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NASA has removed Shuttle engineer, a former shuttle astronaut, after he expressed concern for Shuttle flight. - Jack Herer - 6/27/2006 6:59:31 PM
- re: NASA has removed Shuttle engineer, a former shuttle astronaut, after he expressed concern for Shuttle flight. - JimO - 6/27/2006 11:37:15 PM
  - Overemphasizing the political - Robert - 6/28/2006 6:39:50 PM
    - re: Support - Raoul - 6/28/2006 6:56:10 PM
      - "what if?" - Robert - 6/28/2006 7:55:08 PM
        
        re: At that time - Raoul - 6/28/2006 9:23:08 PM
  - For the record - Buck Galaxy - 6/28/2006 9:14:44 AM
    - STS-121 also dealing with lightning and hail - LJK - 6/28/2006 6:22:42 PM
      - Only 60% chance of a launch this weekend - LJK - 6/29/2006 7:42:51 PM

Nuking Planetoid Golevka - ljk - 6/14/2006 6:01:59 PM
- Fight Planetoids with Planetoids - ljk - 6/21/2006 11:42:57 AM
  - Planetoid Defense: NASA to Formulate Planetary Protection Plan - LJK - 6/29/2006 7:24:29 PM

Double vortex at Venus South Pole unveiled! - Vince - 6/29/2006 1:56:42 AM
- SDAI needs to comment on this (n/t) - FrankC - 6/29/2006 3:41:20 AM
  - What? A vortex? What's that? ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/29/2006 11:13:06 AM
    - re: What? A vortex? What's that? ;-) - REB - 6/29/2006 6:22:16 PM
    - Have you seen the film Pi? - LJK - 6/29/2006 1:24:08 PM
    - re: Thank you for the link/visualization. (n/t) - Vince - 6/29/2006 12:00:23 PM
  - re: SDAI needs to comment on this - gbaikie - 6/29/2006 8:27:52 AM

Overviews of the astronomy satellites INTEGRAL and Spitzer - LJK - 6/23/2006 3:11:21 PM
- Detecting GRBs outside INTEGRAL's field of view - LJK - 6/23/2006 7:33:25 PM
  - Cosmological science enabled by Planck - ljk - 6/28/2006 12:56:46 PM
    - Testing Relativity at High Energies Using Spaceborne Detectors - ljk - 6/28/2006 2:34:37 PM
      - VADER - A Satellite Mission Concept For High Precision Dark Energy Studies - LJK - 6/29/2006 4:35:30 PM

Looking for the chemical signs of life in space - LJK - 6/19/2006 7:16:37 PM
- Migration of dust particles to the terrestrial planets - LJK - 6/20/2006 9:36:38 PM
  - Strelley Pool Chert and Early Life - ljk - 6/20/2006 10:51:53 PM
    - A Search for EUV Emission from Comets with the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) - LJK - 6/21/2006 7:55:02 PM
      - Studying Mars in a remote and barren part of Chile - LJK - 6/26/2006 2:49:51 PM
        
        The Sulfur Springs of Ellesmere Island - an analogy to Europa? - LJK - 6/26/2006 3:05:52 PM
        
        Asymmetric Spatiotemporal Evolution of Prebiotic Homochirality - LJK - 6/26/2006 5:59:20 PM
        
        re: Asymmetric Spatiotemporal Evolution of Prebiotic Homochirality - Andrew - 6/27/2006 4:17:42 PM
        
        I suspected that all along. (n/t) - ER - 6/27/2006 10:56:08 AM
        
        Mars Via The Antarctic and The Arctic - LJK - 6/27/2006 2:01:35 PM
        
        Outgassing of Ordinary Chondritic Material and Some of its Implications for the Chemistry of Asteroids, Planets, and Satellites - LJK - 6/29/2006 4:24:35 PM

Detecting gravitational waves - gbaikie - 6/26/2006 10:18:31 AM
- re: Detecting gravitational waves - phil - 6/26/2006 2:16:06 PM
  - re: Detecting gravitational waves - R.L. - 6/27/2006 5:59:25 AM
    - Gravitational waves from a dust disk around a Schwarzschild black hole - LJK - 6/29/2006 4:15:06 PM

Tau Zero Foundation Announced - LJK - 6/27/2006 3:35:11 PM
- On Foundation-Building and Starflight - LJK - 6/29/2006 1:30:12 PM

Urban heat island - gbaikie - 6/27/2006 2:13:02 AM
- re: Urban heat island - azstrummer - 6/27/2006 3:14:16 PM
- Just call me the Lorax. Keep planting trees. - REB - 6/27/2006 1:59:20 PM
  - re: Just call me the Lorax. Keep planting trees. - ER - 6/27/2006 3:48:07 PM
    - re: Just call me the Lorax. Keep planting trees. - REB - 6/27/2006 4:00:30 PM
      - The 3 Laws of Thermodynamics as applied to shotgun houses. - ER - 6/27/2006 5:28:26 PM
        
        re: The 3 Laws of Thermodynamics as applied to shotgun houses. - azstrummer - 6/27/2006 11:40:07 PM
        
        When Black Friday comes. - ER - 6/27/2006 11:56:02 PM
        
        Have you read the Isaac Asimov story... - LJK - 6/28/2006 2:22:20 PM
        
        No, but I've read this... - ER - 6/28/2006 3:06:30 PM
        
        re: No, but I've read this... - gbaikie - 6/29/2006 9:00:08 AM
        
        wow .. - Daniel - 6/28/2006 10:41:53 PM
        
        re: wow .. - ER - 6/29/2006 1:16:19 AM
        
        getting off track a bit, but .. - Daniel - 6/29/2006 5:52:55 AM
        
        What a happy little poem, thank you! - LJK - 6/28/2006 3:12:55 PM
        
        I have read that one. Excellent! (n/t) - ER - 6/28/2006 3:26:21 PM
        
        The future - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/28/2006 3:46:05 AM
        
        re: The future - ER - 6/28/2006 1:03:04 PM
- re: Urban heat island - gbaikie - 6/27/2006 9:30:48 AM
  - re: Urban heat island - gbaikie - 6/28/2006 3:44:30 AM

Worlds together tonight - Raoul - 6/28/2006 8:05:02 PM
- re: The real thing from the attic in town - Raoul - 6/28/2006 9:14:03 PM

Cosmic Event - Africa - Jack Herer - 6/27/2006 3:51:30 PM
- Have times changed? - LJK - 6/27/2006 7:30:31 PM
  - Another flying object not to mistake for an alien ship up there - LJK - 6/28/2006 6:05:57 PM

Sad news for astronomy - R.L - 6/27/2006 5:56:52 AM
- Don't worry too much yet. - Tom Brosz - 6/27/2006 11:01:19 PM
  - GP B - LJK - 6/28/2006 1:06:22 PM
    - That's him. - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2006 3:39:14 PM
- re: Sad news for astronomy - phil - 6/27/2006 3:23:11 PM

France Offers Alternative To Google Earth - LJK - 6/27/2006 1:57:47 PM

Mars Society to Launch 4-Month Mars Mission to the High Arctic - Chris Vancil - 6/27/2006 6:45:19 AM

SMART-1 - Raoul - 6/24/2006 10:27:54 AM
- Lunar West Side Story - the SMART-1 Movie - LJK - 6/26/2006 2:55:57 PM
  - Lunar Swirls - ljk - 6/27/2006 2:57:39 AM

Bye bye Pluto! - Raoul - 6/22/2006 9:46:59 PM
- re: Never quite understood the interest in "demoting" - BRFelix - 6/25/2006 4:15:30 AM
  - If the ancient Greeks had discovered some asteroids... - alcaray - 6/26/2006 9:26:03 PM
  - re: Back in 1845 - Raoul - 6/25/2006 9:59:57 AM
    - re: Yes, and maybe... - BRFelix - 6/25/2006 3:42:49 PM
      - re: Roundness... - Raoul - 6/26/2006 5:47:35 AM
- Why not just 1 planet in this solar system? - Pugs - 6/24/2006 7:42:23 AM
- re: Bye bye Pluto! - ER - 6/24/2006 12:44:51 AM
  - re: Converging points of views - Raoul - 6/24/2006 8:19:36 AM
    - Does it matter? - ER - 6/24/2006 12:41:09 PM
      - re: Perhaps not - Raoul - 6/24/2006 3:37:50 PM
- Typical Raoul EuroWarp Of History - ID - 6/23/2006 8:28:13 PM
  - re: And yet... - Raoul - 6/23/2006 11:34:40 PM
- It's a MICKEY MOUSE Planet.......... - carl - 6/23/2006 6:47:16 PM
- This American doesn't have a problem with demoting Pluto. - REB - 6/23/2006 4:37:17 PM
  - My chart didn't look anything like what I typed in. Let me try that again. - REB - 6/23/2006 4:41:32 PM
    - And the lightbulb comes on. - REB - 6/23/2006 4:53:37 PM
      - re: And the lightbulb comes on. - REB - 6/23/2006 5:03:42 PM
    - re: My chart didn't look anything like what I typed in. Let me try that again. - REB - 6/23/2006 4:45:16 PM
- Pluto the non-planet - SteveS - 6/23/2006 1:03:34 PM
  - re: Sylvia - Raoul - 6/23/2006 4:39:29 PM
    - Here's qiute a list - SteveS - 6/23/2006 4:55:37 PM
    - Yes I know many asteroids have moons (n/t) - SteveS - 6/23/2006 4:44:58 PM
  - re: Pluto the non-planet - Doug Ellison - 6/23/2006 1:13:46 PM
    - re: Pluto the non-planet - SteveS - 6/23/2006 4:43:11 PM
      - re: Pluto the non-planet - Doug Ellison - 6/24/2006 8:18:17 AM
        
        re: Pluto the non-planet - SteveS - 6/24/2006 2:11:24 PM
        
        re: Pluto the non-planet - Doug Ellison - 6/24/2006 6:58:56 PM
        
        Left out the word 'round' - SteveS - 6/24/2006 3:18:19 PM
- Putting the "Twerp" back in Antwerp, for over 45 years (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 6/23/2006 7:10:29 AM
- A ridiculous comment - Buck Galaxy - 6/23/2006 5:13:15 AM
  - re: And other arguments - Raoul - 6/23/2006 5:22:40 PM
    - Closer - LJK - 6/23/2006 6:11:04 PM
  - re: Discoveries waiting to be made - Raoul - 6/23/2006 5:40:28 AM
- What are your sources for this statement? - ljk - 6/23/2006 4:04:28 AM
  - re: What are your sources for this statement? - Raoul - 6/23/2006 5:47:18 AM
    - re: What are your sources for this statement? - ljk - 6/23/2006 12:54:35 PM
      - Minor Planets Stick Together - ljk - 6/24/2006 4:31:49 AM

Jim Bell's book Postcards from Mars - LJK - 6/20/2006 3:26:23 PM
- re: easier to check this way - Raoul - 6/20/2006 4:38:07 PM
  - re: Earth and Jupiter-rise animation from Oppy - Raoul - 6/20/2006 7:47:41 PM
    - Spirit Continues Work As Martian Winter Deepens - LJK - 6/22/2006 2:17:01 PM
      - Spirit turns on heater for the first time; Opportunity goes 138 meters in 3 sols - LJK - 6/26/2006 3:00:58 PM
        
        Surficial Geology of the Sprit Rover Traverse in Gusev Crater: Dry and Desiccating Since the Hesperian - LJK - 6/26/2006 6:31:09 PM

Enigmatic object baffles supernova team - ljk - 6/21/2006 11:45:56 AM
- Some details - LJK - 6/21/2006 7:10:18 PM
  - ET phone home? (n/t) - Lance - 6/21/2006 7:55:17 PM
    - "Permanence" - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox? - ljk - 6/22/2006 1:18:43 AM
      - Just the Facts: Three SETI Myths - ljk - 6/22/2006 6:04:14 PM
        
        A search for a counterpart of the unidentified gamma-ray source 3EG J2020+4017 (2CG078+2) - LJK - 6/26/2006 6:05:23 PM

Vandenburg twilight launch of DELTA IV Medium, Tuesday evening - Peter Bruener - 6/26/2006 5:34:59 AM
- I might have missed it, but is it north or south trajectory? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/26/2006 4:37:26 PM
- Brian Webb's Launch Alert for June 25, 2006 - LJK - 6/26/2006 2:51:52 PM

Thorium Reactors - SDF - 6/23/2006 5:14:13 AM
- Integral Fast Reactors... - Adam - 6/23/2006 11:26:53 AM
  - Derivative Fast Reactors... - ER - 6/23/2006 7:20:01 PM
    - They fission too... - Adam - 6/24/2006 12:26:00 PM
      - Thanks, but... - ER - 6/24/2006 2:57:31 PM
        
        More scale than difference - Adam - 6/25/2006 3:52:14 AM
        
        Thanks, Adam - ER - 6/25/2006 2:28:26 PM
        
        Heavy water versus sodium - Adam - 6/25/2006 9:22:23 PM
        
        Maybe I misunderstood the article - SDF - 6/26/2006 12:49:18 PM
      - Neutron flux - SDF - 6/24/2006 12:32:00 PM
        
        Lots (n/t) - Adam - 6/25/2006 1:26:13 AM
        
        Nobody's mentioned any downsides - SDF - 6/25/2006 1:36:24 PM
        
        They're new and experimental - Adam - 6/26/2006 8:45:12 AM

Kubrick & 2001 on youTube (short videos) - daniel - 6/25/2006 5:48:02 PM
- Kubrick is exactly right. Why can't mainstream science rise to his level of thinking? (n/t) - Eric - 6/25/2006 9:04:50 PM
- re: Trojan horse - Raoul - 6/25/2006 6:38:29 PM
  - Thanks Raoul, and sorry - Daniel - 6/25/2006 6:48:20 PM
    - Viruses - Tom Brosz - 6/25/2006 8:47:33 PM
- re: Kubrick in 68 - Raoul - 6/25/2006 6:34:27 PM

Summer Solstice today for the Northern half - SteveS - 6/21/2006 1:54:44 PM
- re: Mercury - Fox - 6/24/2006 2:45:04 AM
  - Mercury, Saturn and Mars - SteveS - 6/25/2006 6:00:38 AM
    - re: Mercury, Saturn and Mars - Fox - 6/25/2006 2:32:14 PM
      - re: Mercury, Saturn and Mars - SteveS - 6/25/2006 3:36:18 PM
  - re: Mercury - SteveS - 6/24/2006 2:20:25 PM
    - You always remember your first time - Fox - 6/24/2006 4:31:01 PM
- The non-Spinal Tap version - LJK - 6/21/2006 8:04:29 PM
  - This week from the Southern Hemisphere - LJK - 6/22/2006 1:23:44 PM

"Fixed" stars - R.L. - 6/24/2006 3:47:29 AM
- re: Center of the Milky Way? (n/t) - Raoul - 6/24/2006 8:02:41 AM
  - :) yup.... (n/t) - R.L. - 6/24/2006 8:10:39 AM
    - That little "star" has to be the black hole - Tom Brosz - 6/24/2006 7:02:48 PM
      - re: That little "star" has to be the black hole - R.L. - 6/25/2006 7:24:13 AM
      - Found more info - Tom Brosz - 6/24/2006 7:04:40 PM
- Imagine a place where the night sky changes every year... - R.L. - 6/24/2006 4:08:41 AM

HST Advanced Camera for Surveys - Not Responding - Vince - 6/25/2006 1:02:02 AM

what a difference a laser makes.... - R.L. - 6/24/2006 4:50:51 AM
- ANIMATION - R.L. - 6/24/2006 5:40:30 AM
  - re: ANIMATION - Daniel - 6/24/2006 3:38:23 PM
  - re: Interesting, thanks RL! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/24/2006 8:01:13 AM

Pluto's two new moons given names - ljk - 6/21/2006 8:23:59 PM
- The plutonian system (APOD) - SteveS - 6/24/2006 3:26:55 PM
- Let's get this ball rolling... - ljk - 6/22/2006 1:36:36 PM

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