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Transportation on the Moon - Raoul - 2/26/2006 5:16:51 PM
- Just a thought - Peter Bruener - 2/27/2006 1:34:58 AM
  - re: Just a thought - nick hoffman - 2/27/2006 9:02:23 AM
    - Wrong Lander - Peter Bruener - 2/27/2006 9:58:06 PM
    - re: And also the Apollo 16 ascent module (back side prior to rendez-vous) - Raoul - 2/27/2006 8:33:05 PM
    - You're not really looking at the pressure hull. - Tom Brosz - 2/27/2006 7:12:59 PM
    - Maybe not - Larry J - 2/27/2006 2:11:42 PM
      - it's the Apollo 17 LEM taken from the CSM - Daniel - 2/27/2006 3:57:10 PM
      - depressurized? There's an astronaut in the window! (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 2/27/2006 3:09:18 PM
  - re: Scenarios - Raoul - 2/27/2006 6:46:10 AM

Lunar Landing Research Vehicle - Raoul - 2/27/2006 9:02:26 PM

Solar panels using concentrators - Tom Brosz - 2/16/2006 8:24:16 PM
- The Banning of Solar Energy Technology is Already Beginning - David F Mayer - 2/24/2006 5:11:13 PM
  - More on the wind power situation in Mass. - Tom Brosz - 2/27/2006 7:27:44 AM
    - Kennedy lives in a big neighborhood! - alcaray - 2/27/2006 6:36:39 PM
      - Energy threads and politics - Tom Brosz - 2/27/2006 7:15:33 PM
  - The Luddites want to freeze in the dark? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/26/2006 10:26:06 PM
    - They are happy as long as THEY get energy. - David F Mayer - 2/27/2006 7:43:51 PM
  - Aesthetics - Tom Brosz - 2/25/2006 7:22:28 PM
    - It does not matter. These are just excuses. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/26/2006 4:06:51 PM
- Gradual growth in renewable energy is inevitable - SDF - 2/17/2006 5:38:06 AM
  - I would not be surprised to see alternative energy forms banned - David F Mayer - 2/24/2006 4:50:04 PM
    - It may not be the government, but the Utilities that strive to ban - podrock - 2/25/2006 2:42:37 AM
      - Stuff the utilities... - nick hoffman - 2/25/2006 5:48:38 PM
        
        re: Stuff the utilities... - Tom Brosz - 2/25/2006 7:16:52 PM
    - re: I would not be surprised to see alternative energy forms banned - phil - 2/25/2006 1:56:26 AM
      - Yes, I AM late to the party. Thanks. (n/t) - DFM - 2/26/2006 4:08:18 PM

Mimas and Saturn's ringlight.. - Raoul - 2/27/2006 7:22:59 PM

Dava Sobel NYT Review of Uncentering the Earth - ljk - 2/27/2006 7:20:36 PM

Is Titan the "burial" site of other Saturnian moons? - ljk - 2/24/2006 9:28:51 PM
- Andrew Prentice and the MLT - Adam - 2/26/2006 9:32:30 AM
  - yes he's still plugging away - Daniel - 2/26/2006 5:12:03 PM
    - ambitious? - Adam - 2/27/2006 5:56:44 AM
      - re: ambitious? - Daniel - 2/27/2006 8:15:40 AM

Jurassic Bevah - phil - 2/27/2006 2:22:26 AM

The first picture taken from above 100 km....The Earth - Raoul - 2/26/2006 8:33:34 PM

Eileen Collins - Raoul - 2/26/2006 8:20:26 PM

Comet Pojmanski - Raoul - 2/26/2006 4:45:10 PM

Orion, the Hyades, Aldebaran, Mars, the Pleiades - Raoul - 2/25/2006 8:02:22 PM
- re: Excellent! - BRFelix - 2/26/2006 2:23:27 AM
  - re: Thank you! - Raoul - 2/26/2006 4:37:18 PM

Stardust scientists find microscopic gems in returned comet samples. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/22/2006 12:08:12 AM
- re: Stardust scientists find microscopic gems in returned comet samples. - Marcia - 2/25/2006 11:26:51 PM
- i.e.: olivine - podrock - 2/23/2006 4:04:44 AM
  - forming olivine. - nick hoffman - 2/23/2006 10:36:46 AM
    - re: forming olivine. - Tom Brosz - 2/24/2006 11:17:48 PM
  - What is required to make peridot? (n/t) - R.L. - 2/23/2006 4:58:23 AM
    - You've held peridot in your hand. - podrock - 2/25/2006 4:43:36 AM
    - The chemical makeup is (Mg, Fe)2SiO4. (n/t) - REB - 2/24/2006 2:58:31 PM
      - In this case, Forsterite, the Mg end o' the series. - podrock - 2/25/2006 4:36:12 AM
        
        Forsterite is also a condensate mineral. - CondensETion you say? - 2/25/2006 5:02:13 AM
- re: Stardust scientists find microscopic gems in returned comet samples. - ljk - 2/22/2006 6:44:41 PM
  - LOL! ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/23/2006 12:53:54 AM
    - re: LOL! ;-) - Lance - 2/23/2006 9:47:55 PM
    - re: LOL! ;-) - ljk - 2/23/2006 5:30:33 AM
- Restarting heart...thought the word was "germs" when I logged in. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/22/2006 2:55:32 AM
  - re: For Stardust, germs would have been better than gems. Black Pearls too. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 2/26/2006 1:22:05 AM

'the Anthropic Universe' - discussion with Frank Tipler, Paul Davies & Martin Rees - Daniel - 2/20/2006 4:29:53 PM
- I have a couple of Paul Davies' books... - Fox - 2/22/2006 2:17:15 AM
  - Speaking of Paul Davies... - ljkl - 2/23/2006 6:39:04 PM
  - A personal observation - Fox - 2/22/2006 5:58:53 PM
    - thanks for that - Daniel - 2/22/2006 6:03:25 PM
      - What ETI would do to human religion and would ETI have religion? - ljk - 2/23/2006 5:28:44 PM
        
        re: What ETI would do to human religion? - Fox - 2/25/2006 3:49:06 AM
        
        re first contact - Daniel - 2/23/2006 6:10:44 PM
- re: 'the Anthropic Universe' = Intelligent Design? - Raoul - 2/20/2006 5:29:17 PM
  - How could we decide upon empirical grounds? - David F Mayer - 2/21/2006 8:11:10 PM
    - we would need more than one data point, which is all we have now (n/t) - Daniel - 2/22/2006 1:35:43 AM
  - Arrogant now, but in the Far UpWhen? - Adam - 2/21/2006 3:58:03 AM
  - clarification needed? - Daniel - 2/20/2006 5:57:43 PM
  - 'the Anthropic Universe' = Intelligent Design? - a refutation. - Bowser - 2/20/2006 5:55:53 PM
    - "Here come the ModBob, Bow! Let him, nice to know I could make his day" - ModBob - 2/22/2006 1:19:30 AM
    - As a human being, are you any better than anyone else? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/20/2006 8:51:12 PM
    - you know ... - Daniel - 2/20/2006 6:02:17 PM
      - Nature is not always red in tooth and claw - ljk - 2/21/2006 10:42:04 PM
        
        right - Daniel - 2/22/2006 1:33:45 AM
- correction: only on mp3 or streaming audio (no transcript) - Daniel - 2/20/2006 4:32:32 PM
  - Program transcript now online - ljk - 2/23/2006 6:19:07 PM
    - listened to it again last night - Daniel - 2/25/2006 1:44:14 AM
    - The universe out of a monopole in the laboratory? - ljk - 2/23/2006 6:20:13 PM
      - Is our universe about to be mangled? - ljk - 2/24/2006 3:35:51 PM
        
        "Soft bang" instead of "big bang": model of an inflationary universe without singularities and with eternal physical past time - ljk - 2/24/2006 9:44:52 PM
        
        Quantum Nature of the Big Bang - ljk - 2/24/2006 9:53:06 PM

Scaled Composites Hiring Spaceship Builders - Chris Vancil - 2/25/2006 2:47:41 AM

Top stars for alien life - Andrew - 2/20/2006 4:08:56 PM
- What about Delta Pavonis? - Lee - 2/22/2006 5:19:18 AM
  - NASA's Spitzer Makes Hot Alien World the Closest Directly Detected - ljk - 2/22/2006 8:07:03 PM
    - Strong Infrared Emission from the Extrasolar Planet HD189733b - ljk - 2/22/2006 10:27:03 PM
    - Search for alien life challenges current concepts - ljk - 2/22/2006 8:42:19 PM
      - Atmospheres of Extrasolar Giant Planets - ljk - 2/22/2006 10:30:56 PM
        
        Giant Planet Cores May Contain 'Electric' Rocks - ljk - 2/23/2006 3:52:45 PM
        
        Dynamics and Disequilibrium Carbon Chemistry in HD 209458b's Atmosphere - ljk - 2/23/2006 6:56:11 PM
        
        That's all fine and good, but - Lee - 2/24/2006 10:34:14 AM
        
        Ya want Delta Pavonis? I'll give ya Delta Pavonis... - ljk - 2/24/2006 2:33:03 PM
        
        Sol Station & Orion's Arm are wicked pissah sites (n/t) - phil - 2/25/2006 1:54:00 AM
        
        Texas State research sheds new light on panspermia - ljk - 2/24/2006 10:09:10 PM

STS 121 Mark Kelly interviewed by Miles O'Brien - Raoul - 2/23/2006 7:52:19 PM
- re: STS 121 Thomas Reiter - Raoul - 2/23/2006 9:21:42 PM
  - re: His salute (1995) - Raoul - 2/24/2006 8:36:54 PM

Further than the blue of the sky - Raoul - 2/20/2006 7:39:30 PM
- re: To me, it's the other way around.... - Marcia - 2/21/2006 2:50:03 AM
  - Kinda... - DALeffler - 2/24/2006 3:12:50 AM
  - re: Different ways - Raoul - 2/21/2006 9:17:37 AM
    - re: Different ways - Marcia - 2/23/2006 9:12:58 PM

Pluto with rings? - Raoul - 2/22/2006 8:57:56 PM
- And HST comfirms the 2 new moons - ljk - 2/22/2006 9:30:42 PM
  - re: Maybe Pluto was recently a victim of a large impact event! - Scott Evil - 2/23/2006 5:34:01 PM
  - re: And HST comfirms the 2 new moons - Raoul - 2/22/2006 9:37:48 PM
    - My my, that Hubble is just so tired, old and useless - BRFelix - 2/23/2006 11:55:55 PM

Spirit see's interesting hill. - REB - 2/22/2006 3:45:44 PM
- re: interesting hill. - Tom Brosz - 2/22/2006 5:16:48 PM
- Cuesta - podrock - 2/22/2006 5:13:04 PM
- Here is a clearer shot. - REB - 2/22/2006 3:50:26 PM
  - That's "pitcher's mound." (Large image) - Buck Galaxy - 2/22/2006 4:45:16 PM
    - re: That's "pitcher's mound." (Large image) - Doug Ellison - 2/22/2006 5:18:45 PM
      - Have you seen any pictures of the inside of Home Plate? - REB - 2/23/2006 1:10:02 PM
        
        re: Have you seen any pictures of the inside of Home Plate? - Doug Ellison - 2/23/2006 8:46:24 PM
      - re: That's "pitcher's mound." (Large image) - REB - 2/22/2006 5:36:56 PM
        
        A Tale of Two Rovers - ljk - 2/22/2006 6:43:06 PM

Supernova in M100 - ljk - 2/14/2006 2:44:24 PM
- Supernova in M100 as seen by ESO's VLT - ljk - 2/23/2006 7:50:34 PM

Earth from MESSENGER - ljk - 2/23/2006 5:42:58 PM

ISS crossing the Moon (finest details so far) - Raoul - 2/22/2006 10:25:01 PM

Proton radiation more dangerous than once thought - Chris Vancil - 2/22/2006 9:51:06 PM

Japan launches infrared observatory satellite, Akari - ljk - 2/22/2006 4:05:14 PM
- Solar sail test flies with IR sat - prelude to Jupiter mission? - ljk - 2/22/2006 9:35:11 PM

Venus Express Ground Observing Project - ljk - 2/22/2006 7:09:52 PM

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