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Global Waming's Gonna Freeze Europe - phil - 12/2/2005 1:43:14 AM
- re: Global Waming's Gonna Freeze Europe - Peter Bruener - 12/2/2005 7:29:15 AM
  - re: Global Waming's Gonna Freeze Europe - phil - 12/2/2005 1:00:48 PM
- So the rest of the world gets warm but Europe gets cold. - Scott Evil (Environment Killer) - 12/2/2005 1:53:15 AM
  - you must like hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, Scott - pwokenyaw - 12/2/2005 10:52:56 PM
    - oh crud - I've got to retract my hurricane comment - pwokenyaw - 12/4/2005 7:25:44 AM
    - skepticism warranted - phil - 12/2/2005 10:57:51 PM
  - The demise of Europe - Nick Hoffman - 12/2/2005 12:29:44 PM
    - Sounds like Nature's way of correcting things. - Lee - 12/2/2005 7:57:13 PM
    - Europe - Tom Brosz - 12/2/2005 3:16:02 PM

Many critics say that Mike Griffin's planned Moon program is too much like Apollo - Jeff F - 12/3/2005 11:20:51 AM
- An analysis which avoids the key points entirely - E.P., the heretic - 12/3/2005 3:33:59 PM
  - re: A flawed analysis - Chris Vancil - 12/3/2005 10:51:27 PM
    - Why don't they go for broke? - E.P., the heretic - 12/3/2005 11:07:34 PM
      - re: Why don't they go for broke? - Chris Vancil - 12/4/2005 12:13:33 AM
        
        re: Why don't they go for broke? - E.P., the heretic - 12/4/2005 5:58:39 AM
- re: CEV and Moon flights - Raoul - 12/3/2005 2:39:30 PM

The little spacecraft that keeps on going is 10 today - SteveS - 12/2/2005 3:43:17 PM
- SOHO has done terrific work - Larry J - 12/2/2005 7:40:48 PM
  - Future solar missions - SteveS - 12/3/2005 2:38:11 PM
- re: Our sun! - Raoul - 12/2/2005 6:58:05 PM
  - re: Our sun! - SteveS - 12/3/2005 2:42:33 PM

NASA Likely To Fly Next Shuttle Sans Foam Ramp - Chris Vancil - 12/3/2005 4:15:39 AM

Still not right - E.P., the heretic - 12/3/2005 1:41:54 AM

NASA Issues New Prize Challenges - phil - 12/2/2005 11:09:38 PM

An interesting synthesis of the Mars Express data - Donald - 12/1/2005 2:40:29 PM
- re: An interesting synthesis of the Mars Express data - Lance - 12/2/2005 9:29:16 PM

The Crab nebula (HST) - Raoul - 12/2/2005 6:49:42 AM
- This was made from a mosaic of images - alcaray - 12/2/2005 6:54:56 PM
  - re: What the HST is doing best.. - Raoul - 12/2/2005 7:19:44 PM
- re: All the information shown... - BRFelix - 12/2/2005 6:40:16 PM

Rough outline of the Chinese manned space program - E.P., the heretic - 12/2/2005 5:18:38 PM

Have a look at these cams! - Adam - 11/30/2005 10:41:28 PM
- GOTTA get one for my CHEVETTE!!!! - carl - 12/1/2005 5:47:53 PM
  - 108,000 horsepower (n/t) - Adam - 12/1/2005 7:51:57 PM
- Amazing! - SteveS - 12/1/2005 2:45:14 PM
  - re: Amazing! - Laurie Street - 12/1/2005 8:59:17 PM
    - re: Great now we will have to smog test our computers - SteveS - 12/2/2005 3:48:40 PM
  - re: Amazing! - dd - 12/1/2005 4:34:38 PM
    - It would be hard to push-start (n/t) - alcaray - 12/1/2005 11:35:22 PM
      - Not really. Just push it up to about 20 kts, without crushing the stern, and pop the clutch. - Bowser - 12/2/2005 2:40:58 AM
      - Just let your supertanker coast down a hill (n/t) - dtb - 12/2/2005 2:37:33 AM
- WOW! (n/t) - Bowser - 12/1/2005 1:41:34 AM

Interesting SETI paper... - Adam - 11/24/2005 11:45:50 AM
- SETI is a joke - Eric - 11/24/2005 5:10:02 PM
  - The question I always ask to the SETI nay-sayers is... - LJK - 11/28/2005 4:13:46 PM
    - Step Number 1: Begin listening to what the people and history speak of on this matter with an open mind. n/t (n/t) - Eric - 11/28/2005 5:32:48 PM
      - Could you be more specific? - LJK - 11/28/2005 5:37:04 PM
- re: Interesting SETI paper... - JEKing - 11/24/2005 4:19:09 PM
  - SETI@home killed off ? - LJK - 11/28/2005 6:41:35 PM
    - Can't trust anyone these days... - LJK - 11/29/2005 3:37:37 PM
      - SETI and Intelligent Design - LJK - 12/1/2005 9:47:21 PM

New Constraints on Additional Satellites of the Pluto System - LJK - 12/1/2005 3:25:43 PM

Einstein posts to the arXiv - LJK - 11/30/2005 2:33:40 PM
- Dark Energy and Einstein Converge - LJK - 11/30/2005 8:15:05 PM
  - Interesting book - "Einstein's Greatest Blunder?" - Bowser - 11/30/2005 11:27:34 PM
    - Dark Energy Evolution and the Curvature of the Universe from Recent Observations - LJK - 12/1/2005 3:22:56 PM

Titan's Methane Comes from Inside the Moon, not its Surface - LJK - 12/1/2005 3:05:16 PM

Interview with Jon Lomberg on the Voyager Interstellar Record - LJK - 12/1/2005 2:48:23 PM

The Dwarf that Carries a World - LJK - 11/30/2005 1:59:38 PM
- why did we not thing that dwarfs would have planets? - Sawyer - 11/30/2005 8:07:56 PM
- re: The Dwarf that Carries a World - Tom Brosz - 11/30/2005 3:56:42 PM
  - Astronomers Claim Potential Mini Solar System around Brown Dwarf - LJK - 11/30/2005 8:13:33 PM
    - dingle berries (n/t) - Mad Scientist - 11/30/2005 9:46:51 PM
      - Discovery of a Planetary-Mass Brown Dwarf with a Circumstellar Disk - LJK - 12/1/2005 2:34:47 PM

former Canadian Defense Minister Issues Intergalactic War Warning! - phil - 11/29/2005 8:00:24 PM
- Toque in Common - Peter Bruener - 11/30/2005 7:34:22 AM
- Many of the people on these boards think that intergalactic travel could happen someday. - Bowser - 11/30/2005 5:44:34 AM
  - Intergalactic travel - SDF - 11/30/2005 11:36:00 AM
    - Foolish fleshers... - Adam - 12/1/2005 10:05:06 AM
- Is he deliberately using the term "Intergalactic?" - McFly - 11/30/2005 1:45:38 AM
  - Most likely just betraying an ignorance of astronomy - alcaray - 11/30/2005 9:53:44 PM
  - re: Is he deliberately using the term "Intergalactic?" - LJK - 11/30/2005 1:57:02 PM
  - They would be nice and aggrevated after such a looooong trip. (n/t) - Lee - 11/30/2005 6:20:16 AM
- re: former Canadian Defense Minister Issues Intergalactic War Warning! - LJK - 11/29/2005 9:58:55 PM
  - re: former Canadian Defense Minister Issues Intergalactic War Warning! - phil - 11/30/2005 2:02:53 AM

NASA Rover Helps Reveal Possible Secrets Of Martian Life - Donald - 11/30/2005 3:15:16 PM
- "Sometimes wet" - nick hoffman - 12/1/2005 2:58:09 AM
  - Agreed - Donald - 12/1/2005 5:46:55 AM
- Why is everyone is publishing today? - alcaray - 11/30/2005 5:10:01 PM
  - re: Not the first time!!! - Raoul - 11/30/2005 5:15:20 PM

Hayabusa may be lost - Buck Galaxy - 11/30/2005 7:38:06 AM
- How many things can break on one craft? - Sawyer - 11/30/2005 7:46:43 PM
  - How many things does it have? - Larry J - 11/30/2005 9:55:37 PM

Space station championed as 'the only game in town' - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2005 10:00:36 PM
- re: Space station championed as 'the only game in town' - Sawyer - 11/30/2005 8:04:27 PM

China Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020 - CLV - 11/28/2005 1:49:33 AM
- re: China Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020 - Jeff F - 11/29/2005 2:00:20 AM
- I suspect they'll need to increase their launch rate to meet that goal - Larry J - 11/28/2005 9:28:20 PM
  - Interesting...What if their whole space program is just an over-rated ruse. - Scott Evil (SEN News) - 11/28/2005 10:15:06 PM
    - And keeping ISS in business is all faked in an underground CGI studio. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/29/2005 11:44:30 PM
      - Why is the ISS in business? - Scott Evil - 11/30/2005 5:33:10 PM
        
        Yea, that was a Russian plot, too (n/t) - alcaray - 11/30/2005 6:20:16 PM
- OFFICIAL Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020 - JimO - 11/28/2005 7:43:33 PM
  - Circum-lunar - Adam - 11/29/2005 1:54:24 AM
  - re: OFFICIAL Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020 - Chris Vancil - 11/28/2005 9:52:58 PM
- re: China Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020 - Sawyer - 11/28/2005 2:44:13 PM

MARSIS results Wednesday morning? - Buck Galaxy - 11/29/2005 4:43:00 AM
- A matter of hours now. Here's my guess... - Buck Galaxy - 11/30/2005 7:29:34 AM
- re: MARSIS results Wednesday morning? - Robert Clark - 11/29/2005 12:17:01 PM
  - New results from Titan and Mars TBA today - LJK - 11/30/2005 2:14:31 PM

Yeah, global warming is 'natural' - R.L. - 11/25/2005 11:17:28 PM
- 27% percent higher than last year? - JimO - 11/28/2005 7:49:09 PM
  - granularity: probably talking in 1K year increments, or somesuch. - alcaray - 11/28/2005 10:13:32 PM
- global warming is 'natural' on Mars? - JimO - 11/28/2005 7:45:34 PM
  - Did anyone claim that there was industry on Mars? - alcaray - 11/28/2005 10:17:07 PM
    - Global warming on Mars might be a sign that something other than CO2 is causing it - Larry J - 11/29/2005 10:06:34 PM
      - Could be. Or it could be something to do with... - alcaray - 11/29/2005 10:53:51 PM
- R.L., do you have any idea why the last ice age ended? - E.P., the heretic - 11/26/2005 2:59:31 PM
  - Better question: WHAT CAUSED IT ? (n/t) - SDF - 11/27/2005 2:34:20 PM
    - Don't you think an ice age would be far more devastating than a warming trend? - SDF - 11/27/2005 2:39:51 PM
      - Answer: What causes ice ages (might also cause global warming) - SDF - 11/27/2005 2:57:49 PM
        
        Very good post. - Scott Evil (SEN News) - 11/28/2005 10:40:12 PM
- re: Yeah, global warming is 'natural' - gbaikie - 11/26/2005 2:20:55 AM
  - You know, if you were to take an hour to educate yourself... - R.L. - 11/26/2005 1:19:01 PM
    - re: You know, if you were to take an hour to educate yourself... - JimO - 11/28/2005 7:54:11 PM
    - re: You know, if you were to take an hour to educate yourself... - gbaikie - 11/27/2005 5:06:38 AM
    - "we KNOW that we can expect things to get worse" - Sam F. - 11/26/2005 6:58:46 PM
  - CO2 - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2005 8:12:47 AM
    - It is possible that NOAA monitoring stations are contaminated by local activity - SDF - 11/26/2005 3:26:13 PM
      - Don't think so. - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2005 10:10:18 PM
        
        Wikipedia has a good webpage about the controversy - Sam F. - 11/27/2005 8:43:20 AM
        
        I dunno - SDF - 11/27/2005 2:31:53 PM
        
        Apocalyptic weather - Sam F. - 11/28/2005 4:39:44 AM
    - Worn out, tired, and never was valid. - Bowser - 11/26/2005 8:47:16 AM
      - Your the one with the Black & White thinking... - Scott Evil (SEN News) - 11/28/2005 10:50:09 PM
- I'd like to see the graphs - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2005 1:27:57 AM
  - Thanks much for the graph - E.P., the heretic - 11/26/2005 3:07:39 PM
  - More data is up on Science home page - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2005 1:32:07 AM
    - WHAT THE HECK?! - R.L. - 11/28/2005 12:32:42 AM
      - re: WHAT THE HECK?! - Tom Brosz - 11/28/2005 1:49:25 AM
        
        I figured it out- wasted 20 bucks to finally get the CO2 paper... - R.L. - 11/28/2005 2:18:52 AM
    - I will pay for it once I am off the mountain... (n/t) - R.L. - 11/26/2005 4:52:31 AM
      - re: I will pay for it once I am off the mountain... - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2005 7:48:57 AM
    - Ten bucks an article. I'm there. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2005 1:59:29 AM
- Global cooling is too - E.P., the heretic - 11/26/2005 1:00:53 AM
- Ya but you have to look at the big picture. - Bowser - 11/26/2005 12:42:17 AM

Cassini Catches Alien Spherical Spacecraft In Flight? - Mark Eby - 11/29/2005 4:18:12 AM
- re: And also - Raoul - 11/29/2005 7:09:07 PM
  - re: And also - LJK - 11/29/2005 10:12:12 PM
- Clearly a Cylon craft (n/t) - McFly - 11/29/2005 1:56:12 PM
- Enceladus is a large drop of water with an ice crust. - REB - 11/29/2005 1:33:34 PM

Primordial Black Holes: Do They Exist and Are They Useful? - LJK - 11/29/2005 3:46:24 PM
- Och! Of course they're useful... - Adam - 11/29/2005 9:43:27 PM
  - re: Och! Of course they're useful... - LJK - 11/29/2005 9:48:23 PM
- Well, there's a really big black hole in the center of the galaxy - SDF - 11/29/2005 5:48:36 PM

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