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Review: Lunar Prospector: Against All Odds - LJK - 11/27/2006 4:12:06 PM

A Short Story: "A Gem is What You Want it To Be." [The year: 2016] - Jacob Samorodin - 11/26/2006 9:53:14 PM
- Oooops! That should be 2.4 billion dollars, gross. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/26/2006 9:57:07 PM

Pandora and Hyperion - Raoul - 11/22/2006 8:04:12 PM
- As an old Minnesotan, I've seen Hyperion before. - TB - 11/26/2006 9:54:31 PM
- Anyone know their relative orbits? - Michael Gmirkin - 11/23/2006 11:28:56 PM
  - re: Moon of Saturn - Raoul - 11/24/2006 6:30:17 AM
    - re: Moon of Saturn - Michael Gmirkin - 11/24/2006 8:59:16 PM
      - Yes, Hyperion was captured by Saturn (n/t) - Raoul - 11/24/2006 9:52:35 PM
- Super pictures. Looks like gophers on the one. - Bowser - 11/22/2006 9:34:56 PM
  - re: Super pictures. Looks like gophers on the one. - zdahlen - 11/26/2006 12:57:38 AM

Space Expo in Brussels - Raoul - 11/25/2006 7:51:09 PM
- re: A missed opportunity:-(( - Raoul - 11/26/2006 9:23:23 PM

Lost NASA tapes found and Buzz... - Raoul - 11/26/2006 8:56:38 PM

OK! TIt's timne to end this cosmic bogeyman BS about the hazards of lunar dust. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/18/2006 6:49:05 PM
- Agreed! It's time to end this cosmic bogeyman BS about the hazards of lunar dust. - Ken Murphy - 11/19/2006 6:30:07 PM
  - re: Naming games to solve engineering problems?... - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2006 11:53:21 PM
    - Please clarify... - Ken Murphy - 11/22/2006 10:07:59 PM
      - re: Sure... - Chris Vancil - 11/25/2006 3:17:16 AM
        
        I guess you'll just have to forgive Ken his ignorance of the topic, Chris (n/t) - E.P. - 11/25/2006 8:05:08 PM
        
        re:I think you're confused I doubt Ken is ignorant just focused in a totally positive direction toward lunar exploitation. It's a bit like Lunar CAPS and you. - Chris Vancil - 11/26/2006 6:31:24 AM
    - it looks like it would make great fire-brick (n/t) - Scott Evil - 11/20/2006 10:59:12 PM
    - Well it's partially magnetic, so there's one solution - SDF - 11/20/2006 2:20:39 PM
    - Naming games: here's a few from the Mars Society. - E.P. - 11/20/2006 1:27:37 AM
      - re: You know Ed, when someone start name calling and try to change the subject they usually have lost the argument. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/22/2006 1:43:43 AM
- re: Not sure where you are coming from. Dust on the Moon is an engineering problem yet to be solved. - Chris Vancil - 11/18/2006 11:23:46 PM
  - This issue was discussed in the Physics Today article. - et - 11/19/2006 1:28:03 AM
    - re: Are you trying to claim micrometeorites and cosmic rays do not hit the surface of the Moon? - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2006 7:07:33 AM
      - Uh, yeah Chris. I'm gonna do that.... - et - 11/19/2006 7:30:35 PM
        
        re: Uh, yeah Chris. I'm gonna do that.... - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 4:33:17 AM
        
        re: Uh, yeah Chris. I'm gonna do that.... - gbaikie - 11/20/2006 9:46:24 PM
        
        re: Uh, yeah Chris. I'm gonna do that.... - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 10:28:30 PM
        
        re: Uh, yeah Chris. I'm gonna do that.... - gbaikie - 11/20/2006 11:33:02 PM
        
        re: Uh, yeah Chris. I'm gonna do that.... - Chris Vancil - 11/21/2006 1:18:44 AM
        
        Can you document that the reflectors have degraded? - et - 11/20/2006 7:23:02 PM
        
        re: Can you document that the reflectors have degraded? - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 10:13:00 PM
    - OK, you have a point there - R.L. - 11/19/2006 3:44:53 AM
      - Three. Thermal cycling and radiation belts. Also,no gyros needed. - et - 11/20/2006 9:42:28 PM
        
        Again, no attitude.... - R.L. - 11/21/2006 3:49:01 AM
        
        BTW, lets play a game sometime.... - et - 11/21/2006 4:20:59 AM
        
        I cited the times to illustrate the periodicity of the thermal cycle. - et - 11/21/2006 4:19:06 AM
        
        re: Three. Thermal cycling and radiation belts. Also,no gyros needed. - gbaikie - 11/20/2006 11:28:28 PM
        
        re: One: gyros needed. - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 10:59:57 PM
        
        Not that you don't have valid points Chris.... - et - 11/21/2006 4:24:17 AM
        
        re: Really? - Chris Vancil - 11/21/2006 8:52:08 AM
        
        Dudes, chill.... - R.L. - 11/22/2006 6:58:45 AM
        
        re: You're kidding, right? - Chris Vancil - 11/22/2006 10:13:52 AM
        
        Yes. (n/t) - et - 11/21/2006 8:41:18 PM
        
        Quite simply.... - R.L. - 11/21/2006 3:52:51 AM
        
        re: One: gyros needed. - gbaikie - 11/21/2006 12:42:49 AM
      - Still here, eh? (n/t) - Bowser - 11/19/2006 8:05:12 PM
      - Well, looked at another way... - Ken Murphy - 11/19/2006 6:56:50 PM
        
        and looked at another way... - E.P. - 11/20/2006 1:14:58 AM
        
        2002 paper on electrostatic modeling of the lunar regolith - ljk - 11/22/2006 5:04:50 AM

Anthropic principles - Raoul - 11/21/2006 6:49:46 PM
- Does a future state of matter adjust the variables of a previous state? - Bowser - 11/22/2006 1:43:39 AM
  - re: Entropy - Raoul - 11/22/2006 6:48:27 AM
    - re: Entropy - phil - 11/22/2006 2:24:49 PM
      - re: Complexity and information - Raoul - 11/22/2006 6:32:42 PM
        
        Eddies in the stream can increase the flow of the current. - ER - 11/22/2006 6:58:47 PM
        
        Maxwell's Daemon lives! - Robert - 11/25/2006 8:05:52 PM
        
        re: Bodes well for what is going to happen in billions of years! - Raoul - 11/22/2006 8:26:46 PM
        
        How do you define an "increase in complexity" ? - SDF - 11/23/2006 5:32:30 AM
        
        More bits required to describe the entity - phil - 11/25/2006 12:45:10 PM
        
        That's an excellent question. - ER - 11/23/2006 3:01:41 PM

For as little as $35 put your Logo in Space - Chris Vancil - 11/3/2006 10:35:30 PM
- re: For as little as $35 put your Logo in Space - Lawrence Pennington - 11/25/2006 7:32:24 PM

Spacewalk on ISS - Raoul - 11/23/2006 7:24:49 PM
- Greens FEES? - carl - 11/25/2006 4:28:03 PM
- One tiny slice for mankind - ljk - 11/23/2006 11:33:03 PM

Historic footage of Gemini VIII with Agena target vehicle - Daniel - 11/21/2006 5:24:04 PM
- And JULES BERGMAN interrupted BATMAN to report IT!!!!! - carl - 11/22/2006 2:18:09 PM
  - re:Flight.. - Raoul - 11/22/2006 6:41:10 PM
    - Stressed out that those vid IMAGES were never to be seen AGAIN!... - carl - 11/22/2006 9:24:00 PM
    - Battlestar Galactica and the Mid-East Peace Process - ljk - 11/22/2006 8:04:42 PM
      - The Heidi Bowl - ER - 11/22/2006 9:17:57 PM
      - Conspiracy theory? - ER - 11/22/2006 9:10:48 PM
        
        re: BG= Serina! - Raoul - 11/22/2006 10:02:08 PM
        
        She wasn't that hot. - Lee - 11/23/2006 12:55:45 AM
        
        The NEW BSG Has Equally Fine Spylon Babes (n/t) - phil - 11/23/2006 12:17:21 AM
      - re: We had more luck with Apollo 11, 14, 15 and 16 - Raoul - 11/22/2006 8:38:22 PM
      - Don't ya hate it when the Networks in the 60's........... - carl - 11/22/2006 8:26:30 PM
        
        re: Apollo 17........... - Raoul - 11/22/2006 8:45:04 PM

Space junk rules relaxed - ljk - 11/22/2006 7:52:50 PM
- re: And Collins' camera:-(((( - Raoul - 11/22/2006 8:22:05 PM
  - Speaking of Cameras and Pictures - carl - 11/22/2006 8:29:17 PM

An Extrasolar Nemesis? - LJK - 11/20/2006 10:43:24 PM
- Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project - LJK - 11/21/2006 9:07:56 PM
  - Search for Giant Planets around White Dwarfs with HST, Spitzer, and VLT - LJK - 11/21/2006 9:13:25 PM
    - Obliquity evolution of extrasolar terrestrial planets - ljk - 11/22/2006 5:43:36 PM
      - New Debris Disks Around Nearby Main Sequence Stars: Impact on The Direct Detection of Planets - ljk - 11/22/2006 5:47:25 PM

A comment on the new non-conventional gravitational mechanism proposed by Jaekel and Reynaud to accommodate the Pioneer anomaly - LJK - 11/21/2006 9:16:31 PM
- re: A comment on the new non-conventional gravitational mechanism proposed by Jaekel and Reynaud to accommodate the Pioneer anomaly - phil - 11/22/2006 5:30:52 PM

MGS - "NASA fears worst for spacecraft" - Bowser - 11/21/2006 6:40:15 PM
- Began new era renaissance in mars exploration--super job (n/t) - sawyer - 11/22/2006 9:41:36 AM

Cramer to see if photon goes back in time - phil - 11/21/2006 3:00:59 PM
- re: Cramer to see if photon goes back in time - Robert Clark - 11/21/2006 7:38:26 PM

Saturn occultations by the Moon in 2007 - Raoul - 11/15/2006 7:56:27 AM
- Cassini Saturn mission in the December National Geographic Magazine - LJK - 11/20/2006 3:42:46 PM
  - A deeper look at the color of Saturnian irregular satellites - LJK - 11/21/2006 5:30:15 PM

Dark Energy has existed in the Universe for a long time - LJK - 11/16/2006 6:57:04 PM
- Violaton of the 2nd Law of Thermodyamics - SDF - 11/17/2006 5:28:43 AM
  - Define 'nothing' - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 11:38:10 PM
    - nada - ER - 11/18/2006 1:32:36 AM
      - nice try ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/18/2006 6:12:14 AM
  - re: Questions! - Raoul - 11/17/2006 9:00:10 AM
    - re: Questions! - SDF - 11/18/2006 2:33:48 PM
  - Matter and energy and space - Bowser - 11/17/2006 7:12:11 AM
    - I've never understood string theories - SDF - 11/18/2006 2:17:32 PM
      - Yeah, they tie me up in knots, too. (n/t) - ER - 11/18/2006 9:20:41 PM
        
        Supercomputer study shows Milky Way's halo of dark matter in unprecedented detail - LJK - 11/21/2006 3:09:17 PM

Avoiding CAPS - E.P. - 11/19/2006 6:49:41 PM
- re: Conferences - Raoul - 11/19/2006 8:37:18 PM
  - Conference Attendance - nick hoffman - 11/20/2006 6:04:11 AM
    - re: Thanks, Nick! (n/t) - Raoul - 11/20/2006 8:18:10 PM
    - re: Conference Attendance - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 7:26:34 AM
  - Spin and denial - E.P. - 11/20/2006 12:58:04 AM
    - re: Social event - Raoul - 11/20/2006 6:17:10 PM
      - re: Social event - E.P. - 11/20/2006 10:21:15 PM
    - re: Or just your mania showing...title of the conference: ASTROPHYSICS Enabled By the Return to the Moon, (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 8:51:47 AM
      - Once again, Chris Its no mania, and its Griffin's job now - E.P. - 11/20/2006 10:29:29 PM
        
        re: Well again I'm not claiming a worry over the impact hazard is a mania. Telling us continuely that detection (etc) is Mike Griffin's job is surely part of your mania though. - Chris Vancil - 11/21/2006 9:56:22 AM
        
        Rates, risk, and priorities - nick hoffman - 11/20/2006 11:11:48 PM
        
        re: Rates, risk, and priorities - E.P. - 11/21/2006 2:08:08 AM

NGC 1316: 2 supernovae! - Raoul - 11/21/2006 6:45:24 AM

Shuttle design influenced by the military - Raoul - 11/20/2006 8:07:12 PM
- I wouldn't mind seeing a larger shuttle built. - Lee - 11/20/2006 9:02:07 PM
  - re: I wouldn't mind seeing a larger shuttle built. - Laurie Street - 11/20/2006 10:40:50 PM
  - re:A larger shuttle - Raoul - 11/20/2006 9:38:10 PM
    - Now you're talking! - Lee - 11/20/2006 9:49:57 PM
  - re: I wouldn't mind seeing a larger shuttle built. - Jeff F - 11/20/2006 9:04:12 PM
    - CEV will not get us to Mars. - Lee - 11/20/2006 9:45:37 PM
      - re: CEV will not get us to Mars. - Jeff F - 11/21/2006 12:22:55 AM
      - the pic and website - Daniel - 11/20/2006 11:05:06 PM
        
        If I'm not mistaken... - Lee - 11/21/2006 2:49:15 AM

A magnetic liquid deformable mirror for high stroke and low order axially symmetrical aberrations - LJK - 11/20/2006 10:46:35 PM
- re: ferrofluids are so cool. - podrock - 11/21/2006 2:18:58 AM

Here we go, Nasa cuts proposed - Jeff F - 11/17/2006 8:06:16 PM
- Re: Democrats want to balance the budget. If you don't want them to do it on the back of NASA tell Congress so. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/18/2006 12:43:00 AM
  - Already handled - E.P. - 11/18/2006 4:02:46 PM
    - re: Alternate Universe invocation doesn't count Eddie! - Chris Vancil - 11/18/2006 11:34:28 PM
      - You're not old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, are you? - E.P. - 11/19/2006 6:47:46 AM
        
        re: What are you talking about? - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2006 7:28:58 AM
        
        Public funding for the manned space program, - E.P. - 11/19/2006 8:09:29 AM
        
        re: BTW... - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2006 10:58:11 PM
        
        re: No Ed, you model the world in a very simple way... - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2006 10:51:48 PM
        
        No, Chris, you understand the world in a very simple way. - E.P. - 11/20/2006 1:36:07 AM
        
        re:Thanks Ed! I do model the world in a very simple and effective way and you could learn much from how I do it... - Chris Vancil - 11/20/2006 8:31:07 AM
        
        Polite Please - Moderator Nick - 11/20/2006 6:08:22 AM
        
        re: Polite Please - E.P. - 11/20/2006 10:04:41 PM
- A quick scan of the figures - Buck Galaxy - 11/17/2006 9:17:23 PM
  - Expect specific language - E.P. - 11/18/2006 12:02:23 AM
- Exactly like I've told you, for how many months now? - E.P. - 11/17/2006 8:30:19 PM
  - A message was deleted, here (unknown origin) - Raoul moderating - 11/17/2006 10:55:17 PM
    - re: I think you are over moderating here It...BTW I think it was from alcaray and he was complaining how clearly we all are stupid compared to our resident genius Ed Grondine. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/17/2006 11:04:05 PM
      - You're over-generalizing, Mr. Vancil (n/t) - E.P. - 11/18/2006 12:06:41 AM
        
        re: BTW, I wasn't generalizing alcaray was. But, I was being extremely sarcastic as everyone knows you're no genius. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2006 7:54:36 AM
        
        No, Mr. Vancil was quite correct. I agreed with you when you touted your intellegence and prescience. - alcaray - 11/18/2006 12:33:02 AM
        
        re: No, Mr. Vancil was quite correct. I agreed with you when you touted your intellegence and prescience. - Chris Vancil - 11/18/2006 12:40:18 AM
        
        I only agreed with him. Good heavens! (n/t) - alcaray - 11/18/2006 12:45:18 AM
        
        re: I only agreed with him. Good heavens! - Mark Eby - 11/18/2006 5:04:57 PM
        
        Thank you, Mark - E.P. - 11/18/2006 5:16:44 PM

A new island among the Tonga Islands - LJK - 11/20/2006 7:36:26 PM
- eyewitness photos: - podrock - 11/20/2006 9:52:55 PM

Mars Global Surveyor update - Daniel - 11/16/2006 3:26:57 PM
- JPL Teleconference - tomorrow at 1pm EST - Doug Ellison - 11/20/2006 9:41:56 PM
- re: Mars Global Surveyor update - Doug Ellison - 11/16/2006 3:32:47 PM
  - even more MRO commands - Doug Ellison - 11/20/2006 8:32:54 AM
  - No pics yet - but more MRO commands - Doug Ellison - 11/17/2006 9:25:49 PM
  - Fascinating. Thanks. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/16/2006 5:31:34 PM
  - thanks - please let us know - Daniel - 11/16/2006 4:05:39 PM
  - It is possible that whatever happened to MGS... - alcaray - 11/16/2006 3:58:04 PM
    - My theory is...is that everything in this universe eventually wears out and dies. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/16/2006 11:47:25 PM
      - I don't have a theory. All kinds of things can happen to an old orbiter around Mars. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/16/2006 11:54:33 PM
    - Probably not exactly where we 'left' it. - Doug Ellison - 11/16/2006 4:36:14 PM
      - re: Probably not exactly where we 'left' it. - alcaray - 11/16/2006 9:24:27 PM
      - Previous Optical Nav Camera image from March 10th - Doug Ellison - 11/16/2006 4:43:28 PM
        
        My reading of the process... - nick hoffman - 11/16/2006 11:52:53 PM

Review: The Rock from Mars - LJK - 11/20/2006 3:44:47 PM

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