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Earth creatures survived vacuum and radations in space - Raoul - 9/9/2008 9:19:11 AM
- Tardigrades are so COOL - Adam - 9/12/2008 10:31:04 PM
  - I wonder if they have large-sized 'cousins' way out there in the cosmos? (n/t) - Jacob - 9/13/2008 6:23:32 PM
    - Could be... - TB - 9/14/2008 12:35:30 AM
      - Sizable creepy-crawlies here on earth - Bluh - 9/14/2008 6:36:29 AM
        
        The most creative description of ETI I've heard is... - ER - 9/15/2008 1:26:23 AM
        
        Sentient aliens vs. Non-Sentient aliens - Bluh - 9/15/2008 4:58:48 PM
        
        More likely they will be artificial - Socrates II - 9/15/2008 5:21:11 PM
        
        re: More likely they will be artificial - Bluh - 9/15/2008 10:52:49 PM
        
        Only if... - Socrates II - 9/16/2008 4:03:29 AM
        
        But couldn't a REALLY smart lifeform manipulate it's DNA - nick hoffman - 9/16/2008 9:40:32 AM
        
        That might explain all those cattle mutilations - Socrates II - 9/16/2008 1:26:35 PM
        
        Of course it's easier, but it's not so much FUN - nick hoffman - 9/16/2008 9:34:19 PM

Traversable wormholes from surgically modified Schwarzschild spacetimes - Socrates II - 9/15/2008 6:20:53 AM
- Ghost from 1989... (n/t) - Adam - 9/16/2008 8:21:10 AM
  - As the abstract says - Socrates II - 9/16/2008 1:19:58 PM

Phoenix update - alcaray - 9/13/2008 6:04:46 AM
- re: While we wait - SteveS - 9/14/2008 3:37:23 PM
- Am still waiting.... - algorithms - 9/13/2008 4:30:15 PM
  - Since they have only a limited time to use these instruments... - alcaray - 9/13/2008 6:39:21 PM
  - SCIENCE & NATURE magazine will probably publish science papers before the end of the year. (n/t) - Jacob - 9/13/2008 6:21:23 PM
  - It seems to me to have had extremely limited successes. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 6:20:27 PM
    - The jury is still out - algorithms - 9/13/2008 11:48:06 PM

One more step for Ares 1 - Raoul - 9/11/2008 6:02:50 PM
- re: One more step for Ares 1 - Post Sputnik - 9/13/2008 3:30:51 AM

Space-Based Solar Power Breakthrough to Be Announced - gbaikie - 9/13/2008 3:03:36 AM

Next on NOVA: "Einstein's Big Idea" - Socrates II - 9/12/2008 11:45:36 PM

March 19 GRB ! - Raoul - 9/11/2008 6:44:11 AM
- Will particles arrive here, and if so when? - E.P. - 9/12/2008 7:08:07 PM
  - re: Here - Raoul - 9/12/2008 9:37:30 PM
    - At 7.5 Gly and %99.99995*c particles will arrive 3,750 years after the light (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 9:58:20 PM
- Bootes call - ER - 9/11/2008 8:01:41 PM
  - Did a GRB kill off lots of life in the Late Ordovician? - Socrates II - 9/12/2008 4:16:33 AM

This is slightly amazing - "Cargo shipâ€™s station docking delayed due to NASA evacuation." - Bowser - 9/12/2008 9:39:05 PM

Protons in the Tube at CERN - Raoul - 9/10/2008 12:07:10 PM
- Check out Google's home page today! (n/t) - TB - 9/10/2008 4:56:28 PM
  - re: Thanks, TB. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 9/12/2008 4:03:30 AM
  - :-))) (n/t) - Raoul - 9/10/2008 5:04:04 PM
- A new worry - phil - 9/10/2008 1:50:29 PM
  - Sober Scottish? What's that? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/11/2008 3:23:51 AM
    - * hiccup*...dunno...hey..did you post this twice?... (n/t) - Jody [a *Mc*] - 9/11/2008 2:28:58 PM
      - re: Oh, please, it's because they're not Irish. :} - Marcia - 9/12/2008 2:52:24 AM
        
        re: Oh, please, it's because they're not Irish. :} - Marcia - 9/12/2008 2:57:30 AM
  - Scottish? Too dangerous... - McFly - 9/11/2008 12:08:46 AM
    - *groan*" Let that *fly* stick tae the wa" - Beam me up Scotty - 9/11/2008 1:07:32 AM
  - That might explain this weird tugging sensation I feel...I now see these tiny black thi (n/t) - Jacob - 9/10/2008 2:13:52 PM
- It's alive!.... It's alive!.... (n/t) - Jacob - 9/10/2008 1:42:25 PM
  - Worse than the fear fueled by ignorance... - Socrates II - 9/10/2008 4:04:01 PM
    - worm holes!... Who needs rockets! (n/t) - Jacob - 9/10/2008 4:31:30 PM
      - Alternate UNIVERSES - carl - 9/11/2008 4:24:46 PM
      - Some other REAL things the LHC will do - Socrates II - 9/11/2008 12:55:19 AM
        
        Two items - Socrates II - 9/12/2008 4:46:46 PM

General Electric's D2 re-entry spacecraft concept...and the Soyuz... - Raoul - 9/12/2008 7:29:19 AM

STS 400 (Endeavour) unofficial patch for the HST-rescue-flight rescuers (just in case) - Raoul - 9/11/2008 8:12:44 PM
- re: STS 400 (Endeavour) unofficial patch for the HST-rescue-flight rescuers (just in case) - Bowser - 9/11/2008 9:28:14 PM

Cooling the Earth on the Cheap - phil - 9/9/2008 1:43:04 AM
- will reduce precipitation, won't stop ocean acidification - pwokenyaw - 9/10/2008 7:09:09 PM
- Have you seen any of 'Discovery Project Earth'? - alcaray - 9/9/2008 2:55:15 AM
  - re: Have you seen any of 'Discovery Project Earth'? Have not - phil - 9/9/2008 8:01:25 PM

The candidates' space policy statements - alcaray - 9/9/2008 10:03:43 PM
- ... are the least important reason to choose between them - Fox - 9/10/2008 5:38:54 PM
- re: The candidates' space policy statements - Marcia - 9/9/2008 11:53:10 PM
  - You're kidding, right? - pwokenyaw - 9/10/2008 12:14:56 AM
    - The key phrase. - Lee - 9/10/2008 2:34:18 AM
      - I hope you're right - pwokenyaw - 9/10/2008 6:58:40 PM
    - re: You're kidding, right? - Nope: - Marcia - 9/10/2008 1:33:13 AM
      - re: You're kidding, right? - Nope: - pwokenyaw - 9/10/2008 7:01:53 PM
  - I'm sorry: what was my question that you were answering? - alcaray - 9/10/2008 12:04:32 AM
    - re: I'm sorry: what was my question that you were answering? - Marcia - 9/10/2008 2:35:06 AM
    - re: I'm sorry. I should apologize on commenting on the policy statements. (n/t) - Marcia - 9/10/2008 12:10:45 AM
      - huh? - alcaray - 9/10/2008 2:26:39 AM
        
        re: huh? :) - Marcia - 9/10/2008 2:37:00 AM
      - I should apologize on commenting on the policy statements No, you should not. (n/t) - phil - 9/10/2008 12:42:13 AM
        
        re: I should apologize on commenting on the policy statements No, you should not.- Thanks, Phil. - Marcia - 9/10/2008 2:38:29 AM

Can't believe no one's mentioned this mission. - Lee - 9/6/2008 1:33:53 AM
- I can't quite make sense of it. - alcaray - 9/6/2008 11:35:27 PM
  - re: I can't quite make sense of it. - Marcia - 9/8/2008 1:20:25 AM
    - Just a thought. - Lee - 9/8/2008 1:46:52 AM
      - re: Just a thought. - Marcia - 9/9/2008 5:57:10 PM
  - Sounds like a job for Jim O. - Lee - 9/7/2008 1:45:38 AM
    - been distracted... - JimO - 9/8/2008 10:47:16 AM
- Has it received actual hardware development funding? (n/t) - Jacob - 9/6/2008 6:36:57 PM
  - It's built and launches on 10/5/08. (n/t) - Lee - 9/6/2008 7:15:24 PM

Stephen Colbert's DNA into the Final Frontier - Socrates II - 9/9/2008 5:06:06 PM

Griffin's e-mail - Raoul - 9/8/2008 12:18:23 PM
- re: Griffin's e-mail - DWC - 9/8/2008 5:34:24 PM
  - Soviets Image GEORGIA Invasion From Orbit - carl - 9/8/2008 7:25:32 PM
    - A Russian point of view about the US position on the ISS - Raoul - 9/9/2008 7:50:58 AM
    - There's always an advantage in holding the highest ground... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 9/8/2008 10:05:17 PM
- In email, veritas - McFly - 9/8/2008 3:30:45 PM
  - re: In email, veritas - E.P. - 9/8/2008 3:36:14 PM
- Mis-identifying the problem and US national priorities - E.P. - 9/8/2008 3:09:54 PM
  - KEPP 'em Flying at ANY COST - carl - 9/8/2008 7:24:02 PM
    - re: KEPP 'em Flying at ANY COST - gbaikie - 9/9/2008 4:40:16 AM
      - Who supplied major $$$$$$$? - carl - 9/9/2008 4:06:43 PM

The Cepheid Galactic Internet - Socrates II - 9/7/2008 5:28:43 PM
- re: The Cepheid Galactic Internet - ER - 9/8/2008 1:44:51 PM
  - re: The Cepheid Galactic Internet - phil - 9/9/2008 1:23:50 AM

Rosetta made it past Stein ok. - alcaray - 9/5/2008 9:53:17 PM
- Finally!.... ROSETTA has started to do "real' science. - Jacob - 9/6/2008 6:28:17 PM
- Asteroids at the same scale - Raoul - 9/6/2008 3:55:00 PM
  - Thanks for that one Raoul - adam - 9/9/2008 12:18:11 AM
  - Comet nuclei are asteroids???????? - Jacob - 9/6/2008 6:30:56 PM
    - To be clear... - alcaray - 9/6/2008 7:05:40 PM
      - The definitions do indeed blur sometimes. - Jacob - 9/6/2008 7:31:50 PM
- asteroid images here - Jim O - 9/6/2008 11:49:07 AM
  - re: asteroid images here - Raoul - 9/6/2008 12:16:22 PM
    - ESA Rosetta : - Raoul - 9/6/2008 12:28:20 PM
      - It doesn't look anything like the ESA artist's images! - Socrates II - 9/6/2008 12:59:06 PM
        
        They always look like something recognizable because it's our brain and our culture ! - Raoul - 9/6/2008 1:40:33 PM
- re:Live press conference - Raoul - 9/6/2008 10:06:11 AM
  - Like a Diamant!!! (a gem) With a huge crater on the top! (n/t) - Raoul - 9/6/2008 10:53:08 AM
    - This space rock should be renamed Lucy - Socrates II - 9/6/2008 5:32:46 PM
      - LSD..not for me! :-) (n/t) - Raoul - 9/7/2008 12:01:20 AM
- Woops, by "momentarily" I meant 12 hours from now, of course. - alcaray - 9/5/2008 10:02:12 PM

The Russians are returning....to ther Moon, likely next year. - Jacob - 9/8/2008 9:39:55 PM
- Penetrators and landers - nick hoffman - 9/8/2008 9:49:25 PM

The Starshade - Raoul - 9/7/2008 6:59:14 PM
- Why so far away? - Bowser - 9/8/2008 8:27:56 PM
- re: The Starshade - Bluh - 9/7/2008 11:33:34 PM
  - What makes you think so? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2008 1:17:07 AM
    - Optimism? - Bluh - 9/8/2008 9:46:43 PM

Exoplanets in young gas discs - Raoul - 9/8/2008 3:00:32 PM

The center of our Milky Way (Sgr A*) !! - Raoul - 9/8/2008 9:26:32 AM

A trend among amateur astronomers - Raoul - 9/2/2008 6:54:55 PM
- re: A trend among amateur astronomers - SteveS - 9/5/2008 11:39:02 PM
- Encoder - Raoul - 9/5/2008 3:18:50 PM
- It's amazing. - Bowser - 9/4/2008 5:07:27 PM
  - Room! - Raoul - 9/4/2008 9:02:00 PM
    - An earlier post of yours reminded me of this. - Bowser - 9/5/2008 12:16:04 AM
- I know (online) a few amateur astronomers that use imaging in light polluted skies. - RobVG - 9/4/2008 3:40:50 AM
  - re: Here too - Raoul - 9/4/2008 5:49:43 AM
- re: A trend among amateur astronomers - ER - 9/3/2008 1:19:33 AM
  - The binoculars... - Raoul - 9/3/2008 7:26:09 PM
    - I have an 11x80 pair. - ER - 9/4/2008 3:17:58 PM
      - re:The hat - SteveS - 9/5/2008 11:45:06 PM
        
        Longer and stiffer. - ER - 9/6/2008 11:52:13 AM
        
        re: What ever fits the tool - SteveS - 9/8/2008 1:26:01 AM
        
        Babes dig amateur astronomers who wear hats while looking through scopes - Socrates II - 9/6/2008 1:01:54 PM
        
        My bumper sticker: - ER - 9/6/2008 3:47:47 PM
        
        re: My bumper sticker: - nick hoffman - 9/7/2008 4:38:01 AM
        
        And the other classic - Socrates II - 9/6/2008 5:31:47 PM

GeoEye Launch a Success - phil - 9/7/2008 12:32:24 AM
- re: GeoEye Launch a Success - Jacob - 9/7/2008 11:12:42 PM
- re: GeoEye Launch a Success - Raoul - 9/7/2008 9:56:28 AM
  - most high-res Google Earth imagery is aerial, not orbital. (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 9/7/2008 10:15:55 AM
    - Granted..but 2 years old? (n/t) - Raoul - 9/7/2008 10:39:48 AM
      - re: Granted..but 2 years old? - Fox - 9/7/2008 1:41:18 PM

Some Kaguya (SELENE) Moon results.... - Raoul - 9/7/2008 10:38:21 AM
- Okina and Ouna.. - Doug Ellison - 9/7/2008 2:32:59 PM
  - re: Okina and Ouna - Raoul - 9/7/2008 3:12:16 PM
    - re: Okina and Ouna - Doug Ellison - 9/7/2008 3:15:01 PM

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