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Awesome Sci-Fi Games for those with a sense of humor - SDF - 12/15/2006 1:59:24 PM
- This game is offensive! - LJK - 12/15/2006 8:21:27 PM

F-35 maiden test flight - Fox - 12/15/2006 8:16:14 PM

Working out and perhaps the solar array can get retracted! - Raoul - 12/15/2006 7:20:30 PM

Spacewalk and launch videos - Raoul - 12/14/2006 9:43:27 PM
- liftoff debris - JimO - 12/14/2006 10:48:58 PM
  - re: liftoff debris (a picture) - Raoul - 12/15/2006 4:56:37 PM

MARSIS from Mars Express - Raoul - 12/13/2006 10:59:34 PM
- This is not new, of course - nick hoffman - 12/15/2006 6:44:35 AM
- Buryed Theories - Jeff F - 12/14/2006 10:24:04 AM
  - Mission to Mars fan? (n/t) - Adam - 12/14/2006 12:50:05 PM
- Link - Laurie Street - 12/13/2006 11:18:24 PM
  - re: The JPL Press Release... - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/14/2006 2:03:49 AM

The Earth-Moon CR3BP: A full Atlas of low-energy fast periodic transfer orbits - LJK - 12/15/2006 5:10:11 AM

These are the type of discoveries I hope to read about when I browse science sites - Yeti - 12/12/2006 4:59:33 PM
- On the other end of the scale... - TB - 12/15/2006 5:06:28 AM
- re: discoveries - TB - 12/13/2006 12:03:24 AM
  - I'm suprised they haven't done more with it in the camper and travel trailer industry. - Scott Evil - 12/13/2006 2:49:48 PM
- Wouldn't this also greatly improve laser communications links? (n/t) - Scott Evil - 12/12/2006 10:57:38 PM

The way back home....at some distance! - Raoul - 12/14/2006 7:05:58 PM
- How do astronauts... - LJK - 12/14/2006 7:39:42 PM
  - well said - Daniel - 12/15/2006 4:30:43 AM
  - First STEP is a DOOOOZY!!!!!!! - carl - 12/14/2006 8:13:16 PM
    - re: Linenger - Raoul - 12/14/2006 8:42:48 PM
      - Vertigo+ The Inner Ear? - carl - 12/14/2006 8:49:25 PM
        
        re: Vertigo+ The Inner Ear? - Raoul - 12/14/2006 8:56:38 PM
  - re: How do astronauts feel...well ! - Raoul - 12/14/2006 8:12:58 PM

Assignment: Shoot the Moon - 1967 NASA film - LJK - 12/13/2006 7:26:46 PM
- Great - thanks a lot (n/t) - Daniel - 12/14/2006 4:11:05 PM
- Fun! (n/t) - Bowser - 12/14/2006 6:08:31 AM
- re: Great video, thanks Larry! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/13/2006 7:43:04 PM
  - Apollo 8 Debriefing - LJK - 12/14/2006 3:08:47 AM
    - Apollo 11 and 17 - LJK - 12/14/2006 2:34:38 PM
      - Apollo 16 - Nothing So Hidden - LJK - 12/15/2006 4:03:32 AM

Icecube, the World's Largest Dark Matter Detector - LJK - 12/12/2006 7:00:43 PM
- High Energy Astroparticle Physics - LJK - 12/12/2006 7:02:42 PM
  - Distinguishing Supersymmetry From Universal Extra Dimensions or Little Higgs Models With Dark Matter Experiments - LJK - 12/14/2006 4:26:08 AM
    - UCR-Led Research Team Detects 'Top Quark,' A Basic Constituent Of Matter - LJK - 12/14/2006 4:00:10 PM

550th anniversary of the birth of Tycho Brahe - LJK - 12/14/2006 3:48:59 PM

3 out of 4 18-24 year olds oppose spending money on sending men to Mars - E.P. - 12/8/2006 5:13:15 PM
- Actually that general apathy in the actual youth holds true for all things science and manned Lunar missions as well. - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/12/2006 4:14:54 PM
- NASA can't explain why we need a lunar colony - LJK - 12/11/2006 1:47:46 PM
  - Can anyone explain why we need a lunar colony? - Hank - 12/11/2006 2:24:47 PM
    - The same reason why we need bases in Antartica. - Scott Evil - 12/12/2006 11:09:42 PM
      - re: The same reason why we need bases in Antartica. - LJK - 12/13/2006 4:06:48 PM
    - re: Can anyone explain why we need a lunar colony? - Thomas - 12/11/2006 10:05:12 PM
      - Inspiring, but is it practical? - Hank - 12/12/2006 2:30:25 PM
        
        re: Inspiring, but is it practical? - Thomas - 12/13/2006 6:42:16 PM
        
        You're preaching to the choir. - Hank - 12/13/2006 9:06:13 PM
        
        re: Inspiring, but is it practical? - LJK - 12/13/2006 7:35:43 PM
        
        Practical has little to do with it - LJK - 12/12/2006 3:56:02 PM
        
        Socialist thinking. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/13/2006 1:42:17 AM
        
        C'mon guys. - ER - 12/13/2006 12:32:40 PM
        
        I concur. (n/t) - Hank - 12/13/2006 1:40:31 PM
    - Yes: CAPS - E.P. - 12/11/2006 3:02:48 PM
      - re: "...a few men to Mars for a few days..." - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/13/2006 1:19:52 AM
        
        re: "...a few men to Mars for a few days..." - LJK - 12/13/2006 2:40:56 PM
      - re: Yes: CAPS - Hank - 12/11/2006 3:31:31 PM
        
        Yes: CAPS - E.P. - 12/11/2006 9:53:27 PM
        
        re: Ed calims: "It turns out that using Moon based detectors rather than space based ones gives 6 months additional warning of inbound comets" This is BS! - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/13/2006 1:48:41 AM
        
        A Lunar DEW line? - Hank - 12/12/2006 2:05:06 PM
        
        45 minutes warning - E.P. - 12/12/2006 4:39:43 PM
        
        re: What a complete load of NONSENSE! - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/13/2006 2:01:22 AM
        
        Yes, EP, why the Moon? - Adam - 12/11/2006 9:34:23 PM
        
        Why not SEL2? - Adam - 12/11/2006 9:41:14 PM
        
        An even lower cost option from 2001 - E.P. - 12/12/2006 4:41:44 AM
        
        Well that convinced me (n/t) - Adam - 12/12/2006 8:13:32 PM
        
        Moonbase why - LJK - 12/11/2006 3:54:00 PM
        
        re: Why? That's the question! - Raoul - 12/11/2006 9:47:07 PM
        
        If you ask me........... - Jeff F - 12/12/2006 6:43:51 PM
        
        What he said... - Adam - 12/14/2006 12:48:28 PM

Searching for Planetary Transits in Globular Clusters - 47 Tucanae and omega Centauri - LJK - 12/11/2006 8:36:05 AM
- Radial Velocity Follow-up of Planetary Transit Candidate MACHO.120.22303.5389 - LJK - 12/11/2006 8:41:42 AM
  - Solar Chemical Peculiarities? - LJK - 12/11/2006 8:50:18 AM
    - The Metallicity of Stars with Close Companions - LJK - 12/11/2006 9:49:07 AM
    - Deep imaging survey of the environment of Alpha Centauri - II - LJK - 12/11/2006 9:02:38 AM
      - World-making with extended gravity black holes for cosmic natural selection in the multiverse scenario - LJK - 12/11/2006 9:13:14 AM
        
        Are Debris Disks and Massive Planets Correlated? - LJK - 12/12/2006 6:49:20 PM
        
        Near-IR integral-field spectroscopy of the companion to GQ Lup - LJK - 12/12/2006 7:09:15 PM
        
        Planet Formation around Red Dwarf Stars - LJK - 12/14/2006 4:13:24 AM
        
        Detecting false alarms in transit data from space: Rejection methods tested in Corot Blind Test 2 - LJK - 12/14/2006 4:22:27 AM

Limb polarization of Uranus and Neptune. II Spectropolarimetric observations - LJK - 12/11/2006 9:27:43 AM
- Densities of Solar System Objects from their Rotational Lightcurves - LJK - 12/12/2006 6:58:40 PM
  - Evolution of the Obliquities of the Giant Planets in Encounters during Migration - LJK - 12/14/2006 4:19:00 AM

Early NASA Films of Plans for Mars Exploration - LJK - 12/14/2006 3:31:02 AM

Another Geologically Active World In The Solar System - M.A.E. - 12/13/2006 5:04:34 AM
- Another Comment - M.AE. - 12/14/2006 3:26:24 AM
- Even if no life is found on such worlds... - TB - 12/13/2006 5:20:04 AM

Solar panel stuck? - Raoul - 12/13/2006 7:04:50 PM
- POLANSKY MODE!!!!!!! - carl - 12/13/2006 9:20:41 PM
- re: Solar panel stuck? - Raoul - 12/13/2006 7:33:18 PM

Physics News Update 804 - Physics Story of 2006 - LJK - 12/7/2006 3:41:12 PM
- Physics News Update 805 - LJK - 12/13/2006 4:28:54 PM

The SETI Paradox - LJK - 12/5/2006 3:20:15 PM
- re: The SETI Paradox - Hank - 12/8/2006 2:33:29 PM
  - Exactly, with a but... - LJK - 12/8/2006 3:28:55 PM
    - re: Exactly, with a but... - Hank - 12/8/2006 4:17:08 PM
      - Precisely. - Hank - 12/8/2006 6:08:28 PM
        
        Galactic Mayflies - LJK - 12/8/2006 6:38:21 PM
        
        In a lonely place. - Hank - 12/8/2006 7:19:31 PM
      - Only one realistic way to do more than guess about them... - LJK - 12/8/2006 4:29:50 PM
- Sun to rise in East tomorrow - phil - 12/5/2006 3:26:33 PM
  - Not on Venus, Uranus, or Pluto - LJK - 12/5/2006 3:58:42 PM
    - Anywhere but here - ER - 12/8/2006 11:39:43 PM
      - But please note... - LJK - 12/13/2006 3:36:57 PM
    - Earth WAS uninhabited for at Least 3.5 billion years - Mark Eby - 12/6/2006 3:35:46 AM
      - Why would ETI colonize the ENTIRE galaxy, especially systems already occupied? - LJK - 12/6/2006 5:54:51 PM
        
        What PArt Of Uninhabited For 3.5 Billion Years Did You Not Get? - ID - 12/7/2006 2:47:50 PM
        
        re: What PArt Of Uninhabited For 3.5 Billion Years Did You Not Get? - LJK - 12/7/2006 7:59:53 PM
        
        The Fermi Paradox: An Approach Based on Percolation Theory - LJK - 12/6/2006 6:15:56 PM

First STS 116 spacewalk - Raoul - 12/13/2006 8:35:48 AM

Assessing the massive young Sun hypothesis to solve the warm young Earth puzzle - LJK - 12/13/2006 6:46:37 AM

Giant Flare in SGR 1806-20 and Its Compton Reflection from the Moon - LJK - 12/13/2006 6:24:15 AM

illucid post removed by (n/t) - moderating podrock - 12/12/2006 8:53:28 PM
- C'mon guys, - ER - 12/13/2006 1:35:02 AM
  - Does that mean More Illucid? n/t - Ken Murphy - 12/13/2006 2:41:09 AM
- I almost pulled out the dictionary! - Buck Galaxy - 12/13/2006 12:04:38 AM
- Was it illicit or not lucid? (n/t) - Ken Murphy - 12/12/2006 11:46:05 PM
  - not lucid...sorry... (n/t) - modpod - 12/12/2006 11:59:04 PM

Lunar Architecture Announcement Feedback - Jeff F - 12/11/2006 7:02:41 PM
- re: Lunar Architecture Announcement Feedback - Ken Murphy - 12/12/2006 11:52:49 PM
- Great plans vs white elephants - Sawyer - 12/12/2006 2:43:04 PM
  - You left out a great reason not to go to Mars now: back contamination (n/t) - E.P. - 12/12/2006 4:50:06 PM
    - Andromeda Strained - LJK - 12/12/2006 5:28:18 PM
      - re: Andromeda Strained - phil - 12/12/2006 8:34:41 PM
        
        Did Earth and Mars exchange life? - LJK - 12/12/2006 8:55:49 PM
      - Opinion onbe thing, facts another - E.P. - 12/12/2006 7:38:03 PM
        
        Before men get to mars there will probably be another 8-15 landers/rovers. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/12/2006 11:08:47 PM
        
        Any facts on the "software"? Didn't think so - phil - 12/12/2006 8:29:36 PM
        
        What DARPA autonomous system are you referrging to, Pil? - E.P. - 12/13/2006 12:04:18 AM
  - The Moon Base will exist for the same reason that Apollo happened - LJK - 12/12/2006 3:52:48 PM
- re:From the Bostonherald - Raoul - 12/11/2006 7:20:23 PM

On Cyclic Universes - LJK - 12/12/2006 7:04:19 PM
- it says Paul Frampton in the email (n/t) - Adam - 12/12/2006 8:15:21 PM
  - The paper will be issued to every teenagers house in the 1970s - LJK - 12/12/2006 8:52:40 PM

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