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Io's volcano Tvashtar (animation-from New Horizon) - Raoul - 5/16/2007 5:25:45 PM
- Wow! Can you imagine the size of the eruption? Io is nearly the size of Mercury! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 5/17/2007 5:41:01 AM
  - re: Wow! Can you imagine the size of the eruption? Io is nearly the size of Mercury! - REB - 5/17/2007 1:03:31 PM
  - A benefit of a lower gravity! (n/t) - Raoul - 5/17/2007 8:54:30 AM
- Now that is cool! (n/t) - REB - 5/16/2007 5:31:08 PM

Another one GONE........... - carl - 5/3/2007 4:48:51 PM
- Wally, you'll be missed (n/t) - phil - 5/3/2007 11:14:55 PM
- re: Another one GONE........... - Chris Vancil - 5/3/2007 10:04:14 PM
- The Walter and Wally Show - Fox - 5/3/2007 5:34:40 PM
  - Mr. Coool too!!! - carl - 5/3/2007 10:16:16 PM
- re: Wally Shirra......... - Raoul - 5/3/2007 5:34:13 PM
- He was a terrific "space ambassador" - McFly - 5/3/2007 5:24:27 PM
  - re: He was a terrific "space ambassador" - Marcia - 5/3/2007 6:26:48 PM
    - re: He was a terrific "space ambassador" - Marcia - 5/3/2007 7:13:13 PM
      - Why NASA loved him - at least until Apollo 7 - . - 5/4/2007 2:50:05 PM
        
        Some stuff I didn't know - McFly - 5/4/2007 4:47:02 PM
        
        BAD Ass Astros - carl - 5/5/2007 2:12:40 PM
        
        re: BAD Ass Astros - Marcia - 5/16/2007 2:06:15 PM
        
        rActually... - TheSheepLookUp - 5/16/2007 2:56:09 PM
        
        Buzz and Gene - Raoul - 5/17/2007 9:29:52 AM
        
        re: Buzz and Gene - TheSheepLookUp - 5/17/2007 12:22:34 PM
        
        re: rActually... I know!!! - Marcia - 5/16/2007 3:07:51 PM

Why a manned space program? - Raoul - 5/14/2007 6:20:47 PM
- Send Machines to Do a Man's Job - TheSheepLookUp - 5/15/2007 2:21:57 PM
  - Uhhh, No Way!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - carl - 5/15/2007 4:39:07 PM
    - re: Democracy among computers - Raoul - 5/15/2007 6:06:57 PM
      - If I write enough exclamations points, does that make me the winner? - TheSheepLookUp - 5/16/2007 1:22:54 PM
        
        How Can Man Create Intelligent Machines when he is FLAWED? - carl - 5/16/2007 4:34:56 PM
        
        How can we trust humans to make a car that runs, or a plane that flies? - TheSheepLookUp - 5/16/2007 8:16:02 PM
        
        To add - TheSheepLookUp - 5/16/2007 8:27:07 PM
        
        re: Computers are commanded by humans. - Marcia - 5/17/2007 12:38:07 AM
        
        There's that fear again - TheSheepLookUp - 5/17/2007 1:38:47 AM
        
        re: There's that fear again - Marcia - 5/17/2007 2:14:28 AM
        
        When ya gotta go... - TheSheepLookUp - 5/17/2007 12:17:01 PM
        
        re: There's that fear again. - ... make that, the ever fictional, HAL 9000. (n/t) - Marcia - 5/17/2007 2:16:58 AM
        
        Are you a computer expert? - TheSheepLookUp - 5/17/2007 12:11:42 PM
- re: Why a manned space program? - Marcia - 5/14/2007 8:08:42 PM
  - re: Why a manned space program? - Raoul - 5/14/2007 8:43:28 PM
    - re: Why a manned space program? Routine only means routine not lack of interest. (n/t) - Marcia - 5/17/2007 12:41:34 AM
      - Inevitably... - Raoul - 5/17/2007 9:22:50 AM
    - re: Why a manned space program? Routine has nothing to do with it. (n/t) - Marcia - 5/14/2007 10:33:41 PM
      - re: Why a manned space program? Routine has nothing to do with it. - Marcia - 5/14/2007 10:37:59 PM
        
        Sorry, but routine has everything to do with it. - Fox - 5/15/2007 5:11:43 AM
- If we CAN send CHIMPS, Y Not? - carl - 5/14/2007 6:48:00 PM
  - re: Ham and Enos - Raoul - 5/14/2007 7:58:02 PM
    - Ever read the sections from Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff about the space chimps? - TheSheepLookUp - 5/15/2007 2:05:34 PM
      - re: Teeth - Raoul - 5/15/2007 4:08:06 PM
- The water's nice enough for us fish. Why move out onto the land? (n/t) - TB - 5/14/2007 6:24:12 PM
  - Can't use it - Raoul - 5/14/2007 6:41:31 PM
    - That's like saying humans can't start living on ice packs until they grow fur. (n/t) - TB - 5/14/2007 11:52:05 PM
    - re: Can't use it. - Marcia - 5/14/2007 8:12:44 PM
    - We can. - REB - 5/14/2007 6:51:24 PM
      - What if we get thrown off the planet by something smarter, better, faster, and stronger? - TheSheepLookUp - 5/15/2007 3:03:30 PM

Detection of water on a hot Neptune-like exoplanet during transits - Raoul - 5/16/2007 1:00:59 PM
- re: Articles in english - Raoul - 5/17/2007 9:06:24 AM
- Another exoworld orbits its star in just 31 hours! - TheSheepLookUp - 5/16/2007 1:15:48 PM

A reason for opening space frontier - gbaikie - 5/15/2007 11:12:35 AM
- Tuesday is Soylent Green Day - TheSheepLookUp - 5/15/2007 1:05:25 PM
  - re: Tuesday is Soylent Green Day - gbaikie - 5/16/2007 3:45:13 AM
  - Mmmmmmm. Soylent Green! - Adam Bomber - 5/15/2007 2:04:40 PM
- do you have ANY idea what you're saying? - nick hoffman - 5/15/2007 12:58:20 PM
  - re: do you have ANY idea what you're saying? - Marcia - 5/16/2007 11:02:39 PM
    - re: do you have ANY idea what you're saying? - gbaikie - 5/17/2007 5:41:19 AM
  - re: do you have ANY idea what you're saying? - gbaikie - 5/16/2007 2:59:50 AM
  - Nick is right - REB - 5/15/2007 1:09:08 PM

Frictional heating explains plumes on Enceladus. - Marcia - 5/17/2007 1:22:29 AM

A galaxy cluster in a dark matter ring from the HST - Raoul - 5/15/2007 6:23:31 PM
- re: A galaxy cluster in a dark matter ring from the HST - Vince - 5/16/2007 4:04:07 AM
  - re: Just starting to realize the significance of this...relationships between ordinary/dark matter. - Vince - 5/16/2007 4:36:44 AM
    - Milkomeda Galaxy - Raoul - 5/16/2007 10:03:39 AM

Russia and ESA contracting at Kourou - Raoul - 5/16/2007 9:17:49 AM

Tired of those environmentally friendly ways to protect Earth from incoming asteroids? - TheSheepLookUp - 5/15/2007 9:03:20 PM

Orbital express update - Raoul - 5/15/2007 8:54:49 PM

The father of the science of modern climatology says... - gbaikie - 5/6/2007 9:54:32 PM
- The TRUE cause of global warming... - nick hoffman - 5/10/2007 8:59:57 AM
  - re: The TRUE cause of global warming... - ER - 5/14/2007 8:09:25 PM
  - Arhhhh,...tis true, tis true.... - Cap'n Bruener - 5/11/2007 8:05:20 AM
  - re: The TRUE cause of global warming... - e - 5/10/2007 6:22:38 PM
- Reid Bryson is a senile crackpot. - UW - 5/8/2007 5:23:29 PM
- And now travelling for the sake of travel is destroying the Earth - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 5/7/2007 9:12:53 PM
  - And it gets worse!!! Your choice in Food is destroying the Planet!!! - TAFKASE - 5/10/2007 8:28:52 PM
- So to cause global warming I need to increase my H2O output. - TAFKASE - 5/7/2007 2:20:10 PM
- Nonetheless... - nick hoffman - 5/7/2007 3:11:39 AM
  - re: Nonetheless... - phil - 5/8/2007 3:18:43 PM
    - difference between weather and climate - pwokenyaw - 5/9/2007 10:30:30 PM
  - My sentiments exactly - FrankC - 5/7/2007 7:27:58 PM
  - re: Nonetheless... - gbaikie - 5/7/2007 5:06:25 AM
    - garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist - pwokenyaw - 5/7/2007 6:38:03 PM
      - re: garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist - gbaikie - 5/7/2007 8:17:04 PM
        
        re: garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist - pwokenyaw - 5/7/2007 11:34:39 PM
        
        re: garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist - gbaikie - 5/8/2007 5:05:36 AM
        
        re: garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist - pwokenyaw - 5/8/2007 6:35:18 PM
        
        re: garbage info from a long-out-of-it non-climatologist - gbaikie - 5/9/2007 12:12:43 AM
        
        nice concession - pwokenyaw - 5/9/2007 5:46:12 PM
        
        re: nice concession - gbaikie - 5/10/2007 8:19:35 PM
        
        re: nice concession - gbaikie - 5/11/2007 3:54:49 AM
        
        that adds nothing to your argument - pwokenyaw - 5/11/2007 5:35:20 PM
        
        re: that adds nothing to your argument - gbaikie - 5/11/2007 10:31:52 PM
        
        wrong again, this time about Michael Mann - powkenyaw - 5/14/2007 7:11:15 AM
        
        re: wrong again, this time about Michael Mann - gbaikie - 5/14/2007 8:40:56 PM
        
        re: wrong again, this time about Michael Mann - pwokenyaw - 5/14/2007 10:12:55 PM
        
        I should take my own advice - pwokenyaw - 5/14/2007 10:28:53 PM
        
        re: I should take my own advice - gbaikie - 5/15/2007 2:23:18 AM
        
        Cooling means a downward trend - pwokenyaw - 5/15/2007 8:02:06 PM
        
        re: nice concession - pwokenyaw - 5/10/2007 9:45:48 PM
- A reminder - gbaikie - 5/7/2007 12:28:32 AM

Open House at JPL this weekend - carl - 5/15/2007 4:19:05 PM

Power in Space: Time for a Biological Solution - TheSheepLookUp - 5/15/2007 2:58:12 PM

May 15 1950 and 1987: Semyorka and Energya by JimO - Raoul - 5/14/2007 7:21:09 PM
- Fortunate Malfunction - carl - 5/14/2007 10:25:03 PM

New Sunspot coming!! - Raoul - 5/14/2007 7:52:50 PM

3-dimensional movie of Itokawa - Remy - 5/14/2007 1:12:18 PM
- re: 3-dimensional movie of Itokawa - Raoul - 5/14/2007 4:19:29 PM
- re: 3-dimensional movie of Itokawa - Remy - 5/14/2007 1:16:51 PM

Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Evidence Of Tholin Formation At High Altitudes - Jeff F - 5/12/2007 4:27:01 AM
- tholins- what are they? - Andrew - 5/14/2007 2:09:37 AM
  - Here you go: - Arrell - 5/14/2007 1:39:40 PM
  - No, that's about it... - Adam - 5/14/2007 6:58:46 AM
    - There's what on Titan?! - richard - 5/14/2007 4:15:35 PM
- re: Titan - Raoul - 5/12/2007 7:48:05 AM

SR-71 - the King of Speed. - et - 5/14/2007 5:12:22 AM
- re: SR-71 - the King of Speed. - Peter Bruener - 5/14/2007 9:08:07 AM

Apollo 7 to 17 in DVD - Raoul - 5/13/2007 9:38:23 AM
- re: Apollo 7 to 17 in DVD - pink floyd - 5/14/2007 5:26:08 AM
- Question - Daniel - 5/13/2007 4:45:07 PM
  - re: Questions - Raoul - 5/13/2007 6:43:58 PM
    - 17 it is, then, thanks (n/t) - D. - 5/14/2007 5:04:16 AM

Interview with one of the Mercury 13 - Fox - 5/11/2007 1:05:25 PM
- re: Interview with one of the Mercury 13 - Todd - 5/12/2007 1:45:48 PM
- so-called "Mercury 13" - JimO - 5/11/2007 7:13:20 PM
  - The problem is... - Jacob Samorodin - 5/13/2007 9:20:49 PM
    - re: The Russian problem is... - JimO - 5/14/2007 5:14:25 AM
  - Thanks for the interesting & informative PDF article (n/t) - Daniel - 5/13/2007 4:24:02 AM
  - Hi JimO - REB - 5/11/2007 8:52:43 PM
  - Nadezhda - Raoul - 5/11/2007 8:37:46 PM

August 1 2008 from Novosibirsk (Russia...) - Raoul - 5/12/2007 11:17:18 PM
- re: AugustThe problem is...The Soalr Eclipse won't keep away the swarm of blackflies and mosquitoes. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/13/2007 9:09:44 PM
- re: August 1 2008 - path of totality - Fox - 5/13/2007 2:41:39 PM
  - re: August 1 2008 - path of totality - Raoul - 5/13/2007 2:54:06 PM
- (with the help of Starry Night) (n/t) - Raoul - 5/12/2007 11:35:23 PM

The James Webb Space Telescope - Raoul - 5/11/2007 6:40:05 PM
- re: The James Webb Space Telescope - Tom C. - 5/13/2007 1:03:32 PM
  - From L2 - Raoul - 5/13/2007 2:41:06 PM

IEC Fusion Research on The Space Show - SDF - 5/9/2007 9:51:41 PM
- re: IEC Fusion Research on The Space Show - Roger - 5/12/2007 1:03:03 AM

Pipelauncher and gees - gbaikie - 5/10/2007 10:09:36 PM

I guess Sir Patrick won't be joining the NEA any time soon - edgar - 5/10/2007 4:43:14 PM
- re: I guess Sir Patrick won't be joining the NEA any time soon - gbaikie - 5/10/2007 7:45:32 PM
- Yeah, but we have Jack "the Star Hustler" Horkheimer... - ER - 5/10/2007 5:09:13 PM
  - Does he play Golf? I did not know that. (n/t) - TAFKASE - 5/10/2007 8:22:40 PM
    - Wait a minute... You are trying to say that Astronomy is better to study than Golf? - TAFKASE - 5/10/2007 8:24:01 PM
  - A hard edge to walk on educating and entertaining the masses at the same time - TheSheepLookUp - 5/10/2007 7:02:29 PM
    - Maybe you're right... - Stand on Zanzibar - 5/10/2007 7:20:55 PM

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