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The logic behind a pressure suit? - Raoul - 3/18/2006 10:29:19 AM
- The logic behind a pressure suit? Ask Dave Bowman - Peter Bruener - 3/18/2006 11:10:50 PM
- My logic - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2006 6:38:01 PM
  - Suits on the Shuttle - Larry J - 3/19/2006 6:01:31 PM
    - SR-71 Breakup: Amazing article, thanks. (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 3/19/2006 11:54:33 PM
- re: The logic behind a pressure suit? - gbaikie - 3/18/2006 12:16:54 PM

Bookmark my prediction on the Shuttle here - Buck Galaxy - 3/18/2006 6:45:50 AM
- Disagree. - dtb - 3/19/2006 7:41:24 PM
- You could be right. Clearly, we need something better than the Space Shuttle. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 3/19/2006 6:11:25 AM
- not your prediction... - Doug Ellison - 3/18/2006 10:12:24 AM
  - Another idea for the Shuttle - Feedback please! - Buck Galaxy - 3/19/2006 3:25:18 AM
    - re: Another idea for the Shuttle - Feedback please! - floyd - 3/19/2006 7:08:02 AM
  - re: not your prediction... - Buck Galaxy - 3/19/2006 3:02:05 AM
    - re: not your prediction... - Doug Ellison - 3/19/2006 6:21:57 AM
- re: The Concorde example - Raoul - 3/18/2006 8:41:47 AM
  - re: The Concorde example - dtb - 3/19/2006 7:37:40 PM
    - re: The Concorde example - Raoul - 3/19/2006 9:03:32 PM
  - re: The Concorde example - ljk - 3/18/2006 5:02:33 PM

ISS and march 29 solar eclipse - Raoul - 3/17/2006 10:51:02 PM
- If they have such a rare opportunity, they should take it - ljk - 3/18/2006 6:47:41 PM
  - Solar Eclipse Watching Safety Tips - ljk - 3/19/2006 6:20:57 PM

Cosmic DNA - Buck Galaxy - 3/15/2006 9:28:00 PM
- re: Cosmic DNA - Marcia - 3/19/2006 3:03:33 AM
- The Spitzer link - SteveS - 3/16/2006 5:36:28 PM
- Link - Buck Galaxy - 3/15/2006 9:29:00 PM
  - DNA origami creates map of the Americas - ljk - 3/16/2006 2:43:20 PM
    - Speaking of Cosmic DNA... - ljk - 3/19/2006 4:11:29 PM

Fusion a waste of effort - Adam - 3/9/2006 9:26:10 PM
- It is beginning to look that way, but the story is far from over. - David F Mayer - 3/10/2006 4:59:57 PM
  - You know, if you wanted to learn something ... - R.L. - 3/11/2006 8:16:10 AM
    - If you did not misread or misinterpret what I wrote, you would not be so silly. - David F Mayer - 3/17/2006 4:33:18 PM
  - You are lying again, David... - R.L. - 3/11/2006 4:28:00 AM
    - I was referring to "Engineering breakeven" - David F Mayer - 3/17/2006 4:27:17 PM
      - "but so far no fusion reactor has ever come anywhere near an energy break-even point " - R.L. - 3/18/2006 3:18:49 AM
        
        I meant "net" breakeven point -- Producing as much electricity as consumed. (n/t) - DFM - 3/19/2006 2:43:48 AM
- There is more than the Tokamak... - R.L. - 3/10/2006 4:56:31 AM
  - We have been hearing the same optimistic crap for decades. - David F Mayer - 3/17/2006 4:36:38 PM
  - R.L.'s got a point. - Tom Brosz - 3/11/2006 5:56:06 AM
  - And the alternatives are??? - Adam - 3/10/2006 8:57:05 AM
    - Opinion of a non expert.... - R.L. - 3/12/2006 10:26:32 AM
      - Agreed, but... - Adam - 3/13/2006 9:50:42 AM
    - We have gotten close to breakeven - R.L. - 3/11/2006 4:48:14 AM
      - Long, long wait - Adam - 3/12/2006 4:44:58 AM
        
        Am I frustrated? Yes... - R.L. - 3/12/2006 5:13:25 AM
        
        I agree, but... - Adam - 3/12/2006 5:53:01 AM
        
        It is about thinking in the long term... - R.L. - 3/12/2006 7:32:30 AM
        
        Solar's limitations - Adam - 3/13/2006 3:50:19 AM
        
        Fine... - R.L. - 3/13/2006 3:59:29 AM
        
        Agreed - Adam - 3/13/2006 9:18:33 AM
- The only known working fusion reactor in this solar system can be tapped - SDF - 3/10/2006 3:18:06 AM
  - You left out what is potentially the biggest. - David F Mayer - 3/10/2006 5:06:33 PM
    - Yes, forgot OTEC, SPS and solar chimneys (Updated list) - SDF - 3/10/2006 5:47:46 PM
      - Cross "Solar Power Satellite" from your list. - David F Mayer - 3/10/2006 8:20:22 PM
        
        That's why I listed it as a future solar technology, speculative (n/t) - SDF - 3/11/2006 1:56:02 PM
        
        re: Cross "Solar Power Satellite" from your list. - ARCHER - 3/11/2006 3:02:27 AM
        
        Killjoy (n/t) - Adam - 3/11/2006 2:21:42 AM
      - Solar chimneys are cool. - Lee - 3/10/2006 6:29:00 PM
  - Sandia's Z Machine Exceeds Two Billion Degrees Kelvin - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:58:14 AM

cold super earth found - alcaray - 3/13/2006 11:30:53 PM
- re: cold super earth found - phil - 3/14/2006 1:19:22 AM
  - re: cold super earth found - Marcia - 3/19/2006 2:39:12 AM
  - Microlens OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Implies Cool Neptune-Like Planets are Common - ljk - 3/14/2006 3:45:52 PM
    - Refined parameters of the planet orbiting HD 189733 - ljk - 3/14/2006 3:49:19 PM
      - High eccentricity planets from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search - ljk - 3/15/2006 10:14:17 PM
        
        When Extrasolar Planets Transit Their Parent Stars - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:04:10 PM
        
        Extrasolar Transiting Planet Search with Subaru Suprime-Cam - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:22:27 PM
        
        An Upper Limit on the Albedo of HD 209458b: Direct Imaging Photometry with the MOST Satellite - ljk - 3/17/2006 7:58:39 AM

What Light Pollution does to the environment - ljk - 3/18/2006 6:24:59 PM

Big new reservoir of water ice suspected under Mars - Chris Vancil - 3/18/2006 5:04:22 PM

Spirit PARK and LCOK on MARS? - carl - 3/17/2006 6:14:47 PM
- re: Spirit will rove until it cannot move one more inch - Buck Galaxy - 3/18/2006 5:31:04 AM
  - re: Spirit will rove until it cannot move one more inch - Doug Ellison - 3/18/2006 10:30:12 AM
  - Disagree - nick hoffman - 3/18/2006 5:36:36 AM
- re: Spirit PARK and LCOK on MARS? - Chris Vancil - 3/17/2006 10:41:09 PM
  - I would say YES....... - carl - 3/18/2006 3:22:47 PM
- Spirit Mars Rover In 'Drive Or Die' Situation - ljk - 3/17/2006 7:29:18 PM

The logic behind a pressure suit? - Raoul - 3/18/2006 10:29:17 AM

Eighty years ago today... - ljk - 3/16/2006 5:55:33 PM
- re: Eighty years ago today... - Raoul - 3/16/2006 8:29:48 PM
  - re: Eighty years ago today... - DALeffler - 3/17/2006 4:00:07 AM
    - the nozzle is above the fuel tanks - Daniel - 3/18/2006 7:58:10 AM
- Goddard Wing of the Roswell Museum - ljk - 3/16/2006 6:57:51 PM

This Week with Black Holes - ljk - 3/15/2006 9:39:21 PM
- The hot stars in orbit around the M31 central supermassive black hole: are they young or old? - ljk - 3/15/2006 9:43:12 PM
  - Properties of High Redshift Quasars-II: What does the quasar luminosity function tell us about super-massive black-hole evolution? - ljk - 3/15/2006 10:12:19 PM
    - A hierarchy of cosmic compact objects - without black holes - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:08:03 PM
      - A simple accretion model of a rotating gas sphere onto a Schwarzschild black hole - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:13:01 PM
        
        visualizing accretion models near a Kerr black hole - Daniel - 3/18/2006 5:34:04 AM
        
        PS re the "detector" in ray-tracing - Daniel - 3/18/2006 5:41:45 AM
        
        Merger of binary neutron stars to a black hole: Disk mass, short gamma-ray bursts, and quasinormal mode ringing - ljk - 3/17/2006 3:57:51 PM

Spokes on the rings - Raoul - 3/17/2006 6:33:31 PM
- re: Spokes depend on sun angle! - Raoul - 3/17/2006 9:33:04 PM

The Best of Valles Marineris - SteveS - 3/13/2006 9:21:11 PM
- Spirit Mars Rover In 'Drive Or Die' Situation - ljk - 3/17/2006 7:28:44 PM

Photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs I and II - ljk - 3/15/2006 3:52:20 PM
- Properties of the Delta Scorpii Circumstellar Disk from Continuum Modeling - ljk - 3/15/2006 4:23:32 PM
  - Circumstellar discs in the young sigma Orionis cluster - ljkl - 3/15/2006 4:27:27 PM
    - Spherical Accretion - ljk - 3/15/2006 4:35:35 PM
      - Detectability of dirty dust grains in brown dwarf atmospheres - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:17:34 PM
        
        First Two-Micron Imaging Polarimetry of Beta Pictoris - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:20:41 PM
        
        The Chemical Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks - ljk - 3/16/2006 9:41:54 PM
        
        Possible Molecular Spiral Arms in the Protoplanetary Disk of AB Aur - ljk - 3/17/2006 3:49:11 PM

The Universe as the Ultimate Computer? - ljk - 3/15/2006 3:30:59 PM
- Black holes: The ultimate quantum computers? - ljk - 3/15/2006 4:10:53 PM
  - The Ultimate Simulation? - ljk - 3/15/2006 4:49:27 PM
    - Quote - ljk - 3/16/2006 3:25:24 PM
      - More evidence that the Universe is a MegaComputer? - ljk - 3/17/2006 2:25:35 PM
        
        From Physical Review Focus - ljk - 3/17/2006 2:45:45 PM

Fascinating - RNE - 3/16/2006 5:54:34 PM
- How can I get one of those? (n/t) - Delbert - 3/16/2006 11:04:11 PM
  - That was very... - ljk - 3/17/2006 2:07:18 AM
    - think neutron star... (n/t) - Adam - 3/17/2006 9:48:02 AM

The Real Phantom Menace - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:30:22 PM
- On horizons and the cosmic landscape - ljkl - 3/14/2006 6:55:36 PM
  - The oscillating dark energy: future singularity and coincidence problem - ljk - 3/15/2006 3:55:15 PM
    - Dynamics of dark energy - ljk - 3/15/2006 3:56:58 PM
      - A Reply to a Comment on "Dark matter: A phenomenological existence proof" - ljk - 3/15/2006 3:59:34 PM
        
        WMAP Glimpses the Universe's First Trillionth of a Second - ljk - 3/16/2006 8:11:37 PM
        
        Closed timelike curves in asymmetrically warped brane universes - ljkl - 3/16/2006 9:14:57 PM
        
        New State Of Matter Observed As Predicted In 1970 - ljk - 3/17/2006 7:51:39 AM

Discovery for may.... - Raoul - 3/13/2006 7:30:02 PM
- Now June will be earliest launch - SteveS - 3/14/2006 8:11:24 PM
  - Make it July now - SteveS - 3/15/2006 3:02:17 PM
- re: Discovery for may.... - Delbert - 3/13/2006 10:34:15 PM
  - Never mind. :-) (n/t) - Delbert - 3/15/2006 6:22:01 PM
    - Russia Says Delay In Discovery's Launch Affects ISS Working Plan - ljk - 3/17/2006 7:40:15 AM

Greenhouse Theory Smashed By Biggest Stone - Lance - 3/15/2006 6:41:01 PM
- re: Greenhouse Theory Smashed By Biggest Stone - gbaikie - 3/16/2006 6:55:57 AM
  - re: Greenhouse Theory Smashed By Biggest Stone - Lance - 3/16/2006 8:30:12 PM
    - re: Greenhouse Theory Smashed By Biggest Stone - gbaikie - 3/17/2006 6:51:35 AM

What we'll find when we return to the moon - Buck Galaxy - 3/15/2006 8:05:34 AM
- We now know what sorta sites Buck frequents... - R.L. - 3/16/2006 4:24:24 AM
  - "Hey, this kinda thing isn't my bag, baby." (n/t) - evacuated pipET - 3/16/2006 8:10:50 PM
- Fantasy - nick hoffman - 3/16/2006 1:34:30 AM
  - Well, it works for me. (n/t) - alcaray - 3/16/2006 11:56:38 PM
  - Why are self sustaining space colonies a dream? - Lee - 3/16/2006 6:39:36 AM
    - self-sustaining space colonies in your lifetime - nick hoffman - 3/16/2006 2:23:13 PM
      - True, - Lee - 3/16/2006 5:36:25 PM
- Acually... - Laurie Street - 3/15/2006 10:16:14 PM
- Ya'll suppose that she's a harsh mistress? (n/t) - et - 3/15/2006 5:14:38 PM
  - Twenty big points for et... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/15/2006 5:45:11 PM
    - BTW, anybody making the obvious "moon" jokes loses points. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/15/2006 5:45:48 PM
- We really have to find a way to control Lunar dust (n/t) - SteveS - 3/15/2006 2:07:07 PM
  - Yup... - nick hoffman - 3/16/2006 1:36:28 AM
    - It was the suntan ;-) (n/t) - SteveS - 3/16/2006 5:44:08 PM
- I don't get the connection, but... - ljk - 3/15/2006 12:11:54 PM
- yeah but does it talk? (n/t) - Daniel - 3/15/2006 11:02:45 AM
- AHEM.... - ModBob - 3/15/2006 8:13:26 AM
  - there was an article? (n/t) - alcaray - 3/16/2006 11:57:56 PM
  - ModBob, that posted pic is always on topic, |8^P (n/t) - RNE - 3/15/2006 6:19:07 PM
  - Oh, shut up ModBob. ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/15/2006 5:44:26 PM
    - Hey, I let it stay... - ModBob - 3/16/2006 12:29:43 AM
      - **PS** - ModBob (Not a puritan, honest) - 3/16/2006 12:32:20 AM
        
        A "funny once" as Mike would say. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/16/2006 9:15:05 PM
        
        Ba dum bump... - R.L. - 3/17/2006 3:24:51 AM
  - re: AHEM.... - lance - 3/15/2006 3:44:04 PM
    - Another reason to be all shook up about the Moon - ljk - 3/15/2006 9:34:30 PM

New Comet Pojmanski? - ljk - 3/17/2006 2:15:06 AM

X15 pilots in pressure suits... - Raoul - 2/21/2006 9:01:35 PM
- Fact of Life - If you can't scratch there, yer gonna itch there. :-) (n/t) - Bowser - 2/21/2006 9:53:22 PM
  - Once we were Men - ljk - 2/23/2006 4:14:14 PM
    - do you know what naca means in spanish? - Lance - 2/23/2006 9:50:51 PM
      - re: do you know what naca means in spanish? - Fernanda G. - 3/17/2006 12:05:00 AM

Gigantic ISAT demonstrator spacecraft to be launched in 2010 - SDF - 3/16/2006 1:29:44 PM
- Pretty cool... - Scott Evil - 3/16/2006 10:25:34 PM

Mimas passes Tethys and Dione does the same..a ballet - Raoul - 3/16/2006 8:45:38 PM

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