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Peru meteor update - TB - 9/26/2007 7:13:46 PM
- Where's EP? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/26/2007 9:32:16 PM
  - I think it's wierd that a meteor has not yet hit an urban area. (n/t) - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/27/2007 2:54:45 AM
    - There's a lot more uninhabited surface on land than we think (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2007 5:33:21 AM
  - He had a pretty good link on comet impacts earlier. - TB - 9/26/2007 10:39:49 PM
  - Busy... - E.P. - 9/26/2007 10:38:18 PM
    - So is Jerry Pournelle... - TB - 9/27/2007 6:03:06 AM

The Space Age at 50...from the NY Times - Raoul - 9/27/2007 5:23:34 AM

When Computers Were Human - New Age Vapors - 9/25/2007 7:24:46 PM
- When Humans could Compute - Hank - 9/26/2007 11:38:39 PM
- Luna-2 hit the moon in 1959 thanks to Soviet engineers/scientists using slide-rules & pencils & paper. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/26/2007 6:19:38 PM

Project Horizon: a large scale simulation of the Universe - Raoul - 9/26/2007 9:36:24 PM

Tesla Motors update - TB - 9/26/2007 7:36:43 PM
- re: Tesla Motors update - phil - 9/26/2007 8:06:13 PM
  - C'mon Phil... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/26/2007 9:25:14 PM

Franklin Chang Diaz to test Full Scale VASIMIR - phil - 9/25/2007 7:00:30 PM
- Wow, I'm impressed. - Lee - 9/26/2007 5:32:13 AM
  - re: Wow, I'm impressed. - phil - 9/26/2007 12:28:11 PM
    - Yeah, I thought the same thing. - Lee - 9/26/2007 9:25:02 PM

Fotino lost - Raoul - 9/26/2007 5:44:51 PM

Mars Gully: No Mineral Trace Of Liquid Water - Donald - 9/25/2007 2:13:16 PM
- No surprise - E.P. - 9/25/2007 5:34:52 PM
  - Mars has more water ice than any other terrestrial world after Earth - New Age Vapors - 9/26/2007 12:46:19 PM
    - Its freeze-dried world - Donald - 9/26/2007 1:09:38 PM

Wanted: Multi-Billionaire With Desire for Immortality - phil - 9/26/2007 1:28:00 AM

Astronomers Spot New 'Halley-Like' Comet - Jeff F - 9/25/2007 11:37:28 PM

NASA aims to put man on Mars by 2037 - Jeff F - 9/24/2007 6:38:34 PM
- Bigelow will beat NASA there. Before 2025 is my bet. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 9/25/2007 1:08:39 AM
  - I'll take that bet... - dtb - 9/25/2007 10:37:49 AM
  - Maybe not Mars, but definitely the Moon. (n/t) - TB - 9/25/2007 5:24:26 AM
- Algorithm: Every decade insert new date - phil - 9/24/2007 8:09:28 PM
  - re: Algorithm: Every decade insert new date, - Speaking o horizon... New Horizon will make it to Pluto by 2015. :) - Marcia - 9/25/2007 2:27:29 AM
  - re: There is a slight difference this time... - Chris Vancil - 9/24/2007 9:31:02 PM
    - You don't REALLY believe that do you??? - phil - 9/25/2007 12:08:03 AM
      - re: You don't REALLY believe that do you??? - Chris Vancil - 9/25/2007 9:45:58 AM
        
        Columbia's disintegration - TB - 9/25/2007 4:55:44 PM
        
        The Columbia crew did not die in vain. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/25/2007 6:34:49 PM
      - re: You don't REALLY believe that do you??? - Buck Galaxy - 9/25/2007 7:45:24 AM
        
        I concede to your logic! - phil - 9/25/2007 7:08:01 PM
    - If you believe... - Lee - 9/24/2007 10:26:26 PM
      - re: If you believe... - Chris Vancil - 9/25/2007 9:37:13 AM
  - Kind of like government fusion programs. (n/t) - TB - 9/24/2007 8:11:09 PM
    - Yes and very shortly, 30 years will be too far in the future to hope to be alive for it (n/t) - Raoul - 9/24/2007 8:33:48 PM

news item on the Holocene start impacts - E.P. - 9/25/2007 5:36:57 PM
- re: news item on the Holocene start impacts - phil - 9/25/2007 7:05:24 PM

Parallel universes exist - study - Bowser - 9/24/2007 4:49:14 PM
- re: Parallel universes exist - study - phil - 9/25/2007 12:13:53 AM
  - re: Parallel universes exist - study - Marcia - 9/25/2007 2:31:11 AM
    - re: Parallel universes exist - study - Marcia - 9/25/2007 4:56:33 AM
      - Stars are spheroids, because they rotate - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/25/2007 6:15:54 PM
- How do they COMMUNICATE in those universes? - carl - 9/24/2007 9:03:23 PM
  - They can communicate, they just can't ever meet. (n/t) - Hank - 9/24/2007 11:34:11 PM
    - Postulate that GRAVITY WAVES COMMUNICATE? - carl - 9/25/2007 6:15:45 PM
- Does one of them have Al Gore as President of a parallel America? - Jacob Samorodin - 9/24/2007 7:03:30 PM
- Sure they exist, - Hank - 9/24/2007 5:51:18 PM
- Spinning coins exist - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/24/2007 5:41:04 PM
- re: Parallel universes exist - study - TB - 9/24/2007 5:40:46 PM

IMAX Camera Returns to Space to Chronicle Hubble Space Telescope - New Age Vapors - 9/25/2007 2:15:47 PM
- ACS repair?? - Raoul - 9/25/2007 3:31:55 PM

Race To Mars... - Raoul - 9/23/2007 9:10:53 PM
- Trailer - Raoul - 9/25/2007 6:34:39 AM
- Contrast 1961 with 2007 - Bowser - 9/24/2007 3:00:40 PM
  - LOL!....Going to Mars is still hard....Very hard! (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/24/2007 6:48:15 PM
  - re: Contrast 1961 with 2007 - Raoul - 9/24/2007 4:19:59 PM

Global space congress looks to the future - Jeff F - 9/25/2007 2:52:54 AM

NASA spacecraft finds possible Mars caves - Jeff F - 9/23/2007 3:47:49 AM
- Was "reported" on "Unmanned Spaceflight" months ago (n/t) - Adam - 9/23/2007 10:31:20 PM
  - Here too! (n/t) - Raoul - 9/24/2007 4:16:01 PM
    - To be fair, he was reporting a recent NASA news item. - TB - 9/24/2007 5:47:37 PM

From Oppy, forward haz_cam september 22 - Raoul - 9/23/2007 8:56:25 AM
- Still hanging around that crater. - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/23/2007 6:52:05 PM
  - A perspective - Raoul - 9/23/2007 7:42:35 PM
    - Between sand traps and dust storms... - New Age Vapors - 9/24/2007 4:05:07 PM

Is our Sun a Singleton? - New Age Vapors - 9/21/2007 3:16:56 PM
- why the name change, Larry? (n/t) - Adam - 9/21/2007 11:43:40 PM
  - re: why the name change, Larry? Larry J? - phil - 9/21/2007 11:48:54 PM
    - Close... - Fox - 9/23/2007 11:54:29 PM
    - (I know how we could tell...) - RobVG - 9/22/2007 12:37:17 AM
      - good one, Rob (n/t) - Fox - 9/23/2007 11:49:26 PM
        
        The message is much more interesting than the messenger - New Age Vapors - 9/24/2007 4:02:18 PM
- re: Is our Sun a Singleton? - Hank - 9/21/2007 8:15:02 PM
- I'm sure it weighs more than that. (n/t) - TB - 9/21/2007 3:58:04 PM
  - LOL. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/21/2007 4:38:58 PM
- If so, yet another reason our system may be rare (n/t) - phil - 9/21/2007 3:27:28 PM
  - Most red dwarfs are single, are they not ? And they are the most numerous (n/t) - Raoul - 9/21/2007 3:56:28 PM
    - re: Most red dwarfs are single, are they not ? And they are the most numerous - Hank - 9/21/2007 6:23:17 PM
      - Selection effects - Hank - 9/21/2007 11:54:59 PM
      - Most stars are single ! - Raoul - 9/21/2007 9:13:15 PM
    - Red Dwarf Flare Impacted Tidally Locked Worlds Are Not Earthlike - phil - 9/21/2007 4:08:57 PM
      - Not like earth, yes, but.... - Raoul - 9/21/2007 4:11:16 PM
        
        re: Not like earth, yes, but.... - phil - 9/21/2007 6:17:46 PM
        
        I think 1-2% is wrong - pwokenyaw - 9/24/2007 4:49:13 AM

After one more orbit around the galaxy, the Earth will look like this - Raoul - 9/22/2007 5:44:01 AM
- Not Dry Enough? - Adam - 9/23/2007 3:46:02 AM
  - re: 4 orbits... - Raoul - 9/23/2007 7:51:17 AM
- That's one big ocean - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/22/2007 5:08:17 PM
  - re: There were already one giant continent, twice in Earth's past (n/t) - Raoul - 9/22/2007 5:56:40 PM
  - Recommended reading... - TB - 9/22/2007 5:35:32 PM
  - The coolest part is you'll be able to drive almost anywhere. (n/t) - TB - 9/22/2007 5:19:30 PM
    - It is completely out of the question there will be humans on Earth by that time - Raoul - 9/22/2007 7:24:10 PM
      - Who said anything about humans? - TB - 9/23/2007 3:18:27 AM
      - Directed evolution and speciation - Adam - 9/23/2007 2:27:58 AM
        
        Genetic engineering - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/23/2007 3:54:19 AM
        
        And what really will make genetic engineering take off - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/23/2007 4:50:29 AM
        
        I'm afraid you're probably right (n/t) - Adam - 9/23/2007 10:29:55 PM
- re: After one more orbit around the galaxy, the Earth will look like this - phil - 9/22/2007 1:30:12 PM

NASA Plans Black Hole Finder - Jeff F - 9/23/2007 1:03:30 AM
- I propose a lander with a small sample return. - Bowser the Astronot - 9/23/2007 1:17:55 AM
  - Gravity Proof Box - Adam - 9/23/2007 3:13:54 AM

A few cool websites. - Lee - 9/23/2007 2:04:17 AM

"The Secret CIA UFO Files" - Bowser - 9/23/2007 12:52:42 AM
- re: "The Secret CIA UFO Files" - Eric - 9/23/2007 1:55:54 AM

Erupting volcano and the Pleiades - New Age Vapors - 9/21/2007 7:22:06 PM
- Thanks for that, Mr , er, "Vapors". .. - Robert Clark - 9/22/2007 4:11:32 PM
  - It's a response to a previous recent "discussion" on Off Topic - New Age Vapors - 9/22/2007 7:13:27 PM
- re: Erupting volcano and the Pleiades - Raoul - 9/21/2007 9:06:57 PM

"Alien Planet" DVD - TB - 9/22/2007 5:44:44 PM
- Based on a Planet in a Barlowe's Extraterrestrials Book (n/t) - phil - 9/22/2007 6:22:15 PM

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