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Alphabet Soup - Fox - 7/21/2005 6:41:55 PM
- Translation - Larry J - 7/22/2005 8:14:02 PM
- Larry's is an absolute classic (n/t) - daniel - 7/22/2005 7:00:20 AM

Classifying the Future of Universes with Dark Energy - ljk - 7/22/2005 2:50:26 PM
- They must be bored or something, (n/t) - SDF - 7/22/2005 5:21:29 PM

Using the Sol System to Test for Dark Energy - ljk - 7/19/2005 2:02:23 PM
- re: Using the Sol System to Test for Dark Energy - phil - 7/20/2005 1:14:07 PM
- Exploring Dark Energy with SNAP - ljk - 7/20/2005 12:56:32 PM
  - Three more papers on SNAP - ljk - 7/22/2005 2:58:17 PM

The Extremely Large Telescope - Raoul - 7/8/2005 7:10:13 PM
- Still, the background noise from the atmosphere is a weakness of any ground-based scheme. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/10/2005 3:56:19 AM
  - How do you mean that? - R.L. - 7/10/2005 5:03:27 AM
    - Here is the problem. - David F Mayer - 7/11/2005 3:11:06 PM
- re: The Extremely Large Telescope - phil - 7/8/2005 7:29:54 PM
  - How about a .8 km baseline? - R.L. - 7/9/2005 7:35:22 AM
    - What About The Keck Interferometer? - Mark Eby - 7/11/2005 12:13:20 AM
      - It is an ongoing project... - R.L. - 7/11/2005 2:38:12 AM
        
        Parking lot ecosystems tend to be very fragile. =)~ (n/t) - Lee - 7/11/2005 3:41:06 AM
        
        Imaging Earth-like planets with Extremely Large Telescopes - ljk - 7/22/2005 2:43:32 PM

Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - Buck Galaxy - 7/20/2005 2:00:16 AM
- re: Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - Doug Ellison - 7/20/2005 7:23:18 AM
  - re: Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - Buck Galaxy - 7/21/2005 2:29:19 AM
    - re: Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - Doug Ellison - 7/21/2005 7:56:31 AM
  - re: Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - E.P. Grondine - 7/20/2005 9:24:11 PM
    - re: Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - Doug Ellison - 7/20/2005 10:45:43 PM
      - Thre are certain techniques you can employ to protect both the pictures and copyrights. - dd - 7/22/2005 2:07:25 PM
      - re: Spirit nears the summit! (big files) - E.P. Grondine - 7/21/2005 3:53:21 PM
- Cool. A 3-dimensional wasteland is slightly more interesting than a 2-dimensional one. (n/t) - SDF - 7/20/2005 2:24:47 AM

Private spaceflight update - phil - 7/21/2005 4:15:19 PM
- What's A Proze? - Mark Eby - 7/22/2005 2:00:59 AM
  - re: What's A Proze? - Mark Eby - 7/22/2005 2:04:15 AM
    - re: What's A Proze? Prize! (n/t) - p - 7/22/2005 2:12:29 AM
      - It Wasn't Obvious I Was Yankin Yer Chain? (n/t) - Mark Eby - 7/22/2005 4:00:14 AM
        
        re: It Wasn't Obvious I Was Yankin Yer Chain? - p - 7/22/2005 1:38:32 PM
      - Maybe it's a prize awarded by Brosz.... (n/t) - Fox - 7/22/2005 3:04:32 AM
        
        As everyone knowze. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/22/2005 4:07:22 AM

Saturn's moon Tethys - Astro - 7/22/2005 11:33:50 AM

Stopping VSE - Nemo - 7/20/2005 6:19:59 PM
- Lose-Lose situation - Gary - 7/21/2005 2:29:55 AM
  - Once Again It's Time To Deny Sustenance (n/t) - Mark Eby - 7/22/2005 4:02:41 AM
  - ONce again, it's not "flags and footprints on the Moon", it's CAPS (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 7/21/2005 2:15:28 PM
- I admit VSE is a bit primative - alcaray - 7/20/2005 6:28:34 PM
  - re: I admit VSE is a bit primative - DWC - 7/20/2005 8:15:26 PM
  - Space is an acronym rich environment - Larry J - 7/20/2005 8:06:35 PM

He's dead Jim - Delbert - 7/20/2005 5:59:45 PM
- One of the best eulogies by a non-sober person I've read... - Tom Brosz - 7/22/2005 12:37:45 AM
- He was the most genuine character of the series - R.L. - 7/21/2005 6:51:08 AM
  - re: A wake for Scotty - Chris Vancil - 7/21/2005 8:38:00 AM
- D-Day Warrior & "craziest Canuk pilot" - phil - 7/20/2005 11:19:25 PM
- His ashes will be launched into space onboard a Celestis mission. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 7/20/2005 11:04:42 PM
  - I heard he was going to be stored in a transporter buffer... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/21/2005 3:57:38 AM
    - re: I heard he was going to be stored in a transporter buffer... - ljk - 7/21/2005 12:39:37 PM
- Always one of my favorite characters on that show. - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2005 6:19:13 PM

Volna failure review - alcaray - 7/20/2005 10:55:41 PM
- Lack of communication and coordination between teams - ljk - 7/21/2005 3:10:45 PM
  - Cooperation - or lack of it - had nothing to do with this failure - alcaray - 7/21/2005 4:33:16 PM
- Falcon 1 for a COSMOS 2 launch anyone? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 7/20/2005 11:07:11 PM
  - how much does it cost? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/21/2005 1:01:00 AM
    - Depends. - Jacob Samorodin - 7/21/2005 10:45:31 PM

Wrong Lesson - gbaikie - 7/18/2005 12:50:26 AM
- Collier's Magazine, 1952. - Jacob Samorodin - 7/19/2005 12:19:41 AM
- Development cost is what fouled up the Space Shuttle - Gary - 7/18/2005 4:22:36 AM
  - once again, it's not "lunar flags and footprints", its CAPS - E.P. Grondine - 7/18/2005 1:38:35 PM
    - re: once again,... - Chris Vancil - 7/18/2005 7:43:00 PM
      - You Got It - Mark Eby - 7/18/2005 11:51:51 PM
        
        Hi - E.P. Grondine - 7/19/2005 5:20:26 PM
        
        re: Hi - Chris Vancil - 7/19/2005 8:48:00 PM
        
        re: Hi - E.P. Grondine - 7/20/2005 2:10:43 AM
        
        re: Low - Chris Vancil - 7/20/2005 8:02:25 AM
        
        and heading lower - E.P. Grondine - 7/20/2005 4:03:51 PM
        
        re: and heading lower - Chris Vancil - 7/20/2005 5:07:09 PM
        
        re: and heading lower - E.P. Grondine - 7/20/2005 9:07:32 PM
        
        Again... - Chris Vancil - 7/20/2005 10:43:43 PM
        
        re: Again and again and again and again. - E.P. Grondine - 7/21/2005 1:00:57 AM
        
        Yeah Right! - Chris Vancil - 7/21/2005 6:08:49 AM
        
        Chris: Why are you arguing with the village idiot? - Gary - 7/21/2005 4:25:58 PM
  - Dash 80 - Larry J - 7/18/2005 1:27:14 PM
    - B-747 development - Gary - 7/18/2005 3:16:33 PM
      - re: B-747 development - dd - 7/19/2005 2:04:37 PM
        
        The military industrial complex - Gary - 7/19/2005 3:41:08 PM
  - re: Development cost is what fouled up the Space Shuttle - gbaikie - 7/18/2005 6:55:55 AM

Uranus moons - Raoul - 7/19/2005 8:29:21 PM
- I photographed some of those moons with a C-20 - Gary - 7/21/2005 2:42:24 AM
  - 97 degrees - no eclipses - Nick Hoffman - 7/21/2005 7:20:09 AM
    - Nick is absolutely correct - Gary - 7/21/2005 4:16:35 PM
- amazing for a ground based 'amateur' telescope - Daniel - 7/20/2005 4:19:31 PM
- Another amateur image of Uranus and why does Neptune look green? - ljk - 7/20/2005 12:44:17 PM
- Not a Bart Simpson gag (n/t) - alcaray - 7/20/2005 12:01:36 AM

The latest papers on exoplanets and other relevant goodies - ljk - 7/7/2005 3:15:42 PM
- Oligarchic and giant impact growth of terrestrial planets in the presence of gas giant planet migration - ljk - 7/8/2005 1:40:48 PM
  - make mine medium rare - p - 7/8/2005 3:17:14 PM
    - Third amateur astronomer discovery of an exoplanet - LJK - 7/9/2005 2:01:12 AM
      - Period Relation for the 2:1 resonance in the GJ876 planetary system - ljk - 7/12/2005 1:02:09 PM
        
        re: Period Relation for the 2:1 resonance in the GJ876 planetary system - ljk - 7/13/2005 1:08:23 PM
        
        MACHOs in M31? Absence of evidence but not evidence of absence - ljk - 7/13/2005 1:25:30 PM
        
        On the Submillimeter Opacity of Protoplanetary Disks - ljk - 7/13/2005 1:36:35 PM
        
        Discovery of a Nearly Edge-On Disk Around HD 32297 - ljk - 7/15/2005 2:24:30 PM
        
        A Moving Cluster Distance to the Exoplanet 2M1207 B in the TW Hya Association - ljk - 7/19/2005 2:44:38 PM
        
        Astronomers Debate Whether Oldest Known Dust Disk Will Ever Form Planets - ljk - 7/19/2005 4:35:56 PM
        
        Atmosphere, Interior, and Evolution of the Metal-Rich Transiting Planet HD 149026b - ljk - 7/20/2005 12:52:33 PM
        
        First Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Brown Dwarf - ljk - 7/20/2005 12:59:50 PM
        
        Multiplicity at the Stellar/Substellar Boundary in Upper Scorpius - ljk - 7/21/2005 12:48:15 PM
        
        Multiplicity at the Stellar/Substellar Boundary in Upper Scorpius - ljk - 7/21/2005 12:47:21 PM
        
        Multiplicity at the Stellar/Substellar Boundary in Upper Scorpius - ljk - 7/21/2005 12:46:16 PM

NASA: We will try to launch on Tuesday - JimO - 7/20/2005 11:57:48 PM
- re: NASA: We will try to launch on Tuesday - R.L. - 7/21/2005 9:32:41 AM

Mars Ice Crater - SteveS - 7/20/2005 12:50:45 PM
- Great! Let's form a Mars NHL team. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 7/20/2005 11:10:27 PM
- re: Mars Ice Crater - Robert Clark - 7/20/2005 5:37:23 PM
  - re: Temperatures... - Nick Hoffman - 7/21/2005 2:25:48 AM
- re: Mars Ice Crater - REB - 7/20/2005 4:32:03 PM
  - re: Subsurface replenishment? - BRFelix - 7/20/2005 6:00:58 PM
    - That is what I am thinking - REB - 7/20/2005 6:07:49 PM

36th anniversary of first Moon landing. - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2005 11:55:39 PM

I just heard the sad news. - REB - 7/20/2005 4:27:24 PM
- Yes sad, but a great life he lived - SteveS - 7/20/2005 10:57:06 PM
- He brought a fun character to life - McFly - 7/20/2005 5:57:22 PM
  - His missing finger. - REB - 7/20/2005 6:02:51 PM
    - tissue regeneration - Robert - 7/20/2005 9:39:11 PM

Google Moon - SteveS - 7/20/2005 1:14:16 PM
- That is the secret that NASA is hiding. - David F Mayer - 7/20/2005 3:03:16 PM
- not green, but yellow ..? (n/t) - Daniel - 7/20/2005 2:35:35 PM
  - Well, from green as in new or unaged... - SteveS - 7/20/2005 10:13:29 PM
- LOL (n/t) - dd - 7/20/2005 1:18:43 PM

Galactic Periodic Table - Mac - 7/20/2005 5:12:54 PM
- Looks like it has alot of holes in it ;-) (n/t) - SDF - 7/20/2005 9:46:44 PM

The shuttle - Raoul - 7/19/2005 7:28:21 PM
- re: The shuttle - Sawyer - 7/20/2005 2:22:08 PM
- re: ISS - SteveS - 7/20/2005 4:31:53 AM

Nimbus' 40th Anniversary - LJK - 7/20/2005 2:07:15 AM
- For detailed NASA documents on Nimbus... - ljk - 7/20/2005 1:29:26 PM

Hurricane Emily and Luna - LJK - 7/20/2005 2:09:43 AM

A white house memo - Raoul - 7/18/2005 6:15:58 PM
- Seems 15 to 18 is the range. - Buck Galaxy - 7/19/2005 3:43:59 AM
  - re: Seems 15 to 18 is the range. - E.P. Grondine - 7/19/2005 2:59:57 PM
- re: A white house memo - Chris Vancil - 7/18/2005 11:04:54 PM
  - Keith Cowing - Buck Galaxy - 7/20/2005 1:39:24 AM
  - Links - Tom Brosz - 7/19/2005 8:47:26 PM
    - re: Links - Chris Vancil - 7/19/2005 8:56:03 PM
- You have to remember, Raoul - E.P. Grondine - 7/18/2005 11:01:04 PM
  - re: You have to remember, Raoul - Chris Vancil - 7/18/2005 11:25:16 PM
- This one is not my report - E.P. Grondine - 7/18/2005 9:42:18 PM
  - re: No kidding! - Chris Vancil - 7/18/2005 10:59:38 PM
  - Apparently came from Robert Clemens - E.P. Grondine - 7/18/2005 9:50:24 PM
- This one id not my report - E.P. Grondine - 7/18/2005 9:41:34 PM

Cassini : one Earth year in Saturn orbit - Raoul - 7/19/2005 7:37:57 PM

Oberg: The REAL Lessons of International Cooperation - phil - 7/18/2005 1:20:43 PM
- International cooperation should be the exception, not the rule. - Lee - 7/19/2005 7:49:54 AM
  - re:Unmanned missions - Raoul - 7/19/2005 4:30:59 PM
    - re: re:Unmanned missions - Doug Ellison - 7/19/2005 7:16:32 PM
      - re: re:Exactly! (n/t) - Raoul - 7/19/2005 7:29:39 PM
- re: Oberg: Reliability - Raoul - 7/18/2005 9:43:02 PM
- Joint missions with the US have not gone smoothly for the Russians, either. - alcaray - 7/18/2005 5:14:42 PM
- The important parts that Jim leaves out - E.P. Grondine - 7/18/2005 3:25:55 PM
- re: Oberg: The REAL Lessons of International Cooperation - Doug Ellison - 7/18/2005 1:59:01 PM

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