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ER's post, Pixellated vison, moved to Off Topic... - moderating podrock - 1/3/2007 11:33:39 PM
- No problem. It's a good where it is. (n/t) - ER - 1/4/2007 1:28:58 AM

Jupiter's electrical connection to IO / Europa, other moons. - Michael Gmirkin - 11/23/2006 4:01:44 PM
- Nothing heretical there - Adam - 11/23/2006 7:48:13 PM
  - re: Nothing heretical there - Michael Gmirkin - 1/3/2007 11:42:32 PM
  - re: Nothing heretical there - Michael Gmirkin - 11/23/2006 11:00:28 PM

NGC 1313 by the VLT...a topsy turvy galaxy (2.6 MB) - Raoul - 11/23/2006 9:30:30 PM
- re: NGC 1313 by the VLT...a topsy turvy galaxy (2.6 MB) - Michael Gmirkin - 11/23/2006 11:23:37 PM
  - Do you understand that you cannot see individual stars in that galaxy? - R.L. - 11/28/2006 10:50:18 AM
    - re: Do you understand that you cannot see individual stars in that galaxy? - Michael Gmirkin - 1/3/2007 11:11:04 PM
      - So it appears you really have no concept of what you are talking about - R.L. - 1/3/2007 11:31:07 PM

Humans could be too frail for Mars - Raoul - 12/30/2006 8:43:40 PM
- re: Humans could be to frail for Moon - Chris Vancil back at home - 12/31/2006 5:31:56 AM
  - re: re:The time problem about Mars - Raoul - 12/31/2006 9:21:38 AM
    - re: No the medical/radiation problems also exist for the Moon. - Chris Vancil - 12/31/2006 6:32:44 PM
      - Well, maybe THAT is the role of the Moon? - nick hoffman - 1/1/2007 3:14:38 AM
        
        re: Nope - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2007 8:45:59 AM
        
        re: Well, maybe THAT is the role of the Moon? - gbaikie - 1/1/2007 7:34:58 AM
  - Humans are too frail for the Earth - nick hoffman - 12/31/2006 6:31:12 AM
    - re: Humans are too frail for the Earth - Chris Vancil - 12/31/2006 6:48:42 PM
    - Humans too complex to survive. However, there is hope. - Bowser - 12/31/2006 3:41:53 PM
- All workable problems. - TB - 12/30/2006 10:10:01 PM
- The logistics seem impossible. - Bowser - 12/30/2006 9:23:55 PM
  - It's not either/or - Buck Galaxy - 1/1/2007 1:07:09 AM
    - Underground would work for radiation. - Bowser - 1/2/2007 8:52:47 PM
      - Yet people live in the arctic circle, and by choice. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/3/2007 7:32:49 PM
  - Two other solutions that would still get us into space - LJK - 12/30/2006 9:43:13 PM
    - re: Too altered humans - Raoul - 12/31/2006 9:28:04 AM
      - Do you miss being an Australopithecus? - LJK - 12/31/2006 7:05:57 PM
        
        An Australopithecus would not want to become like us! - Raoul - 12/31/2006 8:21:32 PM
        
        Of Course Not - M.A.E. - 1/1/2007 11:38:12 PM
        
        re:What is "To evolve?" - Raoul - 1/2/2007 6:40:02 AM
        
        re: re:What is "To evolve?" - nick hoffman - 1/2/2007 1:07:57 PM
        
        Great Answer - M.A.E. - 1/3/2007 5:01:30 PM
        
        re: An Australopithecus would not want to become like us! - LJK - 12/31/2006 9:37:24 PM
        
        re: An Australopithecus would not want to become like us! - Raoul - 12/31/2006 10:39:24 PM
    - Shell or cloud? - Adam - 12/30/2006 10:27:40 PM
      - A classical Dyson "shell" IS a cloud - nick hoffman - 12/31/2006 1:26:12 AM
        
        Sorry for the misunderstanding - Adam - 12/31/2006 11:00:23 AM

Earlier concepts for Manned Lunar Missions! - Raoul - 1/3/2007 7:29:14 PM

Carl Sagan was an avid user of ... - Eric - 1/3/2007 4:25:12 AM
- I see nothing terribly unusual in this. (n/t) - Sherlock Holmes - 1/3/2007 6:21:37 PM
- Grinspoon... - Adam - 1/3/2007 12:53:28 PM

The Evening Sky Map and Calendar for January, 2007 - LJK - 12/30/2006 6:35:58 PM
- Astronomy and Launch Events for January, 2007 - LJK - 1/3/2007 2:56:02 PM

First South Korean Space Rocket To Launch In 2008 - LJK - 1/3/2007 2:17:34 PM

NASA FY 2007 Budget Battle Begins - Jeff F - 1/3/2007 11:51:45 AM

Space's threat to civilization - Jeff F - 12/31/2006 3:41:44 AM
- Maybe Osama is praying that it will enter the gravitational 'keyhole'.... - Jacob Samorodin - 12/31/2006 8:51:04 PM
  - re: Maybe Osama is praying that it will enter the gravitational 'keyhole'.... - Jeff F - 1/1/2007 12:36:16 AM
    - re: Maybe Osama is praying that it will enter the gravitational 'keyhole'.... - Jacob Samorodin - 1/3/2007 12:27:03 AM
- re: Happy New Year! - Raoul - 12/31/2006 1:06:42 PM
- Interesting. - SDF - 12/31/2006 3:47:29 AM
  - Nevermind. - SDF - 12/31/2006 3:49:20 AM

Torsions in the F ring - Raoul - 1/2/2007 9:36:12 PM

Contact with Alien Civilizations by Michael A. G. Michaud - LJK - 12/18/2006 6:33:26 PM
- How Much Does SETI Require Robots? - LJK - 12/21/2006 7:06:31 PM
  - SARA Call for Papers - LJK - 12/21/2006 7:15:27 PM
    - Who Speaks For The Terrans - LJK - 1/2/2007 6:14:18 PM

Longitude-resolved imaging of Jupiter at lambda = 2 cm - LJK - 1/2/2007 6:03:12 PM

Mars Rover SW Updated - phil - 1/2/2007 5:42:05 PM

2007 Planetary Defense Conference - Chris Vancil - 12/31/2006 6:40:04 PM
- Sounds like science fiction (n/t) - SDF - 1/1/2007 1:14:12 PM
- How close is too close with an impact crater? - nick hoffman - 1/1/2007 6:40:28 AM

Let's Waltz on the Blue Danube with 2001! - Raoul - 12/31/2006 10:25:06 PM
- Or you can have the whole movie in 2:01 - nick hoffman - 1/1/2007 4:10:59 AM
  - re: LOL! very good, Nick! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/1/2007 8:10:44 AM

True Fakes: Scientists make simulated lunar soil - Chris Vancil - 1/1/2007 5:10:20 AM

Spirit's Winter Home - nick hoffman - 12/28/2006 5:05:17 AM
- re: Spirit's Winter Home - Daniel - 12/28/2006 4:31:36 PM
- I still see Homeplate as a ... - podrock - 12/28/2006 6:40:38 AM
  - "harder rock" is the lighter material? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/28/2006 7:13:49 PM
    - Yes...however: - podrock - 12/28/2006 9:52:39 PM
      - Mars Rovers made smarter - LJK - 12/29/2006 7:29:55 PM
        
        Research the hard way - nick hoffman - 12/30/2006 3:15:57 AM
        
        Where else can they go with the time they have? - LJK - 12/30/2006 4:20:50 AM
        
        When is Spring finally coming so Spirit can go exploring again? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 12/30/2006 3:08:13 PM
        
        It's already begun - Doug Ellison - 12/31/2006 12:20:15 PM

Could somebody confirm the Jan/26th general release of the IMAX flick, "Roving Mars"? - Jacob Samorodin - 12/29/2006 11:03:40 PM
- Promised a Jan '07 release at Science Museum-London, but no listings yet. (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 12/31/2006 10:33:05 AM
- re: In Paris since november 2006 - Raoul - 12/30/2006 11:12:04 AM
- re: Could somebody confirm the Jan/26th general release of the IMAX flick, "Roving Mars"? - Delbert - 12/30/2006 1:37:46 AM

500-day Mars mission simulation - JimO - 12/29/2006 3:01:16 PM
- All male crew is almost a waste of a simulation - Buck Galaxy - 12/30/2006 9:39:33 PM
- re: Concordia - Raoul - 12/30/2006 1:03:17 PM
- Just the guys? - LJK - 12/30/2006 4:27:31 AM

The Analemma and the Temple of Olympian Zeus - LJK - 12/27/2006 4:39:02 PM
- Another amazing analemma photo - with a total solar eclipse! - LJK - 12/30/2006 8:03:33 PM

A gaseous metal disk around a white dwarf - LJK - 12/26/2006 6:48:17 AM
- re: Hunge Thanks, LJK! Keep these (astrophysics) threads coming. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 12/26/2006 11:57:36 PM
  - re: Of course, I meant 'HUGE Thanks!'. (n/t) - Marcia - 12/27/2006 12:00:02 AM
    - re: Of course, I meant 'HUGE Thanks!'. - LJK - 12/27/2006 4:59:49 AM
- A hypervelocity star from the Large Magellanic Cloud - LJK - 12/26/2006 6:19:30 PM
  - Planetary Radii across Five Orders of Magnitude in Mass and Stellar Insolation: Application to Transits - LJK - 12/26/2006 6:22:53 PM
    - Possible Solutions to the Radius Anomalies of Transiting Giant Planets - LJK - 12/28/2006 4:50:28 AM
      - Signal Search and Reconstruction by a Trend Filtering Algorithm - LJK - 12/28/2006 4:55:44 AM
        
        Evidence Contrary to the Existing Exo-Planet Migration Concept - LJK - 12/28/2006 5:00:54 AM
        
        Roche lobe effects on the atmospheric loss of "Hot Jupiters" - LJK - 12/28/2006 5:04:04 AM
        
        Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters - LJK - 12/29/2006 10:15:29 PM
        
        Transiting Planet Simulations from the All Sky Extrasolar Planets Survey - LJK - 12/29/2006 10:17:28 PM
        
        Exoplanets and the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect - LJK - 12/30/2006 6:49:49 PM

Would finding a big asteroid on collision course in 50 yrs be a good thing? - Sawyer - 12/27/2006 2:47:44 PM
- re: Would finding a big asteroid on collision course in 50 yrs be a good thing? - gbaikie - 12/27/2006 9:38:42 PM
- It would be good for getting humans off this rock and into space exploration mode. - Scott Evil - 12/27/2006 3:00:41 PM
  - And for those who will be stuck inheriting the Earth if disaster arises - LJK - 12/27/2006 6:57:12 PM
    - Mankind would be better off building domes here on Earth. - Bowser - 12/27/2006 9:07:14 PM
  - 2004 Apohis - Jeff F - 12/27/2006 5:55:20 PM
    - NASA is planbning options next year for the 2029 rock, what should those options be? - Jacob Samorodin - 12/28/2006 11:44:57 PM
    - And 2006 XG1 - LJK - 12/27/2006 6:14:26 PM
      - Torino scale for both asteroids is not zero, that should cause the United Nations serious concern. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 12/28/2006 11:41:07 PM
        
        re: Torino scale for both asteroids is not zero, that should cause the United Nations serious concern. - LJK - 12/30/2006 4:24:41 AM
        
        Not so... - nick hoffman - 12/29/2006 1:35:16 PM
      - re: And 2006 XG1 - Jeff F - 12/27/2006 10:46:03 PM
        
        The news item - LJK - 12/28/2006 4:24:47 AM
        
        re: The news item - Jeff F - 12/28/2006 11:55:32 AM
        
        This ain't Hollywood - LJK - 12/28/2006 10:36:07 PM
        
        Why Send humans? Because we can! - Scott Evil - 12/29/2006 2:52:22 PM

More Planet & Star Size Examples - phil - 12/26/2006 6:20:56 PM
- Too bad the rest of the site is lunacy - R.L. - 12/27/2006 4:08:16 PM
  - Oh!...I could almost kiss you, R.L..... Shalom! - Jacob Samorodin - 12/29/2006 12:12:20 AM
    - re: Oh!...I could almost kiss you, R.L..... Shalom! - Laurie Street - 12/29/2006 5:14:37 PM
      - Answer? You're probably better looking than me. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/29/2006 10:56:14 PM
    - "Not that there's anything wrong with that." (n/t) - alcaray - 12/29/2006 4:44:29 PM
  - re: Too bad the rest of the site is lunacy - gbaikie - 12/28/2006 1:34:51 PM

If I lived on a planet 100 light years from Earth. - Jascob Samorodin - 12/29/2006 12:09:04 AM
- re: If I lived on a planet 100 light years from Earth. - Scott Evil - 12/29/2006 2:54:03 PM
  - LOL. ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 12/29/2006 10:49:25 PM

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