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Comet Swan - Raoul - 10/4/2006 6:15:58 PM

Anousheh is beaming! And wants to return back to space! - Raoul - 10/4/2006 6:05:28 PM

Victoria crater (stereo) - Remy - 10/3/2006 8:14:13 AM
- re: Victoria crater (stereo) - Vince - 10/4/2006 4:36:02 AM
- re: Ah ahh! - Raoul - 10/3/2006 4:30:17 PM
- Probably a better topic for the Space Board - azstrummer - 10/3/2006 2:00:00 PM
  - [and here it is] (n/t) - Robert - 10/4/2006 5:50:01 PM

The Griffith Observatory re-opens soon - Delbert - 10/4/2006 5:22:31 AM
- A dream come true - Donald - 10/4/2006 1:40:58 PM
  - re: A dream come true - Robert - 10/4/2006 5:25:06 PM
  - re: A dream come true - Delbert - 10/4/2006 3:30:15 PM

Titan's Lakes - Sawyer - 9/29/2006 1:44:31 PM
- re: Titan's Lakes - Michael Gmirkin - 9/30/2006 11:48:59 PM
  - And you're ignoring Occam's Razor, why? - Jacob Samorodin - 10/1/2006 7:01:28 PM
  - And you're ignoring Occam's Razor, why? - Jacob Samorodin - 10/1/2006 7:01:14 PM
    - Who says I'm ignoring Occam's Razor? - Michael Gmirkin - 10/3/2006 2:21:34 AM
  - The science behind the lakes hypothethis - phil - 10/1/2006 1:54:02 PM
    - re: The science behind the lakes hypothethis - Tom Brosz - 10/2/2006 12:25:35 AM
      - yes, you get a good measure of surface "roughness" from RADAR. - alcaray - 10/3/2006 5:30:07 PM
        
        Fair enough. - Michael Gmirkin - 10/3/2006 10:36:10 PM
        
        As I said, they made reference to the RADAR data in the article when they used the word "smooth" - alcaray - 10/4/2006 5:16:04 PM
        
        re: RADAR. - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2006 8:38:29 PM
        
        Jeapardy answers (n/t) - alcaray - 10/3/2006 9:28:09 PM
      - re: The science behind the lakes hypothethis - Michael Gmirkin - 10/2/2006 11:48:30 PM
        
        Minor correction and some other thoughts... - Michael Gmirkin - 10/3/2006 12:18:50 AM
  - Am I missing something? - Sawyer - 10/1/2006 12:37:54 PM

If this isn't the coolest thing!! - Delbert - 10/3/2006 3:28:47 AM
- re: If this isn't the coolest thing!! - SDG - 10/4/2006 3:19:46 PM
- Here I come AREA 51 - carl - 10/3/2006 4:03:18 PM
- Who needs suicide bombers now? - nick hoffman - 10/3/2006 12:20:26 PM
- Holy Smoke!! - Peter Bruener - 10/3/2006 4:40:35 AM

A new comet found by Fedorovsky - Jack Herer - 10/4/2006 1:10:15 PM

Europa Explorer flagship class mission - Buck Galaxy - 9/30/2006 7:41:34 PM
- The better is the enemy of the good... - et - 9/30/2006 7:53:34 PM
  - What works for Mars... - Buck Galaxy - 9/30/2006 8:22:51 PM
    - Ok, Buck... - et - 9/30/2006 8:47:31 PM
      - Well, - Buck Galaxy - 9/30/2006 9:48:25 PM
        
        Well, well, well... - nick hoffman - 10/1/2006 11:11:14 PM
        
        12 Mile Melt - Peter Bruener - 10/3/2006 5:20:54 AM
        
        re: 12 Mile Melt - Delbert - 10/3/2006 11:25:28 PM
        
        Mars and Europa ice probes - technical issues - nick hoffman - 10/3/2006 11:59:42 PM
        
        re: Well, well, hell... - Buck Galaxy - 10/2/2006 7:14:41 AM
        
        Landers - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2006 2:21:33 AM
        
        Bunker buster technology - Buck Galaxy - 10/1/2006 3:11:26 AM
        
        re: Bunker buster technology - nick hoffman - 10/1/2006 10:58:40 PM
        
        re: Bunker buster technology - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2006 11:52:43 PM
        
        re: Bunker buster technology - Andrew - 10/2/2006 6:47:07 PM
        
        Bunker buster technology - Buck Galaxy - 10/3/2006 2:47:00 AM
        
        Okay Nick how about this one - Buck Galaxy - 10/4/2006 4:40:50 AM

Wonderful image from MRO - azstrummer - 10/3/2006 5:07:11 PM
- re: Here perhaps - Raoul - 10/3/2006 6:39:20 PM
- I'm gonna need a bigger monitor.... - dtb - 10/3/2006 6:36:41 PM
- re: Is there a MRO picture of the day website? - Raoul - 10/3/2006 6:31:59 PM
  - Maybe Exploratorium will take them on. (n/t) - azstrummer - 10/3/2006 9:28:31 PM

After many, many SOL's.... Victoria! - REB - 9/27/2006 12:46:37 PM
- Wonderful - Donald - 9/28/2006 12:49:59 AM
- Slopes are surprisingly smooth. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 9/27/2006 5:04:22 PM
- re: Let's go mountainclimbing! - Raoul - 9/27/2006 3:33:52 PM
  - Sorry We Sent Robots Not Humans - ID - 9/27/2006 4:54:54 PM
    - We will let robots mountain climb on heavenly bodies... - alcaray - 9/28/2006 8:22:41 PM
    - re: Sorry We Sent Robots Not Humans - REB - 9/28/2006 12:54:31 PM
    - What you get is 10% of the science result for 0.5% of the cost. Live with it. - pwokenyaw - 9/27/2006 9:21:28 PM
      - Unless You Got Your Numbers Backwards - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:38:29 AM
      - Baloney - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:06:35 AM
        
        Baloney back at ya - pwokenyaw - 9/28/2006 4:12:16 PM
        
        re: Baloney back at ya - Mark Eby - 10/3/2006 2:06:45 AM
        
        let's try it again - pwokenyaw - 10/3/2006 3:58:27 PM
    - re: Sorry We Sent Robots Not Humans - LJK - 9/27/2006 5:23:54 PM
      - You Didn't Think That Was My Point? - ID - 9/27/2006 7:21:47 PM
        
        Now THAT would be a great experiment - E.P. - 9/28/2006 12:42:30 AM
        
        re: Now THAT would be a great experiment - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:12:49 AM
        
        re: Now THAT would be a great experiment - E.P. - 9/28/2006 5:28:03 AM
        
        Well The People That Plan Space Misisons Are Smarter Than You - ID - 9/28/2006 1:28:43 PM
        
        Okay: Drop the bedrest, but please try rappeling in a full 0-pressure suit real soon (n/t) - E.P. - 9/29/2006 3:46:51 AM
        
        re: First, it is not clear you would need to rapple there. Second, have you ever climbed rock and third, have you every wore a pressure suit of anykind? - Chris Vancil - 9/29/2006 7:49:14 AM
        
        re: Scott and Irwin did not go down the Hadley slopes.. - Raoul - 9/27/2006 9:43:53 PM
        
        Gee and how many months was he on the Moon? - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:20:20 AM
        
        re: Gee and how many months was he on the Moon? - pwokenyaw - 9/28/2006 7:21:35 PM
        
        Reasonable Guesses - Mark Eby - 10/3/2006 2:12:07 AM
        
        re: Time, priorities and scale - Raoul - 9/28/2006 1:10:20 PM
        
        Hadley Rille is also 400 meters deep in places. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/27/2006 10:42:10 PM
        
        re:Future robots - Raoul - 9/28/2006 8:21:24 AM
        
        Why climb? - azstrummer - 9/28/2006 5:23:01 PM
        
        re: Agreed (n/t) - Raoul - 9/28/2006 5:51:23 PM
- My God! It's full of... sand! (n/t) - Laurie Street - 9/27/2006 2:42:35 PM
- Dissappointing - ID - 9/27/2006 2:35:33 PM
  - re: Dissappointing - Buck Galaxy - 9/28/2006 8:51:26 AM
  - re: Dissappointing - Delbert - 9/27/2006 6:37:37 PM
  - re: Wait until we get the whole picture (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2006 2:55:40 PM
- And from the Nav Cam - REB - 9/27/2006 12:49:46 PM
  - re: And from the Nav Cam - REB - 9/27/2006 12:51:02 PM
    - re: And from the Nav Cam - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2006 4:13:19 PM
      - re: And from the Nav Cam - REB - 9/27/2006 5:25:03 PM
    - re: Fantastic! (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2006 2:39:05 PM
      - Wow. Look at the ... sand - LJK - 9/27/2006 4:12:46 PM
        
        re: Around - Raoul - 9/27/2006 4:24:41 PM
        
        re: Around - azstrummer - 9/27/2006 5:38:35 PM

Slipping down the edge at Victoria (sand) - Raoul - 10/2/2006 6:10:45 PM
- Wow - Mammoth cross beds? Unconformity? - nick hoffman - 10/3/2006 11:51:06 AM

Venus Express - Sawyer - 10/1/2006 12:55:27 PM
- re: I've read and commented on forums that Europeans spend about 7 times less in the civil space program than americans - Raoul - 10/1/2006 3:19:12 PM
  - Uhhh, they fly less missions, but on a given mission, why do bad PR? - Sawyer - 10/2/2006 10:58:53 PM
    - re: There is no ESATV like at NASA - Raoul - 10/3/2006 5:38:29 AM
      - http://television.esa.int/ - Doug Ellison - 10/3/2006 7:15:01 AM

Habitability of Red Dwarf Planets - Adam - 10/2/2006 8:28:31 PM

SpaceShip 2 - Raoul - 10/2/2006 6:46:21 PM

First MRO HiRISE image from Science Orbit - Doug Ellison - 9/29/2006 11:20:57 PM
- Let me give it a try... - Tom Brosz - 9/30/2006 9:20:05 PM
  - Good job. - Bowser - 10/1/2006 7:21:51 PM
    - I think in this case, it's "what's" on first. - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2006 11:54:15 PM
      - But the beer stays cold... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/2/2006 12:01:20 PM
  - Yankees from MARS!!! (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 10/1/2006 3:12:07 AM
    - "Yankee Martians Go Home" - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2006 5:31:53 AM
- Amazing that the image is smaller than Victoria Crater! - Buck Galaxy - 9/30/2006 6:35:44 PM
- to compare - JimO - 9/30/2006 2:09:36 PM
  - MOC vs HiRISE - Doug Ellison - 9/30/2006 10:28:46 PM
- One image is a small sample but... - nick hoffman - 9/30/2006 2:28:53 AM
  - 100mb+ - Doug Ellison - 9/30/2006 8:01:14 AM
- Nice. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/30/2006 12:09:50 AM
- Wow! (n/t) - azstrummer - 9/29/2006 11:48:39 PM

New edition of NewSpaceNews is up. - Tom Brosz - 10/2/2006 5:41:16 AM

He said it right - Buck Galaxy - 10/1/2006 4:09:20 AM
- re: Digital technology - Raoul - 10/1/2006 8:11:01 AM
  - re: Digital technology - Delbert - 10/1/2006 11:29:55 PM
    - re: Digital technology - Raoul - 10/2/2006 5:28:42 AM
  - Nothing added. - Buck Galaxy - 10/1/2006 6:58:12 PM
  - Oral equivalent of a typo. - Bowser - 10/1/2006 2:49:52 PM
    - re: Yes, indeed! (n/t) - Raoul - 10/1/2006 3:14:09 PM
- re: He said it right - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2006 5:11:20 AM
  - re: He said it right - Robert - 10/1/2006 6:02:39 PM

How to explore Victoria Crater? - E.P. - 9/28/2006 2:27:52 AM
- These new pictures might help answer that. - REB - 9/28/2006 2:23:41 PM
- at this point on the traverse, I'd have a sandwich. - podrock - 9/28/2006 5:00:59 AM
  - Yep. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/28/2006 2:41:07 PM
  - re: and in october.... - Raoul - 9/28/2006 8:34:42 AM
  - I agree with podrock, and Raoul down below. - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2006 5:10:55 AM
    - Your wish may be synthetically possible. JPL engineers can certainly morph those images to create a 3-d fly-around animation. - Jacob Samorodin - 10/1/2006 7:30:05 PM
    - Circumnavigation is not a forgone conclusion - Buck Galaxy - 9/28/2006 8:33:47 AM
      - re: Circumnavigation is not a forgone conclusion - azstrummer - 9/28/2006 5:19:43 PM
        
        I'm sure more than one rover scientist is getting grayer trying to make these decisions. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2006 9:16:30 PM

SPECULATION on major new planets announcement - phil - 10/1/2006 3:00:18 PM

Google Maps obsolete? - SDF - 9/29/2006 12:23:56 AM
- re: Google Maps obsolete? - Michael Gmirkin - 9/30/2006 11:51:06 PM
- I'd say MAY 2001 for our NE AREA - carl - 9/29/2006 5:30:09 PM
- re: Google Maps obsolete? - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2006 2:07:42 AM
- re: Google Maps obsolete? - Eric - 9/29/2006 12:34:43 AM
  - re: Google Maps obsolete? - SDF - 9/29/2006 2:32:26 AM
    - Windows Live Local zooms in very nicely - Eric - 9/30/2006 11:30:29 AM
      - Imagery isn't available at that zoom level for where I live (n/t) - SDF - 9/30/2006 12:50:52 PM

The amazing Story Musgrave - Raoul - 9/29/2006 7:53:41 PM
- re: The amazing Story Musgrave - JimO - 9/30/2006 7:10:32 PM
  - re: The amazing Story Musgrave - Raoul - 9/30/2006 9:30:20 PM

Hubble Trubble........ - carl - 9/29/2006 5:45:06 PM
- Still cheaper to replace than service - nick hoffman - 9/30/2006 2:32:32 AM
  - Push it up to HIGHER ORBIT? - carl - 9/30/2006 4:11:09 PM
  - Forget smaller - Lee - 9/30/2006 8:58:43 AM
- Can't find anything recent about this..Sure it's not the ACS problem of months ago? (n/t) - Raoul - 9/29/2006 7:05:11 PM
  - re: It is indeed recent - Raoul - 9/29/2006 8:47:49 PM
    - re: re:Night launch are ok for Shuttles - Raoul - 9/29/2006 9:21:25 PM

Update on "Spaceship Two." - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2006 10:10:21 PM
- re: Update on "Spaceship Two." - father earth - 9/30/2006 1:00:34 PM
- Promo video is sort of entertaining - Sawyer - 9/29/2006 4:19:14 PM
  - Let me try that link again - Sawyer - 9/29/2006 4:21:56 PM
    - Loved the fertilizer/Yahoo commercial that came first. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2006 7:38:15 PM
    - Nice - phil - 9/29/2006 5:59:45 PM
      - re: LOL! Yes, the helmet should be removed! Very good video! (n/t) - Raoul - 9/29/2006 6:55:15 PM
        
        re: the helmet - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2006 8:16:23 PM
        
        Another iRobot Market!!! - phil - 9/29/2006 10:27:14 PM
        
        re: Only one 5 minute long 0 G session... - Raoul - 9/29/2006 8:28:54 PM
- re: Update on "Spaceship Two." - phil - 9/29/2006 2:33:42 PM
- re: Update on "Spaceship Two." - Daniel - 9/29/2006 8:44:09 AM
- Money Folks & Another Space Startup - phil - 9/29/2006 12:47:35 AM
  - Ancestry - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2006 2:16:53 AM
    - re: Ancestry - father earth - 9/29/2006 2:24:35 PM

Save Those Freq Flyer Miles! - phil - 9/30/2006 11:53:18 AM

Orion's shape - Raoul - 9/27/2006 4:27:12 PM
- In '61 Kennedy said we'd get there in 9 years. - Bowser - 9/27/2006 11:09:34 PM
  - re: Been there done that - Raoul - 9/28/2006 8:00:23 AM
    - 4 billion years of evolution to fit Earth. This IS Man's colony. - Bowser - 9/28/2006 4:13:38 PM
      - Colonies - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2006 9:21:35 PM
        
        re: Colonies - Fox - 9/29/2006 3:32:50 AM
      - It's Called Chemical Engineering - ID - 9/28/2006 6:53:27 PM
      - re: 4 billion years of evolution to fit Earth. This IS Man's colony. - REB - 9/28/2006 4:42:10 PM
        
        re: Nobody has settled on the poles or underneath water - Raoul - 9/28/2006 6:03:05 PM
        
        Lots of settlements underground though. (n/t) - GimLee - 9/30/2006 1:38:44 AM
        
        For Many Reasons - ID - 9/28/2006 7:00:01 PM
        
        Effortless oxygen, effortless radiation protection, effortless temp. range. - Bowser - 9/28/2006 4:57:55 PM
        
        Take an African man from the ice age era and drop them in Northern Europe. See how long they last in that environment. Compare that with a European that has adapted to that environment. - REB - 9/28/2006 5:04:13 PM
        
        My point exactly. - Bowser - 9/28/2006 6:47:02 PM
        
        You missed the point. - REB - 9/28/2006 8:21:33 PM
    - Been Evaluated and Abandoned For Good Reason - ID - 9/28/2006 2:04:01 PM
      - re: A compromise - Raoul - 9/28/2006 4:44:13 PM
    - Never say never. - REB - 9/28/2006 12:53:04 PM
      - re: Gravity: Terrans v Martians - Raoul - 9/28/2006 1:23:50 PM
        
        Yes The There Be Dragons Mentality - ID - 9/28/2006 2:06:47 PM
        
        re: Yes The There Be Dragons Mentality - E.P. - 9/29/2006 3:43:29 AM
        
        re: Gravity: Terrans v Martians - REB - 9/28/2006 2:03:59 PM
    - O'Neill had the right idea. - Lee - 9/28/2006 8:14:15 AM
      - One problem - Adam - 9/28/2006 11:38:45 AM
        
        All sorts of resources. - Lee - 9/28/2006 4:45:40 PM
        
        re: One other problem - Raoul - 9/28/2006 12:32:03 PM
        
        Impossible? - Adam - 9/28/2006 9:38:34 PM
        
        So Stay At Home Like Most Europeans Did - ID - 9/28/2006 2:11:10 PM
        
        re: Because there is a huge difference between exploring and settling - Raoul - 9/28/2006 6:08:44 PM
- re: I Inside Orion - Raoul - 9/27/2006 8:59:20 PM

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