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Argonne researchers create new diamond-nanotube composite material - R.L. - 8/31/2005 6:42:07 AM

ESA "EXOMARS" mission - Sawyer - 8/30/2005 2:41:46 PM
- Can't just top off the fuel tanks a bit more. - alcaray - 8/30/2005 10:23:29 PM
- the time value is about $35 million - probably worth it - pwokenyaw - 8/30/2005 6:00:30 PM
  - re: the time value is about $35 million - probably worth it - Sawyer - 8/30/2005 6:36:25 PM
    - no point in making a judgment until we know what the additional launch cost would be (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 8/30/2005 7:42:26 PM
- re: ESA "EXOMARS" mission - Raoul - 8/30/2005 4:22:36 PM

Another reason to shun Microsoft. - et - 8/30/2005 6:19:51 PM
- And the link... - et - 8/30/2005 6:22:33 PM

Checking out non-Sol type star systems for life signs - ljk - 8/30/2005 3:58:00 PM

Stunning -- and scary image of Katrina - dtb - 8/29/2005 12:30:34 AM
- re: Looks like a galaxy with its....supermassive black hole (n/t) - Raoul - 8/29/2005 9:28:05 PM
- re: Stunning -- and scary image of Katrina - Doug Ellison - 8/29/2005 7:20:29 AM
  - ESA images of Hurricane Katrina - LJK - 8/30/2005 6:35:23 AM

Katrina -- may wipe out NASA Michoud - dtb - 8/29/2005 3:53:29 AM
- The ETs are the basic building block of the future HLLV. I hope they don't get totally flattened. (n/t) - Lee - 8/29/2005 4:22:15 AM
  - re: The ETs are the basic building block of the future HLLV. I hope they don't get totally flattened. - Chris Vancil - 8/29/2005 8:38:24 PM
    - I'd prefer seeing us build Energia under license. - Lee - 8/30/2005 5:39:27 AM
  - Good point - dtb - 8/29/2005 4:33:38 AM

Interesting airplanes, unfortunate names - Larry J - 8/29/2005 5:56:37 PM
- The Ant - RobVG - 8/30/2005 1:14:36 AM
- there was an East German joke once .. - Daniel - 8/30/2005 1:09:37 AM

Will Mars Press Conf Have Any Big News? - John Q. Public - 8/29/2005 9:11:29 PM
- re: Will Mars Press Conf Have Any Big News? - Doug Ellison - 8/29/2005 10:33:48 PM
  - My guess is no - dtb - 8/29/2005 11:29:33 PM
    - I understand they will be unveiling their first 360 pancam from the summit (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 8/30/2005 12:54:52 AM

Portree's report on initial Moon architecture proposal - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 4:21:21 AM
- re: Portree's report on initial Moon architecture proposal - luis - 8/29/2005 2:54:06 PM
  - re: Portree's report on initial Moon architecture proposal - Chris Vancil - 8/29/2005 8:49:10 PM
- re:Jeff Foust's article on returning to the Moon - Raoul - 7/25/2005 4:44:11 PM
  - Not sure if ISS commercialization is in the path of return to moon - Buck Galaxy - 7/26/2005 2:48:33 AM
  - Spacedev: Human Service Mission to the International Lunar Observatories - Chris Vancil - 7/25/2005 9:11:53 PM
    - re: Interesting, Chris; thanks! (n/t) - Raoul - 7/25/2005 9:25:50 PM
- Barensky's report on B-team launch vehicles - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 4:24:50 AM
  - Original ATK architecture - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 4:29:51 AM
    - lunar surface requirement - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 4:41:20 AM
      - re: The Link - Chris Vancil - 7/25/2005 6:57:59 AM
      - re: lunar surface requirement - Chris Vancil - 7/25/2005 6:52:49 AM
        
        Like I told you - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 3:00:50 PM
        
        re: Don't post unless you plan on debating a subject. - Chris Vancil - 7/25/2005 7:33:13 PM
        
        ***Message deleted*** - ModBob - 7/26/2005 1:17:42 AM
        
        re: Ed maybe unaware of the thread over at Flame. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 7/26/2005 7:42:03 AM
        
        You seem to be unaware as well - ModBob - 7/26/2005 8:29:26 AM
        
        Okay (n/t) - E.P. - 7/26/2005 2:50:51 AM
      - Mazanek's HPFM architecture - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 5:04:43 AM
        
        Cowing's report on architecture studies - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 5:39:45 AM
        
        NASA's first report on architecture studies - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 3:52:02 PM
        
        Launch capabilities of ATK shuttle derivatives - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 4:22:05 PM
        
        E.P. give it a break... - ModBob - 7/25/2005 5:37:51 AM
        
        Sorry I could not combine them all into one post, Bob - E.P. Grondine - 7/25/2005 5:48:25 AM

East of Husband Hill - Raoul - 8/28/2005 11:59:54 AM
- South East of Husband Hill (Half Panorama) - Doug Ellison - 8/28/2005 11:33:30 PM
  - re: South East of Husband Hill (Half Panorama) - Buck Galaxy - 8/29/2005 4:37:27 PM

Astronomers And Native Hawaiians Battle Over Sacred Moutain - Donald - 8/29/2005 1:43:05 PM
- I wonder how native the "native Hawaiians" really are. - Scott Evil - 8/29/2005 3:23:09 PM

Alien Planet on DVD - LJK - 8/26/2005 4:43:06 AM
- "The Future is Wild" was better - SDF - 8/26/2005 1:08:23 PM
  - Why are all future animals so wild? Aren't there any calm ones by then? - ljk - 8/26/2005 1:15:57 PM
    - That was my question actually. I think most animals left on Earth in a few centuries will be domesticated varieties. - SDF - 8/26/2005 1:37:39 PM
      - The "future wildlife" books and series assume no humans - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 3:21:11 PM
        
        re: The "future wildlife" - Raoul - 8/26/2005 6:59:14 PM
        
        Genetic hardiness - Tom Brosz - 8/26/2005 7:09:06 PM
        
        The domestic turkey is a hopeless case. - Lee - 8/26/2005 8:12:43 PM
        
        Most species on Earth are just as evolved as us, meaning we are just as vulnerable today to a mutant virus wiping out 80 percent of humans on Earth (n/t) - SDF - 8/27/2005 12:39:12 PM
        
        Our self awareness is what separates us. - Lee - 8/27/2005 8:49:56 PM
        
        There may be evolutionary developments that are more inherently advantageous than brain-power - SDF - 8/29/2005 12:54:27 PM
        
        Big Brains Are High Energy - Mark Eby - 8/29/2005 1:32:55 PM
        
        or maybe.... even another species wiping us out (n/t) - SDF - 8/27/2005 12:41:29 PM

Sad news for Solar Modellers - Adam - 8/29/2005 1:00:16 PM

Water Flowed Recently on Mars, NASA Scientists Say - Imran - 8/25/2005 1:30:09 AM
- It's more likely sulfuric acid flowed recently on Mars than H20. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/26/2005 12:22:15 AM
  - re: It's more likely sulfuric acid flowed recently on Mars than H20. - ljk - 8/26/2005 1:04:30 PM
    - re: It's more likely sulfuric acid flowed recently on Mars than H20. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/27/2005 6:34:11 PM
    - re: It's more likely sulfuric acid flowed recently on Mars than H20. - dtb - 8/26/2005 6:26:48 PM
- Book Review of Dying Planet - ljk - 8/25/2005 9:23:17 PM

The space buffs and the public-part 2 - Raoul - 8/25/2005 4:16:11 PM
- re: The space buffs and the public-part 2 - DALeffelr - 8/27/2005 7:47:34 AM
  - re: Very thoughtful, Doug! (n/t) - Raoul - 8/27/2005 3:08:17 PM
- re: The space buffs and the public-part 2 - gbaikie - 8/26/2005 7:52:08 AM
- Most space stuff is American, very little done by other countries - SDF - 8/26/2005 3:43:59 AM
  - re: Most successful commercial launcher: Arianespace - Raoul - 8/26/2005 6:11:39 PM
  - re: Most space stuff is American, very little done by other countries - ljk - 8/26/2005 1:03:33 PM
    - The Canadian Space Agency is one way for tax money to be funnelled to Quebec - SDF - 8/26/2005 1:23:44 PM
      - And I suppose all those Cosmos spacecraft are American too? - Jacob Samorodin - 8/27/2005 6:28:49 PM

Something nice is happening in the sunset sky - Johannes - 8/27/2005 4:43:02 PM

An Example Of Microbial Fitness - Mark Eby - 8/22/2005 1:44:18 AM
- Did Anyone Get It? - Mark Eby - 8/24/2005 1:53:27 PM
  - Don't see how the one disproves the other - alcaray - 8/25/2005 5:19:41 PM
    - re: Don't see how the one disproves the other - gbaikie - 8/26/2005 4:23:19 AM
  - Scared away - Adam - 8/25/2005 1:18:36 PM
  - I think the possums and bunnies do. (n/t) - Lee - 8/24/2005 7:10:45 PM
    - So The Answer Would Be No In Your Case? (n/t) - Mark Eby - 8/25/2005 2:18:57 AM
      - Actually, it would depend on what waste products they expel - Lee - 8/26/2005 5:46:31 AM
        
        Bingo - Mark Eby - 8/26/2005 12:39:55 PM
        
        Gives new meaning to the term "Red Tide" - Lee - 8/27/2005 3:18:56 AM

Plastic Spaceships or polyethylene-based radiation shielding - Chris Vancil - 8/25/2005 8:35:14 PM
- re: polyethylene-based radiation shielding - Tom Brosz - 8/27/2005 3:18:17 AM
- I think polyethylene is used as a nuclear reactor shielding material - SDF - 8/26/2005 3:55:55 AM

House sized bolide struck above Antarctica in 2004. - Robert Clark - 8/25/2005 9:11:30 PM
- Better luck hiting NZ next time (n/t) - phil - 8/26/2005 2:09:21 PM
- WHEN in 2004? - JimO - 8/26/2005 1:17:53 PM
  - re: WHEN in 2004? - Robert Clark - 8/27/2005 2:09:24 AM
  - re: WHEN in 2004? - AHB - 8/26/2005 6:53:03 PM

Next on NOVA: "Origins: How Life Began" - ljk - 8/26/2005 8:02:38 PM

2001 in 3D - Raoul - 8/26/2005 4:06:34 PM

Bringing Science into Schools through Astronomy - ljk - 8/24/2005 3:44:23 PM
- Non-traditional Ways of Communicating Astronomy - ljk - 8/26/2005 2:46:56 PM

Another good reason to hang on to the Hubble - ljk - 8/26/2005 1:30:15 PM
- re: Another good reason to hang on to the Hubble - phil - 8/26/2005 2:14:03 PM

Virtual Space Exporation - VUSSP MCAD - 8/26/2005 1:28:13 PM

How did it all begin? - ljk - 8/23/2005 8:24:18 PM
- More beginnings, more endings - ljk - 8/23/2005 8:34:26 PM
  - re: More beginnings, more endings - phil - 8/23/2005 8:38:54 PM
    - it's not that big... - Adam - 8/24/2005 9:44:24 AM
      - But over a long enough time period... - ljk - 8/24/2005 1:01:51 PM
        
        Interestingly... - Adam - 8/25/2005 1:03:54 PM
        
        Wouldn't the average metallicity of the entire universe increase with time? - SDF - 8/26/2005 12:12:29 AM
        
        Metallicity... - Adam - 8/26/2005 10:52:08 AM
        
        Don't like this Universe? Then just move to another one. - ljk - 8/25/2005 1:48:52 PM

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