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The Next Voyager Record: A Qatsi Perspective - ljk - 1/28/2006 4:10:40 AM

The Ultimate SETI Signal - ljk - 1/28/2006 3:45:32 AM

Multi-Dimensional Simulations of the Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs to Neutron Stars - ljk - 1/27/2006 6:43:52 PM
- Sounds of Star Death Near Middle C - ljk - 1/28/2006 3:02:30 AM

Saturn at opposition tonight - Raoul - 1/27/2006 9:12:49 PM
- New storm appearing on Saturn - ljk - 1/28/2006 2:36:28 AM
- Occultation? - ljk - 1/27/2006 9:19:56 PM
  - re: Occultation? - Raoul - 1/27/2006 10:11:22 PM
    - re: Occultation? - ljk - 1/27/2006 10:15:17 PM
      - First image posted that I could find - ljk - 1/28/2006 2:30:19 AM

What will Stardust find? - Robert Clark - 1/25/2006 11:56:55 PM
- Wait till March, 13-18, 2006, Robert. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/26/2006 11:59:16 PM
  - re: Wait till March, 13-18, 2006, Robert. - Robert Clark - 1/27/2006 2:42:23 PM
    - Interstellar Dust Returned to Earth for Study - ljk - 1/27/2006 5:26:29 PM
      - Stardust Status Report - ljk - 1/28/2006 2:00:05 AM

new extra-solar planet discoveries - JimO - 1/23/2006 11:09:56 PM
- "Only" 5 times bigger than Earth, orbits a red dwarf star, and is 22,000 LY away - ljk - 1/25/2006 6:34:07 PM
  - My dream - REB - 1/26/2006 8:50:31 PM
  - STScI Press Release - ljk - 1/25/2006 6:38:10 PM
    - re: STScI Press Release - Raoul - 1/25/2006 7:13:45 PM
      - ESA and ESO press releases - ljk - 1/26/2006 2:29:20 AM
      - The Australian Press went overboard - nick hoffman - 1/26/2006 2:22:38 AM
        
        re: The Australian Press went overboard - ljk - 1/26/2006 5:21:24 PM
        
        Discovery of a Cool Planet of 5.5 Earth Masses Through Gravitational Microlensing - ljk - 1/26/2006 6:33:24 PM
        
        Thanks ljk... - nick hoffman - 1/27/2006 8:20:30 AM
        
        From Sky & Telescope - ljk - 1/28/2006 1:21:02 AM

Comparative Planetology and the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System - LJK - 1/23/2006 10:15:50 PM
- IRS Spectra of Solar-Type Stars: A Search for Asteroid Belt Analogs - LJK - 1/23/2006 10:18:23 PM
  - Rapid Formation of Gas Giant Planets around M Dwarf Stars - LJK - 1/23/2006 10:24:17 PM
    - First scattered light images of debris disks around HD 53143 and HD 139664 - ljk - 1/24/2006 6:57:32 PM
      - The nearest young moving groups - ljk - 1/26/2006 6:55:15 PM
        
        Planets and Asteroids in the gamma Cephei System - ljk - 1/27/2006 9:25:53 PM

Getting antimatter from quark stars? - ljk - 1/26/2006 6:51:40 PM
- I would guess that it would not take much of a nudge to turn one into a singularity (n/t) - alcaray - 1/27/2006 12:14:41 AM
- How would you get close to one of those things to collect antimatter? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/27/2006 12:03:34 AM
  - re: How would you get close to one of those things to collect antimatter? - ljk - 1/27/2006 3:35:10 PM
    - tidal forces? (n/t) - alcaray - 1/27/2006 3:54:03 PM
      - re: tidal forces? - ljk - 1/27/2006 4:23:21 PM
        
        Production of antimatter in the galaxy - ljk - 1/27/2006 6:41:31 PM

Strange Setup: Andromeda's Satellite Galaxies All Lined Up - LJK - 1/24/2006 3:41:41 PM
- Andromeda's Satellite Galaxies All Lined Up:an image - Raoul - 1/24/2006 5:12:33 PM
  - Andromeda X, A New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31: Photometry - ljk - 1/27/2006 6:38:30 PM

IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora - AndyMc - 1/27/2006 5:57:56 PM

Pournelle's prescription for space - Tom Brosz - 1/26/2006 4:39:48 AM
- re: Pournelle's prescription for space - McFly - 1/26/2006 6:25:09 PM
  - re: Pournelle's prescription for space - Tom Brosz - 1/26/2006 7:06:11 PM
    - Might require a little more effort on the hunt for investors too - SDF - 1/26/2006 8:30:59 PM
- Understating the problem - SDF - 1/26/2006 4:44:11 AM
  - LOL! That's the HZ:SS in a nutshell, isn't it... (n/t) - Thag wan't gET to MOON! - 1/26/2006 8:41:26 PM
    - re: Thag wan't gET to MOON! - that won't get to Mars either. - Marcia - 1/26/2006 11:35:09 PM
      - Indeed it won't get to Mars either. - et - 1/27/2006 5:50:19 PM

Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Final Report 2005 - ljk - 1/27/2006 5:38:16 PM

SuitSat - ljk - 1/26/2006 10:25:55 PM
- I will B listening - carl - 1/27/2006 5:01:59 PM

Two Stars Forever Exiled from the Milky Way Galaxy - ljk - 1/27/2006 2:06:22 AM
- "When True Night Falls" - DALeffler - 1/27/2006 5:28:04 AM
  - Correction... - DALeffler - 1/27/2006 5:31:41 AM
    - re: Correction... - Tom Brosz - 1/27/2006 8:32:20 AM
      - Imagine the other extreme - ljk - 1/27/2006 2:26:44 PM

A new column defending ID by O.S. Card. - podrock - 1/23/2006 8:32:04 PM
- He's not defending it. - DALeffler - 1/25/2006 9:26:11 AM
  - That's what I thought... - Adam - 1/25/2006 10:13:04 AM
    - mormon creationism - SDG - 1/25/2006 3:36:18 PM
      - Thanks Steve G... - Adam - 1/26/2006 10:07:55 AM
      - Did Mormons ever come up with a good explanation for... - alcaray - 1/25/2006 10:09:02 PM
        
        re: Did Mormons ever come up with a good explanation for... - SDG - 1/26/2006 12:10:09 AM
        
        Thank you... I was debating what to do when I saw how off topic this was getting - ModBob - 1/26/2006 3:53:21 AM
    - re: That's what I thought... - LJK - 1/25/2006 2:39:44 PM
      - re: That's what I thought... - SDG - 1/26/2006 12:45:02 AM
      - You are thinking of Scientology.... - R.L. - 1/25/2006 7:10:23 PM
- All good SF authors are nutzo when measured along some axis.... - et - 1/23/2006 10:40:43 PM
  - Card is nutzo when measured along at least two (n/t) - R.L. - 1/25/2006 3:54:36 AM
- re: Bible v Darwinism - Raoul - 1/23/2006 10:20:38 PM
- The answer to the question... - Tom Brosz - 1/23/2006 10:16:07 PM
  - Few science fiction writers are actual scientists - LJK - 1/24/2006 2:40:32 PM
    - Some of the best ones are scientists - R.L. - 1/26/2006 7:33:40 PM
      - re: Some of the best ones are scientists - ljk - 1/27/2006 2:22:38 PM
    - ID prgram on ABC (Australia) - ljk - 1/26/2006 5:32:45 PM

This Weekend. January 27th - Mars Imax movie coming out. January 28th - 20th anniversary of the Challenger accident. - REB - 1/24/2006 1:24:20 PM
- IMAX MER movie - Delbert - 1/26/2006 3:37:33 PM
  - re: IMAX MER movie - REB - 1/26/2006 4:22:16 PM
    - re: IMAX MER movie - Delbert - 1/27/2006 2:24:47 AM
      - Today's NASA - REB - 1/27/2006 1:17:34 PM
    - Cornell goes to the movies: Mars and Steve Squyres' rovers star in IMAX spectacular - ljk - 1/26/2006 6:46:04 PM
- Today is the twentieth anniversary of the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus - LJK - 1/24/2006 2:33:16 PM
  - re: Today is the twentieth anniversary of the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus - Marcia - 1/27/2006 12:16:40 AM
    - re: Today is the twentieth anniversary of the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus - ljk - 1/27/2006 1:36:40 AM
  - Here is a good Challenger site - REB - 1/24/2006 2:45:13 PM
    - And 2 years on Mars for both rovers - ljk - 1/25/2006 5:28:28 PM
      - Remember seeing part of the Endurance crater from inside the Eagle crater. Then impatiently waiting to get to Endurance. - REB - 1/25/2006 5:40:24 PM

The Stardust "dust' may finally put Dr. Fred Hoyle's panspermia theory to rest. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2006 11:37:58 PM
- re: The Stardust "dust' may finally put Dr. Fred Hoyle's panspermia theory to rest. - Marcus Massey - 1/20/2006 7:59:22 PM
  - Some Relevant Links On The Interplanetary Panspermia Issue & Zubrin's Comments - Mark Eby - 1/25/2006 1:20:19 AM
  - I dont like enforcing the rules on this issue - ModBob - 1/22/2006 7:56:00 PM
    - re: I dont like enforcing the rules on this issue - Marcus Massey - 1/24/2006 1:55:01 PM
      - No- It isn't that I am not willing to help... - ModBob - 1/25/2006 4:24:33 AM
  - It's Allowed IMO But - Mark Eby - 1/21/2006 7:50:04 PM
- I doubt that it will - Donald - 1/20/2006 2:19:54 PM
- Or confirm it. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/20/2006 2:19:34 AM
  - You cant confirm crap.... (n/t) - R.L. - 1/20/2006 3:41:11 AM
    - One comet, billions to go - ljk - 1/20/2006 12:36:25 PM
      - True, a single bacterium from Stardust would confirm it. But none in Stardust could not disprove it. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/20/2006 2:52:50 PM
- I have no doubt that they will find organics - R.L. - 1/20/2006 12:02:06 AM
  - Hardly - Mark Eby - 1/20/2006 12:28:48 AM
    - re: Hardly - R.L. - 1/20/2006 10:24:45 AM
      - Not Sure What We Are Arguing About - Mark Eby - 1/21/2006 8:06:42 PM
        
        I can accept the possibility of interplanetary panspermia - R.L. - 1/22/2006 8:03:58 PM
      - What about extremophiles? - Buck Galaxy - 1/20/2006 6:06:32 PM
      - According to Panspermia, life in space formed long before life on Earth did. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/20/2006 2:55:51 PM
        
        re: According to Panspermia, life in space formed long before life on Earth did. - Marcia - 1/26/2006 8:24:57 PM
  - If we find something on mars that seems to have a relation to life on earth? - alcaray - 1/20/2006 12:12:35 AM
    - re: If we find something on mars that seems to have a relation to life on earth? - lance - 1/20/2006 9:28:54 PM
      - IF we find life on Mars... - R.L. - 1/26/2006 8:57:57 AM
        
        re: IF we find life on Mars... - Marcia - 1/26/2006 8:37:19 PM
      - Couldn't Tell By The Post - Mark Eby - 1/26/2006 12:52:22 AM
      - Stick Around - ModBob - 1/25/2006 8:11:24 PM
        
        Thank you, I will!!!!! (n/t) - lance - 1/26/2006 7:32:50 AM
        
        You have been a 'lurker'? - R.L./ModBob - 1/26/2006 8:18:25 AM
      - Welcome and stick around! (n/t) - alcaray - 1/24/2006 4:42:34 PM
        
        What is life? - LJK - 1/25/2006 3:43:13 PM
        
        A 4-letter word (n/t) - R.L. - 1/26/2006 8:24:55 AM
        
        From Ward's new book, Life as We Do Not Know It - ljk - 1/26/2006 10:31:47 PM
        
        re: From Ward's new book, Life as We Do Not Know It - nick hoffman - 1/27/2006 9:13:38 AM

A question about the future. - REB - 1/26/2006 1:42:37 PM
- It should 'prolly be renamed non-duct tape... - DALeffler - 1/27/2006 12:56:53 AM
- WORKED great on APOLLO 13, no? - carl - 1/26/2006 8:30:50 PM
  - Uhh, meant CO2 for above post..... - carl - 1/26/2006 8:38:18 PM
- re: A question about the future. - Tom Brosz - 1/26/2006 5:17:51 PM
  - NASA spec duct tape - Larry J - 1/26/2006 8:07:37 PM
  - Well Tom - RNE - 1/26/2006 7:31:16 PM
    - re: Well Tom - REB - 1/26/2006 8:47:42 PM
    - I use tape... - R.L. - 1/26/2006 7:40:21 PM
      - re: I use tape... - RNE - 1/26/2006 10:10:58 PM
        
        When I worked in France.... - R.L. - 1/27/2006 8:35:20 AM

And Post, the effect of space on people.... - et - 1/21/2006 1:02:01 AM
- re: And Post, the effect of space on people.... - Marcia - 1/26/2006 11:49:55 PM
  - I have his book on Space Business. Still have to read it though... (n/t) - et - 1/27/2006 1:56:39 AM

OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb exoplanet similar to Earth? - Chris Vancil - 1/25/2006 10:43:11 PM
- JimO posted it first (n/t) - Adam - 1/25/2006 10:46:16 PM
  - re: Yes, I notice Jim's post just after I posted... (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/26/2006 12:30:34 AM
    - That planet's probably too darn cold for life. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/27/2006 12:01:13 AM

Bad weather.... - R.L. - 1/26/2006 10:43:47 PM

All Change! - For the CEV - AndyMc - 1/21/2006 10:24:47 AM
- Sounds like some reasonable tradeoffs - Larry J - 1/21/2006 5:03:55 PM
  - Book Review: Return to the Moon - ljk - 1/26/2006 10:22:03 PM

NASA's DAY of REMEMBERANCE..today - carl - 1/26/2006 8:14:52 PM
- CORRECT REMEMBERANCE, please - JimO - 1/26/2006 9:28:02 PM
  - re: CORRECT REMEMBERANCE, please - REB - 1/26/2006 9:33:52 PM
- re: NASA's DAY of REMEMBERANCE..today - REB - 1/26/2006 8:53:08 PM

QUESTION: green LASER pointers and naked eye astronomy - et - 1/21/2006 12:49:07 AM
- A study on eye damage from green laser pointers - R.L. - 1/22/2006 9:30:32 PM
  - Again I forgot the link- here it is - R.L. - 1/22/2006 9:32:28 PM
- I guess the short answer is.... - R.L. - 1/22/2006 7:31:16 PM
  - seems like pilots should just wear reflective goggles - Sawyer - 1/23/2006 1:41:34 PM
    - What about night time flying? - R.L. - 1/23/2006 6:52:53 PM
- I guess I can give this one a shot... - R.L. - 1/22/2006 7:16:03 PM
  - The link for that quote, sorry - R.L. - 1/22/2006 7:18:27 PM
- I don't think so - Larry J - 1/21/2006 4:40:39 PM
  - re: I don't think so - Delbert - 1/21/2006 10:01:54 PM
    - I agree - R.L. - 1/22/2006 7:48:19 PM
  - Yes, and the green scatters more than the red making a brighter "pointer". (n/t) - et - 1/21/2006 6:34:17 PM
    - It isn't just in the sky that one has to worry about these things - ljk - 1/26/2006 5:05:21 PM

China building Tokomak fusion experiment - Tom Brosz - 1/22/2006 8:55:04 PM
- yup, see it now, A Mr FUSION sold at WAL_MART!!!! - carl - 1/26/2006 4:16:57 PM

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