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"Shuttle Atlantis to be retired in two years" - and 'retirement' would look like - - - ? - Bowser - 2/21/2006 10:15:13 PM
- Leave it parked on the BELT PARKWAY to JFK - carl - 2/22/2006 5:36:10 PM
- re: "Shuttle Atlantis to be retired in two years" - and 'retirement' would look like - - - ? - REB - 2/22/2006 4:06:45 PM
- All shuttles to be retired later this year - I hope! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/22/2006 8:07:20 AM

I just noticed that our buddy Doug... - alcaray - 2/22/2006 5:00:01 PM
- I've been quite busy :) - Doug Ellison - 2/22/2006 5:16:42 PM

Alien Earth - Adam - 2/22/2006 12:07:29 PM

OK... I reluctantly admit that Orson Scott Card can still write a good story (Belated Book review) - R.L. - 2/22/2006 7:26:59 AM

Mercury makes a rare appearance in the evening sky this week. - Chris Vancil - 2/21/2006 10:16:03 PM

liquid in non-uniform magnetic field - miaobo - 2/19/2006 9:49:22 AM
- What liquid? What applied pressure? - David F Mayer - 2/21/2006 8:16:55 PM

Today's comic - SDF - 2/21/2006 1:53:17 PM

Griffin: US Could Have Reached Mars 20 Years Ago - Chris Vancil - 2/19/2006 2:44:45 AM
- re: Griffin: US Could Have Reached Mars 20 Years Ago - Jeff F - 2/20/2006 11:14:24 AM
  - Without "politics", we never would have gone ANYWHERE - dtb - 2/20/2006 7:48:40 PM
- I'm laughing. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/19/2006 9:11:09 PM
  - Cool scenario - Adam - 2/21/2006 4:03:36 AM
- re: Griffin: US Could Have Reached Mars 20 Years Ago - Vince - 2/19/2006 3:38:33 AM
  - re: Griffin: US Could Have Reached Mars 20 Years Ago - ljk - 2/19/2006 5:01:49 AM
    - I heard an interview with astronaut Ron Sega on von Braun's plan several years ago - Larry J - 2/19/2006 8:59:03 PM
    - Project Selena - Adam - 2/19/2006 8:15:01 AM

[spam deleted] (n/t) - Robert Shepherd - 2/21/2006 4:01:24 AM

I'm shocked! - Adam - 2/14/2006 10:31:53 PM
- I get the same feeling reading Bell... - alcaray - 2/17/2006 8:17:47 PM
  - re: I get the same feeling reading Bell... - Chris Vancil - 2/18/2006 8:47:57 PM
- Tens of Billion$ Later... - phil - 2/15/2006 6:54:08 PM
  - re: Tens of Billion$ Later... - DALeffler - 2/18/2006 6:26:23 AM
    - re: Tens of Billion$ Later... - phil - 2/18/2006 5:44:35 PM
- re: I'm shocked! - Chris Vancil - 2/15/2006 2:12:30 AM
- I like Bell's analysis too - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 1:46:48 AM
  - Is Bell right that the redesigned CEV can be boosted with a Delta 4 or Atlas 5? - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 8:30:53 AM
    - re: No, he is wrong and wrong all over the article. - Chris Vancil - 2/17/2006 1:19:43 AM
      - I'm not as concerned in the short term about dropping the methane engine requirement - Larry J - 2/18/2006 8:59:46 PM
        
        re: I'm not as concerned in the short term about dropping the methane engine requirement - Chris Vancil - 2/19/2006 2:51:56 AM
      - Man rating Delta and Atlas - Buck Galaxy - 2/18/2006 9:05:30 AM
        
        re: Man rating Delta and Atlas - Chris Vancil - 2/18/2006 8:59:19 PM
        
        Gotta disagree about the growth capacity of the EELV - Larry J - 2/19/2006 9:19:20 PM
        
        re: Gotta disagree about the growth capacity of the EELV - Chris Vancil - 2/20/2006 10:04:45 PM
        
        Build a really good launch escape system and man-rating becomes less of an issue - Larry J - 2/21/2006 1:59:51 AM
        
        re: To give some Perspective on the Statistics... - Chris Vancil - 2/20/2006 10:20:43 PM
        
        re: Gotta disagree about the growth capacity of the EELV - Buck Galaxy - 2/20/2006 2:34:43 AM
      - re: No, he is wrong and wrong all over the article. - Chris Vancil - 2/17/2006 7:56:20 AM
        
        re: No, he is wrong and wrong all over the article. - phil - 2/18/2006 4:47:27 PM
  - re: I like Bell's analysis too - gbaikie - 2/15/2006 7:49:41 AM

Amateurs spot Xena - Raoul - 2/20/2006 8:18:02 PM
- re: Amateurs spot Xena - REB - 2/20/2006 10:22:33 PM

Bangladesh:'Meteor' falls on the ground - Eric - 2/1/2006 1:20:05 AM
- re: Bangladesh:'Meteor' falls on the ground - Anushnadhitshu Chokro Science Club - 2/19/2006 2:25:39 PM
  - Thanks for the information and link.... - ModBob - 2/19/2006 5:56:55 PM
- More like burrows into the ground - SteveS - 2/1/2006 4:12:19 PM
  - re: More like burrows into the ground - anushandhitshu Chokro science club - 2/19/2006 2:27:58 PM

NASA nearly blows it on Stardust II - pwokenyaw - 2/14/2006 8:30:51 PM
- NASA To Drill Hole In Desert Today - phil - 2/15/2006 2:54:37 PM
  - More true than you think - Larry J - 2/16/2006 1:59:00 PM
    - Could museums help? ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/18/2006 6:52:11 PM
      - Perhaps with the hardware... - Larry J - 2/18/2006 8:38:08 PM
        
        It would be like trying to figure out an ETI signal. (n/t) - Delbert - 2/19/2006 7:40:19 AM
    - re: More true than you think - phil - 2/16/2006 3:08:09 PM
  - re: NASA To Drill Hole In Desert Today - Phil... - Marcia - 2/15/2006 11:09:40 PM
    - re: NASA To Drill Hole In Desert Today - Phil... - phil - 2/15/2006 11:39:51 PM
- I hate it when that happens (n/t) - alcaray - 2/14/2006 10:52:03 PM

United Arab Emirates Port - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2006 12:03:55 AM
- Ansari's Prodea vs Branson's Virgin Galactic - phil - 2/18/2006 2:29:45 AM
  - Commercial venture to the moon - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2006 4:46:40 AM
    - re: Commercial venture to the moon - Jacob Samorodin - 2/18/2006 11:42:22 PM
      - Russian lander - Tom Brosz - 2/19/2006 6:09:20 AM

DOT Environmental Assessment for US Spaceport - phil - 2/18/2006 5:43:04 PM
- Cool! - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2006 8:03:12 PM

150 billion buys a lot of hot air - gbaikie - 2/17/2006 10:16:42 AM
- re: 150 billion buys a lot of hot air - phil - 2/18/2006 12:23:12 AM
  - re: 150 billion buys a lot of hot air - gbaikie - 2/18/2006 4:38:24 AM
    - re: 150 billion buys a lot of hot air - phil - 2/18/2006 4:45:45 PM

Biocosm, The New Scientific Theory of Evolution - ljk - 2/10/2006 2:17:11 PM
- Null question - nick hoffman - 2/11/2006 2:07:17 AM
  - Follow-ups - nick hoffman - 2/11/2006 5:29:37 PM
    - re: Follow-ups - Vince - 2/13/2006 3:30:25 AM
      - Universal constants vs local conditiions - dtb - 2/13/2006 5:31:36 AM
        
        Reverse your thoughts. - nick hoffman - 2/14/2006 3:34:02 PM
        
        Black Hole Inflation Theory - SDF - 2/13/2006 2:24:01 PM
        
        Vibrations trigger supernova? - SDF - 2/14/2006 2:02:46 PM
  - Yeah... - DALeffler - 2/11/2006 6:26:27 AM
    - AND... - nick hoffman - 2/14/2006 3:35:22 PM
    - re: Yeah... - ljk - 2/11/2006 6:51:54 PM
      - Letter from Nobel Laureate Baruch Blumberg and SETI Institute CEO Thomas Pierson Regarding Proposed Astrobiology Cuts - ljk - 2/16/2006 6:54:42 PM
        
        Darwin's warm pond theory tested - ljk - 2/18/2006 4:49:31 AM

For Tom, or anyone close to Ames - alcaray - 2/17/2006 4:12:45 PM
- Thanks! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2006 7:26:57 PM
- Review: Europa, the Ocean Moon - ljk - 2/17/2006 5:45:02 PM
  - I'm growing more skeptical about the possibility of life on Europa. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2006 11:47:58 PM
    - Life is not the only reason to explore Europa - ljk - 2/18/2006 4:15:42 AM
    - Didn't you watch Jurassic Park? Life finds a way. (n/t) - Laurie Street - 2/18/2006 12:20:22 AM

Re: What will Stardust find? - Robert Clark - 2/17/2006 4:47:18 PM
- re: Re: What will Stardust find? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2006 11:41:51 PM

Next on NOVA: The Ghost Particle - ljk - 2/17/2006 10:20:51 PM

Darwin Day, February 12th - Robert - 2/10/2006 12:16:01 AM
- Recommended for younger readers. Or people who like comics... - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2006 4:41:15 AM
  - WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 17 Feb 06 - ljk - 2/17/2006 9:38:28 PM

Counter-rotation region in proto-solar system? - alcaray - 2/14/2006 4:00:25 PM
- Why doesn't the Universe behave the way we humans expect it to? - ljk - 2/14/2006 4:47:22 PM
  - Gaseous Planets, Protostars And Young Brown Dwarfs : Birth And Fate and HST/ACS Multiband Coronagraphic Imaging of the Debris Disk around Beta Pictoris - ljk - 2/15/2006 3:02:09 PM
    - A Hybrid N-body--Coagulation Code for Planet Formation - ljk - 2/16/2006 6:22:03 PM
      - The Formation of Brown Dwarfs - ljk - 2/17/2006 9:21:06 PM

Black Hole Space-Time - Adam - 2/14/2006 9:48:15 PM
- Shock-wave Cosmology inside a Black Hole (full text) - SDF - 2/15/2006 2:28:55 AM
  - Life inside a black hole - ljk - 2/15/2006 2:46:46 PM
    - re: Life inside a black hole in the far, far future - SDF - 2/16/2006 10:35:16 AM
      - Formation of Supermassive Black Holes by Direct Collapse in Pregalactic Halos - ljkl - 2/17/2006 9:17:20 PM

Welcome to the Ecozoic Era - ljk - 2/17/2006 6:53:47 PM
- re: A force? - Raoul - 2/17/2006 7:56:15 PM
- A few problems - SDF - 2/17/2006 7:28:38 PM
  - did they really say that in the piece? - alcaray - 2/17/2006 8:12:13 PM
  - It's life, but not as we know it - ljk - 2/17/2006 7:57:57 PM

Not just in the USA ... - ljk - 2/16/2006 12:33:56 PM
- general trend - Daniel - 2/17/2006 5:10:46 AM
- Water doesn't moderate Earth's temperature, ICE moderates Earth's temperature - SDF - 2/16/2006 3:53:38 PM
  - Not a lot of ice at the equator - alcaray - 2/17/2006 5:18:33 PM
    - Yes obviously - SDF - 2/17/2006 7:19:27 PM
  - Greenland Ice Loss Doubles in Past Decade, Raising Sea Level Faster - ljk - 2/17/2006 3:53:36 PM

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