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The Alien Galaxy Hoax - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/19/2007 2:57:16 PM
- re: The Alien Galaxy Hoax - Hank - 7/19/2007 6:39:34 PM
  - re: The Alien Galaxy Hoax - Robert Clark - 7/21/2007 6:43:32 AM
- Arcturus - Raoul - 7/19/2007 6:05:39 PM

2 big Astronomy club nights , starting tonight - Jeff F - 7/20/2007 2:41:02 PM
- wow!! - Jeff F - 7/21/2007 4:13:52 AM

Return of the "Skinsuit" - TB - 7/16/2007 11:03:32 PM
- The right idea - Peter Bruener - 7/20/2007 7:41:21 PM

The active Sun!! - Raoul - 7/20/2007 1:08:08 PM
- The new film Sunshine - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/20/2007 1:29:57 PM

ISS magnitude predictions - Delbert - 7/15/2007 5:25:37 PM
- re: ISS magnitude predictions - iss - 7/20/2007 9:58:04 AM
- re: ISS magnitude predictions - Jeff F - 7/16/2007 12:40:14 AM
  - re: ISS magnitude predictions - TB - 7/16/2007 6:05:48 AM

Cost of Tourist Ride to ISS Increases - carl - 7/19/2007 8:07:08 PM
- rIsn't the dollar going down? (n/t) - Raoul - 7/19/2007 8:26:33 PM

Science and the soul: Descartes loses force - Raoul - 7/17/2007 3:27:59 PM
- re: Science and the soul - TB - 7/18/2007 5:10:49 PM
  - Good Post, TB (n/t) - Jody - 7/19/2007 1:01:40 PM
  - How are we unique? - Raoul - 7/18/2007 7:29:25 PM
    - I feel we are both insignificant AND significant - Jody - 7/19/2007 2:05:13 PM
      - Good arguments, Jody! I agree (n/t) - Raoul - 7/19/2007 6:11:01 PM
        
        Raoul - Jody - 7/19/2007 6:51:09 PM
    - re: How are we unique? - gbaikie - 7/19/2007 1:50:09 AM
    - Because we can ask that question. (n/t) - TB - 7/19/2007 12:06:54 AM
      - We humans ask questions.... - Raoul - 7/19/2007 2:06:00 PM
- We are significant. We are rare, thinking, matter. - REB - 7/18/2007 4:52:04 PM
  - re: We are rare, thinking, matter. - Raoul - 7/18/2007 7:34:05 PM
    - re: We are rare, thinking, matter. - REB - 7/18/2007 7:46:26 PM
      - re: We are rare, thinking, matter. - REB - 7/18/2007 7:53:30 PM
        
        Self-awareness - Raoul - 7/18/2007 8:09:29 PM
        
        re: Self-awareness - REB - 7/18/2007 8:18:22 PM
        
        re: Self-awareness - Hank - 7/19/2007 8:05:51 PM
  - And welcome back! (n/t) - REB - 7/18/2007 4:52:43 PM
    - Thanks! (n/t) - Raoul - 7/18/2007 7:40:40 PM
- Muddle-headed philosophy - Adam - 7/18/2007 10:33:40 AM
- Narrow field scope - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/18/2007 5:56:30 AM
  - PS - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/18/2007 10:54:46 PM
- re: Science and the soul: Descartes loses force - gbaikie - 7/17/2007 9:38:27 PM
  - Des cartes before de horse - Hank - 7/17/2007 11:53:49 PM
    - re: Des cartes before de horse - gbaikie - 7/18/2007 4:41:25 AM
      - Significant chess-playing monkeys and English speaking whales who know God? - Hank - 7/18/2007 11:25:58 AM
  - re: Science and the soul: Descartes loses force - Delbert - 7/17/2007 11:30:38 PM
  - All too true - Daniel - 7/17/2007 10:14:27 PM
    - re: Science and the soul - Raoul - 7/18/2007 8:17:18 AM
      - re: Science and the soul - Daniel - 7/18/2007 8:43:52 AM
    - People like Raoul are the reason for the decline of Western Civilization. - Lee - 7/18/2007 2:25:35 AM
      - That's a stretch too far - you're on your own, pal - Daniel - 7/18/2007 5:12:46 AM
- Whatever the market will bear - Hank - 7/17/2007 8:57:59 PM
  - Comparisons - Raoul - 7/17/2007 9:23:26 PM
- What Francis Crick called Biochemical Theology - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 7:50:57 PM
- Welcome back. The "spark of life". - Bowser - 7/17/2007 5:25:38 PM
  - Very well said, thanks for that. (n/t) - McFly - 7/18/2007 4:55:10 PM
  - On humankind's "unimportance..." - TB - 7/18/2007 1:29:42 AM
    - re: On humankind's "unimportance..." - Hank - 7/18/2007 3:26:44 PM
    - yes.... The Cochroaches! - nick hoffman - 7/18/2007 12:02:44 PM
  - When we do find extraterrestrial life... - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 6:11:05 PM
    - Listen hear you acrimonious academic - TheWolfLooksDown - 7/19/2007 12:48:40 PM
      - Relax - TheSheepLookUp - 7/19/2007 12:55:30 PM
    - re: When we do find extraterrestrial life... - Lindy - 7/19/2007 12:54:03 AM
      - Of course I think there is life beyond Earth - TheSheepLookUp - 7/19/2007 12:54:13 PM

Dust storm on Mars intensifying - azstrummer - 7/18/2007 4:27:15 PM
- A link to Dougs site, please (n/t) - Jeff F - 7/18/2007 4:38:42 PM
  - re:Dougs site - Raoul - 7/18/2007 6:52:10 PM
  - re: A link to Dougs site, please - azstrummer - 7/18/2007 4:47:41 PM
    - Crap - azstrummer - 7/18/2007 4:49:06 PM
      - re: Crap - TB - 7/18/2007 5:00:37 PM
        
        The actual NASA MER Web site is a good source - TheSheepLookUp - 7/18/2007 6:19:08 PM
        
        Ideally, one should keep an eye on both. - TB - 7/18/2007 9:52:04 PM
        
        I beg to differ on this issue - azstrummer - 7/18/2007 8:45:12 PM
        
        If one of the rovers "died" right now... - TheSheepLookUp - 7/19/2007 12:45:35 PM
        
        re: If one of the rovers "died" right now... - Jeff F - 7/19/2007 1:22:41 PM
        
        The ISS won't be a gateway to anywhere - TheSheepLookUp - 7/19/2007 1:47:39 PM
        
        Question - Hank - 7/19/2007 1:22:12 PM
        
        An answer - phil - 7/19/2007 2:33:11 PM
        
        re: An answer - Raoul - 7/19/2007 6:08:35 PM

Make that,... 60 moons for Saturn - Jeff F - 7/19/2007 4:40:47 PM

'Refrigerator-Sized' Object to be Tossed From Space Station - Jack Herer - 7/19/2007 4:27:41 PM

The Difficulty Of Sending Probes To Other Planets - Jeff F - 7/19/2007 12:42:57 PM
- We should send micro or dust probes to the planets - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/19/2007 1:58:56 PM

We must colonize Mars by 2053 - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 1:56:38 PM
- Earth and mankind - Raoul - 7/17/2007 4:08:29 PM
  - You gonna let a few space rocks stop us? - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 5:11:08 PM
    - Small chance.... - Raoul - 7/17/2007 5:45:10 PM
      - The intricate framework of delusions - E.P. - 7/18/2007 2:17:32 PM
        
        add in - E.P. - 7/18/2007 5:54:27 PM
        
        add in - E.P. - 7/18/2007 10:49:55 PM
        
        add in - E.P. - 7/18/2007 10:53:22 PM
        
        Unless fossils are somehow deadly - TheSheepLookUp - 7/19/2007 1:00:54 PM
        
        Doesn't matter if space rocks get tweaked or not - TheSheepLookUp - 7/18/2007 3:07:52 PM
        
        I suppose I'll just have to disagree with you about that (n/t) - E.P. - 7/18/2007 5:22:28 PM
        
        Yes you will - TheSheepLookUp - 7/18/2007 6:12:09 PM
        
        kind of like... - E.P. - 7/18/2007 10:51:11 PM
        
        Oh give it a rest - TheSheepLookUp - 7/19/2007 12:57:52 PM
        
        re: Doesn't matter if space rocks get tweaked or not - Jeff F - 7/18/2007 3:20:18 PM
      - It only takes one to wipe us out - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 6:07:02 PM
        
        I would think - azstrummer - 7/17/2007 8:03:11 PM
        
        Mars and Zubrin - Raoul - 7/17/2007 6:56:51 PM
        
        Colonization is only ugly if someone is already there to begin with - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 7:55:56 PM
        
        re: Colonization is not only about the other world but also about who goes there - Raoul - 7/17/2007 8:39:05 PM
        
        Guess what - space colonists will not be noble astronauts - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 8:55:47 PM
        
        Exploration= curiosity - Raoul - 7/17/2007 9:58:42 PM
        
        Colonization does not equal stop exploring - TheSheepLookUp - 7/18/2007 12:14:43 PM
        
        Viking - Jeff F - 7/17/2007 8:01:21 PM
- The theory & controversy behind the prediction - phil - 7/17/2007 3:18:58 PM
- NEO Impacts - Jeff F - 7/17/2007 2:48:55 PM

"Music Detected by SETI from Planet Gliese ? " moved to off-topic - moderite podrock - 7/19/2007 3:47:34 AM

Astronomy program for the blind - Jeff F - 7/18/2007 2:27:10 PM

Bizzarro Evidence for Early SuperNova Near the Solar Syatem - phil - 7/17/2007 10:00:33 PM
- Me am finally published in Science! Me hate it! (n/t) - Bizzarro - 7/18/2007 1:21:58 AM
  - Seriously... - TB - 7/18/2007 1:25:43 AM

A closer look at "Sputnik" crater by Opportunity? - Robert Clark - 6/15/2007 1:15:21 PM
- re: A closer look at "Sputnik" crater by Opportunity? - robert williams - 6/19/2007 6:45:30 PM
- Just a normal impact crater - nick hoffman - 6/16/2007 12:15:27 PM
  - Very steep-sided walls. - Robert Clark - 6/16/2007 1:02:12 PM
    - Sputnik crater as a volcanic vent. - Robert Clark - 7/1/2007 11:44:48 AM
      - Your image failed. - nick hoffman - 7/1/2007 3:29:01 PM
        
        re: Your image failed. - Robert Clark - 7/1/2007 6:56:26 PM
    - Nothing unusuaol about the slopes - nick hoffman - 6/16/2007 6:43:41 PM
      - re: Nothing unusuaol about the slopes - Robert Clark - 6/16/2007 7:57:41 PM
        
        re: Nothing unusual about the slopes - Marcia - 6/16/2007 9:37:25 PM
        
        re: Nothing unusual about the slopes - Robert Clark - 6/23/2007 4:38:04 PM
        
        re: Nothing unusual about the slopes - Marcia - 7/2/2007 10:53:41 PM
        
        re: Nothing unusual about the slopes - Marcia - 7/2/2007 10:06:33 PM
        
        re: Nothing unusual about the slopes - Robert Clark - 7/3/2007 2:44:15 PM
        
        re: I like those B&W images. - Marcia - 7/3/2007 5:01:49 PM
        
        Full resolution of new Sputnik image. - Robert Clark - 7/17/2007 7:52:06 PM
        
        re: Nothing unusual about the slopes - Robert Clark - 6/17/2007 1:35:21 AM
- re: A closer look at "Sputnik" crater by Opportunity? - REB - 6/15/2007 1:30:48 PM
  - re: A closer look at "Sputnik" crater by Opportunity? - Robert Williams - 7/2/2007 12:50:26 AM

Designing The "NEW" LEM decent Engine - Jeff F - 7/17/2007 12:18:14 PM
- U forgot the BIG ONE ......on APOLLO 13 - carl - 7/17/2007 6:50:02 PM
  - re: U forgot the BIG ONE ......on APOLLO 13 - Jeff F - 7/17/2007 6:55:42 PM

Mars Science Lab Rover 2009 - Jeff F - 7/17/2007 3:46:34 PM
- re: Mars Science Lab Rover 2009 - Raoul - 7/17/2007 4:14:59 PM
  - re: Mars Science Lab Rover 2009 - Jeff F - 7/17/2007 4:39:28 PM

UK Space Strategy Quandry - phil - 7/17/2007 3:40:42 PM

Lagrange points for science and...human exploration... - Raoul - 7/17/2007 8:53:35 AM
- Welcome back, Raoul. (n/t) - ER - 7/17/2007 12:40:32 PM
  - Merci, ER! (n/t) - Raoul - 7/17/2007 3:30:24 PM
- re: Lagrange points for science and...human exploration... - phil - 7/17/2007 11:04:36 AM

Start of U.S. Space Observance - TheSheepLookUp - 7/17/2007 1:33:50 PM

Scientists call for wider search for alien life - Eric - 7/9/2007 11:23:00 AM
- Here is the report online - TheSheepLookUp - 7/10/2007 6:13:54 PM
- Science is the opiate of the masses (n/t) - Un_Epi_De_Maise - 7/10/2007 2:04:19 AM
- Calculating the probability of detecting radio signals from alien civilizations - TheSheepLookUp - 7/9/2007 4:29:31 PM
  - Would they USE RADIO? - carl - 7/9/2007 9:36:32 PM
    - re: Would they USE RADIO? - Marcia - 7/10/2007 1:12:34 AM
      - Howard STERN uses radio...and "stern" is German for "star". - Can you hear me now, Hank? - 7/10/2007 6:09:34 PM
      - Not necessarily - TheSheepLookUp - 7/10/2007 3:01:37 PM
        
        re: Not necessarily. I know. - Marcia - 7/11/2007 11:50:43 PM
        
        "There is no dark side of the moon. Matter of fact, it's all dark." (n/t) - Pink Floyd - 7/11/2007 11:58:13 PM
        
        re: "There is no dark side of the moon. Matter of fact, it's all dark." - Marcia - 7/12/2007 2:59:49 AM
        
        Astronomy Domine - Ummagumma - 7/12/2007 3:23:06 AM
        
        re: Astronomy Domine. No duh. - Marcia - 7/12/2007 3:39:15 AM
        
        Obscure cultural references - Hank - 7/12/2007 4:41:24 AM
        
        re: Obscure cultural references. For crying out loud. Dark, light, whatever, be specific. LOL - Marcia - 7/12/2007 5:08:31 AM
        
        Specific enough? Sorry if I startled you - Hank the Troll - 7/12/2007 12:10:59 PM
        
        re: Specific enough? Sorry if I startled you. - Fair Enough. Thank you! :) (n/t) - Marcia - 7/17/2007 2:59:28 AM
        
        hank, here the custom is to acknowledge the reference - nick hoffman - 7/13/2007 2:59:21 PM
        
        re: hank, here the custom is to acknowledge the reference - Hankleby the scrivener - 7/13/2007 6:42:52 PM
        
        Excellent, Hank, Thanks for sharing it with us. - nick hoffman - 7/17/2007 1:09:22 PM
        
        re: hank, here the custom is to acknowledge the reference - Marcia - 7/17/2007 3:09:43 AM
        
        would you prefer a million bright ambassadors of morning? - podrock - 7/12/2007 5:25:23 AM
        
        That reminds me of the Isaac Asimov story - TheSheepLookUp - 7/12/2007 1:38:05 PM
        
        I always loved that story, - Hank - 7/12/2007 1:59:44 PM
        
        It was not just the darkness - TheSheepLookUp - 7/12/2007 2:10:22 PM
        
        re: It was not just the darkness - Hank - 7/12/2007 4:13:01 PM
        
        Pitch Black wasn't that bad - Adam - 7/14/2007 9:30:18 AM
        
        or a small furry animal... - podrock - 7/12/2007 4:38:56 AM
        
        I used to think it was someone speaking Pictish... - Hank - 7/12/2007 4:48:40 AM
        
        Not London - nick hoffman - 7/13/2007 2:56:20 PM
        
        You are a fortunate man, indeed. (n/t) - Hank - 7/13/2007 7:03:03 PM
        
        Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon? - podrock - 7/12/2007 5:01:31 AM
        
        Pamela Gayâ€™s take on Horvatâ€™s SETI paper - TheSheepLookUp - 7/10/2007 7:25:55 PM
        
        The Cyborg Astrobiologist - TheSheepLookUp - 7/11/2007 2:22:30 PM

March 24 2020 Moon apogee - Raoul - 7/17/2007 12:56:11 PM

Forest Fire Leads to Ancient Meteorite Discovery - Jeff F - 7/16/2007 7:37:00 PM
- Ironically, usually ancient meteorites lead to forest fires. (n/t) - TB - 7/17/2007 4:19:49 AM
- I look forward to the results of the study - podrock - 7/16/2007 10:34:16 PM

You Space Science People!! - Jody - 7/16/2007 3:03:52 PM
- Raoul of course - Delbert - 7/16/2007 9:04:18 PM
  - (see community board) (n/t) - podrock - 7/16/2007 9:27:30 PM
- Who would be president- I dont think anyone here has any doubt - ARRELL - 7/16/2007 5:14:10 PM
  - No doubt here. (n/t) - podrock - 7/16/2007 9:26:43 PM
  - re: Who would be president- I dont think anyone here has any doubt - Jeff F - 7/16/2007 5:36:31 PM
  - By acclimation (n/t) - Fox - 7/16/2007 5:30:51 PM
    - Someday I'll become acclimated to spelling by acclamation - Robert - 7/16/2007 8:08:42 PM
      - re: Someday I'll become acclimated to spelling by acclamation - Marcia - 7/17/2007 12:24:09 AM
        
        re: Someday I'll become acclimated to spelling by acclamation - Marcia - 7/17/2007 1:18:51 AM
      - yeah, yeah... - Fox - 7/17/2007 12:19:40 AM
      - re: Someday I'll become acclimated to spelling by acclamation - Jeff F - 7/16/2007 8:14:03 PM

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