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Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away - ljk - 4/7/2006 6:35:05 PM
- Important result - Adam - 4/7/2006 9:01:59 PM
  - But I was also wondering... - ljk - 4/7/2006 11:45:52 PM
    - Killer GRB Unlikely In The Galactic Neighborhood - ljk - 4/19/2006 12:19:48 PM
      - Comment on: Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away by Stanek et al - ljk - 4/21/2006 5:13:29 PM
        
        One more time - don't worry, be happy - ljk - 4/24/2006 4:54:20 PM

To Mars on a dream, and Positrons... - nick hoffman - 4/18/2006 1:27:10 AM
- 10 mg?! - R.L. - 4/19/2006 5:10:25 AM
  - Sorry, meant to say 1kT=4.66 trillion joules... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/20/2006 11:58:48 AM
  - Wait a moment.... - Am I making a mistake here? - 4/20/2006 11:57:43 AM
    - It's not much really... - Adam - 4/20/2006 12:08:42 PM
      - 8.8 MegaCoulombs - Adam - 4/20/2006 12:13:09 PM
        
        GRRRR I was wrong... - R.L. - 4/20/2006 12:36:50 PM
        
        hmmmm, I will redo my calculation... - R.L. - 4/20/2006 12:25:34 PM
  - very carefully (n/t) - Adam - 4/19/2006 11:22:31 AM
    - Hah hah - R.L. - 4/20/2006 3:38:06 AM
      - We can start practicing on electrons. - alcaray - 4/21/2006 3:47:47 PM
      - re: Hah hah - Chris Vancil - 4/21/2006 5:58:23 AM
- 1st time i've seen a cost on producing the anti-matter - Sawyer - 4/18/2006 12:09:12 PM
  - Penn State has done an outline for a 10,000 AU mission. - Lee - 4/18/2006 7:08:39 PM
    - re: Penn State has done an outline for a 10,000 AU mission. - ljk - 4/24/2006 3:15:27 PM
- Sorry, public link below - nick hoffman - 4/18/2006 8:40:39 AM
- Like this one - Adam - 4/18/2006 3:11:36 AM
- A public link would be nice (n/t) - Adam - 4/18/2006 3:03:12 AM
  - re: A public link would be nice - et - 4/18/2006 4:03:30 AM
    - This Centauri Dreams article links to NIAC page - ljk - 4/19/2006 2:38:13 PM
      - Antimatter's Advantage - and the catch - ljk - 4/20/2006 6:59:01 PM
        
        I posted the same link above. - Lee - 4/21/2006 5:24:00 AM
        
        Antimatter from Microscopic Black Holes - ljk - 4/21/2006 3:47:11 PM

The Book First Man - Raoul - 4/22/2006 7:56:22 AM
- We can go to the Moon, but we're still monkeys with car keys - ljk - 4/24/2006 2:07:59 PM
- re: The Book First Man - Delbert - 4/22/2006 6:09:49 PM
  - "Riding Rockets" - Robert - 4/23/2006 6:26:55 PM
    - re: "Riding Rockets" - Delbert - 4/24/2006 2:36:07 PM
    - re: "Riding Rockets" - Delbert - 4/24/2006 2:14:52 PM
  - re: The Book First Man - Raoul - 4/22/2006 9:04:46 PM
    - Mullane & Young - Delbert - 4/23/2006 2:20:15 AM
      - re: Mullane & Young - Raoul - 4/23/2006 7:28:54 AM

Lunar Dust Buster - Chris Vancil - 4/19/2006 10:03:45 PM
- re: Lunar Dust Buster - ken murphy - 4/19/2006 11:27:37 PM
  - re: Lunar Dust Buster - Chris Vancil - 4/20/2006 9:06:09 AM
    - So nobody wants to jump on my saying: "Right now it seems the ionized cosmic rays radiation levels (primary) and the secondary radiation formed by it and these fines are show stopper for long term (m… (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 4/21/2006 9:18:16 PM
      - Well, it was such a non sequitur...n/t - ken murphy - 4/22/2006 4:04:15 AM
        
        re: I'm sorry but the conclusion does follow from the premise. It's just that you don't want it to be. - Chris Vancil - 4/22/2006 6:48:08 AM
        
        The other answers are... - ljk - 4/24/2006 2:35:10 PM
        
        P.S. - ken murphy - 4/22/2006 4:06:11 AM
        
        re: P.S. - Chris Vancil - 4/22/2006 6:49:54 AM
  - Ask... - ljk - 4/20/2006 12:38:58 AM
    - Mille remerciements lunaire... - ken murphy - 4/20/2006 2:17:02 AM

Storing Positrons - Adam - 4/21/2006 8:38:57 PM
- It is a neat solution.... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/24/2006 2:50:54 AM
- Hmmm.... - R.L. - 4/21/2006 11:03:56 PM

Teachers in Space Update - phil - 4/22/2006 2:52:36 PM
- A prediction... - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2006 7:16:18 PM
  - Speaking of private citizens in space... - Jacob Samorodin - 4/22/2006 9:21:02 PM

Abell 400 (Binary Black Hole) - Vince - 4/7/2006 4:10:59 AM
- re: Second Source/Image - Vince - 4/7/2006 4:25:49 AM
  - Primordial Black Hole Minimum Mass - ljk - 4/11/2006 2:12:17 PM
    - Clustering of primordial black holes: Basic results - ljk - 4/11/2006 2:15:42 PM
      - Collapse of Neutron Stars to Black Holes in Binary Systems: A Model for Short Gamma Ray Bursts - ljk - 4/11/2006 2:17:40 PM
        
        Binary black hole detection rates in inspiral gravitational wave searches - ljk - 4/12/2006 6:43:20 PM
        
        NASA Announces Black Hole Merger Breakthrough - ljk - 4/12/2006 8:17:01 PM
        
        re: NASA Announces Black Hole Merger Breakthrough - noname - 4/22/2006 4:00:41 PM
        
        Numerical simulation of small perturbation on an accretion disk due to the collision of a star with the disk near the black hole - ljk - 4/13/2006 4:56:06 PM
        
        Black Holes: from Speculations to Observations - ljk - 4/14/2006 11:56:31 PM

The sun today - Raoul - 4/22/2006 3:55:30 PM
- re: The sun today - Raoul - 4/22/2006 3:57:35 PM

Send something into space, for $99 - ljk - 4/21/2006 5:30:58 PM
- re: Cansats for $99 - ken murphy - 4/22/2006 4:00:50 AM
- re: Encounter 2001 - Raoul - 4/21/2006 7:20:14 PM

Testing moonlike gravity - Raoul - 4/19/2006 8:06:22 PM
- Very good questions, and fun to think about. - Peter Bruener - 4/21/2006 6:08:56 AM
  - re: According to Buzz in "Men from Earth".... - Raoul - 4/21/2006 8:46:27 PM
    - I"ll drink to that...:) - Peter Bruener - 4/21/2006 9:36:27 PM
      - re: Just checked... - Raoul - 4/21/2006 9:55:47 PM
- re: Testing moonlike gravity - Chris Vancil - 4/19/2006 9:06:37 PM
  - re: Testing moonlike gravity - Raoul - 4/20/2006 5:48:58 AM
    - re: Testing moonlike gravity - Chris Vancil - 4/20/2006 8:37:19 PM
  - re: Testing moonlike gravity - Marcia - 4/20/2006 1:16:37 AM
    - re: Testing moonlike gravity - Jacob Samorodin - 4/20/2006 11:14:54 PM
    - re: Testing moonlike gravity - Chris Vancil - 4/20/2006 8:47:10 PM
      - re: Testing moonlike gravity - Lance - 4/21/2006 7:49:54 PM
        
        re: Testing moonlike gravity - Chris Vancil - 4/21/2006 9:08:58 PM

The strange KBO 2003 EL61 - Raoul - 4/21/2006 7:41:11 PM

Colloquium Proceedings online for Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies - ljk - 4/21/2006 6:01:54 PM

Proposing a Experimental Astronomical Test to the Existence of the Quantum Strings - ljk - 4/21/2006 3:25:05 PM

Mars Express and the Omega spectrometer - Raoul - 4/20/2006 6:57:36 PM
- re: Mars Express and the Omega spectrometer - Raoul - 4/20/2006 7:52:02 PM
  - re: Mars Express and the Omega spectrometer - Chris Vancil - 4/21/2006 5:28:25 AM
  - re: Mars Express and the Omega spectrometer - nick hoffman - 4/20/2006 10:11:03 PM
    - Yup - Donald - 4/21/2006 4:24:49 AM

Two New Dwarf Satellite Galaxies for the Milky Way! - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:44:22 PM
- Eight billion years of disk galaxy evolution: no galaxy is an island - ljk - 4/20/2006 2:03:30 PM
  - Galaxies are born inside dark matter clumps - ljk - 4/20/2006 8:21:33 PM

So what's the problem? - Lee - 4/18/2006 6:39:06 AM
- Well I think it's important. - Lee - 4/20/2006 6:44:02 PM

Vacuum Energy: Myths and Reality - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:47:23 PM
- Dark Energy transcript - ljk - 4/20/2006 1:45:37 PM

From Cassini, Rhea eclipsing another moon (which one?) - Raoul - 4/17/2006 9:23:35 AM
- Enceladus? - SteveS - 4/17/2006 5:39:59 PM
  - re: Tethys? - Raoul - 4/17/2006 7:35:04 PM
    - re: Tethys? - SteveS - 4/17/2006 10:25:56 PM
      - Titan, Epimetheus, and Saturn's Rings - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:54:05 PM
        
        Two items on Cassini Saturn - ljk - 4/19/2006 3:09:40 PM
        
        Saturn Storms Dwarf Earth Hurricanes In Size And Longevity - ljk - 4/20/2006 11:39:11 AM

William Edmondson's Web Site on Pulsars as SETI Beacons - ljk - 4/15/2006 9:52:00 PM
- Please explain what YOU think this article is saying...... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:58:06 AM
  - Good point - ljk - 4/17/2006 6:02:41 PM
    - To make clear - ljk - 4/17/2006 6:05:36 PM
      - The greater the distance (and time) to the recipient... - alcaray - 4/18/2006 6:27:52 PM
        
        To quote a couple of guys from 1959... - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:16:18 PM
        
        figuring the odds is always a good idea (n/t) - alcaray - 4/18/2006 10:57:38 PM
        
        "Never tell me the odds!" - ljk - 4/19/2006 3:53:36 PM
        
        I am gonna devote the rest of my life to fishing for wedding rings. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/19/2006 4:17:07 PM
        
        The first time I ever went fishing... - ljk - 4/19/2006 5:30:05 PM
        
        Whoah! I am not against SETI! - alcaray - 4/19/2006 8:41:59 PM
        
        re: Whoah! I am not against SETI! - ljk - 4/19/2006 9:10:25 PM
        
        don't think you understood what I said a few times - alcaray - 4/19/2006 9:54:22 PM
        
        re: don't think you understood what I said a few times - ljk - 4/20/2006 12:31:21 AM
        
        At a far away planet, you might find it - SteveS - 4/19/2006 4:31:31 PM

What next Orbital Surfing? - Chris Vancil - 4/18/2006 11:01:39 PM
- Design to weight - Larry J - 4/19/2006 1:18:55 AM
  - re: Design to weight - Chris Vancil - 4/19/2006 9:25:37 PM

US claims right to set new space tourism regulations globally after treaty examination - Chris Vancil - 4/19/2006 8:55:03 PM

Scaling Law for the Magnetic Field of the Planets Based on a Thermodynamic Model - ljk - 4/19/2006 7:09:04 PM

Neil gets a moonrock - Raoul - 4/19/2006 6:56:53 PM

Good news & bad news about Japan's deep-space programs. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/13/2006 10:50:58 PM
- Penetrator proof - alcaray - 4/14/2006 3:58:56 PM
- re: penetrator Probes - nick hoffman - 4/14/2006 8:04:00 AM
- re: Good news & bad news about Japan's deep-space programs. - Marcia - 4/14/2006 12:47:06 AM
  - Japan to orbit Moon with SELENE in 2007 - ljk - 4/14/2006 3:04:49 AM
    - Design and Performance of the Soft Gamma-ray Detector for the NeXT mission - ljk - 4/19/2006 6:53:10 PM

Russian Satellite Failure Caused By Space Garbage - ljk - 4/19/2006 3:20:02 PM
- It would seem hard to confirm that it was space junk - Larry J - 4/19/2006 5:57:37 PM

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