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Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion - ljk - 4/4/2006 3:51:56 PM

Spirit stuggles uphill on 5 wheels. Opportunity still heading to Victoria - REB - 4/4/2006 3:43:03 PM
- D'oh!. I am not doing too good with my links today. - REB - 4/4/2006 3:46:10 PM

Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - ljk - 3/18/2006 6:33:06 PM
- re: Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - GLORIA WU - 4/4/2006 2:11:38 AM
  - Care to elaborate?? (n/t) - ModBob - 4/4/2006 4:29:06 AM
- re: Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - lance - 3/20/2006 2:08:06 AM
- A good way to find out is to send humans to Mars - Scott Evil - 3/19/2006 11:17:49 PM
  - We might be looking for a while - SteveS - 3/20/2006 2:37:54 PM
    - Earth microbes on the moon - REB - 3/23/2006 9:20:50 PM
    - Did we look? - Scott Evil - 3/21/2006 5:35:26 PM
      - I don't think so - SteveS - 3/21/2006 7:14:58 PM
    - re: We might be looking for a while - ljk - 3/20/2006 3:08:53 PM
      - re: We might be looking for a while - SteveS - 3/20/2006 8:13:40 PM
- Our "gravitational well" is very deep. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/19/2006 9:55:40 PM
- Better to pponder when we FIND life elsewhere in the Solar System. (n/t) - et - 3/19/2006 7:29:50 PM
- Possible. - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2006 5:30:37 PM
  - Deinococcus radiodurans - ljk - 3/19/2006 6:30:18 PM
- Unlikely, but plausible. The problem is the survival time - David F Mayer - 3/19/2006 6:10:08 AM
  - re: Unlikely, but plausible. The problem is the survival time - ljk - 3/19/2006 7:33:59 AM
    - But at what radiation levels? (n/t) - DFM - 3/20/2006 4:08:48 PM
- Did it seed the Galaxy? - Adam - 3/19/2006 6:05:51 AM
  - re: Did it seed the Galaxy? - ljk - 3/20/2006 4:14:33 PM
  - re: Did it seed the Galaxy? - ljk - 3/19/2006 6:56:38 AM
    - That's the one - Adam - 3/19/2006 8:23:48 AM
      - re: That's the one - ljk - 3/19/2006 3:51:07 PM
- re: Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - SteveS - 3/19/2006 12:26:51 AM
  - Earth life is much older than that - ljk - 3/19/2006 1:07:12 AM
    - re: Earth life is much older than that - Marcia - 3/19/2006 2:55:42 AM
  - Lot longer than 500 million - dtb - 3/19/2006 12:46:54 AM
    - That's right they are talking bacteria, my bad (n/t) - SteveS - 3/19/2006 12:56:21 AM
      - Earth rocks could have taken life to Titan - ljk - 3/19/2006 9:40:22 PM
        
        re: Earth rocks could have taken life to Titan - SteveS - 3/20/2006 2:47:36 PM
        
        re: very dubious - Andrew - 3/20/2006 6:09:57 AM
        
        Meteroites - Adam - 3/20/2006 9:25:29 AM
        
        re: Meteroites - ljk - 3/20/2006 3:33:52 PM
        
        re: Meteroites-still dubious - Andrew - 3/21/2006 12:42:17 AM
        
        re: Meteroites-still dubious - ljk - 3/21/2006 7:30:53 PM
        
        re: Meteroites-still dubious - pwokenyaw - 3/21/2006 5:43:07 PM
        
        Did life shape Earth's evolution? - ljk - 3/23/2006 6:27:41 PM
        
        Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars - ljk - 4/4/2006 2:54:16 PM

Scramjet tested in Australia - Larry J - 3/27/2006 9:46:55 PM
- Flight Test Results for Scramjet Engine (Follow-up Report #2) - ljk - 4/4/2006 2:19:28 PM

Moon To Sweep Through The Pleiades on April 1 - ljk - 3/28/2006 4:46:44 PM
- Reminder - Moon To Sweep Through The Pleiades on April 1 - ljk - 3/31/2006 4:49:54 PM
  - Some nice photos of the sky event here - ljk - 4/3/2006 2:25:18 PM

FANTASTIC ! - Raoul - 3/29/2006 4:17:41 PM
- re: FANTASTIC ! - Marcia - 3/30/2006 3:01:46 AM
- Raul's post edited - nick hoffman - 3/29/2006 11:57:49 PM
  - re: The eclÄ±pse - Raoul - 3/31/2006 6:51:31 PM
    - re: The eclipse - edited again - nick hoffman - 4/1/2006 2:00:54 AM
      - re: Keyboard - Raoul - 4/2/2006 3:10:38 PM
        
        re: Keyboard - nick hoffman - 4/3/2006 6:53:40 AM
    - Diamond Ring - SteveS - 3/31/2006 9:42:40 PM
- Can't wait to see your pics (n/t) - alcaray - 3/29/2006 11:05:23 PM
- re: FANTASTIC ! - SteveS - 3/29/2006 4:58:46 PM
  - Envisat sees the eclipse's shadow over Africa - ljk - 3/29/2006 8:53:11 PM
    - NASA pics - SteveS - 3/30/2006 12:45:01 AM
      - GEOS image - SteveS - 3/30/2006 12:54:26 AM

Cassini spacecraft finds evidence of football-field sized moonlets in Saturn's A ring - ljk - 3/30/2006 2:20:55 PM
- Ike was right - Adam - 3/30/2006 9:48:36 PM
  - The three outermost gas giants are perfect locales for space colonies. - Lee - 3/31/2006 7:00:00 AM
    - Dunno... - Adam - 3/31/2006 12:10:07 PM
      - Aerostats - Tom Brosz - 4/1/2006 5:39:21 PM
        
        It should make great radiation shielding. - Lee - 4/2/2006 12:53:01 AM

"Voyage to the Mystery Moon" on NOVA PBS-TV - ljk - 3/30/2006 9:45:19 PM
- re: "Voyage to the Mystery Moon" on NOVA PBS-TV - ljk - 4/1/2006 11:30:24 PM

Virgin says, "No spaceflight for you!" - phil - 3/30/2006 3:12:50 PM
- Branson's a BOOB!!!!!! - carl - 3/30/2006 6:03:52 PM
- If they lose that much pressure... - Tom Brosz - 3/30/2006 3:26:37 PM
  - re: If they lose that much pressure... - Doug Ellison - 3/30/2006 4:16:41 PM
    - I suspect Branson knew that up front... - Tom Brosz - 3/30/2006 5:24:02 PM
      - Phil's post was less than 48 hours from April/01.... - Jacob Samorodin - 4/1/2006 6:40:05 PM
      - I sense a really bad plot idea for a disaster flick coming on... - ljk - 3/30/2006 7:15:19 PM
        
        The Amazing Colossal.... - R.L. - 3/31/2006 6:55:59 AM
        
        Twin Supernova...by Ben Booba (n/t) - Lee - 3/31/2006 8:28:10 AM

ISS Docking - Doug Ellison - 4/1/2006 6:31:38 AM
- re: ISS Docking - JimO - 4/1/2006 6:58:49 AM

A young â€œrubble pileâ€ - SteveS - 3/31/2006 4:13:46 PM

Testing Dark Energy with the Advanced Liquid-Mirror Probe of Asteroids, Cosmology and Astrophysics - ljk - 3/31/2006 3:15:28 PM

Black Hole Inflation --- Tabulated Data - SDF - 3/22/2006 5:09:29 PM
- re: Black Hole Inflation --- Tabulated Data - Marcus - 3/23/2006 2:16:07 PM
  - re: Black Hole Inflation --- Tabulated Data - SDF - 3/23/2006 4:31:48 PM
- WMAP microwave background polarization - SDF - 3/22/2006 6:51:45 PM
  - Will black holes eventually engulf the universe? - ljk - 3/29/2006 3:25:45 PM
    - Black Hole Merger Movie - ljk - 3/29/2006 6:54:56 PM
      - re: Black Hole Inflation PAPER (my own) - SDF - 3/29/2006 7:02:55 PM
        
        Evidence for Rapidly Spinning Black Holes in Quasars - ljk - 3/31/2006 2:51:01 PM
        
        Semi-transparent brane-worlds - ljk - 3/31/2006 3:12:23 PM

mars river bed - Andrew - 3/30/2006 2:26:00 AM
- re: Could it be a rille rather than a river? - BRFelix - 3/31/2006 3:50:50 AM
- re: mars river bed - Marcia - 3/30/2006 5:31:19 AM

WaPo on Moon Mars Initiative - phil - 3/27/2006 4:57:51 PM
- Son of Apollo - Moon 2.0 in latest Air and Space Smithsonian online - ljk - 3/30/2006 7:12:28 PM

Dawn BACK ON!!! - Doug Ellison - 3/27/2006 7:45:24 PM
- fantastic news for a truly exciting mission - Sawyer - 3/27/2006 10:26:58 PM
- Awesome! - SteveS - 3/27/2006 9:44:26 PM
- re: Dawn BACK ON!!! - phil - 3/27/2006 8:56:43 PM
- The sun also rises... :) - et - 3/27/2006 8:50:32 PM
  - re: The sun also rises... :) - Marcia - 3/27/2006 9:23:15 PM
    - Probably the email I wrote to Bush and my congress people. - alcaray - 3/27/2006 10:26:12 PM
      - The mission has been renamed "the alcaray mission" - R.L. - 3/30/2006 4:15:15 AM
        
        About time I got some recognition! (n/t) - alcaray - 3/30/2006 4:19:20 PM
        
        re: Oh, please, what are whe? - Marcia - 3/30/2006 4:35:13 AM
        
        re: Whe shoud be 'we'. - Marcia - 3/30/2006 4:39:52 AM
        
        :) lol, oh? It shoud be, shoud it? - R.L. - 3/30/2006 4:57:54 AM
      - re: RE: Science... noted. (n/t) - Marcia - 3/30/2006 2:51:03 AM
    - re: The sun also rises... :) - Marcia - 3/27/2006 9:24:14 PM

The universe out of a monopole in the laboratory? - ljk - 3/22/2006 4:31:14 PM
- Bursts from the very early universe - ljk - 3/22/2006 4:39:31 PM
  - A Century of Cosmology - ljk - 3/29/2006 2:41:23 PM
    - Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology - ljk - 3/30/2006 3:14:52 PM

Gravitational solution to the Pioneer 10/11 anomaly - ljk - 3/22/2006 4:23:51 PM
- Possible relation between galactic flat rotational curves and the Pioneers' anomalous acceleration - ljk - 3/30/2006 3:11:15 PM

Why Theorists Can't Make Solar Systems - ljk - 3/28/2006 10:37:59 PM
- Astrometric Detection of Terrestrial Planets in the Habitable Zones of Nearby Stars with SIM PlanetQuest - ljk - 3/30/2006 1:55:31 PM
  - The Importance of Phase in Nulling Interferometry and a Three Telescope Closure-Phase Nulling Interferometer Concept - ljk - 3/30/2006 2:25:17 PM
    - On the evolution of the resonant planetary system HD128311 - ljk - 3/30/2006 2:32:36 PM
      - Turbulent diffusion in protoplanetary discs: The effect of an imposed magnetic field - ljk - 3/30/2006 2:40:06 PM
        
        The search for extrasolar planets: Study of line bisectors and its relation with precise radial velocity measurements - ljk - 3/30/2006 3:07:44 PM

White Dwarf - Red Dwarf Systems Resolved with the Hubble Space Telescope: I. First Results - ljk - 3/29/2006 2:35:33 PM
- Debris Disks Around White Dwarfs: The DAZ Connection - ljk - 3/30/2006 2:49:00 PM

Watch Out for Incoming! - phil - 3/30/2006 2:27:12 PM

Matrix Technology - phil - 3/28/2006 5:39:46 PM
- Won't the fundies worry about the devices' souls? (n/t) - alcaray - 3/28/2006 6:10:10 PM
  - What worries me is when the devices start worrying about their souls... - R.L. - 3/29/2006 8:06:07 AM
    - re: What worries me is when the devices start worrying about their souls... - phil - 3/29/2006 3:00:28 PM
      - More like Seven of Nine ........................ But Six would do. ;D (n/t) - RNE - 3/29/2006 6:56:53 PM

probably a dumb question, but about landing probes on low gravity objects.... - Sawyer - 3/28/2006 2:50:45 PM
- re: probably a dumb question, but about landing probes on low gravity objects.... - Doug Ellison - 3/29/2006 7:43:35 AM
  - Would you necessarily need attitude control? - Sawyer - 3/29/2006 2:18:18 PM
- Hopefullt we have learned from NEAR - SteveS - 3/29/2006 2:15:44 AM

The Lost Socks Phenomenon??? - Chris Vancil - 3/27/2006 10:02:49 PM
- Not a new problem - Tom Brosz - 3/28/2006 3:15:38 PM
- Has anyone checked the number of coat hangers on the ISS? - Larry J - 3/28/2006 2:02:02 PM
- Are you kidding. My kids could lose a moose in a bathtub. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 3/28/2006 1:49:51 PM
- Zero-Gee Gremlins - Peter Bruener - 3/28/2006 4:41:21 AM
- have they thought of using bar codes to organize such things - Sawyer - 3/27/2006 10:21:56 PM
  - re: Maybe some use of RFIDs. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 3/28/2006 7:23:39 AM
    - Logically better than bar codes - Robert - 3/28/2006 5:58:16 PM
  - using bar codes to organize such things - JimO - 3/28/2006 4:34:06 AM

China's Space Station Plans - ljk - 3/22/2006 3:49:43 PM
- re: China's Space Station Plans - REB - 3/22/2006 3:58:51 PM
  - They have too much national pride for that, plus... - ljk - 3/22/2006 4:08:04 PM
    - Fly Me To A Red Moon - ljk - 3/28/2006 4:57:26 PM

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