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Spacesuits need to protect some parts more than others - Raoul - 11/23/2005 6:16:57 PM
- How good is the lunar regolith at blocking solar radiation? - Scott Evil - 11/23/2005 6:56:01 PM

Has Harvard and TPS abandonded its SETI projects? - LJK - 11/22/2005 4:42:22 PM
- PlanSoc Query - phil - 11/23/2005 3:54:47 PM
- Allen Array - ID - 11/23/2005 1:25:00 PM
  - They should have called it the "Alien Array", it would have been funnier (n/t) - SDF - 11/23/2005 2:36:26 PM
- reasonable questions - ask TPS - nick hoffman - 11/23/2005 7:20:10 AM
- Maybe they did the math and decided it was pointless. - SDF - 11/23/2005 4:49:04 AM

Lost probe lands on asteroid - SDF - 11/23/2005 2:48:13 PM

Fusion by 2048 - Adam - 11/19/2005 12:10:06 PM
- I was kindof disturbed by the disposal of 30,000 tonnes of activated reactor structure after decommissioning - SDF - 11/19/2005 1:25:48 PM
  - Millions of tonnes of fission waste??? - Adam - 11/19/2005 11:34:42 PM
    - Actually hundreds of millions of tonnes of fission waste - SDF - 11/20/2005 3:58:14 PM
      - Waste from uranium mining is less radioactive than it was when it was in the ground. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/21/2005 5:59:30 PM
        
        Waste from uranium mining gives off radon gas which is hazardous if it builds up in confined spaces (n/t) - SDF - 11/22/2005 3:48:16 PM
        
        gee... radon gets released naturally too (n/t) - Adam - 11/23/2005 11:15:59 AM
        
        True, but since we know where the uranium tail millings are, we are inclined not to build there, whereas landfills are often covered over and built on (n/t) - SDF - 11/23/2005 2:38:46 PM
      - Actually hundreds of millions of tonnes of *radio* waste - Adam - 11/20/2005 11:28:55 PM
        
        A question 'out of the blue' for anyone capable of answering - SDF - 11/21/2005 1:44:50 PM
        
        Low angle of incidence lenses - Adam - 11/21/2005 8:53:15 PM
        
        What about Compton effect, inelastic scattering, crystal diffraction? Can any of these be controlled to achieve a desired 'bending' of a beam? (n/t) - SDF - 11/22/2005 2:19:18 PM
        
        I think I might be in favor of crystal diffraction - SDF - 11/22/2005 2:24:33 PM
        
        Yep. X-Ray diffraction, Neat-oh. - SDF - 11/22/2005 2:45:03 PM
        
        gravitational lensing would do it - Daniel - 11/21/2005 4:16:28 PM

Organ Printing News... - Adam - 11/23/2005 11:14:09 AM

New Spacesuit Book for the Holidays - Chris Vancil - 11/23/2005 10:56:30 AM

Biofuels: ya can't win. - Tom Brosz - 11/22/2005 8:11:31 PM
- I guess we just gotta cull the human population. - Scott Evil - 11/23/2005 12:59:41 AM
  - solution to obesity - Adam - 11/23/2005 10:18:19 AM
  - Biofuels would be more feasible if cars got 10-fold the fuel economy - SDF - 11/23/2005 5:33:36 AM

Space & Science Favorites - SDF - 11/17/2005 6:30:53 AM
- .... actually just fancy, not really favorites. ahem (bored) (n/t) - SDF - 11/17/2005 7:18:58 AM
  - Hasn't anyone figured out how to get to another solar system yet?!?!! - SDF - 11/17/2005 7:21:12 AM
    - How can we? - LJK - 11/17/2005 1:01:09 PM
      - Whining? - Lee - 11/17/2005 7:54:28 PM
        
        re: Whining? - LJK - 11/18/2005 5:18:05 AM
      - Sci Fi vs Sci Reality - Larry J - 11/17/2005 2:23:59 PM
        
        science fiction makes it look too easy - FrankC - 11/18/2005 7:33:53 AM
        
        re: Sci Fi vs Sci Reality - LJK - 11/17/2005 2:31:12 PM
        
        re: Sci Fi vs Sci Reality - Larry J - 11/17/2005 9:57:32 PM
        
        hey larry - what was the isp of Chang-Diaz's engine? - E.P., the heretic - 11/21/2005 2:14:28 AM
        
        30,000 seconds n/t (n/t) - Adam - 11/21/2005 6:23:22 AM
        
        I wonder what that would translate into launched at 1/6 G? (n/t) - E.P., the heretic - 11/21/2005 11:43:58 PM
        
        What do you mean? - Adam - 11/22/2005 12:12:28 AM
        
        assume a launch from the Moon - E.P., the heretic - 11/22/2005 3:10:33 AM
        
        Variable specific impluse - Adam - 11/22/2005 10:41:35 AM
        
        pre-loading - E.P., the heretic - 11/22/2005 4:36:10 PM
        
        Nope... - Adam - 11/23/2005 10:07:27 AM
        
        Orion as a non-starter - FrankC - 11/18/2005 7:49:20 AM
        
        Relativity will bite you on the behind everytime. - Lee - 11/18/2005 6:56:38 AM
        
        So there's the universe. Splat! (n/t) - SDF - 11/18/2005 12:41:20 AM
        
        Reality can be a bitch - Larry J - 11/18/2005 1:26:43 AM
        
        re: Reality can be a bitch - LJK - 11/18/2005 5:23:09 AM
        
        Barring some incredible propulsion breakthrough... - DALeffler - 11/18/2005 4:25:57 AM
        
        re: Barring some incredible propulsion breakthrough... - LJK - 11/18/2005 5:26:56 AM
        
        Dark Matter - SDF - 11/18/2005 8:13:28 AM
        
        Symmetry breaking - SDF - 11/18/2005 8:31:53 AM
        
        All things in the universe are possible - FrankC - 11/18/2005 8:04:04 AM
        
        re: Why do you think that the solution to mass and energy problems of C or FTL is not in the universe? - Johannes - 11/19/2005 2:37:25 AM
        
        re: Why do you think that the solution to mass and energy problems of C or FTL is not in the universe? - ModBob - 11/19/2005 6:22:12 AM
        
        re: You seem to be saying that - Johannes - 11/19/2005 10:11:05 PM
        
        Here is what I said: - ModBob - 11/20/2005 10:55:42 PM
        
        I vote in favour - nick hoffman - 11/23/2005 7:16:50 AM
        
        re: You seem to be saying that - Johannes - 11/19/2005 10:07:48 PM
        
        Not yet in the universe - FrankC - 11/19/2005 4:39:21 AM
        
        re:Thank you for your viewpoint and answer. - Johannes - 11/19/2005 10:04:12 PM
        
        re: re:Thank you for your viewpoint and answer. - R.L. - 11/20/2005 11:52:19 PM

Private could do it cheaper... - Adam - 11/22/2005 5:06:38 AM
- re: Unpressurized lunar lander - Raoul - 11/22/2005 6:51:45 PM
  - Nappy ride - Adam - 11/23/2005 9:35:37 AM
- They're probably right. - Tom Brosz - 11/22/2005 5:16:04 AM
  - I'd like to believe, but.... - Sawyer - 11/22/2005 5:21:57 PM
    - But there is no doubt we will not get our moneys worth from big aerospace/NASA (n/t) - Sawyer - 11/22/2005 5:22:56 PM
  - They talk the talk - LJK - 11/22/2005 1:46:25 PM

At last!...Spirit's cameras image Ultreya deposits. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/22/2005 12:05:16 AM
- Not yet bro - Buck Galaxy - 11/22/2005 6:21:44 AM
  - Best pic I could find (big image) - Buck Galaxy - 11/22/2005 8:47:09 AM
    - re: Inneresting. Nice 3D too - BRFelix - 11/22/2005 2:23:46 PM
- re: Is this it? - BRFelix - 11/22/2005 12:45:13 AM
  - Yep! (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/23/2005 12:01:47 AM

Closer relations between ESA and China - Chris Vancil - 11/22/2005 11:50:49 PM

If only I had my digital camera when I left the office late this afternoon...But others did catch it - Raoul - 11/22/2005 8:58:49 PM
- You do sunset right in Europe! Beautiful. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/22/2005 9:40:31 PM

Hot Jupiters: Lands of Plenty - LJK - 11/22/2005 2:24:54 PM
- fun survey - phil - 11/22/2005 8:08:41 PM
- Submillimeter studies of circumstellar disks in Taurus and Orion - LJK - 11/22/2005 2:29:24 PM

Space Cadets, British Style - phil - 11/22/2005 2:52:39 PM

Cosmos Episode 10: The Edge of Forever - LJK - 11/22/2005 2:42:05 PM

Gonzalez, Iowa Stateâ€™s "Wizard of ID" - LJK - 11/18/2005 10:15:11 PM
- His co-author on The Privleged Planet is a theologian - LJK - 11/18/2005 10:17:10 PM
  - The wrong question - E.P., the heretic - 11/19/2005 2:25:09 PM
    - re: The wrong question - LJK - 11/21/2005 3:01:24 PM
    - re: The wrong question - LJK - 11/21/2005 3:01:20 PM
  - Insufficient information for a meaningful answer - Adam - 11/19/2005 1:20:45 PM
    - Yet another place where life can exist that we once thought impossible - LJK - 11/22/2005 2:05:07 PM

Venus phases for the next weeks - Raoul - 11/20/2005 4:56:39 PM
- I wonder what the view is like from Venus' upper atmosphere - REB - 11/21/2005 1:42:16 PM
  - re: I wonder what the view is like from Venus' upper atmosphere - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:32:24 PM
    - Red Skies? - Adam - 11/22/2005 11:13:12 AM
      - re: Red Skies? - REB - 11/22/2005 1:19:55 PM

Impact of finding a "new earth" - Sawyer - 11/19/2005 2:38:04 PM
- It'll be a 3 day wonder, then the bored public will turn to other thrills. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/19/2005 11:34:04 PM
  - Don't tell BECHTEL, HALIBURTON, or OPRAH - carl - 11/21/2005 5:34:35 PM
- Getting there - Adam - 11/19/2005 10:24:15 PM
- Step One - Tom Brosz - 11/19/2005 6:16:34 PM
  - re: Step One...to step N - Sawyer - 11/20/2005 12:25:32 AM
    - How long will it take us to use up the Sol system? - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:49:02 PM

FITDisk: A Cataclysmic Variable Accretion Disk Demonstration Tool - LJK - 11/15/2005 3:22:19 PM
- The Galactic center welcomes black hole immigrants - LJK - 11/15/2005 6:49:25 PM
  - Evolution of Massive Blackhole Triples I -- Equal-mass binary-single systems - LJK - 11/15/2005 6:53:39 PM
    - Trust but verify: The case for astrophysical black holes - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:39:35 PM
      - Gravitational wave extraction from an inspiraling configuration of merging black holes - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:43:49 PM

Chromaticity in all-reflective telescopes for astrometry - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:42:21 PM

Formation of Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Hydrogen Peroxide in Electron Irradiated Crystalline Water Ice - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:34:44 PM

A CEV mockup - Raoul - 11/18/2005 6:44:22 AM
- That's really cool, but... - Tom Brosz - 11/18/2005 7:06:58 AM
  - re: Launch and landing - Raoul - 11/18/2005 6:29:55 PM
  - re: That's really cool, but... - Jeff F - 11/18/2005 11:03:46 AM
    - re: That's really cool, but... - dtb - 11/18/2005 7:56:21 PM
  - re: That's really cool, but... - Jeff F - 11/18/2005 11:02:45 AM
    - Well... - LJK - 11/18/2005 1:49:57 PM
      - Moon maybe... - Adam - 11/21/2005 12:40:45 AM
        
        Just another Apollo? Part one - LJK - 11/21/2005 2:13:31 PM

Hayabusa in final descent - JimO - 11/19/2005 8:48:56 PM
- re: Hayabusa events - Raoul - 11/20/2005 5:46:03 PM
  - Doesn't look good for a second attempt. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/20/2005 7:30:13 PM
- 'Planetary Society' live weblog coverage - JimO - 11/19/2005 8:53:43 PM
  - Hayabusa departing asteroid? No touchdown or sampling attempt? - jIMo - 11/19/2005 9:38:45 PM
    - It appears stuck at 17 meters [55 foot] altitude. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/19/2005 11:32:25 PM
  - Where is the message of support from JHUAPL? - Jacob Samorodin - 11/19/2005 9:09:13 PM

Last night with the Moon and Mars, outside - Raoul - 11/19/2005 5:22:58 PM
- re: The celestial dance of the Moon and Mars - BRFelix - 11/20/2005 2:39:11 PM
  - re: The celestial dance of the Moon and Mars - Raoul - 11/20/2005 4:53:52 PM
- re: Last night with the Moon and Mars, outside - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2005 9:25:30 PM
  - Speaking of scopes... - Adam - 11/19/2005 10:30:19 PM
- Nice cameo - Adam - 11/19/2005 8:57:21 PM
  - re: Mars - Raoul - 11/20/2005 12:07:07 AM
  - re: Nice cameo - Chris Vancil - 11/19/2005 9:29:44 PM

So why the confusion?.... Is it November/25/2005?... Or is next February? - Jacob Samorodin - 11/19/2005 11:39:09 PM
- re: Official from SpaceX it is November 25 - Robert_d - 11/20/2005 2:37:31 PM
- re: Is it November/25/2005? - Raoul - 11/20/2005 10:00:15 AM

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