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Completely isolated lifeforms - Raoul - 6/1/2006 8:03:45 PM
- Unless they're really weird... - Adam - 6/3/2006 12:14:30 PM
- not the only place - dd - 6/3/2006 12:15:32 AM
- re: Completely isolated lifeforms discovered in cave in Israel - BUck Galaxy - 6/2/2006 8:19:03 PM
- re: Completely isolated lifeforms - REB - 6/2/2006 6:51:43 PM

From Australia, a double comet! - Raoul - 6/2/2006 8:57:41 PM

Cosmic togetherness - Raoul - 5/30/2006 7:40:20 PM
- re: Cosmic togetherness - SteveS - 5/31/2006 5:33:43 PM
  - re: Cosmic togetherness - Raoul - 5/31/2006 7:00:35 PM
    - The Da Vinci Glow - SteveS - 5/31/2006 10:24:22 PM
      - re: The Da Vinci Glow - Raoul - 6/1/2006 5:41:02 AM
- And maybe a few extra meteors - ljk - 5/30/2006 8:10:16 PM
  - It's the Southern Hemisphere's turn with the breakup comet - LJK - 6/2/2006 7:19:53 PM

Chandra studies IC 443 (from Vince) - Raoul - 6/2/2006 6:59:03 PM

TMT - 30M Tscope - cool next gen tech passes design review - Sawyer - 6/2/2006 2:16:49 PM
- re: TMT - 30M Tscope - cool next gen tech passes design review - phil - 6/2/2006 6:48:42 PM

Is New York City a giant modern Stonehenge? - ljk - 6/2/2006 3:29:42 PM
- Nope, just lost a TON of Homeland Security money - carl - 6/2/2006 4:07:23 PM

No Detectable H3+ Emission from the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters - ljk - 5/31/2006 7:40:20 PM
- A Keck/HIRES Doppler Search for Planets Orbiting Metal-Poor Dwarfs. I. Testing Giant Planet Formation and Migration Scenarios - LJK - 5/31/2006 7:47:14 PM
  - Toroidal Atmospheres around Extrasolar Planets - ljk - 5/31/2006 7:49:18 PM
    - Accretion Disks around Young Stars: Lifetimes, Disk Locking and Variability - ljk - 5/31/2006 8:44:13 PM
      - Like Planet, Like Sun - ljk - 6/1/2006 2:37:30 PM
        
        Scientific Results from High-precision Astrometry at the Palomar Testbed Interferometer - LJK - 6/1/2006 3:59:36 PM
        
        A correlation between the heavy element content of transiting extrasolar planets and the metallicity of their parent stars - LJK - 6/1/2006 4:07:11 PM
        
        The Eccentricity-Mass Distribution of Exoplanets: Signatures of Different Formation Mechanisms? - ljk - 6/2/2006 3:32:03 PM
        
        Estimations of orbital parameters of exoplanets from transit photometry by using dynamical constraints - LJK - 6/2/2006 3:46:53 PM

Jeff and Pavel's spacewalk - Raoul - 6/2/2006 5:36:22 AM
- any video available? (n/t) - Y. Gagarin - 6/2/2006 2:51:23 PM

Enceladus...another mystery - Raoul - 5/31/2006 8:14:32 PM
- Curiouser and curiouser - Adam - 6/1/2006 11:32:27 AM
  - re: Enceladus - Raoul - 6/1/2006 4:28:58 PM
    - Not so sure of that one - Adam - 6/2/2006 11:21:16 AM

Columbus arrives at the Cape inside a Beluga - Raoul - 6/1/2006 5:31:54 AM
- Whatever happened to... - ljk - 6/2/2006 11:20:31 AM

Positive feedbacks from the carbon cycle - et - 5/29/2006 6:16:28 PM
- re: Positive feedbacks from the carbon cycle - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2006 7:29:40 PM
  - Stuck on stupid.... - et - 5/30/2006 8:15:32 PM
    - Another sign of an approaching dogma... - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 3:33:29 PM
    - No idea at all, right? - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 3:15:11 PM
      - positive feedback and infinite positive feedback aren't the same, Tom (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/31/2006 3:50:53 PM
        
        Positive feedback - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 4:10:53 PM
        
        not the best day for the "no problem" argument - pwokenyaw - 5/31/2006 7:46:15 PM
        
        re: not the best day for the "no problem" argument - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2006 6:11:35 PM
        
        re: not the best day for the "no problem" argument - pwokenyaw - 6/1/2006 11:33:43 PM
    - re: Stuck on stupid.... - gbaikie - 5/30/2006 10:49:49 PM

For those of you looking for something to read... - ljk - 6/1/2006 8:29:37 PM

Belgium to build biosphere in Antarctica - ljk - 6/1/2006 2:56:51 PM
- re: Belgium to build biosphere in Antarctica - phil - 6/1/2006 3:48:40 PM

The Moon, M44, Saturn tonight - Raoul - 5/31/2006 9:42:20 PM
- re: The Moon, M44, Saturn tonight - SteveS - 5/31/2006 10:30:43 PM

Landing Sites Debated for Next Mars Rover (MSL) - Chris Vancil - 5/31/2006 9:43:44 PM

Iapetus from Cassini - Raoul - 5/22/2006 6:31:50 PM
- Does Cassini allow to measure relativistic orbital effects in the Saturnian system of natural satellites? - ljk - 5/31/2006 8:07:51 PM

Delta 4 with GOES-N - Raoul - 5/25/2006 7:42:41 AM
- re: Delta 4 with GOES-N - Raoul - 5/25/2006 10:53:54 AM
  - Some more launch photos - ljk - 5/31/2006 6:03:57 PM

Bright Ice Below - SteveS - 5/31/2006 5:46:57 PM

ARIANE 5 launch - Raoul - 5/27/2006 10:56:23 PM
- re: ARIANE 5 launch pictures - Raoul - 5/31/2006 4:16:30 PM

Red rain caused by disintegration of comet: study - Jack Herer - 5/31/2006 4:00:41 PM

Influential senator - Raoul - 5/30/2006 6:46:26 PM
- And an anti-evolutionist - dtb - 5/30/2006 8:54:16 PM
  - It's amazingly easy to be pro-technology and anti-science. - Mary Anne - 5/31/2006 3:10:57 AM
    - English bards and Scotch reviewers - ER - 5/31/2006 1:39:36 PM
    - re: Crusades and heroes - Raoul - 5/31/2006 5:41:55 AM
    - Well said (n/t) - dtb - 5/31/2006 3:36:12 AM

Back to the Moon, Moonrush way - Raoul - 5/26/2006 10:31:58 PM
- yes agreed - Daniel - 5/28/2006 6:39:01 AM
- Frontiers and settlement - Robert - 5/28/2006 1:42:24 AM
  - re: Frontiers and settlement - gbaikie - 5/28/2006 3:27:56 AM
    - He3 - Robert - 5/29/2006 6:48:14 PM
      - re: He3 - gbaikie - 5/29/2006 11:24:16 PM
      - re:About He3 - Raoul - 5/29/2006 8:02:25 PM
        
        re: He3 is kind of a red herring - Tom Brosz - 5/30/2006 1:04:52 AM
        
        Point taken - Adam - 5/30/2006 7:10:43 AM
        
        re: Why only fusion? - Ken Murphy - 5/30/2006 1:55:09 AM
  - A romantic myth, not great history - dtb - 5/28/2006 2:59:08 AM
    - Good point. - Tom Brosz - 5/28/2006 10:27:13 PM
    - re: A Gold Rush Made Seattle - Chris Vancil - 5/28/2006 4:36:59 AM
    - Yes? - Robert - 5/28/2006 3:20:11 AM
      - How about a romantic non-myth? - Fox - 5/29/2006 2:01:44 AM
        
        Cool! - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2006 6:38:39 AM
        
        re: Cool! - Robert - 5/29/2006 5:19:33 PM
        
        Good points. - Tom Brosz - 5/30/2006 1:20:52 AM
        
        Well, it says "unknown" but... - nick hoffman - 5/29/2006 11:48:49 AM
        
        I did a little research... - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2006 5:17:13 PM
        
        Thanks for the research, Tom - nick hoffman - 5/30/2006 3:10:43 AM
        
        Might be more sailing than walking - Tom Brosz - 5/30/2006 6:00:11 AM
        
        "Now THAT'S 'walking'" - Robert - 5/29/2006 5:40:12 PM
        
        Helcaraxë - Fox - 5/29/2006 2:17:52 PM
        
        whirlpools versus trees - Robert - 5/29/2006 4:40:18 AM
        
        You're missing the bottleneck - Lee - 5/29/2006 6:35:33 PM
        
        Hey Lee - Robert - 5/29/2006 7:16:57 PM
        
        Two ways of looking at it I guess. - Lee - 5/30/2006 1:32:51 AM
        
        To put it a bit more simply than Robert - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 12:32:14 AM
        
        Big difference - Lee - 5/31/2006 7:51:43 AM
        
        No! - Robert - 5/30/2006 4:34:30 PM
        
        The primates who walked and walked and walked... - Robert - 5/29/2006 4:25:17 AM
        
        re: The machines who walked and walked and walked... - Raoul - 5/29/2006 5:48:54 AM
        
        descendants - Robert - 5/29/2006 4:25:31 PM
      - re: Exploring and settling as goals...and comparisons - Raoul - 5/28/2006 8:46:07 AM
        
        re: Exploring and settling as goals...and comparisons - Robert - 5/28/2006 4:53:31 PM
        
        re: Landscapes - Raoul - 5/28/2006 5:52:25 PM
- There are intangibles that are important in human space exploration - Tom Brosz - 5/27/2006 9:39:14 PM
- re: Back to the Moon, Moonrush way - gbaikie - 5/27/2006 12:25:38 AM
  - re: re:Human ingenuity - Raoul - 5/27/2006 8:09:07 AM
    - re: re:Human ingenuity - gbaikie - 5/27/2006 8:09:55 PM

Opportunity Stuck? - REB - 5/30/2006 1:41:14 PM
- re: Opportunity Stuck? - Doug Ellison - 5/30/2006 6:49:58 PM

A Sunken Slab Of Ocean Floor Deep In The Earth - ljk - 5/19/2006 1:57:01 PM
- Now that's cool. - podrock - 5/20/2006 4:21:04 AM
- And some geological history made - alcaray - 5/19/2006 7:35:33 PM
  - The Ophiolite Controversy: - podrock - 5/20/2006 3:06:07 AM
  - I only play a geologist on TV.... - dtb - 5/20/2006 12:42:09 AM
    - Minerals Go Dark Near Core Of Earth - ljk - 5/30/2006 3:54:45 PM

Wikipedia on Re-entry... - Adam - 5/30/2006 8:26:21 AM
- quite possibly - Daniel - 5/30/2006 12:11:48 PM

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