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First ISS Pass since the new solar pannels were added - Delbert - 10/18/2006 3:46:49 AM
- Thanks! - TB - 10/19/2006 3:06:28 AM
- re: First ISS Pass since the new solar pannels were added - Delbert - 10/18/2006 4:50:31 PM
  - re: ISS Pass - Raoul - 10/18/2006 5:59:54 PM
- sorry for the size of the picture. 30 sec. time exposure (n/t) - Delbert - 10/18/2006 3:50:59 AM

The Antennae Galaxies revisited by the HST (btw, the ACS works again!) - Raoul - 10/18/2006 6:20:51 PM

The dancing F-ring - Raoul - 10/18/2006 4:47:20 PM

More Than a Meteor Likely Killed Dinosaurs 65 Million Years Ago - Chris Vancil - 10/18/2006 9:51:39 AM

Space Awareness Program - Jeff F - 10/16/2006 2:04:28 PM
- re: Space Awareness Efforts - Ken Murphy - 10/17/2006 4:21:50 AM
  - re: Space Awareness and Perception Efforts - Raoul - 10/17/2006 9:26:36 PM
    - re: Memory - Ken Murphy - 10/17/2006 11:09:48 PM

Gullies, the MRO way! (1.7 MB) - Raoul - 10/16/2006 7:52:14 PM
- re: Gullies, the MRO way! (1.7 MB) - CarolinaDave - 10/17/2006 11:08:26 PM
- I like the appendix scar at the top center. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2006 11:27:56 PM
- re: Gullies, the MRO way! (1.7 MB) - Robert Clark - 10/16/2006 10:13:52 PM

The Shape of Ceres, by Keck - nick hoffman - 10/17/2006 8:49:55 AM
- Amazing!...And to think that when I was much younger... - Jacob Samorodin - 10/17/2006 10:50:30 PM

Impacts are a Menckenian ploy - Buck Galaxy - 10/15/2006 8:01:52 AM
- Cost/benefit - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2006 7:09:27 PM
  - "This isn't a "no-cost" choice." - Buck Galaxy - 10/16/2006 7:26:01 AM
    - First you need to define the term "uninhabitable planet" - Scott Evil - 10/16/2006 10:05:47 PM
    - If the outcomes were clear, so would the choices be... - nick hoffman - 10/16/2006 8:26:52 AM
      - Quality of life issues - Laurie Street - 10/17/2006 4:35:25 AM
      - Politics - TB - 10/17/2006 3:52:50 AM
        
        This is also supported by the mouse over. - FrankC - 10/17/2006 8:32:58 PM
- An "anomolous" thought on impacts. - Bowser - 10/15/2006 2:54:30 PM
- re: Impacts are a Menckenian ploy - JimO - 10/15/2006 11:21:01 AM
  - Debate tactics - Buck Galaxy - 10/15/2006 7:05:03 PM
    - clarity - JimO - 10/16/2006 1:04:38 PM
      - re: clarity - Buck Galaxy - 10/17/2006 7:50:51 AM
- Financial Impacts - nick hoffman - 10/15/2006 9:38:45 AM

Revised Shuttle Launch Schedule - Info. on Hubble servicing mission - Vince - 10/17/2006 7:33:00 PM
- re: STS 125 - Raoul - 10/17/2006 8:31:23 PM

Metop - Raoul - 10/17/2006 5:46:57 PM
- re: 8 days or... - Raoul - 10/17/2006 7:05:04 PM

more "blueberries" - E.P. - 10/17/2006 4:44:44 PM

Solar constant variation drives global warming? - ER - 10/15/2006 12:43:28 PM
- re: Solar constant variation drives global warming? - Pugs - 10/16/2006 9:44:32 PM
  - Maybe not control it, perhaps prevent it. (n/t) - ER - 10/17/2006 1:04:01 AM
- I think an ice age would be far more destructive - SDF - 10/16/2006 1:53:47 PM
  - Excellent point. - ER - 10/16/2006 3:40:56 PM
- Thanks ER - Buck Galaxy - 10/16/2006 7:22:40 AM
- Solar variation NOT mere luminosity - JimO - 10/15/2006 10:57:19 PM
- Right here ER. - et - 10/15/2006 7:28:05 PM
  - Please rein in your rhetoric - JimO - 10/15/2006 11:00:30 PM
    - What's next, rhetoric trials? - end transmission - 10/16/2006 1:00:50 AM
      - "Tu quoque" rebuttal? - JimO - 10/16/2006 1:00:25 PM
        
        how ridiculous - pwokenyaw - 10/16/2006 3:32:58 PM
        
        re: how ridiculous - JimO - 10/16/2006 3:46:05 PM
        
        Rhetoric techniques - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2006 5:19:54 PM
        
        here's a trick from us lawyers - pwokenyaw - 10/16/2006 7:31:04 PM
        
        re: here's a trick from us lawyers - JimO - 10/16/2006 8:15:44 PM
        
        What we say vs how we say it. - Buck Galaxy - 10/17/2006 8:08:38 AM
- re: global warming drivers - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2006 6:53:53 PM
  - re: global warming drivers - ER - 10/15/2006 8:05:08 PM
    - re: global warming drivers - JimO - 10/15/2006 9:43:44 PM
      - funny how the pro-tech denialists on this board have no interest in carbon sequestration - pwokenyaw - 10/16/2006 3:41:29 PM
        
        carbon sequestration - JimO - 10/16/2006 8:19:22 PM
        
        re: carbon sequestration - pwokenyaw - 10/17/2006 4:21:14 PM
      - That seems like a reasonable response to me. - ER - 10/15/2006 10:10:09 PM
        
        I'm with you on nuclear power. - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2006 10:40:30 PM
        
        The safety and crime-fighting benefits... - ER - 10/15/2006 10:55:14 PM
    - re: scientific study drivers - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2006 9:06:09 PM
      - Hurricanes - Buck Galaxy - 10/15/2006 11:03:32 PM
        
        Where are the deadly hurricanes this year, Buck? - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2006 11:55:28 PM
        
        re: Where are the deadly hurricanes this year, Buck? - Buck Galaxy - 10/16/2006 7:16:43 AM
      - re: scientific study drivers - ER - 10/15/2006 10:48:31 PM
        
        "no one blames it on global warning." - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2006 10:59:18 PM
  - So much 'belief", so little time... - end transmission - 10/15/2006 7:24:42 PM
- re: "Burden of proof" vs "ruling out" - Fox - 10/15/2006 3:08:48 PM
  - coupling mechanism - JimO - 10/15/2006 4:02:53 PM
    - All I'm interested in (in this thread) is whether I'm orbiting a variable star. (n/t) - Fox - 10/16/2006 2:49:38 AM
      - re: Variable Star? - nick hoffman - 10/16/2006 2:03:18 PM
  - re: "Burden of proof" vs "ruling out" - ER - 10/15/2006 3:43:10 PM
    - Addendum. - ER - 10/15/2006 3:51:42 PM
- re: "Solar constant VARIATION" - that's the catch - E.P. - 10/15/2006 2:34:23 PM
  - re: "Solar constant VARIATION" - that's the catch - ER - 10/15/2006 2:56:09 PM
    - Maunder minimum and ice age during 70 years... - Raoul - 10/15/2006 3:09:09 PM
- Suppose global warming altered civilization..... - SDF - 10/15/2006 2:17:47 PM
  - re: Populations displaced - Raoul - 10/15/2006 3:01:26 PM
  - re: Suppose global warming altered civilization..... - ER - 10/15/2006 2:43:42 PM

Global warming (fiction) - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/17/2006 11:57:05 AM
- re: Global warming (fiction) - ER - 10/17/2006 1:36:21 PM

Comet Swan!! - Raoul - 10/16/2006 7:32:26 PM

Great photo from UnmannedSpaceFlight.com - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2006 3:04:00 AM
- re: Great photo from UnmannedSpaceFlight.com - Doug Ellison - 10/16/2006 7:39:51 AM
  - Just checking. - Tom Brosz - 10/16/2006 5:16:47 PM
- There'll be a lot more - E.P. - 10/16/2006 3:42:05 AM

Bee Researcher wins Oz Science Prize - nick hoffman - 10/16/2006 1:54:37 PM

Comet Swan - Raoul - 10/14/2006 10:32:57 PM

Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Jeff F - 10/12/2006 2:56:08 PM
- re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Delbert - 10/12/2006 6:15:08 PM
  - I think that people who don't know if a planet is closer or further than a star... - alcaray - 10/13/2006 3:51:10 PM
    - A sense of place - Fox - 10/14/2006 8:38:45 PM
    - re:A book to start - Raoul - 10/13/2006 5:58:49 PM
      - re: A book to start - Fox - 10/14/2006 9:13:52 PM
    - re: I think that people who don't know if a planet is closer or further than a star... - Jeff F - 10/13/2006 4:30:54 PM
      - Sometimes you don't need a lens - Fox - 10/14/2006 6:06:41 PM
        
        ...but a very long baseline helps - Robert - 10/14/2006 7:40:20 PM
        
        Extreme parallax - Fox - 10/14/2006 8:57:34 PM
      - Hands-on space science - Laurie Street - 10/13/2006 11:15:58 PM
      - Not how I learned. - alcaray - 10/13/2006 5:20:04 PM
        
        re: Not how I learned. - Jeff F - 10/13/2006 6:02:48 PM
        
        I did not mean to insult or discourage your efforts. - alcaray - 10/13/2006 6:19:51 PM
        
        re: I did not mean to insult or discourage your efforts. - Jeff F - 10/13/2006 7:15:11 PM
  - re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Jeff F - 10/12/2006 6:56:46 PM
- re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Robert - 10/12/2006 4:42:48 PM
- re: Educatiing The Public On Astronomy And Space - Lance - 10/12/2006 4:22:58 PM
  - Participation - Robert - 10/12/2006 4:40:35 PM
    - re: Participation - Jeff F - 10/12/2006 5:23:08 PM
      - Outreach participation - Ken Murphy - 10/13/2006 12:54:49 AM
        
        re: Participation - Raoul - 10/13/2006 6:05:49 PM
        
        Bright and shiny baubles - Robert - 10/14/2006 7:31:46 PM
        
        rephrasing the question - Robert - 10/13/2006 5:42:02 PM
      - re: Participation - Robert - 10/12/2006 6:30:17 PM
        
        re: Good idea and an example - Raoul - 10/13/2006 6:12:19 PM
        
        Yes, like that - Robert - 10/14/2006 12:22:20 AM
        
        re: Debating a question - Raoul - 10/14/2006 9:12:43 PM
        
        re: Yes, like that - DWC - 10/14/2006 4:49:57 PM
        
        We'd get lost in the crowd on MyHorde - Robert - 10/14/2006 7:23:31 PM

Anomalist tome - ER - 10/14/2006 3:28:38 PM
- "Ringmakers of Saturn" - ER - 10/14/2006 7:02:09 PM
  - my copy? - JimO - 10/14/2006 8:07:02 PM
    - re: my copy? - ER - 10/14/2006 8:45:54 PM
- re: Anomalist tome - Peter Bruener - 10/14/2006 6:12:49 PM
- re: Anomalist tome - E.P. - 10/14/2006 3:33:44 PM

New hi-res Google-Earth images of Baykonur city - JimO - 10/14/2006 8:05:00 PM

PanStarrs Hijacking? - E.P. - 10/5/2006 2:04:05 PM
- Hijacking implies violence and misdirection - nick hoffman - 10/7/2006 10:41:15 PM
  - re: Hijacking implies violence and misdirection - E.P. - 10/14/2006 4:02:26 PM
- deleted insulting reply - FrankC (moderator) - 10/6/2006 6:39:23 PM
  - Are you a Moderator here, too? (n/t) - Bowser - 10/6/2006 8:14:38 PM
    - Me too - Robert - 10/6/2006 8:33:43 PM
      - TB comes to mind. - Bowser - 10/6/2006 9:13:20 PM
        
        Tom'd be a good choice - Robert - 10/6/2006 9:42:24 PM
        
        Appoint him, and leave it vacant. He'll rise to the occasion(s). (n/t) - Bowser - 10/6/2006 10:53:31 PM
        
        How many hours into the job would he be... - alcaray - 10/10/2006 9:51:09 PM
    - We are all pitching in - FrankC - 10/6/2006 8:24:00 PM
      - Since you asked, I worry for you, FrankC (Moderator). - Bowser - 10/6/2006 9:16:52 PM
        
        Cut it out, Bowser - Robert - 10/6/2006 9:40:34 PM
        
        He asked. You've got yerself one tender, sensitive project, there, Robert Shepherd. - Bowser - 10/6/2006 10:52:44 PM
        
        Whatever - Robert - 10/7/2006 12:39:45 AM
        
        Curses!! Foiled again! - Bowser - 10/7/2006 12:45:53 AM

Why go to space? - Raoul - 10/10/2006 5:29:56 AM
- We're already in space, Raoul - E.P. - 10/14/2006 3:50:06 PM
- The Choice Is Simple - ID - 10/14/2006 10:35:58 AM
- To get away from earthings. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 10/12/2006 5:31:18 PM
- Not to worry. - Bowser - 10/11/2006 8:31:24 PM
  - re: Rotating Earth - Raoul - 10/11/2006 8:48:31 PM
- Because physics is simpler there - SDF - 10/11/2006 1:19:16 PM
- re: Why go to space? - Ken Murphy - 10/11/2006 12:29:12 AM
  - re: Robots seem the solution... - Raoul - 10/11/2006 8:37:24 PM
    - Don't send a tool... - Ken Murphy - 10/11/2006 10:47:47 PM
      - re:Even remotely controlled ? - Raoul - 10/12/2006 5:36:11 AM
        
        Look how long... - Ken Murphy - 10/13/2006 4:11:59 AM
        
        re: Look how fast... - Raoul - 10/13/2006 5:45:58 AM
- re: Why go to space? - Jeff F - 10/10/2006 4:51:23 PM
- Because it's THERE - carl - 10/10/2006 4:01:39 PM
  - re: Because they are THERE - Jack Herer - 10/10/2006 7:27:11 PM
- re: Why go to space? - father earth - 10/10/2006 1:13:18 PM

Jupiter's Smaller Spot gets REDDER - carl - 10/12/2006 4:10:46 PM
- "And Leon's getting LARGER!" (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/13/2006 1:37:35 AM
- Jupiter's hurricanes getting stronger -- that darned 'global warming'!! - JimO - 10/12/2006 5:46:01 PM
  - I usually look to you for a clear-headed view of science-related issues - free of innuendo - alcaray - 10/13/2006 3:27:29 PM
  - I'd expect better from you, Jim - pwokenyaw - 10/12/2006 7:50:12 PM
    - Not to mention that there is a huge body of evidence that it's NOT solar forcing on Earth or elsewhere. - et - 10/13/2006 2:19:53 AM
      - what's next, heresy trials? - JimO - 10/13/2006 4:37:44 AM
        
        No Jim. Just continuing referral to the data. - et - 10/13/2006 4:32:42 PM
        
        Agenda driven hysteria for personal gain... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/13/2006 7:02:00 AM
        
        Did Mencken have it pegged? - JimO - 10/13/2006 7:38:14 AM
        
        re: Did Mencken have it pegged? - Fox - 10/14/2006 2:05:04 AM
        
        re: Did Mencken have it pegged? - Pugs - 10/14/2006 3:40:04 AM
        
        re: Did Mencken have it pegged? - Fox - 10/14/2006 4:46:50 AM
        
        re: Did Mencken have it pegged? - Pugs - 10/14/2006 6:58:34 AM
        
        re: Planetary situation - Fox - 10/14/2006 3:25:20 PM
        
        re: Did Mencken have it pegged? - Laurie Street - 10/13/2006 5:58:03 PM
        
        re: Did Mencken have it pegged? - pwokenyaw - 10/13/2006 3:38:41 PM

NASA's Spitzer Sees Day and Night on Exotic World - nick hoffman - 10/14/2006 1:43:11 PM

It's friday the 13th and there's an Ariane V launch! - Raoul - 10/13/2006 6:36:00 PM
- re: Currently live! (n/t) - Raoul - 10/13/2006 8:53:45 PM
  - re: Very good liftoff and clear sky!! (n/t) - Raoul - 10/13/2006 9:01:35 PM

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