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Same OLD GRIND - carl - 6/5/2008 9:00:31 PM

Our Galaxy has only two spiral arms! - Raoul - 6/3/2008 7:47:30 PM
- Map of the Milky Way Galaxy - phil - 6/5/2008 3:12:01 PM
- Truely wonderful astronomy - pb - 6/4/2008 6:50:28 AM
  - Truly awful spell checking (n/t) - pb - 6/4/2008 7:02:31 AM

Question about Phoenix/Mars - alcaray - 6/2/2008 6:34:12 PM
- Ice or salt? Looks like ice to me. - REB - 6/5/2008 2:41:35 PM
- Mars soil in the scoop - Raoul - 6/3/2008 5:41:44 AM
  - Thanks. Great pic. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 6/3/2008 11:51:01 PM
  - I wonder if that's ice or salts? - nick hoffman - 6/3/2008 7:52:54 AM
    - Pity they dumped this soil already - nick hoffman - 6/4/2008 12:01:39 AM
    - Not sure... - Raoul - 6/3/2008 6:37:27 PM
      - And they have the means to find out. (n/t) - Jacob - 6/3/2008 9:12:46 PM
- Ice - nick hoffman - 6/2/2008 10:07:28 PM
  - That's it!... You're ignoring the obvious! - Jacob - 6/3/2008 9:24:15 PM
    - Well to be fair... - alcaray - 6/4/2008 7:43:49 PM
    - A Mars Chamber - nick hoffman - 6/4/2008 12:08:40 AM
- re: Question about Phoenix/Mars - phil - 6/2/2008 6:53:54 PM

Phoenix - E.P. - 5/28/2008 9:59:06 PM
- re: Phoenix - Marcia - 5/30/2008 6:37:30 PM
  - re: Phoenix. - Forfeiting a space mission for the sake of another is not a good idea. (n/t) - Marcia - 5/30/2008 6:41:29 PM
    - re: Phoenix. - Forfeiting a space mission for the sake of another is not a good idea. - Marcia - 5/30/2008 6:46:35 PM
      - Let's turn Mars over to the private sector - E.P. Grondine - 6/4/2008 8:20:26 PM
        
        Let's turn Spacewatch over to the private sector, too - nick hoffman - 6/5/2008 4:51:47 AM
      - re: Phoenix. - I'm sorry, I'll take that last sentence out. - Marcia - 5/30/2008 6:54:36 PM
- re: Phoenix - Eri - 5/28/2008 11:28:34 PM
  - Some fascinating info here. Thanks to all who posted. (n/t) - Eri - 5/30/2008 10:39:30 PM
  - Biblical happenings - McFly - 5/29/2008 1:00:16 AM
    - Not just Biblical - ER - 5/29/2008 1:31:36 AM
      - Noah's Flood - ER - 5/29/2008 12:30:17 PM
      - Biblical or historical? - Adam - 5/29/2008 5:13:33 AM
        
        re: Biblical or historical? - Hans - 5/29/2008 5:21:29 AM
        
        If the whole Mediterranean flooded ages ago - Socrates II - 5/29/2008 1:51:11 PM
        
        It was the Black Sea - Lee - 5/30/2008 5:31:38 AM
        
        That depends on the timing. - ER - 5/29/2008 3:18:20 PM
        
        re: That depends on the timing. - TB - 5/29/2008 4:08:05 PM
        
        re: That depends on the timing. - ER - 5/29/2008 4:52:47 PM
        
        re: That depends on the timing. - REB - 5/29/2008 4:56:35 PM
        
        Yes, I remember now, it was Ballard. - ER - 5/29/2008 6:21:45 PM
        
        The Sumerian Flood--Where do you think the Bible story came from? - ER - 5/29/2008 3:25:07 PM

Spacewalk anniversary today ! - Raoul - 6/3/2008 6:20:30 PM
- Gemini Spacesuits PRIMITIVE - carl - 6/3/2008 10:20:46 PM
  - re: Gemini Spacesuits PRIMITIVE. - Primitive, but apparently effective and worthy to evolve! - Marcia - 6/4/2008 5:42:49 PM
    - The faceless white knight on the top of the world ! - Raoul - 6/4/2008 6:05:02 PM
      - re: The faceless white knight on the top of the world ! - Marcia - 6/4/2008 6:25:33 PM
        
        re: Spellcheck: 'Grieve". - Marcia - 6/4/2008 6:28:16 PM
- Happy birthday to me - Robert - 6/3/2008 9:29:47 PM
  - re: Happy birthday to me - Laurie Street - 6/4/2008 9:45:51 PM
  - Thanks everybody - Robert - 6/4/2008 7:30:22 PM
  - re: Happy birthday to me. - Happy Birthday, Robert!!!!! :) (n/t) - Marcia - 6/4/2008 5:43:49 PM
  - re: Iconic images - Raoul - 6/4/2008 5:45:10 AM
  - Did they show White's spacewalk live? - Socrates II - 6/4/2008 2:34:15 AM
    - Apollo 7 was the frst live TV transmission from space - Raoul - 6/4/2008 5:38:10 AM
      - Cooper's Faith 7 TV broadcast was a first for the US anyway (n/t) - Delbert - 6/4/2008 6:42:13 PM
      - First TV was on Mercury's "Faith 7" flight by Gordon Cooper - Delbert - 6/4/2008 3:21:19 PM
        
        Replying - Raoul - 6/4/2008 9:14:59 PM
      - I think it was the Soviets who were first: August, 1962. - Jacob - 6/4/2008 1:48:10 PM
        
        Perhaps.... - Raoul - 6/4/2008 5:31:40 PM
    - Nope, no video then - Robert - 6/4/2008 3:04:40 AM
      - re: Nope, no video then - Delbert - 6/4/2008 5:20:41 AM
- Kibo: huge!!! - Raoul - 6/3/2008 9:29:20 PM
  - re: Kibo: huge!!! - Thank goodness for a good hatch and 0-G!!! (n/t) - Marcia - 6/4/2008 6:43:21 PM

Launch Pad Suffers 'Severe Damage' During Liftoff - GB - 6/2/2008 11:06:43 PM
- Well that's it!...a damaged pad!.... Let's shut down NASA, and ground all the shuttles! (n/t) - Jacob - 6/3/2008 6:27:12 PM
- Launch seemed slower than normal - carl - 6/2/2008 11:09:46 PM
  - re: Launch seemed slower than normal - GB - 6/2/2008 11:18:04 PM

The Battle for the High Ground - nick hoffman - 6/3/2008 4:48:28 AM
- I guess - Lee - 6/3/2008 5:55:18 AM

A eureka moment...A possible explanation for the thaw-freezing cycles affecting the surface at the martian polar regions. - Jacob - 5/28/2008 7:13:37 PM
- No need for or evidence of Thaw - nick hoffman - 5/29/2008 12:16:12 AM
  - re: No need for or evidence of Thaw - Robert Clark - 6/2/2008 11:49:00 AM
    - Polygonal groun theories - nick hoffman - 6/2/2008 11:31:19 PM
  - Can the word "thaw" not be used to include CO2 cycling? - alcaray - 5/29/2008 1:29:21 AM

Discovery docking to ISS ! Capture - Raoul - 6/2/2008 6:04:46 PM
- re: Pitch - Raoul - 6/2/2008 8:27:18 PM

Phoenix starts to dig, but Yeti got there first! - ARRELL - 6/1/2008 8:09:53 PM
- Image - ARRELL - 6/1/2008 8:12:43 PM
  - Yep, I have a anthropologist friend who says that is definitely the footprint of the four-toed Yeti. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 6/2/2008 11:42:29 AM
  - We'll never hear the end of this! - nick hoffman - 6/2/2008 12:31:08 AM
    - Bigfoot on Mars? - pb - 6/2/2008 7:14:52 AM
  - Talk about sinister! - podrock - 6/2/2008 12:23:51 AM
    - They dug a hole in half of the print yesterday. - alcaray - 6/2/2008 7:28:10 PM
    - Small feet, but VERY long legs - nick hoffman - 6/2/2008 12:32:15 AM
      - Ziggy Yeti ! (n/t) - podrock - 6/2/2008 12:53:33 AM
  - Heh heh heh! Mr. Hoagland will probably get another conspiracy theory going. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob - 6/1/2008 9:43:52 PM
  - re: Image - phil - 6/1/2008 8:15:10 PM
    - Little Feet - Jeff F - 6/1/2008 8:42:47 PM

An update: Third Falcon 1 launch attempt on June/24th. - Jacob - 6/2/2008 7:07:05 PM

FA-BU-LOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Raoul - 5/31/2008 9:40:09 PM
- Amazing Raoul! wish you had vidoe (n/t) - Delbert - 6/1/2008 1:16:32 AM
  - Where they currently are (from a russian website) - Raoul - 6/1/2008 3:56:47 PM
  - From Ireland - Raoul - 6/1/2008 7:52:18 AM
  - From Buthiers, France - Raoul - 6/1/2008 7:30:51 AM
    - re: From Buthiers, France - Marcia - 6/1/2008 9:33:07 PM
- Debris from Discovery - Raoul - 5/31/2008 10:15:30 PM
  - rAnd when they passed overhead... - Raoul - 5/31/2008 11:00:14 PM
    - Just flat amazing, Raoul! Congratulations. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/1/2008 12:34:09 AM
      - Uncertainty about the weather - Raoul - 6/1/2008 12:50:06 AM

What if ICE is ROCK HARD? - carl - 5/31/2008 4:03:32 PM
- re: What if ICE is ROCK HARD? - Delbert - 6/1/2008 1:47:22 PM
- The reason for harder and softer ice. - Bowser - 6/1/2008 12:32:45 AM
  - Uh, no... - nick hoffman - 6/1/2008 1:34:27 AM
    - That makes more sense. - Bowser - 6/1/2008 3:19:47 AM
- I think it would confirm everyone's suspicion. - alcaray - 5/31/2008 10:05:44 PM

The new neighborhood - TB - 5/26/2008 2:10:30 AM
- The MERs have spoiled me. - REB - 5/27/2008 1:02:08 PM
- NASA need not fear powered descent anymore ! - Raoul - 5/26/2008 8:54:33 PM
  - NASA's Motto: "We can now do what we did a generation ago!" (n/t) - phil - 6/1/2008 11:54:44 AM
  - Scared the heck outa me ;-) (n/t) - McFly - 5/27/2008 2:44:58 AM
    - 600 meters, 500 meters, 400 meters... - Lee - 5/27/2008 7:36:21 AM
- attn Mars Experts - JEKing - 5/26/2008 7:40:07 PM
  - I'm not a Mars Expert.. - Doug Ellison - 5/27/2008 11:02:45 AM
    - Frost - TB - 5/27/2008 4:44:13 PM
      - re: Frost - JEKing - 5/27/2008 6:36:43 PM
        
        Various coverage of the mission has touched on this topic. - alcaray - 5/27/2008 9:36:47 PM
  - sort of - alcaray - 5/27/2008 12:32:52 AM
  - "Do you anticipate that in a few months Phoenix will be encased in a block of frozen carbon dioxide".... DOH!!!! - Mars Expert - 5/27/2008 12:08:33 AM
  - surely you jest.... (n/t) - et - 5/26/2008 8:53:40 PM
    - Wow, guys, you sure are polite - Socrates II - 5/27/2008 1:15:47 PM
      - ¨Three Feet¨ - nick hoffman - 5/28/2008 9:11:22 AM
        
        re: ?Three Feet? - Socrates II - 5/28/2008 1:37:36 PM
      - re: Wow, guys, you sure are polite - JEKing - 5/27/2008 6:51:12 PM
        
        Always Question Authority - Socrates II - 5/27/2008 7:27:23 PM
- Live from Paris, too! - Raoul - 5/26/2008 7:13:20 PM
- Odd - Lee - 5/26/2008 5:46:06 AM
  - re: Odd - TB - 5/26/2008 3:41:40 PM
    - re: Odd - Marcia - 5/26/2008 7:02:48 PM
      - re: Concern: Arm biobarrier cover. - Marcia - 5/26/2008 7:30:56 PM
  - I wish Phoenix had wheels! (n/t) - nick hoffman - 5/26/2008 7:45:24 AM
    - The rovers have spoiled us. - Lee - 5/26/2008 5:25:46 PM
    - I'll have what he's having. - et - 5/26/2008 8:04:28 AM
      - Didn't the original plan for this kind of lander... - Socrates II - 5/27/2008 1:20:38 PM
- re: The new neighborhood - Raoul - 5/26/2008 5:36:09 AM
  - Does It Resemble The Earth's Sea Floor? - Marsby - 5/31/2008 2:55:44 PM
  - As I downloaded Raoul's post over my very slow dial-up connection I could only think of one thing... - TAFKASE - 5/26/2008 5:53:45 PM
- "magnificent desolation" (n/t) - ER - 5/26/2008 2:35:19 AM
  - "pretentious polygonalism"? (n/t) - et - 5/26/2008 7:58:29 AM

Discovery on its way..... - Marcus Massey - 5/31/2008 9:53:21 PM

I'm sure they must have thought of this, but... - ER - 5/27/2008 12:25:20 PM
- Molecular “fingerprint” - pb - 5/27/2008 3:58:43 PM
- Dig for Victory! - nick hoffman - 5/27/2008 12:43:32 PM
  - Dig we must. - ER - 5/27/2008 1:02:47 PM
    - FAQ - nick hoffman - 5/27/2008 1:51:51 PM
      - Thanks - ER - 5/27/2008 2:11:26 PM
        
        What about possible ammonia already in the soil? - Lee - 5/31/2008 9:38:42 PM
    - 2 things:- - nick hoffman - 5/27/2008 1:45:20 PM
      - re: 2 things:- - Marcia - 5/27/2008 8:34:18 PM
        
        Digging Plan. - nick hoffman - 5/28/2008 9:09:45 AM
      - "Permafrost is like concrete." - Bowser - 5/27/2008 8:00:22 PM
        
        The plan? - nick hoffman - 5/28/2008 8:36:38 AM
      - It reminds me of my Alaska trip. - Jacob - 5/27/2008 4:36:58 PM
        
        Life Found a Mile Below Terrestrial Seabed; Implications For Life on Mars - Socrates II - 5/27/2008 7:26:21 PM
        
        All forms of biology require a food source. - Jacob - 5/27/2008 9:21:15 PM
        
        Disequilibrium Chemical Energy - nick hoffman - 5/28/2008 8:34:26 AM
        
        Mars has a number of relatively young volcanoes - Socrates II - 5/28/2008 1:26:07 PM
        
        Is Mars too salty for life? - Socrates II - 5/30/2008 4:09:37 PM
        
        re: Is Mars too salty for life? - marsbug - 5/30/2008 10:40:20 PM

Why is there anything? - Jody - 5/27/2008 3:36:06 PM
- God wants it that way - TAFKASE - 5/30/2008 5:38:49 AM
  - It's turtles, all the way down ;-) (n/t) - McFly - 5/31/2008 2:09:33 AM
  - "Makes as much sense as anything else. " - ARRELL - 5/30/2008 9:11:36 PM
- Thank You Zoners... (n/t) - Jody - 5/29/2008 2:14:11 AM
  - Higgs-boson - Jody - 5/29/2008 1:05:41 PM
- A slight k-meson decay assymetry - Adam - 5/28/2008 10:40:20 PM
- Why is it that the simplest questions are always the most profound? (n/t) - ER - 5/28/2008 12:13:20 PM
  - re: Why is it that the simplest questions are always the most profound? - Marcia - 5/28/2008 5:54:03 PM
    - Occam's Razor - JEKing - 5/30/2008 10:07:06 PM
      - re: Occam's Razor - Marcia - 5/30/2008 10:38:25 PM
        
        re: Occam's Razor - JEKing - 5/31/2008 3:13:02 PM
    - re: Sorry, here... - Marcia - 5/28/2008 5:57:17 PM
- Cogito Ergo Sum - nick hoffman - 5/28/2008 8:32:03 AM
- Because... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/28/2008 6:58:12 AM
  - re: I think that - Johannes - 5/30/2008 1:54:44 AM
- re: Why is there anything? - ARRELL - 5/28/2008 4:52:40 AM
  - MY link had cute little pictures. - TB - 5/28/2008 4:56:32 AM
- re: Why is there anything? - Bowser - 5/27/2008 8:04:01 PM
- Because the alternative is inconceivable. (n/t) - ER - 5/27/2008 6:36:51 PM
  - Literally! (n/t) - TB - 5/27/2008 10:03:26 PM
- Nobody really knows. - TB - 5/27/2008 4:36:05 PM
- re: Why ? - Raoul - 5/27/2008 3:58:31 PM
  - And another cosmic question - Socrates II - 5/28/2008 5:16:37 PM
    - Time is defined thermodynamically, not dynamically. - ER - 5/28/2008 5:43:37 PM
      - re: Time is defined thermodynamically, not dynamically. - Marcia - 5/28/2008 6:01:16 PM

Query - Eri - 5/30/2008 10:46:38 PM
- Are they referring to magnetic monopoles or something? - et - 5/31/2008 12:30:11 AM
  - Magnetic monopoles - Eri - 5/31/2008 2:40:16 AM
- re: Query - Marcia - 5/30/2008 11:24:35 PM
  - Thanks for the link. - Eri - 5/31/2008 2:53:32 AM
    - Charged particles - no - nick hoffman - 5/31/2008 9:19:29 AM
      - Thanks for the info. (n/t) - Eri - 5/31/2008 3:10:57 PM
  - re: Sorry, as far as the MERS or Phoenix, Pyrotechnics was it for them. (n/t) - Marcia - 5/31/2008 12:08:33 AM

A panoramic from Phoenix (hills in the horizon!!) - Raoul - 5/30/2008 10:28:58 PM
- re: A panoramic from Phoenix (hills in the horizon!!) - Marcia - 5/30/2008 11:13:22 PM
  - re: A panoramic from Phoenix (hills in the horizon!!) - Marcia - 5/30/2008 11:15:42 PM
    - Let's hope the machine that digs is strong enough! (n/t) - Raoul - 5/31/2008 7:49:01 AM

A proposed solar sail mission to the Sun - Socrates II - 5/30/2008 7:27:21 PM
- Tacking into the solar wind! - ER - 5/30/2008 8:30:48 PM

The Kelly twins - Raoul - 5/30/2008 7:58:13 PM

Good Article - Marsby - 5/29/2008 2:20:48 AM
- re: Good Article. - Thanks, and by all means it's also important! (n/t) - Marcia - 5/30/2008 7:28:40 PM
- Hyperlinks For EP' s Article - Marsby - 5/29/2008 2:32:16 AM
  - The Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC) - Socrates II - 5/29/2008 6:57:44 PM
    - Thanks & Hyper link - Marsby - 5/30/2008 1:11:32 AM
      - Ignore Demo - Marsby - 5/30/2008 1:14:34 AM

A bit on fusion - TB - 5/29/2008 4:59:12 PM
- A bit 'off putting' - James Brown - 5/30/2008 6:41:27 PM
- So How Many Shares Did You Buy? - Marsby - 5/30/2008 12:56:35 AM
  - None. Raised my scam hackles, too. - TB - 5/30/2008 3:13:39 AM
    - re: None. Raised my scam hackles, too. - TAFKASE - 5/30/2008 5:31:26 AM
      - Remember Cold Fusion? - Socrates II - 5/30/2008 4:35:35 PM

Is another Little Ice Age coming? - Socrates II - 5/22/2008 2:36:23 PM
- On the other hand... - Socrates II - 5/22/2008 5:06:05 PM
  - Sun's properties not 'fine-tuned' for life - Socrates II - 5/23/2008 5:11:23 PM
    - Large methane release could cause abrupt climate change as happened 635 million years ago - Socrates II - 5/29/2008 5:32:16 PM

A model of a manned ATV at ILA (Berlin) - Raoul - 5/28/2008 9:04:10 PM
- Excellent: And leather seats! - pb - 5/29/2008 1:09:47 AM

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