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Green sand beaches in space... - R.L. - 9/23/2005 8:56:09 PM
- Some of my favorite Star Trek characters.... - et - 9/23/2005 10:34:07 PM
  - Olivine requires heating. - Robert Clark - 9/24/2005 9:54:56 PM

Looking for rolling boulder tracks on the moon - pwokenyaw - 9/23/2005 1:27:01 PM
- From the online NASA book Exploring Space with a Camera - LJK - 9/23/2005 2:23:02 PM
  - heating and cooling as a cause of boulder falls? - pwokenyaw - 9/23/2005 6:30:32 PM

Close frequencies in pulsating stars: common and mysterious! - LJK - 9/23/2005 1:35:55 PM

The possibility of detecting planets in the Andromeda Galaxy - LJK - 9/22/2005 2:38:01 PM
- Debra Fischer talks about exoplanets - LJK - 9/23/2005 12:59:54 PM
  - An analysis of the transit times of TrES-1b - LJK - 9/23/2005 1:26:39 PM
    - Dynamical Stability and Habitability of Gamma Cephei Binary-Planetary System - LJK - 9/23/2005 1:32:44 PM

On artificial transits feasibility and SETI - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:05:11 PM
- Tapping Archaeology to Seek the Cosmic Rosetta Stone - LJK - 9/23/2005 1:07:30 PM

A Gravitational Tractor for Towing Planetoids - LJK - 9/21/2005 3:19:11 PM
- Hey! If you could get a large lump of neutronium, stretch it out into a parabolic sheet. ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/21/2005 11:31:34 PM
- Huh... - Robert - 9/21/2005 6:47:47 PM
  - There would be a limit to efficiency as the body size increases. - et - 9/22/2005 11:14:41 PM
    - Hmmmm.... - Robert - 9/23/2005 1:48:03 AM
      - GMm/r^2 and other stuff... - et - 9/23/2005 4:32:41 AM
  - And I get called a megalomaniac. - Lee - 9/22/2005 5:47:26 AM
    - Nope. - et - 9/22/2005 11:07:19 PM
      - Insensitivity is such a relative and subjective thing. - Lee - 9/23/2005 5:59:12 AM
  - Great idea... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2005 12:24:26 AM
    - Scales well - Robert - 9/22/2005 3:40:17 AM
      - Speaking of moving stars - Robert - 9/22/2005 3:55:46 AM
        
        Necessary for constructing the Galactic Dyson Sphere - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:27:44 PM
        
        Still thinking small - Robert - 9/23/2005 1:51:42 AM
        
        That's nothing! - Topper - 9/23/2005 6:36:50 AM
        
        Ummm.... - LJK - 9/23/2005 11:42:47 AM
        
        Recommended viewing... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2005 8:56:32 AM
        
        Ibzsispd ?"Invader Zim"? masprullingortst?? - Robert - 9/23/2005 1:55:29 AM
        
        Obey the Fist! - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:22:04 PM
  - If you want to re-engineer the inner Sol system... - LJK - 9/21/2005 7:42:53 PM
    - Better yet... - Adam - 9/22/2005 11:46:15 AM
      - re: Better yet... - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:09:09 PM

Some energy conservation news - Tom Brosz - 9/23/2005 5:36:34 AM

Mars Doubles in Brightness - Chris Vancil - 9/22/2005 6:03:16 PM
- re: Mars and Moon - Raoul - 9/22/2005 7:02:10 PM
  - re: Nice - BRFelix - 9/23/2005 3:35:07 AM

The carbon or silicon colonization of the Universe? - LJK - 9/22/2005 4:40:18 PM
- re: The carbon or silicon colonization of the Universe? - folcwine - 9/23/2005 2:09:09 AM
- Carbon reborn - Adam - 9/22/2005 10:15:14 PM

Research on candidates for non-cosmological redshifts - LJK - 9/22/2005 2:43:13 PM
- all bogus... - Adam - 9/22/2005 10:08:10 PM

Are Wormholes Tunnels for Time Travel? - LJK - 9/22/2005 3:40:07 AM
- I lost mine, so had to cancel my dinosaur-spotting vacation - Daniel - 9/22/2005 9:44:42 AM
  - backwards at one second per second... - Adam - 9/22/2005 11:09:03 AM
    - What's the antimatter? - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:12:00 PM
      - *shrug* - Adam - 9/22/2005 10:01:06 PM

The imagined future - Raoul - 9/21/2005 8:15:55 PM
- re: where we are headed evolutionarily - Sawyer - 9/22/2005 9:56:27 PM
- Let's build an extraterrestrial - SDF - 9/22/2005 8:31:59 AM

The NASA Plan - Tom Brosz - 9/19/2005 10:21:13 PM
- New York Times article - Tom Brosz - 9/20/2005 4:52:34 PM
  - re: Launch Escape Tower - Raoul - 9/20/2005 7:07:54 PM
    - re: Launch Escape Tower - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2005 3:29:24 PM
    - A Launch Escape Tower could be difficult with a solid rocket first stage... - Larry J - 9/21/2005 1:09:28 PM
      - re: A Launch Escape Tower could be difficult with a solid rocket first stage... - Doug Ellison - 9/21/2005 2:49:55 PM
    - I agree. - Scott Evil - 9/20/2005 8:43:59 PM
      - About international cooperation - DWC - 9/22/2005 5:53:23 PM
      - This plans is as bankrupt as the country - EP - 9/21/2005 2:05:12 PM
  - cool blog entry - McFly - 9/20/2005 5:50:59 PM
- re: CNN Internet Poll - Chris Vancil - 9/20/2005 7:32:36 AM
  - **Post by EP deleted** (n/t) - ModBob - 9/21/2005 3:46:57 PM
    - re: **Post by EP deleted** Yet AGAIN - ModBob - 9/21/2005 4:39:01 PM
      - ATTN: EP Grondine - Robert Shepherd (moderator) - 9/21/2005 6:30:33 PM
        
        **Obscenity-laden response deleted** - Robert Shepherd (moderator) - 9/22/2005 3:30:00 AM

Frequency of Debris Disks around Solar-Type Stars: First Results from a Spitzer/MIPS Survey - LJK - 9/9/2005 6:20:38 PM
- A Neptune-mass planet around the nearby M dwarf Gl 581 - LJK - 9/9/2005 6:49:48 PM
  - Disc orientations in pre-main-sequence multiple systems. A study in southern star formation regions - LJK - 9/15/2005 4:00:58 PM
    - Investigating fragmentation conditions in self-gravitating accretion discs - LJK - 9/16/2005 1:58:02 PM
      - Gravoturbulent formation of planetesimals - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:25:43 PM
        
        S Ori J053825.4-024241: A Classical T Tauri-like object at the substellar boundary - LJK - 9/22/2005 2:26:47 PM
        
        A disk of dust and molecular gas around a high-mass protostar - LJK - 9/22/2005 2:47:35 PM
        
        Chemistry and line emission of outer protoplanetary disks - LJK - 9/22/2005 2:49:09 PM

Study Suggests Titan May Hold Keys For Exotic Brand Of Life - Mark Eby - 9/11/2005 8:46:38 PM
- Exobiology No Longer An Interest Here? - Mark Eby - 9/17/2005 5:43:51 PM
  - Data, data, data... - Adam - 9/17/2005 11:17:49 PM
- re: Study Suggests Titan May Hold Keys For Exotic Brand Of Life - gbaikie - 9/12/2005 12:08:45 AM
  - David Grinspoon's ideas for Titan life - LJK - 9/22/2005 1:58:57 PM

Eileen Collins - Raoul - 7/26/2005 9:13:29 PM
- re: Eileen Collins - singo gavi - 9/22/2005 12:03:14 PM
  - re: Eileen Collins - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:56:10 PM
- re: Eileen Collins - Eri - 7/26/2005 9:31:43 PM
  - RE:Eileen Collins - SINGO GAVI - 8/15/2005 1:04:32 AM
  - re: Proud of Eileen - SINGO GAVI - 8/15/2005 12:58:32 AM
  - re: Eileen Collins - Chris Vancil - 7/26/2005 9:38:55 PM
    - Heh - Eri - 7/26/2005 9:42:22 PM
      - I wouldn't be so sure - Larry J - 7/26/2005 9:52:28 PM
        
        All good points - Eri - 7/27/2005 12:13:09 AM
        
        Chipping their fingernails - ljk - 8/15/2005 1:58:03 PM

Cool way to empty your bank account in one go - SDF - 9/22/2005 7:04:41 AM

A sword just below Polaris....or - Raoul - 9/21/2005 7:58:25 PM

NASA's Secret Space Plan - Peter Bruener - 9/21/2005 7:53:43 PM

Digging "Moon Dirt" Is NASA's Fifth Centennial Challenge - Chris Vancil - 9/20/2005 8:34:50 PM
- We've had our own discussion on this before. - RobVG - 9/21/2005 2:11:19 AM
  - Geez Rob, I didn't know that's what you do... - McFly - 9/21/2005 5:44:56 PM

Technation Discussion of Xena - Mark Eby - 9/18/2005 6:37:06 PM
- I still hate the name 'Xena' - R.L. - 9/19/2005 2:24:58 AM
  - I'd Puke If It Stuck - Mark Eby - 9/19/2005 11:18:29 PM
  - re: Education and classification - Raoul - 9/19/2005 5:29:54 AM
    - My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickled... - R.L. - 9/19/2005 7:35:08 AM
      - re: My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us New Photo X-rays - SteveS - 9/19/2005 1:55:02 PM
        
        I like That - Mark Eby - 9/19/2005 11:16:48 PM
        
        It's a start - SteveS - 9/20/2005 10:42:52 PM
        
        re: Chiron is a comet - Raoul - 9/20/2005 8:32:16 PM
        
        re: Chiron is a comet - LJK - 9/21/2005 5:17:27 PM
        
        Irrelevant - Mark Eby - 9/21/2005 12:24:11 AM
        
        "Eliminating small brown dwarfs and minor wanders" - Tom Brosz - 9/19/2005 10:23:35 PM
        
        Interesting math problem.... - et - 9/20/2005 2:51:38 AM
        
        By that definition... - R.L. - 9/19/2005 8:53:54 PM

Bringing the Mars Rovers to the Masses - LJK - 9/21/2005 2:52:25 PM

Well? To the naysayers and cynics, "Gravity Probe B" has just run out of liquid helium. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/3/2005 9:46:48 PM
- Cool! I worked on that one for a few years. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2005 4:28:01 AM
- re: Gravity Probe B - Raoul - 9/4/2005 12:32:37 AM
  - The Dark Gravity model predictions for Gravity Probe B - LJK - 9/9/2005 7:42:42 PM
    - Gravity Probe B Mission Update for September 9, 2005 - LJK - 9/10/2005 2:54:15 AM
      - I'm glad I was proven wrong...I stood by their initial incorrect forecast. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/10/2005 5:49:55 PM
        
        The helium in the Dewar is now going 2 weeks over its predicted end - LJK - 9/21/2005 1:55:33 PM

Ozone depletion rate as predicted - E.P. - 9/17/2005 3:29:42 PM
- Much simpler answers - Tom Brosz - 9/19/2005 2:30:20 PM
  - Got any evidence? Any at all? - dtb - 9/19/2005 3:56:17 PM
    - Ozone is being broken down by solar radiation. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/19/2005 7:41:17 PM
    - Natural ozone holes - dtb - 9/19/2005 5:26:09 PM
    - Okay, I'll give you that one. - Tom Brosz - 9/19/2005 5:09:04 PM
- May I trouble you with the facts? - R.L. - 9/17/2005 10:07:06 PM
  - Certainly, but the problem appears to be with aluminum, not chlorine - EP - 9/18/2005 4:10:45 PM
    - Do you have any legitimate data for this claim? - R.L. - 9/18/2005 7:26:31 PM
      - Yes (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 9/18/2005 7:44:14 PM
        
        Lesson #1 for E.P. - R.L. - 9/18/2005 8:20:01 PM
        
        Thanks for the link - Lesson #2 for R.L. - EP - 9/18/2005 11:25:38 PM
        
        Back up your claims with facts or drop the subject. - R.L. - 9/19/2005 1:03:02 AM
        
        The facts - EP - 9/19/2005 4:17:36 PM
        
        I find it telling that you refuse to say who these 'researchers' are - R.L. - 9/19/2005 4:26:42 PM
        
        Same ones cited in that AF article (n/t) - E.P. - 9/19/2005 6:47:07 PM
        
        All of the named researchers found the OPPOSITE of what you claim? - R.L. - 9/19/2005 7:42:43 PM
        
        THEN PRESENT IT!!! - R.L. - 9/18/2005 8:03:50 PM
        
        Here ya go... - EP - 9/18/2005 11:05:26 PM
        
        You are being deliberately deceptive - R.L. - 9/19/2005 12:58:58 AM
        
        Let me see: "mine" "theirs" - clear enough to me - EP - 9/19/2005 4:23:42 PM
        
        I looked for those studies... - R.L. - 9/19/2005 4:41:59 PM
        
        That is very dishonest, EP - R.L. - 9/19/2005 4:33:13 PM
        
        **Vulgar reply moved to Flame** (n/t) - ModBob - 9/19/2005 8:15:48 PM
        
        But "atupid lying hack" allowed to remain - EP - 9/21/2005 1:40:50 PM

Anybody know what Crista McAuliff's middle name was? (n/t) - Scott Evil - 9/20/2005 1:19:54 PM
- Wikipedia link - Doug Ellison - 9/20/2005 3:06:07 PM
  - Thanks. So Christa was her middle name! (n/t) - Scott Evil - 9/20/2005 8:48:06 PM

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