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Lunar occultation of Spica on February 17, 2006 - ljk - 2/10/2006 7:47:04 PM
- re: Lunar occultation of Spica on February 17, 2006 - Marcia - 2/10/2006 9:49:14 PM
  - re: Lunar occultation of Spica on February 17, 2006 - ljk - 2/10/2006 10:12:02 PM
    - re: Lunar occultation of Spica on February 17, 2006 - Marcia - 2/11/2006 2:12:27 AM
      - Do you have the proper star charts? - ljk - 2/11/2006 6:48:13 PM
        
        re: Do you have the proper star charts? - Marcia - 2/12/2006 4:24:09 AM
        
        Olympic Saturn - ljk - 2/13/2006 1:05:40 AM
        
        re: Olympic Saturn - Marcia - 2/13/2006 1:38:18 AM
        
        re: Olympic Saturn = that should have been.. - Marcia - 2/13/2006 1:43:20 AM
        
        re: Do you have the proper star charts? - phil - 2/12/2006 2:39:33 PM

Intelligent Design at NASA - dtb - 2/4/2006 8:10:59 PM
- George Deutch: Right-wing commissar? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/6/2006 4:45:02 PM
  - George Deutch: college dropout - dtb - 2/8/2006 2:37:17 AM
    - The right seems to have contempt for intellectuals and the educated... - R.L. - 2/9/2006 2:59:53 PM
      - In these days of rampant grade inflation... - Larry J - 2/12/2006 5:27:31 PM
      - "Ivory tower intellectual" has an exact meaning. - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2006 4:52:36 AM
        
        In common usage it does not. Usually it means someone intellegent with whom you disagree. - alcaray - 2/10/2006 4:19:09 PM
      - re: The right seems to have contempt for intellectuals and the educated... - phil - 2/10/2006 12:57:39 AM
    - And now EX-administration official. (n/t) - Tony - 2/8/2006 2:49:53 PM
- More - Delbert - 2/6/2006 1:31:28 AM
- One thing is ignored in this debate. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/6/2006 12:01:53 AM
  - NO! - nick hoffman - 2/11/2006 5:37:13 PM
    - re: NO! - Jacob Samorodin - 2/11/2006 5:52:33 PM
- re: Intelligent Design at NASA - dwc - 2/5/2006 10:24:06 PM
- re: Intelligent Design at NASA - Delbert - 2/5/2006 9:48:42 PM
- Faith-based space exploration - Robert - 2/5/2006 6:34:19 PM
  - re: Faith-based space exploration - gbaikie - 2/6/2006 6:28:07 AM
    - Semantic quibbling - Robert - 2/6/2006 4:33:12 PM
  - re: Faith-based space exploration - Delbert - 2/5/2006 10:34:19 PM
    - Forgotten Apollo 8's broadcast kind of quick, didn't we? - Tom Brosz - 2/6/2006 1:32:28 AM
      - A clarification or two - Robert - 2/6/2006 1:58:09 AM
        
        Rationality - Tom Brosz - 2/6/2006 2:37:16 AM
        
        Perhaps so... - Robert - 2/6/2006 3:41:33 AM
        
        Good point on the appropriate board... - Tom Brosz - 2/6/2006 5:48:59 AM
        
        Darwin Day Comes to Cornell - ljk - 2/6/2006 8:06:50 PM
  - The guy's a loon......fair enough? (n/t) - Lee - 2/5/2006 7:02:12 PM
    - .fair enough (n/t) - Robert - 2/6/2006 1:59:40 AM
- re: Intelligent Design at NASA - ljk - 2/5/2006 6:05:16 PM
  - To add - ljk - 2/5/2006 6:07:35 PM
    - The kid resigns - another crony flushed out - ljk - 2/8/2006 12:46:45 PM
      - Now the kid claims partisan slander and victimhood - ljk - 2/10/2006 7:52:42 PM
        
        What crap... - R.L. - 2/11/2006 5:12:38 AM
        
        Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA - ljk - 2/11/2006 7:32:19 PM

Re: Could We Make A "solar Still" On Mars? - Robert Clark - 2/12/2006 2:29:00 AM
- Re: Could We Make A "solar Still" On Mars? - Robert Clark - 2/12/2006 1:47:49 PM
  - HTML quirkiness. - Robert Clark - 2/12/2006 1:51:17 PM
- Please learn some equilibrium thermodynamics - nick hoffman - 2/12/2006 12:59:40 PM
  - Carbonate dust at the landing sites. - Robert Clark - 2/12/2006 3:38:50 PM
    - Liquid water films - Donald - 2/12/2006 4:10:22 PM

Home Plate - Wow! - REB - 2/8/2006 1:20:14 PM
- Blueberries! ...Where are the blueberries? ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/11/2006 6:15:07 PM
- These rocks weather differently than those Opportunity has seen. - REB - 2/10/2006 1:12:05 PM
  - Jagged edges? That implies very recent. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/11/2006 5:35:04 PM
    - No, sorry - nick hoffman - 2/12/2006 2:27:30 AM
- re: Home Plate - Wow! - nick hoffman - 2/8/2006 10:29:10 PM
  - re: Home Plate - Wow! - dtb - 2/8/2006 11:19:04 PM
- re: Home Plate - Wow! - azstrummer - 2/8/2006 4:03:52 PM
  - re: Home Plate - Wow! - Marcia - 2/9/2006 11:51:37 PM
  - re: Home Plate - Wow! - REB - 2/8/2006 4:19:20 PM
    - Beating Hoaxland to the punch - ljk - 2/8/2006 6:02:18 PM
      - It's no joke! Here's the proof: - Buck Galaxy - 2/9/2006 1:47:46 AM
      - re: Beating Hoaxland to the punch - REB - 2/8/2006 6:46:34 PM
- re: Home Plate - Double Wow! - JimO - 2/8/2006 2:07:51 PM
  - re: Home Plate - Double Wow! - dtb - 2/8/2006 4:35:40 PM
    - I also enthusiastically endorse unmannedspaceflight.com - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2006 1:24:44 AM
      - Ditto (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/9/2006 1:31:33 AM

Why some projects are been cancelled or suspended - Raoul - 2/9/2006 8:37:17 PM
- HST repair mission saved at the expense of the cancelled TPF telescope. As Mick Jagger once said: "You can't always get what you want." - Jacob Samorodin - 2/11/2006 5:47:41 PM
- Excellent analysis - phil - 2/10/2006 7:03:44 PM
- If they only had applied the same cancellation criteria to manned space programs, we wouldn't have the current ISS/Shuttle mess - pwokenyaw - 2/10/2006 12:10:38 AM

Fossett keeps going! - Raoul - 2/11/2006 8:56:34 AM
- Last minute crisis - but record broken and safely on the ground - Doug Ellison - 2/11/2006 5:34:20 PM
  - I wonder if he'll try for a record nonstop 50,000km next time? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/11/2006 5:44:19 PM

Planetoid Mining: Key to the Space Economy - ljk - 2/9/2006 9:48:23 PM
- re: Is raw material that important for the future? - Raoul - 2/10/2006 10:50:44 PM
  - re: Is raw material that important for the future? - ljk - 2/11/2006 3:55:38 AM
  - Space processing might be... - Tom Brosz - 2/11/2006 12:44:05 AM
- Don't see the word planetoid often. Reminds me of Mr. Bass (n/t) - alcaray - 2/10/2006 5:16:05 PM
  - re: Don't see the word planetoid often. Reminds me of Mr. Bass - ljk - 2/10/2006 5:29:09 PM
    - Yes. I was making reference to some obscure literature. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/10/2006 5:31:32 PM
      - re: Yes. I was making reference to some obscure literature. - ljk - 2/10/2006 5:42:46 PM
        
        Eleanor Cameron's "Mushroom Planet" series. - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2006 6:52:23 PM
        
        I knew I could count on you, Tom! (n/t) - alcaray - 2/10/2006 6:55:01 PM
        
        I was actually reading one of them last week. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/11/2006 12:38:19 AM
        
        I recall it dimly as a series of books I read when I was about 10 or so. - alcaray - 2/10/2006 5:53:26 PM
        
        re: I recall it dimly as a series of books I read when I was about 10 or so. - ljk - 2/10/2006 6:33:21 PM
        
        space mining? - alcaray - 2/10/2006 6:54:03 PM
- re: The picture - Raoul - 2/9/2006 10:19:07 PM
  - Sign Posted: FREE ASTEROID DUST! (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 2/10/2006 6:51:20 AM
  - shopvac (n/t) - podrock - 2/10/2006 12:22:28 AM
  - Electrostatic collectors (n/t) - Lee - 2/9/2006 11:19:51 PM
  - Leaf blowers. ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2006 11:16:21 PM
    - re: Leaf vacs are better. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 2/10/2006 1:32:23 AM

Planetary Society gets their hands on Pioneer 10 & 11 data - alcaray - 1/31/2006 10:25:01 PM
- re: I wish them luck. - Marcia - 2/1/2006 2:04:57 PM
  - Solar system constraints on multi-field theories of modified dynamics - ljk - 2/8/2006 3:30:16 PM
    - Pioneer Anomaly on TPS Planetary Radio - ljk - 2/9/2006 12:21:12 AM
      - Pioneer anomaly: What can we learn from LISA? - ljk - 2/9/2006 4:24:12 PM
        
        A model for the Pioneer Anomaly - ljk - 2/9/2006 4:32:32 PM
        
        re: A model for the Pioneer Anomaly - Marcia - 2/9/2006 11:10:50 PM
        
        re: A model for the Pioneer Anomaly - ljk - 2/10/2006 4:45:34 AM
        
        A Pioneer Anomaly Probe Design Paper - ljk - 2/10/2006 10:27:14 PM

Biography of Hans Albrecht Bethe - ljk - 2/10/2006 3:28:03 PM
- re: Biography of Hans Albrecht Bethe - Bowser - 2/10/2006 5:34:58 PM

Determining Light Pollution of the Global Sky: Get out and observe the night sky during March 22-Â29, 2006 - ljk - 2/10/2006 4:15:37 PM

New Weapon for Police in High Speed Car Chases - SDF - 2/7/2006 9:32:14 PM
- About time somebody put on his thinking cap. - David F Mayer - 2/10/2006 2:15:46 PM

UH Hilo Joins Hunt for Killer Asteroids - Chris Vancil - 2/10/2006 9:28:33 AM

Falcon I postponed again - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2006 6:33:02 AM

Gamma-ray bursts and terrestrial planetary atmospheres - ljk - 2/1/2006 4:27:59 PM
- Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers in globular clusters - ljk - 2/2/2006 9:18:37 PM
  - From Protoplanets to Protolife: The Emergence and Maintenance of Life - ljk - 2/2/2006 10:26:14 PM
    - Do extragalactic cosmic rays induce cycles in fossil diversity? - ljk - 2/9/2006 6:51:32 PM
      - re: Effects of Cosmic Proton Radiation on Human Cells/DNA. - Marcia - 2/10/2006 2:46:29 AM
        
        re: Effects of Cosmic Proton Radiation on Human Cells/DNA. - w/better html... - Marcia - 2/10/2006 3:11:30 AM

Ah ha ha ha ha [gasp] ha ha ha ha. Well done Crighton. LOL! - gET with the program AGU! ;-) - 2/9/2006 6:56:24 PM
- AAPG has an annual journalism award? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/9/2006 11:26:21 PM
  - I just got one of those sinking feelings... - alcaray - 2/9/2006 11:56:09 PM
- You're absolutely right... - Peter Bruener - 2/9/2006 9:58:58 PM

BBC: Nakhla meteorite contains life signs - JimO - 2/8/2006 2:05:14 PM
- 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference abstracts available. - Robert Clark - 2/9/2006 2:30:55 PM

Mars Water Workshop - Chris Vancil - 2/8/2006 10:07:18 PM

Falcon 1 - Raoul - 2/8/2006 7:50:28 PM

A stellar companion in the HD 189733 system with a known transiting extrasolar planet - ljk - 2/8/2006 7:22:48 PM
- Crystalline silicates as a probe of disk formation history - ljk - 2/8/2006 7:24:19 PM

Dark matter comes out of the cold - David F Mayer - 2/8/2006 5:22:46 PM
- Duplicate: sorry. (n/t) - DFM - 2/8/2006 7:01:39 PM
- See also - ljk - 2/8/2006 6:04:40 PM

Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Cluster of Red Supergiants - ljk - 2/8/2006 6:49:33 PM
- NASA's Spitzer Uncovers Hints of Mega Solar Systems - ljk - 2/8/2006 6:53:27 PM

The Growing Habitable Zone: Locations for Life Abound - David F Mayer - 2/8/2006 5:15:18 PM
- complex life - phil - 2/8/2006 6:34:25 PM
- See also - ljk - 2/8/2006 6:03:35 PM

So George Bush wants to increase NASA's budget by 1 percent for 2007? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/5/2006 11:48:26 PM
- re: So George Bush wants to increase NASA's budget by 1 percent for 2007? - Doug Ellison - 2/6/2006 8:48:28 PM
  - re: So George Bush wants to increase NASA's budget by 1 percent for 2007? - dtb - 2/7/2006 5:12:35 AM
- How much has he increased their budget over the past 2-3 years? (n/t) - Lee - 2/6/2006 12:11:45 AM
  - Increases? Space science is being slashed! - ljk - 2/6/2006 6:02:04 PM
    - Europa Mission: Lost In NASA Budget - ljk - 2/7/2006 4:32:48 PM
      - Canceling NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder: The White House's Increasingly Nearsighted "Vision" For Space Exploration - ljk - 2/7/2006 7:33:28 PM
        
        Ames SOFIA and Astrobiology Institute threatened with cuts - ljk - 2/8/2006 6:32:41 PM

Steve Fossett and Global Flyer are on their way - Larry J - 2/8/2006 2:00:36 PM
- Global Flyer hits bird on takeoff - JimO - 2/8/2006 2:06:48 PM

Russian Astronomer says Earth headed for Mini-Ice Age - Scott Evil - 2/7/2006 4:49:56 PM
- In order to save Earth, we must keep polluting it - ljk - 2/8/2006 1:32:59 PM

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