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"Mars Rocks 1 Year Later" On TV Tonight & Later This Week - Mark Eby - 1/4/2006 12:34:09 AM
- re: "Mars Rocks 1 Year Later" On TV Tonight & Later This Week - Doug Ellison - 1/4/2006 8:05:07 AM
  - PBS Nova/BBC Horizons? - LJK - 1/4/2006 2:09:53 PM
    - re: NGC - Raoul - 1/4/2006 4:57:25 PM

What Do We Really Know About Cosmic Acceleration? - LJK - 12/26/2005 6:51:12 PM
- Structured FRW universe leads to acceleration: a non-perturbative approach - LJK - 12/30/2005 6:02:21 PM
  - Accelerating Universe: Observational Status and Theoretical Implications - LJK - 1/4/2006 4:49:31 PM

January 4th Perihelion! - Raoul - 1/3/2006 10:46:21 PM
- Also try Analemma - LJK - 1/4/2006 4:22:01 PM

Gov't Issues Proposed Space Tourism Rules - Chris Vancil - 12/30/2005 10:38:22 PM
- Will Homeland Security check out passengers? - carl - 1/4/2006 2:34:05 PM
- They could relocate to Canada, we don't have any such regulations (n/t) - SDF - 1/2/2006 3:03:53 AM
  - Your FAA equivalent (NavCan) may not have gotten around to it yet - Larry J - 1/3/2006 7:16:15 PM
  - re: Maybe that is because you have no demand yet... - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2006 10:26:51 PM
- re: Gov't Issues Proposed Space Tourism Rules - steve smyth - 12/31/2005 10:58:59 AM
  - Whirlygig? What's that? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/1/2006 10:13:04 AM
    - re: Whirlygig? What's that? - Chris Vancil - 1/1/2006 11:22:24 PM
      - **Deleted a typical post by Smyth- NOTICE TO ALL** - ModBob - 1/3/2006 9:56:56 AM
        
        re: **Deleted a typical post by Smyth- NOTICE TO ALL** - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2006 8:42:26 PM
        
        It was "DUH" (n/t) - R.L. - 1/3/2006 9:43:15 PM
        
        re:You could have left that one in... - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2006 9:57:27 PM
        
        He has been officially banned- do you REALLY want to argue this? - ModBob - 1/3/2006 10:10:44 PM
        
        re: Banned? I didn't get the memo... (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/4/2006 12:33:20 AM
      - re: Whirlygig? What's that? - Tom Brosz - 1/2/2006 12:22:15 AM
        
        re: Whirlygig? What's that? - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2006 3:48:12 AM
  - Unfortunately, no Steves allowed in space. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/31/2005 5:27:04 PM

Japan to seek private-sector space funding - Chris Vancil - 1/4/2006 11:49:39 AM

NASA Looking At Private Launch Companies For Cargo, Crew Launches - Chris Vancil - 1/4/2006 10:52:59 AM

Here's a suggestion to keep LH2 a liquid longer in space. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/2/2006 11:28:01 PM
- Or why not... - Lee - 1/3/2006 6:49:56 AM
  - Too much mass. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/3/2006 6:31:27 PM
  - re: Or why not... - R.L. - 1/3/2006 9:27:26 AM
    - Not exactly what I meant. - Lee - 1/3/2006 10:04:53 AM
      - re: Not exactly what I meant. - nick hoffman - 1/3/2006 11:06:22 AM
        
        It does exist. - Lee - 1/3/2006 11:29:08 AM
        
        Standard Bet... - nick hoffman - 1/3/2006 2:15:36 PM
        
        Okay, you would have lost me at "certified." - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2006 8:30:29 PM
        
        12 months? LOL - Lee - 1/3/2006 7:49:42 PM
  - Strength is not all that matters... - R.L. - 1/3/2006 9:13:54 AM
    - re: Strength is not all that matters... - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2006 8:34:59 PM
      - OK OK.... - R.L. - 1/3/2006 10:13:19 PM
        
        Wasn't second-guessing you... - Tom Brosz - 1/4/2006 5:22:18 AM
    - No, that was very relevant - Lee - 1/3/2006 10:05:40 AM
      - Compressibility of the gas matters - R.L. - 1/3/2006 10:29:51 AM
      - Ion rockets are probably the best bet... - R.L. - 1/3/2006 10:24:09 AM
- Not neccesarily... - nick hoffman - 1/3/2006 2:55:27 AM

What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Raoul - 1/2/2006 7:56:17 PM
- You realise we are still doing pennance... - nick hoffman - 1/3/2006 2:38:17 PM
  - re: Apollo - Raoul - 1/3/2006 5:57:48 PM
- re: What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2006 11:08:11 PM
  - re: What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2006 7:24:32 AM
    - re: re:Thank you, Chris! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/3/2006 5:07:31 PM
      - re: You're welcome. Raoul... - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2006 10:21:37 PM
  - re: What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Raoul - 1/3/2006 6:45:54 AM
- re: What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Tom Brosz - 1/2/2006 10:56:30 PM
  - re: What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Raoul - 1/3/2006 6:50:21 AM
    - The CEV we first designed here was big enough for an airlock. - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2006 8:48:56 PM
  - re: What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV? - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2006 1:00:15 AM

Savien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) (Another ramble) - R.L. - 1/3/2006 9:37:46 PM
- I wonder if, at the time, there were Nick-like grumps... - alcaray - 1/3/2006 9:43:00 PM
  - :) If there were they would have been right - R.L. - 1/3/2006 9:49:21 PM

MGS MOC catches Spirit on Sol 652 - Doug Ellison - 1/3/2006 11:52:45 AM
- I'm looking forward to MRO getting there - Buck Galaxy - 1/3/2006 4:51:12 PM
  - re: I'm looking forward to MRO getting there - Doug Ellison - 1/3/2006 9:12:08 PM
  - Not to mention everything else humans have dropped on Mars! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2006 8:28:45 PM
  - data rate should be fantastic, lots of detailed pictures indeed (n/t) - Sawyer - 1/3/2006 6:27:05 PM

Introduction to Outer Space - 1958 - LJK - 1/3/2006 2:59:01 PM

How many here think the Japanese Lunar-A project is "dead"? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/2/2006 11:03:36 PM
- re: How many here think the Japanese Lunar-A project is "dead"? - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2006 12:34:15 AM

Top Canadian Weather Events of the 20th Century - SDF - 1/1/2006 7:28:56 AM
- Experienced this one first-hand... - McFly - 1/2/2006 7:09:42 PM
- Interesting to note that.... - SDF - 1/1/2006 3:03:00 PM
- POINT BEING??? (n/t) - R.L. - 1/1/2006 7:59:22 AM
  - some people might find it interesting, but not you obviously (n/t) - SDF - 1/1/2006 8:11:05 AM
    - No it is interesting, but it sounds like the opening salvo... - R.L. - 1/1/2006 8:15:02 AM
      - I don't know what you are talking about (n/t) - SDF - 1/1/2006 9:08:07 AM
        
        SIGH- maybe I am hypersensitive - R.L. - 1/2/2006 1:12:55 AM
        
        Wait..... now that you mention it - SDF - 1/2/2006 2:32:24 AM

Our Sun - Raoul - 1/1/2006 9:26:38 AM
- **Yet again deleted smyth post....** (n/t) - ModBob - 1/1/2006 10:08:38 PM

**Removed another incoherent Smyth post** - ModBob - 12/31/2005 11:54:49 PM
- re: **Removed yet another incoherent Smyth post** (n/t) - ModBob - 1/1/2006 10:07:23 PM

Summer clouds over Meridiani? - Robert Clark - 1/1/2006 2:56:40 AM
- re: Summer clouds over Meridiani? - nick hoffman - 1/1/2006 3:38:24 AM

Happy 2006 to all - Jeff F - 12/31/2005 8:32:27 PM
- re: Happy New Year Menu from Mars - Raoul - 12/31/2005 10:17:44 PM
- Hear Hear - Adam - 12/31/2005 9:01:46 PM

NASA's Predicament - Chris Vancil - 12/31/2005 10:02:27 PM

What to expect in 2006. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/30/2005 8:27:53 PM
- re: Sun meets Moon on March 29 and september 22 - Raoul - 12/30/2005 10:39:23 PM
  - No! You're kidding me, Raoul. Eclipses only happen by chance. ha ha ha. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 12/31/2005 5:18:13 PM
- Whatever they do, I have as consolation that no Canadian taxpayer dollars will be wasted.... (n/t) - SDF - 12/30/2005 8:34:36 PM
  - Or maybe I'm being too optimistic. - SDF - 12/31/2005 3:04:45 PM

Pulsars as Beacons for SETI - LJK - 12/30/2005 6:12:03 PM
- Proposal abstract and actual data collecting - LJK - 12/30/2005 6:21:20 PM
  - Resonating stars - SDF - 12/31/2005 3:16:52 PM

Galileo promises - Raoul - 12/30/2005 7:04:47 AM
- re: Galileo promises - Dave M - 12/30/2005 5:26:04 PM
  - re: Galileo promises - Doug Ellison - 12/30/2005 6:04:03 PM
    - re: Galileo promises - Dave M - 12/31/2005 6:35:59 AM
      - re: Galileo promises - Doug Ellison - 12/31/2005 10:54:34 AM
    - As far as I'm concerned: congrats you guys! - alcaray - 12/30/2005 7:59:12 PM

A silent explosion... - Raoul - 12/23/2005 9:10:39 PM
- Don't worry, it was about 25 kilos [55 Ibs] of dynamite. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/24/2005 6:19:24 PM
  - re: Not the point.... - Chris Vancil - 12/24/2005 10:27:12 PM
    - LLDEF - nick hoffman - 12/25/2005 1:47:23 AM
      - re: LLDEF already there: Surveyor 3 - Raoul - 12/26/2005 5:19:48 PM
        
        re: LLDEF already there: Surveyor 3 - Chris Vancil - 12/26/2005 8:08:54 PM
        
        re: Spacesuits on the Moon - Raoul - 12/26/2005 9:09:10 PM
        
        re: Spacesuits on the Moon - Chris Vancil - 12/26/2005 11:33:26 PM
        
        re: Spacesuits on the Moon - Raoul - 12/27/2005 6:40:48 AM
        
        re: Spacesuits on the Moon - Chris Vancil - 12/28/2005 1:26:32 AM
      - re: LLDEF - Larry J - 12/26/2005 3:06:00 PM
      - re: LLDEF - Chris Vancil - 12/26/2005 2:11:56 AM
        
        Predictions from the Apollo era were that those footprints would last for at least a million years - Larry J - 12/26/2005 3:16:17 PM
        
        re: Predictions from the Apollo era were that those footprints would last for at least a million years - Chris Vancil - 12/26/2005 8:30:01 PM
        
        re: Predictions from the Apollo era were that those footprints would last for at least a million years - LJK - 12/26/2005 6:54:59 PM
        
        re: Predictions from the Apollo era were that those footprints would last for at least a million years - Delbert - 12/27/2005 4:26:22 PM
        
        re: Predictions from the Apollo era were that those footprints would last for at least a million years - LJK - 12/30/2005 5:05:44 PM
        
        re: Conclusions from the analysis of the Surveyor 3 parts - Chris Vancil - 12/31/2005 12:37:34 AM
        
        re: Thanks! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 12/30/2005 10:18:56 PM
        
        Observations - Tom Brosz - 12/26/2005 4:16:34 AM
        
        re: Observations - Chris Vancil - 12/26/2005 8:44:15 AM
      - ALSEP - LJK - 12/25/2005 6:54:30 PM
        
        re: ALSEP - Raoul - 12/25/2005 8:35:52 PM
- re: Moon Impacts - Chris Vancil - 12/23/2005 9:52:58 PM
  - re: Moon Impacts - Raoul - 12/23/2005 10:03:53 PM
    - re: Moon Impacts - Chris Vancil - 12/23/2005 10:22:54 PM
      - Is an exact hour and minute handy? - ljk - 12/24/2005 10:58:08 PM

Manned U.S. mission to Mars by 2030 eyed - Chris Vancil - 12/30/2005 10:44:03 PM

War in the Heavens. - Lee - 12/23/2005 8:53:21 AM
- re: War in the Heavens. - Vince - 12/27/2005 3:57:00 AM
- How do they afford all these battleships - isn't that kindof expensive? (n/t) - SDF - 12/24/2005 1:46:28 PM
  - Comparative costs - RNE - 12/26/2005 4:55:16 AM
    - So you've read SF by Alastair Reynolds? He writes about the possibility of xenocidal interstellar machines. - SDF - 12/27/2005 12:19:13 PM
      - Or Fred Saberhagen (n/t) - alcaray - 12/28/2005 5:15:00 PM
        
        Or Dietz, now that I think about it - alcaray - 12/28/2005 5:19:32 PM
      - I have... - Fox - 12/27/2005 8:18:25 PM
      - re: So you've read SF by Alastair Reynolds? Not that I recall - RNE - 12/27/2005 5:00:55 PM
        
        Ok. I've read an awful lot of sci-fi and I can't really say that my opinons haven't been at least influenced by their books. - SDF - 12/27/2005 6:25:59 PM
        
        Hmmmmm, could be me - RNE - 12/27/2005 7:33:09 PM
        
        Can't argue with that, most sci-fi authors have been wrong about the future - SDF - 12/28/2005 7:17:06 AM
        
        re: Can't argue with that, most sci-fi authors have been wrong about the future - LJK - 12/30/2005 4:09:18 PM
        
        ROFLMAO! - RNE - 12/30/2005 7:35:29 PM
        
        LOL! - RNE - 12/28/2005 5:28:58 PM
  - Office of Home World Security - Peter Bruener - 12/25/2005 6:43:23 AM
    - Smoking ruins - RNE - 12/26/2005 4:39:38 AM
      - Littoral Strategy - Peter Bruener - 12/28/2005 11:34:14 PM
        
        Takes a deep breath. - RNE - 12/29/2005 2:29:34 AM
        
        The Big Deep... - Peter Bruener - 12/30/2005 6:32:45 AM
        
        Everybody fights, nobody quits - RNE - 12/30/2005 7:28:47 PM
  - Which begs the question of what exactly they are fighting over to make it worthwhile? (n/t) - SDF - 12/24/2005 2:16:11 PM
- Not sure I agree with this guy - alcaray - 12/23/2005 6:54:38 PM
  - Would it? - Lee - 12/23/2005 7:59:34 PM
    - Mass goes up with the cube, as I said. So, yes. - alcaray - 12/23/2005 8:09:27 PM
      - re: "mitigating architecture" - Fox - 12/24/2005 3:46:33 AM
        
        re: "mitigating architecture", and Moore's Law - RNE - 12/26/2005 5:20:31 AM
      - It would still be cool to see space battles portrayed that way. - Lee - 12/23/2005 10:01:52 PM

Monte Carlo simulations of star clusters -- III. A million body star cluster - LJK - 12/30/2005 6:03:36 PM

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