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SteveS - SteveS - 5/22/2007 1:27:43 PM

Exoplanets around Gj 436 - Raoul - 5/22/2007 8:54:28 AM

Ice Age Comet Impact... - Adam - 5/22/2007 8:25:30 AM

A real question. - Mary Anne - 5/20/2007 3:02:27 AM
- re: If you go by Star Trek type definitions.. - Jody - 5/22/2007 3:45:59 AM
- re: A good question. - SteveS - 5/22/2007 12:37:11 AM
  - re: A good question. - Marcia - 5/22/2007 3:22:03 AM
- Thank you all. - Mary Anne - 5/21/2007 2:28:30 AM
  - I guess my answer wasnt too helpful... - ARRELL - 5/21/2007 7:11:19 PM
  - re: Thank you all. - Marcia - 5/21/2007 5:13:51 PM
- If people want to set up life in a new place... - Arrell - 5/20/2007 10:23:03 PM
- re: A real question. - gbaikie - 5/20/2007 9:54:14 PM
- The pedosphere: - podrock - 5/20/2007 9:48:17 PM
  - re: The pedosphere: - good one. - Marcia - 5/21/2007 9:37:48 PM
    - I forgot to capitalize: Un-Earthed (n/t) - podrock - 5/22/2007 12:14:05 AM
- re:Lower case earth is dirt, Upper case Earth is a planet. - Johannes - 5/20/2007 9:22:12 PM
- A variation of the stopped "moving van" question. Same answer. (n/t) - Bowser - 5/20/2007 8:04:20 PM
- re: A real question. - Fox - 5/20/2007 6:11:40 PM
- Lower case earth - FrankC - 5/20/2007 6:11:06 PM
- re: A real question. - FreedomYeti - 5/20/2007 6:08:26 PM
- A few examples from the french language - Raoul - 5/20/2007 7:18:06 AM
- re: A real question. - Adam - 5/20/2007 5:07:38 AM
  - I like the sound of "regolithworms" - Buck Galaxy - 5/20/2007 5:18:50 PM
- A real answer. - Mr Fibuli - 5/20/2007 4:47:31 AM
- re: A real question. - TB - 5/20/2007 4:17:42 AM

Good chance for a naked eye view of mercury tonight - SteveS - 5/17/2007 1:35:01 PM
- Too many hills to the west... - TB - 5/18/2007 3:46:56 PM
  - re: Same here and the trees donâ€™t help - SteveS - 5/18/2007 11:28:13 PM
- Thanks - REB - 5/17/2007 1:44:59 PM
  - re: No joy here - SteveS - 5/18/2007 12:24:28 PM
    - Lots of nice Mercury Moon images on today's Spaceweather.com (n/t) - richard - 5/18/2007 1:55:06 PM
      - re: Indeed, Spaceweather's astrophotgraphy gallery is worldly (n/t) - SteveS - 5/18/2007 11:30:59 PM
        
        For those of you who missed the conjunction for one reason or another... - TheSheepLookUp - 5/21/2007 4:40:19 PM
        
        re: Moon Saturn 5/22 - SteveS - 5/22/2007 2:47:43 AM

Spirit of St. Louis - Chris Vancil - 5/21/2007 8:39:19 PM
- re: Spirit of St. Louis - Good luck to SOFIA and the next Kepler Observatory. - Marcia - 5/22/2007 2:17:03 AM
- re: Spirit of St. Louis - Raoul - 5/21/2007 8:59:51 PM

EXOMARS design review--reinventing the wheel - Sawyer - 5/21/2007 6:00:29 PM
- re: EXOMARS design : first wheeled vehicle - Raoul - 5/21/2007 6:10:58 PM

Chris Vancil's post has been moved to flame due to political vandalism - moderite podrock - 5/19/2007 8:07:03 PM
- NASA at the shallow end of the talent pool. - Chris Vancil - 5/20/2007 10:36:14 PM
  - re: NASA at the shallow end of the talent pool. - gbaikie - 5/21/2007 2:55:48 AM

Beam me up...for a few minutes, anyway. - TB - 5/19/2007 10:55:20 PM
- Ceestis is aaparently waiting for the Falcon-1 rocket to be proved reliable. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/20/2007 10:40:05 PM

Stephen Hawking and Harold Kroto in Brussels! - Raoul - 5/20/2007 9:40:06 PM

Amateur Bags Exoplanet Transit - phil - 5/18/2007 3:34:26 PM
- And it's not his first discovery! (n/t) - Raoul - 5/18/2007 3:56:32 PM
  - re: And it's not his first discovery! OUTSTANDING!!! (n/t) - phil - 5/20/2007 4:57:57 PM

Compressed air auto - TB - 5/20/2007 2:31:58 AM
- re: Compressed air auto - gbaikie - 5/20/2007 10:28:34 AM
- Featured on Beyond Tomorrow... - Adam - 5/20/2007 5:18:14 AM

80 years ago - Raoul - 5/20/2007 8:33:33 AM

Thoughts on Gliese 581c, et al. - Bowser - 4/29/2007 10:40:31 PM
- re: Thoughts on Gliese 581c, et al. - Pierre - 5/19/2007 1:31:46 AM
- Here's an artist's depiction - phil - 5/2/2007 4:45:45 PM
  - re: Here's an artist's depiction. -Thanks, Phil! - Marcia - 5/2/2007 6:49:29 PM
    - re: Here's an artist's depiction. -Thanks, Phil! - phil - 5/3/2007 1:37:42 AM
- Finally a Planet in the Habitable Zone. - The Bees - 5/1/2007 9:39:27 AM
- I don't believe interstellar colonization is possible - SDF - 4/30/2007 10:11:29 PM
  - Whatever happened to those generation ships you designed? (n/t) - FrankC - 5/3/2007 5:39:07 PM
  - We canâ€™t assume aliens will have the same life spans as we do. Or the same life requirements. - REB - 5/1/2007 12:41:06 PM
    - Even an inanimate object would probably be unrecognizable after travelling between the stars. - SDF - 5/1/2007 8:56:33 PM
      - Would explain the porosity - Adam - 5/20/2007 1:29:14 AM
  - Of course it's possible. - Lee - 5/1/2007 3:13:55 AM
    - A starship travelling at 0.1cee - SDF - 5/1/2007 8:53:31 PM
      - Gamma-ray bremstrahlung at 0.1 c??? - Adam - 5/20/2007 1:23:28 AM
      - A thermonuclear Orion could do it. - Lee - 5/2/2007 1:35:47 AM
      - There was a time when going to the Moon was impossible. - REB - 5/1/2007 9:31:11 PM
        
        We haven't colonized the moon either - SDF - 5/1/2007 10:27:52 PM
      - And 0.02cee is 250-times faster than New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever (n/t) - SDF - 5/1/2007 9:03:04 PM
- Thought-provoking indeed - McFly - 4/30/2007 8:22:58 PM
- "we have the technology to get there" NOT - Sawyer - 4/30/2007 1:02:18 PM
- Exoplanet hunters' Graal:Earth's twin - Raoul - 4/30/2007 7:29:29 AM
- Odds of advanced intelligent life on a (relatively) nearby habitable planet are extremely remote. - Buck Galaxy - 4/30/2007 4:34:26 AM
  - Concerned about disease? - phil - 5/1/2007 1:05:04 AM
  - Don't drink the water. - ER - 4/30/2007 12:40:33 PM
    - ER has an excellent point - TB - 5/1/2007 4:45:21 AM
      - Then there is terraforming. - REB - 5/1/2007 12:59:05 PM
        
        Maybe you could expand the radius of a planet...Without increasing the mass. - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 5/2/2007 9:59:17 PM
        
        We can do this one after we do the TOWG. - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 5/2/2007 10:06:56 PM
      - re: ER has an excellent point - REB - 5/1/2007 12:51:05 PM
      - I just noticed that Sawyer made the same point. Sorry! (n/t) - TB - 5/1/2007 4:46:29 AM
  - That it's a remote possibility is a given. - Bowser - 4/30/2007 5:01:30 AM

Snowbird Down - Pilot Dead - Peter Bruener - 5/19/2007 9:51:59 AM

Launch delay for Bigelow's Genesis II - Chris Vancil - 5/18/2007 9:51:00 PM

Some things about Earth - gbaikie - 5/18/2007 8:49:37 PM

Good Popular Mechanics article on wind power - TB - 5/18/2007 4:34:25 AM
- re: Good Popular Mechanics article on wind power - phil from Cape Cod - 5/18/2007 3:23:29 PM
  - re: wind power - TB - 5/18/2007 3:44:05 PM
    - The depressing part about Cape Wind... - TB - 5/18/2007 3:48:47 PM

Vision for Space Exploration imagery - Raoul - 5/18/2007 2:40:49 PM

Nick and Podrock. Check out this rock formation Spirit imaged. - REB - 5/14/2007 1:34:51 PM
- Mitcheltree Ridge? (n/t) - REB - 5/15/2007 8:28:50 PM
  - re: Mitcheltree Ridge? : Yes. And a link to 3D pair in color - podrock - 5/17/2007 1:49:44 PM
    - What could that ridge be? - REB - 5/17/2007 3:19:44 PM
      - re: What could that ridge be? - nick hoffman - 5/18/2007 9:38:34 AM
- New picture out. Here is the same formation under different lighting. - REB - 5/15/2007 1:25:01 PM
- leftovers - podrock - 5/15/2007 3:54:28 AM
  - re: leftovers - REB - 5/15/2007 1:12:48 PM
- Nice layers - nick hoffman - 5/14/2007 10:28:56 PM
  - re: Nice layers - REB - 5/15/2007 1:10:57 PM

Found on a modeling website... - TB - 5/18/2007 4:29:33 AM

The Deep Range - ER - 5/15/2007 1:11:17 PM
- re: The Deep Range - gbaikie - 5/16/2007 7:30:18 PM
  - re: The Deep Range - Thank you, gb! - Marcia - 5/16/2007 9:53:42 PM
- Here's a scrub brush...You can start by exploring the bottom of my swimming pool. - TAFKASE - 5/15/2007 8:13:03 PM
- Four Words - Law of the Sea - e - 5/15/2007 5:12:51 PM
  - That would be Davy Jones, Law of the sea, ye scallywag - PirateREB - 5/15/2007 5:56:27 PM
  - re: Four Words - Law of the Sea - ER - 5/15/2007 5:41:05 PM
    - re: Four Words - Law of the Sea - e - 5/15/2007 7:59:12 PM
      - You just don't get it, do you? - ER - 5/15/2007 9:01:38 PM
        
        You asked the question, you got the answer. - TB - 5/15/2007 11:51:34 PM
        
        No, - ER - 5/16/2007 12:52:27 AM
        
        re: No, - e - 5/16/2007 2:25:23 AM
        
        Asked in good faith... - McFly - 5/16/2007 3:07:00 AM
        
        re: Asked in good faith... - e - 5/16/2007 4:36:57 AM
        
        McFly has a point... - TB - 5/16/2007 5:54:06 AM
        
        re: McFly has a point... - gbaikie - 5/16/2007 7:45:11 PM
        
        Launch sites - TB - 5/16/2007 10:29:21 PM
        
        re: Launch sites - gbaikie - 5/17/2007 2:30:41 AM
        
        re: McFly has a point... - e - 5/16/2007 2:28:42 PM
        
        Bit more complicated than that, - podrock - 5/16/2007 5:53:02 PM
        
        re: Bit more complicated than that, - e - 5/16/2007 10:35:47 PM
        
        That'd be mighty stupid. - podrock - 5/17/2007 3:39:25 PM
        
        re: That'd be mighty stupid. - e - 5/17/2007 6:55:09 PM
        
        lol A small fish just dropped into our pond - ARRELL- TIRED OF TROLLS - 5/17/2007 11:03:14 AM
        
        Actually, RL, I am enjoying this topic, - podrock - 5/18/2007 1:58:24 AM
        
        re: lol A small fish just dropped into our pond - e - 5/17/2007 7:28:36 PM
        
        A case in point - TB - 5/17/2007 10:18:46 PM
        
        I agree with you in principle - TB - 5/16/2007 3:09:54 PM
        
        re: No, - TB - 5/16/2007 1:15:22 AM
        
        There you go again... - ER - 5/16/2007 2:02:24 AM
        
        Okay, let me move this over to Flame (n/t) - TB - 5/16/2007 2:08:36 AM
        
        I am with ER on this one. Keep Politics off the Space Board. - REB - 5/15/2007 9:20:08 PM
        
        re: I am with ER on this one. Keep Politics off the Space Board. - e - 5/16/2007 2:26:49 AM
        
        re: I am with ER on this one. Keep Politics off the Space Board. - REB - 5/16/2007 1:10:52 PM
        
        re: I am with ER on this one. Keep Politics off the Space Board. - e - 5/16/2007 2:21:01 PM
        
        That's sort of a new point, but a good one. - TB - 5/16/2007 3:13:37 PM
- re: The Deep View - Raoul - 5/15/2007 4:16:44 PM
  - Plus there's like sharks and stuff - TedG - 5/15/2007 4:41:24 PM

I didn't know where to place this. Maybe and quite possibly Nick can answer. - Marcia - 5/16/2007 11:50:08 PM
- Why the Northern Plains? - nick hoffman - 5/17/2007 12:49:39 PM
  - re: Why the Northern Plains? - Marcia - 5/17/2007 9:59:32 PM
- Moved from "Off Topic" - Moderator Nick - 5/17/2007 12:43:45 PM

Electrostatic Climber for Space Elevator and Launcher - kaplah - 5/17/2007 7:36:42 PM

The galactic magnetic field could be turbulent - Raoul - 5/17/2007 6:31:48 PM

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