic, ethical, and physical universal principles for interstellar communication - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 8:14:39 PM

A totally artificial heart - Raoul - 10/27/2008 7:57:33 PM

Hotspots on Mars - E.P. - 10/27/2008 3:11:06 PM
- And you think this hasn't been tried? - nick hoffman - 10/27/2008 7:42:44 PM

Mars "Borealis" impact and magnetic dichotomy - dtb - 10/24/2008 10:19:24 PM
- re: Mars "Borealis" impact and magnetic dichotomy - peanut gallery... - 10/27/2008 2:10:53 PM
  - What's new here? - dtb - 10/27/2008 3:57:17 PM
    - I read the paper. - Mr. Peanut - 10/27/2008 6:49:42 PM
- Fascinatingt, thanks for the link - E.P. - 10/25/2008 4:46:29 PM
  - Offered only for educational purposes... - alcaray - 10/26/2008 7:26:54 PM
    - But this articles explanation is better - E.P. - 10/27/2008 3:12:50 PM
      - re: But this articles explanation is better - alcaray - 10/27/2008 6:24:34 PM
  - Thanks for your your thanks - nick hoffman - 10/26/2008 10:51:22 AM
    - Speaking of Martian impacts - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 6:39:49 PM

One way ticket to Mars for Buzz - Raoul - 10/27/2008 5:30:31 PM

Pole to Pole - gbaikie - 10/27/2008 8:08:56 AM
- oh, btw - gbaikie - 10/27/2008 9:59:05 AM

National Geographic article on light pollution - Socrates II - 10/16/2008 4:29:00 PM
- Great World Wide Star Count from October 20 to November 3 - Socrates II - 10/17/2008 4:16:03 AM
  - Light Blossom - Intelligent Solar Street Lights - Socrates II - 10/22/2008 12:02:30 PM
    - Sky & Telescope article on the MSM finally recognizing light pollution - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 2:49:21 PM
      - Light pollution in Spain - An european perspective - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 3:21:29 AM

Methane on Mars redux. - whoever smelt it.... - 10/23/2008 3:20:33 AM
- "Plumes of methane identified on Mars." - Robert Clark - 10/23/2008 3:51:14 PM
  - A Win Both Ways... - Adam - 10/23/2008 10:03:37 PM
    - The way I interpret it:- - nick hoffman - 10/26/2008 2:41:46 AM
  - How deep... - Socrates II - 10/23/2008 4:38:23 PM
    - 12 to 20 km - nick hoffman - 10/24/2008 8:52:42 AM
      - Could there be hot spots on Mars? - Robert Clark - 10/25/2008 3:15:37 PM
        
        To date, there have been NO hotspots found... - nick hoffman - 10/26/2008 1:13:46 AM
      - re: 12 to 20 km - gbaikie - 10/24/2008 1:58:31 PM
        
        Surface temperature PLUS gradient - nick hoffman - 10/24/2008 2:08:04 PM
        
        re: Surface temperature PLUS gradient - gbaikie - 10/24/2008 4:32:08 PM
        
        re: Surface temperature PLUS gradient - gbaikie - 10/25/2008 1:50:12 AM
        
        re: Surface temperature PLUS gradient - gbaikie - 10/24/2008 3:42:53 PM
        
        Variability of the methane trapping in martian subsurface clathrate hydrates - Socrates II - 10/27/2008 2:44:48 AM

Comet 17P/Holmes, one year later - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 1:34:50 PM
- re: Comet 17P/Holmes, one year later - Robert - 10/24/2008 6:58:46 PM
  - Except that... - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 7:17:00 PM
    - Could it have gotten too close to Jupiter? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 10/24/2008 8:12:21 PM
      - I post, you decide - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 8:22:02 PM
        
        re: I post, you decide - Robert Clark - 10/25/2008 12:17:52 PM
- Speaking of crystalline caves - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 2:00:27 PM
  - Weren't there crystals like that in the movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (the original)? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 10/24/2008 6:52:56 PM
    - Oh yes - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 8:04:12 PM
  - re: Shouldn't a strong gravity be needed for this kind of cristal? (n/t) - Raoul - 10/24/2008 4:42:32 PM
    - Don't need more gravity than will hold the fluids in - nick hoffman - 10/26/2008 11:09:40 AM
    - Don't ruin a cool image with nerdy facts! (n/t) - John McCain - 10/24/2008 5:41:46 PM
      - Comet Holmes on APOD - Socrates II - 10/25/2008 3:50:09 PM

Mars Rovers and Aliens on National Geographic Channel November 2 - Socrates II - 10/26/2008 2:07:33 AM

Lightning on Titan - Socrates II - 10/25/2008 2:29:37 PM
- the only other body within our solar system that has an atmosphere? Hmmm (n/t) - dd - 10/25/2008 9:29:05 PM
  - Venus has a thick atmosphere and lightning - Socrates II - 10/26/2008 12:53:44 AM

Next on NOVA, "PARALLEL WORLDS,PARALLEL LIVES" - carl - 10/21/2008 6:57:31 PM
- Oh god, it is too painfully dumbed down to watch.... - ARRELL - 10/22/2008 12:30:54 AM
  - But in a parallel universe, the TV show was exciting. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob - 10/22/2008 10:33:22 PM
    - No it wasn't! (n/t) - Jacob [my quantum twin] - 10/22/2008 10:44:26 PM
  - They took an interesting topic and waterboarded it. - Bowser - 10/22/2008 3:33:21 AM
    - Quantum Mechanics for Sarah Palin - ARRELL - 10/22/2008 12:28:55 PM
      - But in a parallel universe, she is President. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob - 10/24/2008 10:32:53 PM
      - Joe Biden level would be more like it - phil - 10/22/2008 1:34:31 PM
        
        How is it elitist to say that the general public is too intelligent for that dumbed down program? - ARRELL - 10/26/2008 12:43:39 AM
        
        Sarah Palin is a Young Earth Creationist. - Post Sputnik - 10/22/2008 4:33:35 PM
        
        Simply not true - phil - 10/23/2008 12:40:05 AM
        
        How Can People REFUTE Cabon Dating? - carl - 10/22/2008 6:03:28 PM
      - Pathetic, Inane DRIBBLE - carl - 10/22/2008 1:34:11 PM
        
        The Atom and the Apple - Socrates II - 10/23/2008 1:04:18 PM
        
        Scientific American article on Hugh Everett - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 11:35:31 AM

Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park - Socrates II - 10/22/2008 10:52:28 PM
- Does that cover intuition? - Jacob - 10/25/2008 6:10:53 PM
- re: Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park - phil - 10/23/2008 2:33:42 PM
- Thanks, will be looking for it (n/t) - McFly - 10/23/2008 1:45:00 PM

Jim Benson, founder of Spacedev, dies at 63 - z - 10/24/2008 6:51:26 PM

First Apollo to Fly, Last to be Honored - carl - 10/22/2008 3:40:20 PM
- Schirra probably killed the two rookies careers with NASA - Socrates II - 10/24/2008 1:16:10 PM

How to get students interested in space - Raoul - 10/23/2008 5:10:32 PM
- re: How to get students interested in space. - uhm, yep experiencing O-G will and should do it every time. :}MaM (n/t) - Marcia - 10/24/2008 2:15:37 AM
- re: How to get students interested in space - Marcia - 10/24/2008 1:33:27 AM

8th European Mars Conference - Raoul - 10/19/2008 8:38:54 PM
- re: 8th European Mars Conference - E.P. - 10/20/2008 2:30:50 PM
  - Rockets will never be used to take people beyond the Moon. - Lee - 10/21/2008 2:08:04 AM
  - "CAPS was suppressed again" - Doug Ellison - 10/20/2008 2:49:31 PM
    - re: "CAPS was suppressed again" - E.P. - 10/20/2008 9:49:38 PM
      - re: "CAPS was suppressed again" - gbaikie - 10/21/2008 12:26:22 AM
        
        re: "CAPS was suppressed again" - E.P. - 10/22/2008 8:12:33 PM
        
        re: "CAPS was suppressed again" - gbaikie - 10/23/2008 12:52:44 AM
      - answer the question - Doug Ellison - 10/20/2008 10:44:05 PM
        
        re: answer the question - E.P. - 10/22/2008 8:13:41 PM
        
        re: answer the question - Doug Ellison - 10/23/2008 12:47:25 AM

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