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Oh, God.... - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2005 6:01:43 AM
- re: Oh, God.... - delbert - 7/3/2005 8:19:44 PM
  - It's more about the media than anything else. - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2005 9:32:24 PM
- Too late- we shot it with our laser 3 nights ago... (Really) - R.L. - 7/3/2005 6:12:03 AM

We have separation (Deep Impact) - SteveS - 7/3/2005 3:22:57 PM
- re: We have separation (Deep Impact) - dtb - 7/3/2005 4:38:38 PM

Disasterous effects of "environmentalism" on US manned space flight? - E.P. Grondine - 7/3/2005 4:13:22 PM

A hopeful sign - Adam - 7/2/2005 11:06:55 PM
- re: A hopeful sign - Raoul - 7/3/2005 8:22:28 AM
  - Yes but... - Adam - 7/3/2005 2:08:43 PM
- rYah, but what has Poul done recently? - p - 7/3/2005 2:46:06 AM
  - Post-humously? - Adam - 7/3/2005 5:05:03 AM

Opportunity is on its way again. - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2005 8:09:31 AM
- re: Opportunity is on its way again. - Doug Ellison - 7/3/2005 9:52:17 AM

Space Virgins - phil - 7/2/2005 5:10:43 PM
- Damn... - Adam - 7/2/2005 10:57:18 PM
  - re: Damn... - phil - 7/3/2005 3:05:30 AM

CEV transportation version - Raoul - 7/1/2005 9:57:30 PM
- Site belongs to manufacturer of military hardware - SDF - 7/1/2005 11:11:42 PM
  - More to the point... - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2005 12:14:13 AM
    - Griffin's got the plan in hand - Buck Galaxy - 7/2/2005 3:01:31 AM
      - re: Something Old, something New, something Cold and something for a Crew - Raoul - 7/2/2005 8:00:58 AM
        
        The trade - E.P. Grondine - 7/2/2005 1:52:42 PM
        
        And Mars??? - Nick Hoffman - 7/2/2005 3:00:25 PM
        
        re: And Mars??? - E.P. Grondine - 7/2/2005 3:47:46 PM
        
        Unless we have a 100-200 ton lifter, we're not going anywhere. - Lee - 7/2/2005 7:25:41 PM
        
        re: Unless we have a 100-200 ton lifter, we're not going anywhere. - E.P. Grondine - 7/2/2005 7:38:19 PM
        
        It's hard enough getting one rocket off the ground on schedule, let alone 4 or 5. - Lee - 7/2/2005 7:42:58 PM
        
        re: It's hard enough getting one rocket off the ground on schedule, let alone 4 or 5. - E.P. Grondine - 7/2/2005 11:56:10 PM
    - What is it with the aerospace sector anyway..... endless mergers, namechanges and their own 5-inch thick dictionary of abbreviations - SDF - 7/2/2005 12:42:14 AM
      - Don't be too hard on yourself. - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2005 12:46:31 AM

Saturn surprises - Raoul - 7/2/2005 8:31:30 AM
- Slower rotation readings for Saturn related to its magnetic field? - Buck Galaxy - 7/2/2005 8:22:14 PM

A Nuclear Fusion Reactor - in just twenty years... - ljk - 6/28/2005 4:13:26 PM
- 30 years of personal perspective on fusion - Sawyer - 7/2/2005 11:37:20 AM
- Nuclear Fusion is bogus man (n/t) - SDF - 6/28/2005 10:56:22 PM
  - re: Nuclear Fusion is bogus man - LJK - 6/29/2005 2:16:17 AM
    - These futile arguments keep my brain working for some reason, product of experience I suppose - SDF - 6/29/2005 7:40:23 AM
      - re: These futile arguments keep my brain working for some reason, product of experience I suppose - ljk - 6/29/2005 1:23:14 PM
        
        For the simple reason that there's no uranium mining and processing involved,... - alcaray - 6/30/2005 4:18:10 PM
        
        It takes billions of times more energy to create antimatter than it yields from reactions - SDF - 6/29/2005 6:07:40 PM
        
        A few comments... - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2005 12:51:08 AM
        
        30 million tonnes of radioactive waste - SDF - 6/30/2005 4:32:11 AM
        
        re: 30 million tonnes of radioactive waste - Tom Brosz - 7/1/2005 12:26:36 AM
        
        Here is an interesting graphic from the ITER website - SDF - 7/1/2005 2:09:38 PM
        
        ITER Long-Lived vs. Short-Lived Waste - SDF - 7/1/2005 2:34:15 PM
        
        I think you're starting to get a bit silly. - Tom Brosz - 7/1/2005 9:59:57 PM
        
        I don't think fusion will ever be a source of electricity - SDF - 7/1/2005 11:02:13 PM
        
        Ridiculous reasoning - R.L. - 7/2/2005 4:11:12 AM
        
        What?!?! - SDF - 7/2/2005 7:46:02 PM
        
        re: I don't think fusion will ever be a source of electricity - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2005 12:17:20 AM
        
        If my numbers are wrong - SDF - 7/1/2005 2:47:20 PM
- "The Energy of the Future"... - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 4:39:10 PM
  - Greenpeace have really no integrity... - Adam - 6/29/2005 12:02:42 AM

Return to Burns Cliff & Eagle Crater cross-bedding - aldo12xu - 6/29/2005 4:53:03 AM
- Tell you what I want, what I really really want - E.P. Grondine - 6/30/2005 2:08:06 AM
  - re: Tell you what I want, what I really really want - aldo12xu - 6/30/2005 6:52:49 PM
    - Thanks much - Didn't hurt to ask - E.P. Grondine - 7/1/2005 12:30:51 AM
      - re: Thanks much - Didn't hurt to ask - aldo12xu - 7/2/2005 7:41:27 AM
  - The Mars Rovers in the July issue of National Geographic Magazine - ljk - 6/30/2005 5:20:34 PM
    - Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars - LJK - 7/1/2005 1:37:46 AM

Suspended animation for large mammals. - et - 6/27/2005 9:56:16 PM
- ****A post was deleted by ModBob**** - ModBob - 6/28/2005 1:19:25 AM
- How do you tell if a dog is brain damaged? - R.L. - 6/27/2005 10:19:57 PM
  - re: How do you tell if a dog is brain damaged? - Robert Clark - 6/28/2005 3:36:52 PM
  - Do a CAT scan. (n/t) - RobVG - 6/28/2005 12:53:05 AM
    - :) lol - R.L. - 6/28/2005 1:34:35 AM
      - Yeah? Imaging being the first person in the Star Trek universe to try a transporter... - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 4:18:28 AM
        
        Star Trek and the existence of the soul - Robert - 6/28/2005 6:55:56 PM
        
        re: Star Trek and the existence of the soul - Mr Fibuli - 7/2/2005 5:34:57 AM
        
        A transporter would make medicine obsolete. - Lee - 6/29/2005 5:51:44 AM
        
        "How do you know..." - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 8:17:01 PM
        
        re: Star Trek and the existence of the soul - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 8:14:53 PM
        
        In addition to the memory and processing capability.... - Larry J - 6/30/2005 4:36:06 PM
        
        Split Brains... - Adam - 6/30/2005 2:12:28 AM
        
        Replaced brain cells. Wow. - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2005 12:28:57 AM
        
        Actually... - Adam - 7/2/2005 5:28:01 AM
        
        Keep your brain in one piece - Robert - 6/28/2005 10:03:25 PM
        
        re: Keep your brain in one piece - REB - 7/1/2005 2:59:13 PM
        
        Sending Humans by Interstellar Western Union - ljk - 7/1/2005 3:31:23 PM
        
        Copies are one thing... - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2005 12:25:33 AM
        
        Brains teleportation and insta-clone Toms. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/30/2005 12:57:25 AM
        
        That was "Ensign Redshirt," RIP (n/t) - McFly - 6/28/2005 5:42:49 PM
      - A joke... - Adam - 6/28/2005 2:50:21 AM
        
        Why did they use dogs? - ljk - 6/28/2005 4:10:24 PM
        
        "We eat pigs don't we?" - Adam - 6/28/2005 11:57:00 PM

Magnificent conjunction - Raoul - 6/28/2005 12:15:04 AM
- re: Magnificent conjunction - Delbert - 7/2/2005 4:36:32 AM
- After all these years, I have finally seen Mercury - REB - 7/1/2005 12:40:27 PM
- re: Magnificent conjunction - Delbert - 6/29/2005 12:00:40 AM
  - re: Very good, Del! - Raoul - 6/29/2005 9:22:53 PM
- re: Absolutely - BRFelix - 6/28/2005 5:09:09 AM
  - re: June 27th - Raoul - 6/28/2005 7:59:45 AM
    - re: Wish I could see your pictures! - BRFelix - 6/30/2005 1:35:35 PM
      - Waxing Crescent Moon Right Above Mercury and Venus on July 8! - ljk - 7/1/2005 1:08:53 PM

NOVA will be filming the laser!! - R.L. - 6/29/2005 7:01:40 AM
- Well, that was... odd... (n/t) - R.L. - 6/30/2005 12:34:53 PM
  - Details? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/1/2005 6:31:00 PM
    - when I get some time... - R.L. - 7/1/2005 11:10:19 PM
- I can already tell I am going to be a nervous wreck by this evening.... - R.L. - 6/30/2005 12:47:24 AM
- re: NOVA will be filming the laser!! - Delbert - 6/29/2005 3:42:35 PM
  - My understanding is... - R.L. - 6/29/2005 6:36:28 PM
    - re: My understanding was wrong... - R.L. - 6/30/2005 12:39:39 PM
      - re: My understanding was wrong... - Delbert - 6/30/2005 8:34:17 PM
      - re: My understanding was wrong... - ljk - 6/30/2005 12:59:30 PM
- Cannot wait to see this - Peter Bruener - 6/29/2005 8:09:24 AM

DEEP IMPACT...Hit or MISS? - carl - 7/1/2005 4:13:29 PM
- re: DEEP IMPACT...Hit or MISS? - ljk - 7/1/2005 5:53:56 PM
  - re: DEEP IMPACT...Hit or MISS? - Doug Ellison - 7/1/2005 7:54:03 PM

DEEP IMPACT...Hit or MISS? - carl - 7/1/2005 4:13:32 PM
- 50:50 - Nick Hoffman - 7/1/2005 4:52:36 PM

Introduction to Dark Energy and Dark Matter - ljk - 6/30/2005 1:16:30 PM
- Dark Energy and Dark Matter = Dark Fluid? - ljk - 6/30/2005 1:36:41 PM
  - re: Do they exist? - Raoul - 6/30/2005 8:49:04 PM
    - Interaction between Physics and Cosmology - ljk - 7/1/2005 2:43:24 PM

Latest papers on exoplanet transits and circumstellar disks - ljk - 6/27/2005 1:41:16 PM
- Latest papers on exoplanets and circumstellar disks - ljk - 6/29/2005 4:17:12 PM
  - Latest papers on exoplanets and circumstellar disks (2) - ljk - 7/1/2005 2:37:37 PM

Optical SETI with Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes - ljk - 7/1/2005 2:24:49 PM

Evidence for Tachyons? - ljk - 6/21/2005 4:06:12 PM
- re: Evidence for Tachyons? - KLNarayana - 7/1/2005 1:50:43 PM
- Bollocks! - Adam - 6/21/2005 10:35:55 PM
  - An Anti-Tachyon Paper - ljk - 6/22/2005 1:39:44 PM
    - I like that... - Adam - 6/22/2005 10:19:53 PM
      - re: I like that... - ljk - 6/23/2005 1:02:19 PM

A thread was moved to offtopic (n/t) - ModMob - 6/30/2005 7:47:19 PM
- I don't see it on OT.... - FrankC - 6/30/2005 9:31:52 PM
  - okay, I see it.... - FrankC - 6/30/2005 9:46:24 PM
  - It's there - ModBob - 6/30/2005 9:43:58 PM
- So is SETI no longer a proper discussion topic here? - ljk - 6/30/2005 8:52:31 PM
  - Of COURSE it is - R.L. - 6/30/2005 9:41:52 PM

Cowing's criticism of Griffin's reorganization - Buck Galaxy - 6/28/2005 4:43:52 PM
- He's A Professional Bitcher - Mark Eby - 6/29/2005 1:12:12 AM
  - re: He's A Bitcher - Chris Vancil - 6/29/2005 9:13:23 AM
    - re: He's A Bitcher - Buck Galaxy - 6/29/2005 4:11:10 PM
      - [message deleted] - Robert Shepherd - 6/29/2005 10:15:31 PM
        
        re: [message deleted] - dtb - 6/30/2005 1:20:26 AM
        
        tempest in a teapot - Robert - 6/30/2005 1:56:18 AM
        
        re: Not the first - Chris Vancil - 6/29/2005 11:25:22 PM
        
        You're such a card, Chris... - Robert Shepherd - 6/29/2005 11:39:07 PM
        
        re: You're such a card, Chris... - Chris Vancil - 6/30/2005 8:45:46 PM
        
        Blessed are those... - alcaray - 6/30/2005 9:10:34 PM

We ARE Going to Have Time Travel, Darnit! - ljk - 6/28/2005 2:49:32 PM
- Appears to be fraught with confusion... - FrankC - 6/29/2005 2:42:41 AM
- You are travelling forward in time currently. - SDF - 6/28/2005 10:54:18 PM
  - re: You are travelling forward in time currently. - REB - 6/29/2005 1:04:21 PM
  - Past and Future Indistinguishable - Adam - 6/29/2005 12:36:51 AM
    - I'm not certain you are correct - SDF - 6/29/2005 7:48:29 AM
      - I can't believe you guys... - ljk - 6/30/2005 4:57:05 PM

Physics News Update 735 - LJK - 6/30/2005 3:30:11 AM
- re: vortex solitons ?? - Johannes - 6/30/2005 3:01:42 PM
  - re: vortex solitons ?? - ljk - 6/30/2005 4:31:15 PM

An interesting discussion today on the mountain... - R.L. - 6/29/2005 6:13:14 AM
- re: on the mountain... - Fox - 6/30/2005 2:45:36 AM
  - Into Thin Air - ljk - 6/30/2005 1:01:37 PM
    - re: Into Thin Air - Fox - 6/30/2005 4:19:25 PM
- It's the Old Ladies vs. Bikers Analogy - ljk - 6/29/2005 3:09:22 PM
  - Well, go to the schools in your neighborhood, then. - Mary Anne - 6/30/2005 2:20:17 AM
- re: An interesting discussion today on the mountain... - Donald - 6/29/2005 2:02:48 PM
  - Just who/what lives on Mauna Kea and how/why? - ljk - 6/29/2005 3:28:12 PM
    - re: Just who/what lives on Mauna Kea and how/why? - R.L. - 6/29/2005 5:50:33 PM
      - Any particular reason why observatories are always painted white? - pwokenyaw - 6/29/2005 7:23:50 PM
        
        re: Any particular reason why observatories are always painted white? - R.L. - 6/29/2005 8:26:23 PM
        
        Thermal issues - R.L. - 6/29/2005 7:32:15 PM
    - re: Just who/what lives on Mauna Kea and how/why? - Johannes - 6/29/2005 4:14:36 PM
      - re: Just who/what lives on Mauna Kea and how/why? - andrew - 6/29/2005 4:59:10 PM
        
        re: Just who - Johannes - 6/30/2005 4:10:34 AM
        
        re: Just who/what lives on Mauna Kea and how/why? - R.L. - 6/29/2005 6:01:31 PM

Is it the right time to launch Mars Polar Lander? - E.P. Grondine - 6/26/2005 3:22:24 PM
- Bi-POLAR LANDER..launch or NOT! - carl - 6/27/2005 7:40:54 PM
  - "gun-shy"? - alcaray - 6/27/2005 9:45:52 PM
  - Bi-polar lander: "WHHHEEEE I'M gonna land on mars!!! YIPPEEE!!!...(sob) no, I am not good enough... maybe I will just crash and end it all..." - R.L. - 6/27/2005 8:19:47 PM
    - Easy fix. Lithium batteries. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 4:19:25 AM
      - ERG!!!! - R.L. - 6/28/2005 6:03:05 AM
        
        re: ERG!!!! - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 8:48:52 AM
        
        Hey, it had potential... (n/t) - R.L. - 6/28/2005 9:09:51 AM
        
        Better pull the plug on this before it eats another thread. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/28/2005 4:43:32 PM
- Yes - because... - Nick Hoffman - 6/26/2005 11:18:39 PM
- it IS the right time to launch Phoenix. - Doug Ellison - 6/26/2005 8:35:01 PM
  - re: it IS the right time to launch Phoenix. - dtb - 6/27/2005 2:53:52 AM
    - Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - E.P. Grondine - 6/27/2005 3:31:49 PM
      - re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - Doug Ellison - 6/27/2005 4:01:26 PM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - E.P. Grondine - 6/28/2005 2:16:55 PM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - Doug Ellison - 6/28/2005 9:37:18 PM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - E.P. Grondine - 6/29/2005 2:47:59 AM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - Doug Ellison - 6/29/2005 4:04:45 PM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - E.P. Grondine - 6/30/2005 1:40:32 AM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - Doug Ellison - 6/30/2005 8:57:17 AM
        
        re: Perhaps, but only if its done absolutely right - E.P. Grondine - 6/30/2005 2:14:29 PM
- re: Sure... - Raoul - 6/26/2005 3:44:27 PM
  - re: Why not?: several reasons - E.P. Grondine - 6/26/2005 5:08:49 PM

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