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Playing with the Moon - Raoul - 8/9/2006 4:14:07 PM
- Fun! (n/t) - Fox - 8/9/2006 7:53:15 PM
  - An oblique look on the north lunar far west - LJK - 8/9/2006 8:25:24 PM
    - Lunar research project involving SMART-1's September 3 impact - LJK - 8/10/2006 8:49:31 PM
      - Details on observing the lunar probe impact - LJK - 8/11/2006 2:15:04 PM
        
        SL/REA SMART-1 Lunar Impact Project Web site - ljk - 8/14/2006 5:48:04 PM

Perseid peak tonight. (n/t) - RobVG - 8/12/2006 5:32:21 PM
- Congrats all! - phil - 8/14/2006 1:15:41 PM
- Clouded out - Fox - 8/13/2006 1:12:11 AM
  - re: Mooned out - Raoul - 8/13/2006 8:00:35 AM
    - re: Mooned out - Fox - 8/14/2006 4:08:56 PM
    - I had some luck. - Lee - 8/13/2006 8:19:14 AM
      - Me too. - RobVG - 8/13/2006 9:47:37 PM
        
        You have that problem too? - Lee - 8/13/2006 11:41:18 PM

Bacteria survive to -200 Â°C?!? - Robert Clark - 8/12/2006 5:25:48 PM
- Survive, not thrive - Adam - 8/14/2006 2:59:04 AM

The Mars Underground - Raoul - 8/7/2006 8:36:16 PM
- re: The Mars Underground - Chris Vancil - 8/8/2006 6:40:18 PM
  - re: Fascination with the Moon - Raoul - 8/8/2006 9:34:05 PM
    - re: Fascination with ... - Chris Vancil - 8/9/2006 6:23:16 PM
    - We might not be here without the Moon - LJK - 8/9/2006 1:26:51 PM
      - re: We might not be here without the Moon - Chris Vancil - 8/9/2006 6:29:07 PM
        
        re: Is Mars that much more interesting than the Moon? - Raoul - 8/9/2006 8:21:23 PM
        
        re: Is Mars that much more interesting than the Moon? - Chris Vancil - 8/10/2006 7:25:28 PM
        
        re: Mars looks like Arizona and New Mexico - Raoul - 8/11/2006 6:49:17 PM
        
        Yes - ID - 8/9/2006 9:47:59 PM
        
        Its About Resources. - ID - 8/9/2006 9:43:20 PM
        
        re: And Resources are what motivates space exploration? - Raoul - 8/10/2006 5:43:56 AM
        
        Well - ID - 8/10/2006 6:48:21 AM
        
        For the challenge of it. - REB - 8/11/2006 1:57:26 PM
        
        re: Contradictions - Raoul - 8/11/2006 5:42:46 AM
        
        What Are You Talking About? - Mark Eby - 8/12/2006 1:39:59 AM
        
        re: Space - Raoul - 8/12/2006 4:35:30 PM
        
        These Were Already Addressed, But I'll Try Again - Mark Eby - 8/12/2006 11:50:38 PM
        
        Forgot Mars Biogravity Satellite Link - Mark Eby - 8/13/2006 12:33:10 AM
        
        re:Very interesting, thanks Mark (n/t) - Raoul - 8/13/2006 7:58:02 AM
        
        I wouldn't say that. - Lee - 8/10/2006 5:27:07 AM
        
        Well I Sure Would - ID - 8/10/2006 5:34:12 AM
        
        A far smaller gravity well. - Lee - 8/10/2006 10:09:28 AM
        
        re: A far smaller gravity well. - Chris Vancil - 8/10/2006 7:11:07 PM
        
        Another good reason to colonize Saturn - LJK - 8/10/2006 1:56:16 PM
        
        In which case asteroids might be even more interesting. (n/t) - podrock - 8/9/2006 10:25:55 PM
        
        Compare the Mass of Mars To Any Asteroid - ID - 8/10/2006 12:12:00 AM
        
        concentrated - podrock - 8/11/2006 4:26:02 PM
        
        You Missed The One Resource Versus Many Issue - Mark Eby - 8/12/2006 1:43:02 AM
        
        Quite right, but..... - podrock - 8/12/2006 11:10:31 PM
        
        You Have A Point But - Mark Eby - 8/13/2006 12:01:19 AM
        
        All the more reason to go to the Moon. - Lee - 8/12/2006 10:00:56 AM
        
        re: Nope. - Chris Vancil - 8/12/2006 3:17:37 PM
        
        It's happened here on Earth. - Lee - 8/12/2006 7:11:29 PM
        
        re: Bad Logic. - Chris Vancil - 8/13/2006 3:18:54 AM
        
        Reality Check - Mark Eby - 8/13/2006 12:10:46 AM
        
        ? - Mark Eby - 8/12/2006 2:02:55 PM
        
        Asteroid and comet impact sites would contain those materials. - Lee - 8/12/2006 7:12:05 PM
        
        A Hint - Mark Eby - 8/13/2006 12:04:38 AM
        
        The one thing the Moon will always have over Mars - LJK - 8/11/2006 4:24:05 PM
        
        The Life Line Argument Is Bogus - Mark Eby - 8/12/2006 1:34:03 AM
- As Usual - ID - 8/8/2006 4:36:11 PM
  - re: As Usual - Chris Vancil - 8/8/2006 6:34:31 PM

The speed of dark. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/7/2006 10:05:13 PM
- What about looking at it from quantum and uncertainty principle angles... - Sawyer - 8/10/2006 9:17:23 PM
- Active vision - ER - 8/8/2006 1:15:02 PM
- If dark = absence of light, then during inflation after the big bang... - sawyer - 8/8/2006 12:57:29 PM
  - ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 8/8/2006 10:52:59 PM
- re: Light = dark - Raoul - 8/8/2006 5:38:13 AM
- re: My guess is that it advances - Johannes - 8/8/2006 2:11:13 AM
  - re: The explanation. - Johannes - 8/8/2006 3:41:57 PM
    - Sorry, relativity busts that one - nick hoffman - 8/9/2006 7:15:46 AM
      - re: How does relativity explain the existence of "darkness," or "nothing"? (n/t) - Johannes - 8/10/2006 4:15:00 AM
        
        There should be a clue in the word "relativity" that it does not attempt to explain nothing. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/10/2006 2:53:24 PM
        
        re: How is Zero related to other numbers? (n/t) - Johannes - 8/13/2006 4:40:49 AM
        
        There is no darkness. There is only something. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/10/2006 8:35:37 AM
        
        re: There is darkness. There is something. - Johannes - 8/10/2006 8:56:33 PM
        
        Darkness & Nothing - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/11/2006 12:01:39 AM
        
        re: it doesn't mean they were right. - Johannes - 8/13/2006 4:32:53 AM
        
        If you could hold a piece of dark matter in your hand... - ljk - 8/11/2006 6:29:36 PM
        
        Re: Dark Matter - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/12/2006 10:12:18 AM
    - Wow!...That is really deep. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 8/8/2006 10:51:29 PM
- 3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds. (n/t) - ER - 8/7/2006 11:10:22 PM
  - As Dr. Seuss once asked... - LJK - 8/10/2006 8:58:59 PM

Next goal: space - Raoul - 8/10/2006 11:34:49 AM
- Nothing better than a pretty girl in a space suit. (n/t) - ER - 8/10/2006 10:19:51 PM
  - Yah, there is... - Fox - 8/12/2006 4:36:25 PM
    - I should have seen that coming. (n/t) - ER - 8/13/2006 4:01:00 AM
- Is that what you kids are calling it these days? (n/t) - alcaray - 8/10/2006 6:11:36 PM
- Hot space babes are always on topic! (n/t) - p - 8/10/2006 5:31:20 PM
  - The First Female Space Tourist? - LJK - 8/11/2006 8:05:34 PM

Planets and an adjective - Raoul - 8/11/2006 7:32:01 PM
- re: Planets and an adjective - Fox - 8/12/2006 4:33:55 PM
  - re: Stars and an adjective - Raoul - 8/12/2006 4:40:41 PM
    - Rocky, gaseous, icy? (n/t) - ER - 8/12/2006 11:01:22 PM
      - Density of the core, plus shape (roundish) plus orbit. - Bowser - 8/13/2006 3:41:44 AM

Not anomalism... - ER - 8/11/2006 5:43:26 PM
- Report your sighting at the National UFO Reporting Center - Eric - 8/12/2006 9:54:01 PM
- re: Not anomalism... - Raoul - 8/11/2006 6:27:48 PM
  - re: Not anomalism... - ER - 8/11/2006 6:49:25 PM
    - Sorry, Raoul...I misunderstood your post at first. - ER - 8/11/2006 7:04:48 PM
      - re: Binoculars - Raoul - 8/11/2006 7:20:24 PM
    - re: :-) - Raoul - 8/11/2006 7:01:03 PM
- UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, not Aliens - REB - 8/11/2006 6:10:57 PM
  - re: UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, not Aliens - ER - 8/11/2006 6:55:17 PM
- Yes, similar experiences - McFly - 8/11/2006 6:02:41 PM
  - re: Yes, similar experiences - Fox - 8/12/2006 12:13:38 AM
  - re: Yes, similar experiences - ER - 8/11/2006 6:53:57 PM
    - The Lubbock Lights - LJK - 8/11/2006 7:34:54 PM
      - re: The Phoenix Lights - Peter Bruener - 8/12/2006 7:09:17 AM
      - re: The Lubbock Lights - ER - 8/11/2006 7:49:37 PM
        
        re: The Lubbock Lights - LJK - 8/11/2006 8:21:52 PM
        
        Not at 30-40k feet. (n/t) - ER - 8/11/2006 8:30:26 PM
        
        1951? - Peter Bruener - 8/12/2006 8:22:48 AM
        
        You got me there! (n/t) - ER - 8/12/2006 11:35:13 AM

News From The Mars Society Conference - Mark Eby - 8/12/2006 1:21:58 AM

Has SETI Been Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Mostly)? - LJK - 8/7/2006 3:19:27 PM
- Look under the lampost - ER - 8/9/2006 2:50:34 PM
  - More lampost leanings - ER - 8/9/2006 3:48:42 PM
- They're looking for radio signals. - SDF - 8/8/2006 1:28:32 AM
  - re: They're looking for radio signals. - phil - 8/8/2006 2:38:54 PM
- re: Has SETI Been Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Mostly)? - phil - 8/7/2006 10:11:08 PM
  - You got detailed SETI plans? Then let's hear them. I would be genuinely interested in the details - LJK - 8/8/2006 12:24:43 AM
    - faith based, not science based - phil - 8/8/2006 1:21:45 PM
      - Oh no, not the dreaded anti-science words of doom! - LJK - 8/8/2006 3:07:48 PM
        
        Speculation and Awareness - Lindy - 8/10/2006 1:38:42 AM
        
        Here's another new paradigm line of alien inquiry - phil - 8/8/2006 3:22:55 PM
        
        We need to start building some high sensitivity art detectors right away! But seriously... - alcaray - 8/8/2006 10:11:57 PM
        
        Wasn't the future wonderful - LJK - 8/10/2006 3:35:08 PM
        
        If I were the king of SETI... - alcaray - 8/10/2006 5:39:41 PM
        
        With current technology... - LJK - 8/10/2006 7:54:07 PM
        
        And how could I forget... - LJK - 8/11/2006 7:28:26 PM
        
        re: We need to start building some high sensitivity art detectors right away! But seriously... - phil - 8/9/2006 8:42:18 PM
        
        Art and music drifting through the heavens... - LJK - 8/8/2006 3:51:09 PM
    - Further papers on the subject - LJK - 8/8/2006 12:45:00 AM
      - And these two updated papers from Scot Stride - LJK - 8/11/2006 8:54:31 PM
- Unwarranted criticism - phil - 8/7/2006 3:55:56 PM
  - Warranted, constructive criticism - that's the difference between science and dogma - LJK - 8/7/2006 5:11:04 PM
    - Report on The Planetary Society Optical SETI Project - July 11, 2006 - LJK - 8/9/2006 2:58:47 PM
      - SETI Institute related events through September, 2006 - LJK - 8/10/2006 8:31:05 PM

The Detailed Star Formation History in the Spheroid, Outer Disk, and Tidal Stream of the Andromeda Galaxy - ljk - 8/4/2006 3:33:54 AM
- The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey: VI. Discovery and timing of 142 pulsars and a Galactic population analysis - LJK - 8/4/2006 2:42:03 PM
  - A Study of Giant Pulses from PSR J1824-2452A - LJK - 8/9/2006 10:08:29 PM
    - An evolutionary disc model of the edge-on galaxy NGC 5907 - LJK - 8/10/2006 3:58:49 PM
      - A Survey of 56 Mid-latitude EGRET Error Boxes for Radio Pulsars - LJK - 8/11/2006 8:40:03 PM

Radio talk-shows about space travel. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/8/2006 11:03:01 PM
- re: Radio talk-shows about space travel. - Robert Clark - 8/9/2006 2:11:50 PM
  - TPS's Planetary Radio Show and The Space Show - LJK - 8/9/2006 2:46:46 PM
    - But what about phone-ins? - Jacob Samorodin - 8/9/2006 11:04:22 PM
      - re: But what about phone-ins? - LJK - 8/11/2006 7:43:42 PM
      - NPR Science Friday - alcaray - 8/10/2006 5:20:55 PM
    - re: ...The Space Show - Chris Vancil - 8/9/2006 5:28:10 PM
    - Thanks for the links. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 8/9/2006 5:10:23 PM
    - NPR's Science Friday often covers space. They even had our own Nick as a guest once. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/9/2006 3:39:16 PM

KSC and JSC have SWAT TEAMS? - carl - 8/10/2006 3:52:17 PM
- NOT COOL AT ALL (n/t) - Delbert - 8/11/2006 6:29:18 PM
- re: KSC and JSC have SWAT TEAMS? - LJK - 8/10/2006 4:11:12 PM

Magellanic Morning - LJK - 8/10/2006 1:39:25 PM
- I liked this one too... - McFly - 8/11/2006 5:48:24 PM
- re: Magellanic Morning Thanks it is now my wallpaper (n/t) - Delbert - 8/10/2006 3:28:32 PM
  - Mine, too -- as soon as I saw it here (n/t) - Fox - 8/10/2006 9:47:33 PM

Cruise on OVER 2 JPL ROVER Page - carl - 8/11/2006 5:27:38 PM

HST Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Exoplanet - LJK - 8/8/2006 5:51:01 PM
- The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey - LJK - 8/8/2006 8:38:43 PM
  - Thought this was interesting: Chandra Independently Determines Hubble Constant - lance - 8/9/2006 4:01:40 PM
    - Basic physical parameters of a selected sample of evolved stars - LJK - 8/9/2006 10:06:21 PM
      - Star Formation in the Orion-Monoceros Complex - LJK - 8/11/2006 4:20:11 PM

Star Trek Inspirational Posters - phil - 8/10/2006 1:35:28 PM
- ST's..Better with AGE - carl - 8/11/2006 2:08:20 PM
- RED Shirts=Certain Death - carl - 8/10/2006 4:42:10 PM
  - re: RED Shirts=Certain Death - phil - 8/10/2006 5:11:36 PM
    - too bad - Delbert - 8/10/2006 10:23:08 PM
      - re: too bad - phil - 8/11/2006 12:55:55 AM
        
        re: too bad - Delbert - 8/11/2006 3:26:58 PM
        
        Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. - Peter Bruener - 8/11/2006 9:37:34 AM
        
        ditto on 24 - Delbert - 8/11/2006 3:11:36 PM
        
        re: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. - phil - 8/11/2006 1:35:11 PM
        
        Deep Space Nine - LJK - 8/11/2006 1:20:10 PM
        
        Q is my favorite ST char. Scotty is 2nd and Spock is 3rd. - REB - 8/11/2006 2:57:53 PM

Sources of Stellar Energy, Einstein-Eddington Timescale of Gravitational Contraction and Eternally Collapsing Objects - LJK - 8/9/2006 10:15:50 PM
- I can't believe I read the whole thing - Fox - 8/10/2006 1:44:50 AM
  - re: I can't believe I read the whole thing - Daniel - 8/10/2006 3:51:04 PM
    - Press to MECO - Fox - 8/10/2006 10:21:21 PM
      - re: Press to MECO - Daniel - 8/11/2006 7:10:54 AM
    - Einstein also couldn't buy into quantum physics - LJK - 8/10/2006 4:14:48 PM
      - that first cartoon - Daniel - 8/11/2006 6:55:04 AM

Sky Events for August, 2006 - LJK - 8/3/2006 2:29:56 PM
- Six Not-So-Famous Summer Meteor Showers - LJK - 8/3/2006 2:39:47 PM
  - Aurora Surprise - LJK - 8/7/2006 6:20:22 PM
    - Perseid Earthgrazers - LJK - 8/8/2006 6:51:12 PM
      - A new sunspot - and don't forget the Perseids! - LJK - 8/10/2006 8:57:48 PM

Neandertal Genome Sequenced By 2008? - phil - 7/25/2006 10:59:03 PM
- But, Phil!...I have a joke for you. - Jacob Samorodin - 7/29/2006 7:18:47 PM
  - But, Jacob... - Fox - 8/10/2006 2:26:24 AM
    - Maligned Reps - LJK - 8/10/2006 2:22:07 PM
- Ther'e already sueing Geico for the "It's so easy, a caveman could do it" remark. - Lee - 7/26/2006 5:18:49 AM
  - ?????? (n/t) - Izzy - 8/9/2006 11:15:23 PM

Searching for Earth II in the Centauri System - phil - 8/10/2006 12:43:28 AM
- Theoretically, there could be 4 habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri System. - REB - 8/10/2006 12:45:30 PM

Fast cosmological parameter estimation using neural networks - LJK - 8/9/2006 10:11:10 PM

Habitable Planet Possible Around Nearby Star System - LJK - 8/2/2006 5:06:04 PM
- Antsy for Kepler - FrankC - 8/2/2006 8:21:27 PM
  - re: Antsy for Kepler - phil - 8/3/2006 2:26:52 PM
    - Kepler Mirror Arrives at Ball Aerospace for Test and Integration - LJK - 8/9/2006 9:51:57 PM
    - Chaotic zone boundary for low free eccentricity particles near an eccentric planet - LJK - 8/4/2006 3:19:14 PM
      - The formation of an eccentric gap in a gas disk by a planet in an eccentric orbit - LJK - 8/4/2006 5:58:05 PM
        
        The Structure of Jupiter, Saturn, and Exoplanets: Key Questions for High-Pressure Experiments - LJK - 8/4/2006 6:02:47 PM
        
        Searching for Exoplanets in the Hertzsprung Gap: An Eccentric Hot Jupiter Orbiting the Subgiant HD 185269 - LJK - 8/4/2006 6:05:31 PM
        
        Prospects for the Characterization and Confirmation of Transiting Exoplanets via the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect - LJK - 8/4/2006 6:15:55 PM

F/S Skylab mockup rots in Ala. - carl - 8/9/2006 6:22:20 PM
- website........ - carl - 8/9/2006 6:29:19 PM
  - Funds might be better used for modern, active space equipment - LJK - 8/9/2006 8:34:04 PM
    - re: Funds might be better used for modern, active space equipment - Doug Ellison - 8/9/2006 8:55:47 PM

ISS research to be suspended in 2007? - Sawyer - 7/28/2006 2:51:45 PM
- re: ISS research to be suspended in 2007? - SpaceNerd - 7/29/2006 6:56:24 PM
- And the purpose of the ISS and Shuttle is - - - ? - Bowser - 7/28/2006 5:59:17 PM
  - re: And the purpose of the ISS and Shuttle is - - - ? - merainl - 8/9/2006 8:50:36 PM

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