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Another radio ham detects Voyager 1 with just a 5.6-meter dish! - ljk - 4/19/2006 5:50:18 PM

North Pole reached! - Raoul - 4/16/2006 8:32:49 PM
- He is a very brave man. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/18/2006 11:35:26 PM

Booster Fuel Purge From Palm Springs - Alberto - 4/15/2006 7:10:26 AM
- Minotaur rocket sends six satellties into Earth orbit - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:59:26 PM
- 2nd try - html challenged - 4/15/2006 7:30:02 AM

Detection Limits from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search Program - ljk - 4/11/2006 2:06:57 PM
- Bisectors of the cross-correlation function applied to stellar spectra. Discriminating stellar activity, oscillations and planets - ljk - 4/12/2006 3:03:26 PM
  - A Warm Saturn Around 51 Pegasi? - ljk - 4/13/2006 5:57:04 PM
    - re: A Warm Saturn Around 51 Pegasi? - Jacob Samorodin - 4/14/2006 10:32:36 PM
      - Millimagnitude Optical Photometry for the Transiting Planetary Candidate OGLE-TR-109 - ljk - 4/14/2006 11:49:26 PM
        
        re: Millimagnitude Optical Photometry for the Transiting Planetary Candidate OGLE-TR-109 - Marcia - 4/16/2006 2:58:50 AM
        
        The two-fluid analysis of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in dusty layer of a protoplanetary disk: A possible path toward the planetesimal formation through the gravitational instability - ljk - 4/18/2006 2:01:24 PM
        
        The N2K Consortium VI: Doppler Shifts Without Templates and Three New Short-Period Planets - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:36:15 PM

Laser Weapons Update - phil - 4/13/2006 4:26:57 PM
- Solid state lasers are the way - R.L. - 4/13/2006 8:13:29 PM
  - They have made lasers that destroy land mines at a distance (n/t) - R.L. - 4/14/2006 8:51:56 AM
    - FEL or YAG of DOOM! (n/t) - et - 4/14/2006 9:08:49 PM
  - re: Solid state lasers are the way - phil - 4/13/2006 9:59:22 PM
    - LEDs - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2006 4:26:40 AM
      - LED's have all sorts of nasties in them.... - et - 4/14/2006 6:08:05 PM
        
        Does that depend on the color? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2006 6:19:06 PM
        
        Yep. - et - 4/14/2006 6:55:20 PM
        
        Heh. That's href not herf. - et - 4/14/2006 7:34:41 PM
        
        If we focused all that laser power upwards,,, - ljk - 4/15/2006 1:30:52 AM
        
        Telescope Spectrophotometric and Absolute Flux Calibration, and National Security Applications, Using a Tunable Laser on a Satellite - ljk - 4/18/2006 7:21:04 PM

6 astronauts permanently aboard the ISS by 2009... - Raoul - 4/18/2006 6:39:13 PM

Can the Big Bang theory take the same road as the epicycles? - Raoul - 4/17/2006 8:39:21 PM
- Have you read my ideas? - SDF - 4/18/2006 1:00:38 PM
  - re: Well, - Raoul - 4/18/2006 3:46:15 PM
- Problems? - Adam - 4/18/2006 1:20:38 AM
- subsets and approximations - Sawyer - 4/18/2006 12:08:42 AM
- Don't think so... - phil - 4/17/2006 9:11:00 PM
  - re: Centrism - Raoul - 4/17/2006 9:51:32 PM
  - Whatever the case, it's certainly vulnerable to revisions as we continue to learn more about this reality. (n/t) - et - 4/17/2006 9:19:55 PM
    - Top ten accelerating cosmological models - ljk - 4/18/2006 1:55:49 PM

Rare: A Twin Sunset - Eric - 4/16/2006 11:58:09 PM
- Sundogs - nick hoffman - 4/17/2006 3:01:52 PM
  - Sundogs? - ljk - 4/17/2006 5:27:26 PM
    - You're right - nick hoffman - 4/18/2006 1:27:56 AM
- ;) one upping- 'Sunset on ice' - R.L. - 4/17/2006 3:20:06 AM
- Nice and on-topic - ModBob - 4/17/2006 3:16:20 AM

UCS on nuclear bunker-busting - et - 4/14/2006 6:51:24 PM
- re: B61-11 - Vince - 4/15/2006 2:07:49 PM
- Well I sure hope this guy understands what fallout could do! - Buck Galaxy - 4/15/2006 8:27:13 AM
  - re: Well I sure hope this guy understands what fallout could do! - SDF - 4/15/2006 2:34:43 PM
- When you guys have finished with the foul language, can we have this on CE, please? (n/t) - nick hoffman - 4/15/2006 3:40:54 AM
  - *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - ModBob - 4/15/2006 8:57:19 PM
    - re: *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - nick hoffman - 4/16/2006 12:40:53 PM
      - I agree - Move to Flame - Buck Galaxy - 4/16/2006 5:52:21 PM
      - re: *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - ModBob - 4/16/2006 4:28:52 PM
        
        re: *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - nick hoffman - 4/17/2006 3:09:27 PM
        
        Talking of precedents - nick hoffman - 4/17/2006 3:16:28 PM
        
        Talking. - et - 4/17/2006 9:17:25 PM
        
        Sometimes breaking an egg is a good thing - SteveS - 4/17/2006 5:45:07 PM
        
        "Sometimes, people make idiotic claims... I think it is fair to point this out... sometimes I think it is fair to point this out rather harshly." - Buck Galaxy - 4/16/2006 5:50:57 PM
        
        Oh, I wish.... - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:05:29 PM
        
        Now there's a concept - SteveS - 4/16/2006 5:37:51 PM
  - I think this is on-topic.... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:26:29 AM
    - It can power Orion, so it is on topic. - Lee - 4/16/2006 8:26:21 AM
    - I think so too - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 4:53:26 AM
      - **Politics, in regard to space/science, is on topic** - ModBob - 4/16/2006 5:43:14 AM
        
        BEHOLD ALL!!! The psycological Klein bottle!! (n/t) - Excellent Therapist - 4/16/2006 6:58:54 AM
        
        I will spend all night awake wondering what you meant - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:10:50 AM
        
        I know what it means... - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 8:54:30 PM
  - Pardon the language please Nick. - et - 4/15/2006 4:14:34 AM
- Are they stupid or what? - Lee - 4/14/2006 7:17:08 PM
  - yes Lee, we know you could give a shit about brown people. - et - 4/14/2006 7:31:39 PM
    - Lee has a point. - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2006 10:10:33 PM
      - Sure, if you're an effin idiot. (how's that MB?) - et - 4/15/2006 12:17:00 AM
        
        Surprisingly reserved... ;) (n/t) - ModBob - 4/15/2006 4:41:29 AM
        
        The bunker buster is by it's very nature a subsurface device. - Lee - 4/15/2006 12:23:10 AM
        
        Your ignorance is astounding - R.L. - 4/15/2006 5:37:00 AM
        
        re: ignorance - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 6:10:42 AM
        
        re: ignorance - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:18:27 AM
        
        Just to try and keep things real... - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 6:42:41 AM
        
        re: Just to try and keep things real... - et - 4/15/2006 5:10:29 PM
        
        Tom, I dont think we are seriously thinking about using nukes on Iran... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:47:42 AM
        
        You're a distinct minority, then. - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 7:22:42 AM
        
        I really don't think so.... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 9:22:50 PM
        
        You might have misunderstood - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 11:14:43 PM
        
        Seriously, Tom - R.L. - 4/15/2006 11:51:23 PM
        
        Speaking of an effing idiot.... - end transmission - 4/15/2006 2:18:24 AM
        
        20 feet? - Lee - 4/15/2006 4:49:50 AM
        
        Hell of a difference, Lee - nick hoffman - 4/16/2006 12:35:29 PM
        
        Now that was a proper reply. - Lee - 4/16/2006 4:39:41 PM
        
        No, et is correct, and you are an idiot.... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:14:15 AM
        
        Idiots are people unable to articulate an argument, - Lee - 4/15/2006 9:12:04 AM
        
        If you have a complaint take it to Commmunity - ModBob - 4/15/2006 7:30:07 PM
        
        Lee, you made a stupid claim, and you were called on it - R.L. - 4/15/2006 7:12:23 PM
        
        And the obligitory wikipedia article. - et - 4/15/2006 5:40:20 AM
        
        It's a bunker buster. - Lee - 4/15/2006 9:14:49 AM
        
        And here's a more "nuclear" specific source that claims 10 yards. - et - 4/15/2006 5:30:14 AM
        
        More than 20 =)~ (n/t) - Lee - 4/15/2006 9:06:20 AM
        
        30 feet, do you think it makes a difference to a megaton bomb?! (n/t) - R.L. - 4/15/2006 7:36:46 PM
        
        Ever hear of shaped charge warheads? - Lee - 4/16/2006 1:07:05 AM
        
        LOL!!! - R.L. - 4/16/2006 1:12:11 AM
        
        From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - Lee - 4/16/2006 1:43:20 AM
        
        re: From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:19:38 AM
        
        re: From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - gbaikie - 4/16/2006 7:28:04 AM
        
        re: From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - R.L. - 4/16/2006 2:33:39 PM
        
        Tora Bora was hit by a thermobaric weapon. - Lee - 4/16/2006 8:42:37 AM
        
        By MOAB I meant the conventional bomb (n/t) - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:21:40 AM
        
        20 feet of concrete. - et - 4/15/2006 5:24:44 AM
    - **Mind the language, et** (n/t) - ModBob - 4/14/2006 9:41:03 PM
      - re: **Mind the language, et** - ModBob - 4/14/2006 10:06:17 PM

Harvard TPS Optical SETI Begins Its Search - ljk - 4/12/2006 2:27:43 PM
- Planetary Society Opens Earth's First Dedicated Optical SETI Telescope - ljk - 4/12/2006 2:34:17 PM
- Planetary Society Opens Earth's First Dedicated Optical SETI Telescope - ljk - 4/12/2006 2:34:15 PM
  - From Centauri Dreams - ljk - 4/13/2006 5:53:21 PM
    - re: From Centauri Dreams - phil - 4/13/2006 10:05:31 PM
      - re: From Centauri Dreams - Marcia - 4/14/2006 2:32:25 AM
        
        laser launch power - phil - 4/14/2006 1:30:49 PM
        
        Wait a minute... - ljk - 4/14/2006 11:58:30 PM
        
        It only takes five hours to pass Pluto via light speed - ljk - 4/14/2006 2:39:28 AM
        
        As for deliberate messages to the stars... - ljk - 4/14/2006 2:53:20 AM
        
        re: As always, thanks, ljk! - Marcia - 4/15/2006 6:22:08 PM
        
        A Scheme for Targeting Optical SETI Observations - ljk - 4/17/2006 7:50:46 PM

Another comet breaking up - SteveS - 4/11/2006 2:45:32 PM
- Fragmented Comet Will Sweep By Earth Next Month - ljk - 4/17/2006 6:12:15 PM
  - re:Well, that is a different comet - SteveS - 4/17/2006 6:33:51 PM

Direct measurement of the size of 2003 UB313 from the Hubble Space Telescope - ljk - 4/12/2006 3:50:24 PM
- HST images and artwork on 2003 UB313 size - ljk - 4/12/2006 7:38:53 PM
  - HST true image on 2003 UB313 - Raoul - 4/12/2006 8:02:17 PM
    - Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow - ljk - 4/12/2006 9:38:23 PM
      - Demote Pluto and Kill Xena - ljk - 4/13/2006 4:33:39 PM
        
        That's what happens when you base a planet's size... - alcaray - 4/13/2006 9:36:25 PM
        
        We know so little about solar systems - SteveS - 4/13/2006 5:19:26 PM
        
        Comment on the recent Hubble Space Telescope size measurement of 2003 UB313 - ljk - 4/17/2006 5:29:42 PM

Re: What will Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter find? - Robert Clark - 4/15/2006 8:01:57 PM

Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - phil - 4/10/2006 6:22:36 PM
- re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - Not unusual. - Marcia - 4/11/2006 8:01:17 PM
  - re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - Not unusual and a +bright+ side.... - Marcia - 4/15/2006 6:15:35 PM
- re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - Raoul - 4/10/2006 6:44:02 PM
  - re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - phil - 4/10/2006 7:00:37 PM
    - re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - Raoul - 4/10/2006 7:36:53 PM
      - re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - phil - 4/10/2006 8:44:28 PM
        
        re: Lunar Plan Becoming Hobbitized - Chris Vancil - 4/10/2006 9:23:07 PM
        
        Part of Griffin's end game plan for the shuttle - Buck Galaxy - 4/12/2006 6:03:08 AM
        
        re: Part of Griffin's end game plan for the shuttle - Chris Vancil - 4/12/2006 6:40:36 AM
        
        R & D is not a panacea - nick hoffman - 4/11/2006 1:50:35 AM
        
        re:Never said it was... - Chris Vancil - 4/11/2006 5:38:00 AM

Next on NOVA: "Dimming the Sun" - ljk - 4/15/2006 1:24:00 AM
- re: Next on NOVA: "Dimming the Sun" - phil - 4/15/2006 2:36:22 PM

At last, an honest-to-goodness cave on Mars - nick hoffman - 4/14/2006 3:09:30 AM
- re: Caves on Mars - BRFelix - 4/15/2006 1:59:04 PM
- Well, Nick? - Jacob Samorodin - 4/14/2006 10:12:50 PM
- Spectacular image! - dtb - 4/14/2006 7:59:36 PM

Was Original ET safer. - Delbert - 4/14/2006 2:41:15 PM
- re: Was Original ET safer. - DALeffler - 4/15/2006 4:45:19 AM
- re: Loss of foam - Raoul - 4/14/2006 7:46:19 PM
- I don't know...that glowing finger was pretty spooky. - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2006 6:18:19 PM
  - So, are you saying. - Lee - 4/14/2006 7:09:41 PM

The big void by the VLT - Raoul - 4/14/2006 6:59:58 PM
- re: The big void by the VLT - Alberto - 4/15/2006 1:52:28 AM
- re: The big void by the VLT 6 MB - Raoul - 4/14/2006 8:35:30 PM

Solar mystery - Adam - 4/7/2006 12:07:36 PM
- re: Solar mystery - ljk - 4/7/2006 2:32:44 PM
  - It would be unfair for me to call this the BS that it is- but I will do so - R.L. - 4/8/2006 5:22:49 AM
    - thems fightin' words - Adam - 4/8/2006 8:03:53 AM
      - He's got a point, R.L. - Tom Brosz - 4/8/2006 8:50:34 PM
        
        Fair enough... - R.L. - 4/8/2006 11:36:11 PM
        
        About the nature article- does anyone have access to it? - R.L. - 4/11/2006 5:51:57 AM
        
        Ah... no. - Adam - 4/11/2006 9:47:22 PM
        
        re: Ah... no. - R.L. - 4/12/2006 9:18:09 PM
        
        Would be quite a coupe if you got them (n/t) - Adam - 4/13/2006 9:44:14 AM
        
        re: Would be quite a coupe if you got them - R.L. - 4/13/2006 7:31:37 PM
        
        If I did invite them would you all treat them with the respect they deserve? (n/t) - R.L. - 4/14/2006 4:40:07 AM
        
        I promise to be good, Unka Bob (n/t) - Adam - 4/14/2006 8:44:09 PM
        
        See above (n/t) - R.L. - 4/12/2006 6:49:23 AM
        
        By odd coincidence... - R.L. - 4/11/2006 11:15:09 PM
        
        Probably worth the money. - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2006 6:23:48 PM
        
        The mistake is... - Adam - 4/11/2006 1:22:07 AM
        
        But there was this explosion from... - ljk - 4/9/2006 4:15:22 PM
  - Jeans theory had it backwards - Adam - 4/7/2006 8:59:49 PM
  - Halo objects - SDF - 4/7/2006 3:56:21 PM
    - Mini-halo disruption due to encounters with stars - ljk - 4/7/2006 8:06:11 PM

Planetary protection at it's finest. - et - 4/14/2006 1:36:43 AM
- LOL - McFly - 4/14/2006 5:32:51 PM

Vega - SteveS - 4/13/2006 3:43:57 PM
- re: Vega - phil - 4/13/2006 4:29:21 PM
  - That's what I thought - SteveS - 4/13/2006 5:07:01 PM
  - Circumstellar material in the Vega inner system revealed by CHARA/FLUOR - ljk - 4/13/2006 4:59:31 PM
    - re: Circumstellar material in the Vega inner system revealed by CHARA/FLUOR - Marcia - 4/13/2006 9:28:52 PM
      - That's no moon - ljk - 4/14/2006 3:11:00 AM

Uranus has a blue ring - Raoul - 4/6/2006 6:49:36 PM
- Must...resist... - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 11:10:28 PM
  - re: Heureusement que... - Raoul - 4/7/2006 5:49:40 AM
    - re: Heureusement que... - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 6:58:17 AM
      - Should have been collapsar - ljk - 4/7/2006 5:26:16 PM
        
        The Big Boom? :) (n/t) - DALeffler - 4/8/2006 6:42:03 AM
  - re: Must...resist... - Marcia - 4/7/2006 1:53:36 AM
    - Just a thought... - DALeffler - 4/7/2006 5:25:36 AM
      - re: Just a thought... - Marcia - 4/14/2006 12:59:58 AM
  - re: Must...resist... - Marcia - 4/7/2006 1:45:57 AM
    - Ya know, - R.L. - 4/7/2006 5:33:49 AM
  - re: Must...resist... - Marcia - 4/7/2006 1:45:55 AM

First Venus images coming in - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2006 6:17:43 PM
- Whoops! Sorry...first credit actually goes to ljk. - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2006 6:19:33 PM

Venus Express insertion burn - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2006 7:41:16 AM
- Venus Express Enters Orbit around the Hothouse Planet - ljk - 4/11/2006 1:54:57 PM
  - re: Europe and worlds - Raoul - 4/11/2006 4:18:03 PM
    - First Images from Venus! - ljk - 4/13/2006 3:53:09 PM
      - re: First Images from Venus! - Raoul - 4/13/2006 6:11:59 PM

The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe by Marcus Chown - ljk - 4/7/2006 4:29:43 PM
- Quantum Nature of the Big Bang - ljk - 4/7/2006 8:04:20 PM
  - Comment on "Heavy element production in inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis" - ljk - 4/13/2006 5:03:45 PM

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