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Gliese 876d... - Adam - 6/14/2005 9:22:35 AM
- BRASIL - Katia - 6/18/2005 6:31:34 AM
- re: Gliese 876d... - Katia - 6/18/2005 6:29:50 AM
  - re: Gliese 876d... - Adam - 6/19/2005 1:04:54 AM
- MSM science - Gary - 6/14/2005 3:34:55 PM
  - re: "popular" science - Fox - 6/14/2005 4:14:35 PM
    - Interesting - Gary - 6/15/2005 7:22:06 AM
      - That should read "Led Zeppelin" (n/t) - Gary "Typos R Us" - 6/15/2005 7:26:52 AM
    - re: "popular" science - phil - 6/14/2005 7:36:27 PM
      - re: "popular" science - Fox - 6/19/2005 3:54:43 PM
  - re: MSM science - ljk - 6/14/2005 4:09:54 PM
- 200-400 degrees???? - Nick Hoffman - 6/14/2005 3:02:10 PM
  - Gliese 876 is a red dwarf - dtb - 6/14/2005 8:42:38 PM
    - re: Gliese 876 is a red dwarf - Nick Hoffman - 6/15/2005 10:52:56 AM
      - Evocative... - Adam - 6/15/2005 10:14:41 PM
        
        re: Evocative... - ljk - 6/16/2005 12:16:46 PM
    - re: Gliese 876 is a red dwarf - ljk - 6/14/2005 9:09:01 PM
      - Red Dwarfs in from the cold - Adam - 6/14/2005 10:46:07 PM
  - Half of planet is in the shade. - SDF - 6/14/2005 4:21:33 PM
    - Nah, strike that.. You might be right. It could be a magma planet. Unless.... - SDF - 6/14/2005 4:24:11 PM
- Gliese 876 itself... - Adam - 6/14/2005 11:28:35 AM
  - An excellent, detailed site on the Gliese 876 system - ljk - 6/14/2005 3:57:05 PM
    - Forgot about that one... - Adam - 6/14/2005 10:56:45 PM
      - Just How "Earth-like" is the Newest Planet? - ljk - 6/15/2005 1:11:09 PM
        
        The clue to it all is in the word "terrestrial" - Fox - 6/18/2005 9:11:13 PM

A New Alpine Melt Theory - gbaikie - 6/19/2005 12:29:48 PM
- I didn't write that it's a quote (n/t) - gb - 6/19/2005 12:31:00 PM

Cool science site... - Adam - 6/19/2005 10:04:24 AM

Sergei Krikalev took over - Raoul - 6/19/2005 8:59:12 AM

Recent image of where Opportunity was stuck. - REB - 6/17/2005 1:04:13 PM
- false color of Purgatory 'trench' - Daniel Crotty - 6/19/2005 7:26:12 AM
- This is bad news for MER-B - Gary - 6/18/2005 3:06:33 AM
  - Maybe not. Might have been just bad luck. - Tom Brosz - 6/18/2005 5:05:02 PM
  - re: This is bad news for MER-B - Chris Vancil - 6/18/2005 3:46:10 AM
    - That top layer of dust is probably uniform - Gary - 6/18/2005 4:07:43 AM
      - re: That top layer of dust is probably uniform - Chris Vancil - 6/19/2005 7:53:40 AM

Noctilucent clouds - Raoul - 6/15/2005 5:28:49 AM
- Noctilucent cloud season beings - LJK - 6/19/2005 2:27:52 AM
- Have you seen this fellow's tornado photos? - LJK - 6/16/2005 2:58:49 AM
- Fun. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/15/2005 6:20:06 AM
  - re: Very high! - Raoul - 6/15/2005 6:55:28 PM
    - re: Why do they glow? (n/t) - Johannes - 6/16/2005 1:17:48 AM
      - Because they're so happy - ljk - 6/16/2005 2:23:56 PM
      - re: Because they are still lit by the Sun (while the Sun has set on the ground and for the regular clouds) (n/t) - Raoul - 6/16/2005 5:30:07 AM
        
        All-sky Relative Opacity Mapping Using Night Time Panoramic Images - ljk - 6/16/2005 2:17:27 PM

'Antimatter harvester' may fuel future spacecraft - ljk - 6/17/2005 7:28:43 PM
- Why not just do an "Orion" instead? - dtb - 6/18/2005 3:59:29 AM
  - Energy for "free" - Adam - 6/18/2005 9:13:52 AM
    - re: Energy for "free" - dtb - 6/18/2005 1:41:06 PM
      - Of course... - Adam - 6/18/2005 9:30:54 PM
        
        re: Of course... - gbaikie - 6/19/2005 12:35:12 AM
        
        Makes sense... - Adam - 6/19/2005 12:52:07 AM
- Flaws with the concept - Gary - 6/18/2005 3:00:15 AM
  - Related idea... - Adam - 6/18/2005 9:09:16 AM
- 20 kilos!!! - Adam - 6/18/2005 1:47:50 AM
  - Yea, we'll see.... (n/t) - et - 6/18/2005 1:48:59 AM
- Could PET scan technology be refined to produce useful quanties of antimatter? - Lee - 6/17/2005 10:21:49 PM
  - Not in the near future. - et - 6/18/2005 1:48:04 AM
  - Make them yourself... - Adam - 6/18/2005 1:33:35 AM
    - re: Make them yourself... - et - 6/18/2005 1:51:14 AM
      - for no rational reason... - Adam - 6/18/2005 7:21:46 AM
        
        agreed - R.L. - 6/18/2005 7:36:23 AM
- Could PET scan technology be refined to produce useful quanties of antimatter? - Lee - 6/17/2005 10:21:01 PM

Picture of a first on Mauna Kea - R.L. - 6/18/2005 4:47:02 AM
- Oooops a SERIOUS accidental ommission - R.L. - 6/18/2005 5:04:23 AM
  - A friendly competitor? (n/t) - et - 6/18/2005 5:40:06 AM
    - ?? (n/t) - R.L. - 6/18/2005 6:31:19 AM
      - The Gemini guide star.... - et - 6/18/2005 4:38:18 PM
        
        Ah... - R.L. - 6/18/2005 7:03:35 PM
        
        Let me rephrase that... - R.L. - 6/18/2005 10:38:07 PM

The F Ring - Raoul - 6/18/2005 1:12:44 PM

Could the 47 UMa Planetary System be a Second Solar System: predicting the Earth-like planets - ljk - 6/17/2005 2:33:40 PM
- Saw that... hmmm... - Adam - 6/18/2005 10:18:18 AM

QSOs aren't ejected from Galaxies... - Adam - 6/17/2005 3:23:28 AM
- models of reality & death - phil - 6/17/2005 10:02:13 PM
- You can't be 100 percent certain? - SDF - 6/17/2005 12:58:32 PM
  - The lights are on, but nobody is home.... (N/T) - Nick Hoffman - 6/17/2005 3:31:48 PM
    - It's not that interesting a subject anyway, even with the occasional fantasy concept (n/t) - SDF - 6/17/2005 6:43:42 PM
      - Arp's Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies - LJK - 6/18/2005 3:47:14 AM

Gl86B: a white dwarf orbits an exoplanet host star - ljk - 6/15/2005 1:53:30 PM
- re: Gl86B: a white dwarf orbits an exoplanet host star - p - 6/15/2005 2:54:24 PM
  - Hey, A planet can survive a lot. Think about the Earth-Moon Collision... - Nick Hoffman - 6/15/2005 3:26:14 PM
    - re: Hey, A planet can survive a lot. Think about the Earth-Moon Collision... - phil - 6/15/2005 5:39:47 PM
      - There's going to be a conference on life around M-class stars next month - ljk - 6/16/2005 5:01:07 PM
        
        M class stars - phil - 6/16/2005 9:24:31 PM
        
        M-Stars Lifespans - Adam - 6/16/2005 10:41:33 PM
        
        10 exp 7 or 8, who cares? - phil - 6/16/2005 11:50:02 PM
        
        Good point - Adam - 6/17/2005 3:25:33 AM
        
        large HZs - p - 6/17/2005 12:59:52 PM
        
        maybe... - Adam - 6/18/2005 1:22:19 AM
        
        re: maybe... - p - 6/18/2005 1:39:51 AM

Oh Lord, get ready for Deep Impact comet destruction hysteria - ljk - 6/16/2005 12:20:03 PM
- Even better... - s - 6/16/2005 9:51:01 PM
  - So people who need a change in their life... - alcaray - 6/16/2005 10:52:20 PM
- Already started - s - 6/16/2005 9:47:20 PM
  - Why is it always comets that bring out the dumbness in some people? - LJK - 6/17/2005 3:03:00 AM
    - Here is one potential answer... - ljk - 6/17/2005 2:59:34 PM
      - re: Here is one potential answer... - s - 6/17/2005 3:34:36 PM
        
        re: Here is one potential answer...Kill all living scientists? (n/t) - p the clueless - 6/17/2005 10:03:45 PM

Betting on climate change. - et - 6/14/2005 4:43:23 PM
- re: Betting on climate change. - pwokenyaw - 6/15/2005 2:06:11 AM
- re: Betting on climate change. - gbaikie - 6/15/2005 12:16:15 AM
  - I'll bet.... - et - 6/15/2005 2:52:54 AM
    - re: I'll bet.... - gbaikie - 6/15/2005 8:15:39 AM
      - Some natural climate changing news - ljk - 6/15/2005 1:17:28 PM
        
        re: Some natural climate changing news - gbaikie - 6/15/2005 9:08:30 PM
        
        re: Some natural climate changing news - p - 6/15/2005 3:15:12 PM
        
        Two Earths requied for everyone to live like middle-class Americans - ljk - 6/17/2005 9:20:35 PM

Science from ISS - SteveS - 6/16/2005 2:29:32 PM
- Nothing to do with ISS - JimO - 6/16/2005 8:42:12 PM
  - re: Foton - Raoul - 6/16/2005 9:27:14 PM
    - AMICA, an astro-mapper for AMS on the ISS in 2008 - ljk - 6/17/2005 5:50:40 PM

Who are your favorite space artists online? - LJK - 6/17/2005 3:28:49 AM
- re: There is one very special space artist who is on the web... - Raoul - 6/17/2005 3:47:59 PM
- re: Who are your favorite space artists online? - Chris Vancil - 6/17/2005 9:03:01 AM
  - Another one - Joe Tucciarone - ljk - 6/17/2005 4:07:56 PM
    - Space art in children's books - ljk - 6/17/2005 4:17:27 PM

Second Boom deployed (Marsis) - Raoul - 6/16/2005 8:32:26 PM
- Awesome! Confirmation that deployment was successful!!!!!!!! - Buck Galaxy - 6/17/2005 4:39:53 AM
  - Waiting for data... - Nick Hoffman - 6/17/2005 2:42:55 PM

Two new papers on exoworlds - ljk - 6/14/2005 7:01:09 PM
- Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Upper Limits the Gas Mass in HD105 - ljk - 6/14/2005 7:26:42 PM
  - Deuterated H$_3^+$ in proto-planetary disks - ljk - 6/14/2005 7:34:35 PM
    - Exploring Terrestrial Planet Formation in the TW Hydrae Association - ljk - 6/15/2005 1:28:52 PM
      - Got Any Versions In English? - Mark Eby - 6/15/2005 11:42:11 PM
        
        re: Got Any Versions In English? - p - 6/16/2005 12:20:47 AM
        
        re: Got Any Versions In English? - LJK - 6/16/2005 2:37:49 AM
        
        Are we far from testing general relativity with the transiting extrasolar planet HD 209458b `Osiris'? - ljk - 6/16/2005 2:11:31 PM
        
        Constraints on Inner Disk Evolution Timescales: A Disk Census of the eta Chamaeleontis Young Cluster - ljk - 6/16/2005 2:27:15 PM
        
        An Infrared Coronagraphic Survey for Substellar Companions - ljk - 6/17/2005 1:35:22 PM

Pioneer Anomaly and the Kuiper Belt mass distribution - ljk - 6/16/2005 2:36:03 PM
- Wouldn't it be wierd if the gravitational force were non-isotropic - SDF - 6/16/2005 4:00:37 PM
  - Maybe it only seems isotropic because there are so many planets orbiting, blurring the measurements - SDF - 6/17/2005 1:09:18 PM

'Son of Concorde' plans unveiled - gbaikie - 6/16/2005 3:44:02 AM
- Brason -- Intercontinental suborbital??? - dtb - 6/16/2005 2:58:02 PM
  - re: Brason -- Intercontinental suborbital??? - gbaikie - 6/16/2005 11:43:06 PM
    - Suborbital vs aircraft -- wanna bet? - dtb - 6/17/2005 1:34:04 AM
      - My logic, and a slight amendment - dtb - 6/17/2005 1:50:55 AM
        
        re: My logic, and a slight amendment - gbaikie - 6/17/2005 4:04:30 AM
        
        re: My logic, and a slight amendment - p - 6/17/2005 3:02:14 AM
  - Not likely - Larry J - 6/16/2005 5:53:28 PM
  - weekend trips to NZ - phil - 6/16/2005 3:31:10 PM
    - This is exactly what they used the Spindrift for in Land of the Giants! - ljk - 6/16/2005 3:59:00 PM
      - re: This is exactly what they used the Spindrift for in Land of the Giants! - p - 6/16/2005 9:13:06 PM
- SSTs - Gary - 6/16/2005 4:44:23 AM
  - SST development as corporate prestige builder - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/16/2005 9:44:50 PM
  - re: SSTs - Joe2700 - 6/16/2005 5:03:11 PM
  - re: SSTs - dtb - 6/16/2005 3:03:43 PM
    - Mach 2.7 - Gary - 6/16/2005 3:54:33 PM
      - How about transporters and quantum wormholes? - ljk - 6/16/2005 4:06:13 PM
        
        Flying cars - Gary - 6/16/2005 5:00:36 PM
        
        Speaking of flying cars - Larry J - 6/16/2005 6:01:47 PM
- oops link - gbaikie - 6/16/2005 3:46:44 AM

Jerome Pearson's Lunar Space Elevator - Adam - 6/17/2005 3:17:23 AM

Physics News Update 733 - ljk - 6/15/2005 3:11:11 PM
- re: Physics News Update 733 - phil - 6/15/2005 3:20:28 PM
  - Pissed again? Re:String Theory - et - 6/15/2005 6:16:03 PM
    - String theory is considered "liberal?" What did I miss? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/16/2005 4:20:41 AM
      - Hell yes. - Scott Evil - 6/16/2005 5:38:00 PM
        
        re: Hell yes. - LJK - 6/17/2005 2:02:32 AM
      - It was more of a question than statement. (n/t) - et - 6/16/2005 4:22:59 AM
    - a rational response to an irrational reaction - phil - 6/15/2005 7:19:16 PM
      - re: a rational response to an irrational reaction - Officer ecto - 6/16/2005 1:25:57 AM
        
        re: a rational response to an irrational reaction - phil - 6/16/2005 1:51:02 AM
        
        yep, it was Eddington's 1919 expedition (n/t) - Daniel - 6/16/2005 4:22:15 PM
    - It could be that what liberals find in Strings, conservatives find in God. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 6/15/2005 7:02:51 PM
      - Excuse me. ARE YOU SERIOUS? (n/t) - et - 6/16/2005 1:27:04 AM
        
        Made more sense (minimally I'll admit) than the NAZI post (n/t) - p - 6/16/2005 2:13:41 AM
        
        Alright, seriously phil. What's going on today? - Officer et - 6/16/2005 3:03:40 AM
        
        Some calmer, gentler, less political physics news... - LJK - 6/16/2005 3:43:37 AM
        
        This is calm and gentle. You're new, you don't know yet. - et - 6/16/2005 4:25:07 AM
        
        re: This is calm and gentle. You're new, you don't know yet. - ljk - 6/16/2005 12:29:23 PM

SETI Oz style... - Adam - 6/16/2005 10:57:54 PM

Star Wars over, Star Trek dead - what will the next generation of science fiction look like? - E.P. Grondine - 6/14/2005 7:00:52 PM
- good next gen SF - phil - 6/16/2005 12:30:02 AM
- What's replacing Star Wars, Star Trek? Reality! (n/t) - apsmith - 6/15/2005 1:14:43 PM
  - possibly - E.P. Grondine - 6/15/2005 9:56:25 PM
- Star Wars The Next Generation (n/t) - SDF - 6/15/2005 8:02:35 AM
  - The Bad Astronomer's Review of Star Wars 3 - LJK - 6/16/2005 4:08:09 AM
- Read a book. - et - 6/15/2005 3:38:40 AM
  - And don't forget magazines - Fox - 6/15/2005 5:22:08 PM
    - a dying market? - E.P. Grondine - 6/16/2005 3:43:55 PM
    - Oh trust me, I haven't...... ;) - et - 6/15/2005 5:50:24 PM
- re: Farscape - Vince - 6/15/2005 2:19:38 AM
  - The B5 universe still has lots of stories to tell. (n/t) - Lee - 6/15/2005 5:52:59 AM
    - Yea, like why was it full of crappy actors..... (n/t) - et - 6/15/2005 6:39:50 PM
      - I thought the acting in B5 was pretty good. - Lee - 6/16/2005 6:06:10 AM
  - Farscape's done too. (n/t) - et - 6/15/2005 2:53:50 AM
- Asteroid Wars - Adam - 6/15/2005 12:21:19 AM
- Are we counting or not counting Serenity? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/14/2005 9:14:47 PM
  - As long as it's not counted as hard SF.... (n/t) - et - 6/15/2005 2:54:39 AM
    - Like SW and ST? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/15/2005 2:56:47 PM
      - re: Like SW and ST? - ljk - 6/15/2005 3:38:32 PM
- One possible answer: - Fox - 6/14/2005 7:43:29 PM
  - Thanks - E.P. Grondine - 6/15/2005 1:57:59 AM
    - That was John Wyndham - Adam - 6/15/2005 9:36:35 AM
- The Force knocked away the flying bone - ljk - 6/14/2005 7:16:07 PM
  - The time travel storylines ruined Enterprise. - Lee - 6/15/2005 5:49:42 AM
    - re: The time travel storylines ruined Enterprise. - Mark Eby - 6/16/2005 12:53:01 AM
    - Blame it all on String Theory. - Scott Evil - 6/15/2005 2:16:40 PM
      - Missed what that had to do with string theory.... (n/t) - et - 6/15/2005 4:26:53 PM
        
        I guess I'm just tired of parallel Universes - Scott Evil - 6/15/2005 9:55:25 PM
        
        re: I guess I'm just tired of parallel Universes - LJK - 6/16/2005 2:43:56 AM
        
        I liked Contact - phil - 6/16/2005 12:19:20 AM
        
        re: I liked Contact - LJK - 6/16/2005 2:52:20 AM
        
        ID4 - Mark Eby - 6/16/2005 12:47:07 AM
        
        Fot the truely alien, they should have a go at H.P. Lovecraft. - Lee - 6/16/2005 6:20:43 AM
        
        re: Fot the truely alien, they should have a go at H.P. Lovecraft. - ljk - 6/16/2005 12:36:50 PM
        
        Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn - Adam - 6/16/2005 6:45:22 AM
        
        re: ID4 - LJK - 6/16/2005 3:06:42 AM
        
        Next they'll remake Blade Runner. - Scott Evil - 6/16/2005 3:16:25 PM
        
        re: Next they'll remake Blade Runner. - ljk - 6/16/2005 3:51:06 PM
        
        Oh yes. - Scott Evil - 6/16/2005 5:07:52 PM
        
        P.S. Blade Runner was in many ways the last of a Genre that started with Citizen Kane. - Scott Evil - 6/16/2005 5:11:01 PM
        
        Mercerism - Adam - 6/16/2005 10:00:09 PM
        
        re: ID4 - p - 6/16/2005 1:54:48 AM
      - re: Blame it all on Spielberg-Lucas Theory. - ljk - 6/15/2005 2:39:22 PM
        
        I loved the original. - Scott Evil - 6/15/2005 9:49:00 PM

Space tourism - Raoul - 6/16/2005 9:40:49 PM

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