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Funding for Moon, Mars Projects Promised - Peter Bruener - 6/1/2005 5:15:52 AM
- re: Funding for Moon, Mars Projects Promised - Jacob Samorodin - 6/1/2005 11:11:16 PM
  - Jacob nailed the "nightmare scenario" - Gary - 6/2/2005 6:06:14 AM
    - re: Jacob nailed the "nightmare scenario" - Chris Vancil - 6/3/2005 11:25:45 AM
      - re: Jacob nailed the "nightmare scenario" - McFly - 6/3/2005 6:06:12 PM
      - I doubt that Hillary cares about Space Exploration - Gary - 6/3/2005 4:05:10 PM
    - Don't blame me, I didn't vote for her. - Scott Evil - 6/2/2005 10:46:29 PM
  - That's why Griffin wants an interplanetary CEV so fast - Buck Galaxy - 6/2/2005 5:52:38 AM

Can Mars dust devils flip ROVERS? - carl - 6/2/2005 4:53:44 PM
- Doubtful - Larry J - 6/2/2005 5:31:32 PM
  - Thanks for the insights, and... - McFly - 6/3/2005 5:51:02 PM
  - re: Doubtful - Doug Ellison - 6/3/2005 1:19:00 PM

The planned high-speed Sikorsky helicopter. - Jacob Samorodin - 6/3/2005 2:48:48 PM

Dust devil filmed - Raoul - 6/2/2005 8:49:09 PM
- Cool! Encore, encore! ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 6/3/2005 2:31:21 PM
- Thank you! - McFly - 6/3/2005 1:34:39 AM

Silicon Tetrafluoride on Io - ljk - 6/3/2005 1:36:56 PM

Oppy sees Earth (but not the Moon) on sol 449 - Raoul - 6/2/2005 5:58:02 PM
- re: Oppy sees Earth (but not the Moon) on sol 449 - Raoul - 6/2/2005 6:20:04 PM
  - re: Oppy sees Earth (but not the Moon) on sol 449 - ljk - 6/3/2005 1:13:31 PM
  - re: Spirit images a meteor? - Chris Vancil - 6/2/2005 8:48:10 PM
    - re: Spirit images a meteor? - Raoul - 6/2/2005 9:23:41 PM

Heavy launcher - Raoul - 6/2/2005 8:24:41 PM
- re: Just what is the labor ratio cost per launch? - SteveS - 6/2/2005 11:48:45 PM

The Kazakh Cosmodrome is 50 years old - Raoul - 6/2/2005 7:35:39 PM

The Center for the Study of Life in the Universe - ljk - 6/2/2005 5:04:28 PM

Another vote for nuclear power - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 3:52:35 AM
- And some more votes... - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 9:17:11 PM
  - so much for the stereotyping here at HZ (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/15/2005 3:23:05 AM
- Forget Yucca Mountain: use the former nuke test sites for radioactive waste storage! - Jacob Samorodin - 5/14/2005 3:17:59 PM
- re: advanatge nuclear power - dwh - 5/13/2005 2:54:02 PM
  - Sierra Club - Gary - 5/13/2005 3:41:15 PM
    - I'm not convinced that nuclear fusion will reduce the amount of radioactive waste produced versus conventional fission powerplants - SDF - 5/14/2005 3:04:58 PM
      - Even a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction produces much less radioactive material than fission - Gary - 5/14/2005 4:21:14 PM
        
        Actually the fusion reactor chamber remains dangerously radiactive for 100 years - SDF - 5/15/2005 1:00:35 PM
        
        Don't be stupid... - Adam - 5/15/2005 2:15:42 PM
        
        I'm not being stupid, short-lived vs. long-lived isotopes is a pointless arguement when they are gradually accumulating in larger and larger amounts. (n/t) - SDF - 5/15/2005 3:36:29 PM
      - add: when the oil runs out, nuclear power won't keep your car running - SDF - 5/14/2005 3:19:25 PM
        
        Nuclear power can run your car - SDG - 5/14/2005 4:15:28 PM
        
        Short answer: if you have enough electrical power, you can do pretty much anything. - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 6:41:22 PM
        
        Obvious question: How expensive is an electric car now? - SDF - 5/15/2005 3:57:32 PM
        
        Pure electric cars are not economical - Gary - 5/15/2005 4:05:42 PM
        
        Wait for it. - Tom Brosz - 5/15/2005 8:31:39 PM
        
        200 km per charge... - Adam - 5/15/2005 10:06:36 PM
        
        Your warranty - Tom Brosz - 5/16/2005 5:13:27 AM
        
        You nailed it - Gary - 5/16/2005 5:50:06 AM
        
        Hydrocarbons have better uses - Gary - 5/14/2005 11:17:13 PM
        
        Money has better uses. - SDF - 5/15/2005 1:03:52 PM
        
        re: Money has better uses. - SDG - 5/16/2005 2:54:49 PM
        
        People will move and lifestyles will change if oil runs out. - Scott Evil - 5/16/2005 4:11:45 PM
        
        Californian metropolitan areas assume cheap gasoline - Gary - 5/17/2005 3:58:35 PM
        
        Why doesn't some enterprising individual buy up the empty office space - Scott Evil - 5/18/2005 2:09:49 PM
        
        Fossil fuel economics are bogus - Gary - 5/15/2005 3:59:43 PM
        
        So when the new oil runs out.... reminiscent of a pyramid scheme! lol (n/t) - SDF - 5/16/2005 12:35:07 PM
        
        Isn't that what Kyoto Accord was about? Assigning a monetary value to GHG emissions so they could be accounted as an internal business expense? - SDF - 5/16/2005 12:49:59 PM
        
        I hear CO2 credits are going for about $20 a ton in Europe. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2005 4:12:39 AM
    - I had a similair voew toward Greenpeace at one time. - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:32:47 PM
- We must have it... - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 2:48:43 PM
- I'm not convinced that carbon emissions will lead to global warming - SDF - 5/13/2005 5:24:04 AM
  - Nuclear will still be a good idea, global warming or not. - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 6:43:55 AM
    - I'm not convinced that nuclear is a good idea - SDF - 5/13/2005 7:18:46 AM
      - Bio-fuels need to be pushed but the greens hate them because they still emit CO2 - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 3:00:53 PM
        
        re: Bio-fuels need to be pushed but the greens hate them because they still emit CO2 - Ehhhhhhh - 6/2/2005 3:36:26 PM
        
        Throw away your technology and return to nature! - ljk - 5/13/2005 4:21:59 PM
        
        re: population culling....... - dwh - 5/13/2005 4:19:04 PM
        
        How practical is dumping nuke waste into the Sun? - ljk - 5/13/2005 5:04:10 PM
        
        That's actually a trick question - Gary - 5/14/2005 4:16:22 AM
        
        Bury the waste on the Moon or some other planetary body. - Lee - 5/14/2005 2:40:15 AM
        
        Good Lord, didn't you see Space: 1999?! - LJK - 5/14/2005 10:20:49 PM
        
        If it'll give us eagles, I say we go for it. - Lee - 5/15/2005 2:08:08 AM
        
        Negative factors include... - Larry J - 5/13/2005 6:37:11 PM
        
        You're all working too hard on this. - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 5:03:12 AM
        
        It's one job the U.N. could do. - Lee - 5/14/2005 5:31:22 AM
        
        Most sensible environmentalists know the difference. - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 3:53:06 PM
        
        Teasing out the oversimplification - pwokenyaw - 5/13/2005 6:17:31 PM
        
        Nuclear subsidy - Gary - 5/14/2005 4:14:38 PM
        
        Gotta disagree about V-1s verses V-2s - Larry J - 5/15/2005 2:32:50 AM
        
        Saturating British defense - Gary - 5/15/2005 4:27:09 PM
        
        I don't know - the British had a lot of anti-aircraft guns on the coasts... - Larry J - 5/16/2005 6:30:39 PM
        
        state of technology determined by government subsidies - pwokenyaw - 5/15/2005 1:23:13 AM
        
        Conservation is important, but it doesn't answer the mail - Larry J - 5/13/2005 6:47:12 PM
        
        can the build windmills that aren't so ugly? - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:25:12 PM
        
        re: windmills?? - dwh - 5/13/2005 8:47:55 PM
        
        re: windmills?? - pwokenyaw - 5/13/2005 10:10:58 PM
        
        Why don't they put more blades and then add a variable transmission so that the blades spin slower, while producing more electricity? - Scott Evil - 5/16/2005 3:33:24 PM
        
        More blades doesn't necessarily mean more energy... - Larry J - 5/17/2005 1:56:43 PM
        
        re: windmills?? Siting issues - p - 5/14/2005 3:49:04 PM
        
        re: windmills?? Siting issues....you bet - dwh - 5/16/2005 7:58:50 PM
        
        Ditto for photovoltaic cells. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:25:56 PM

Whirling white dwarfs - gbaikie - 5/31/2005 5:44:39 AM
- Report and images from Chandra - ljk - 6/2/2005 12:41:56 PM
- Low Luminosity Companions to White Dwarfs - ljk - 6/2/2005 12:17:33 PM
- As they get closer... - Nick Hoffman - 5/31/2005 11:35:30 AM
- Gravitational Wave Astrometry for Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars and Estimation of Their Distances - LJK - 5/31/2005 6:51:29 AM
  - Two Papers on Relic Gravitational Waves (RGW) - LJK - 5/31/2005 7:26:26 AM

Comet put on list of potential Earth impactors - Chris Vancil - 6/1/2005 9:05:52 PM
- Report was Premature - ljk - 6/2/2005 12:26:16 PM

Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Earth: Exploration of Atmospheric, Biological, Climatic and Biogeochemical Effects - ljk - 5/24/2005 3:02:51 PM
- I read an interesting paper a while back.... - R.L. - 5/25/2005 1:03:44 AM
  - Not being a radiation expert... - Scott Evil - 6/1/2005 2:54:40 PM
    - Good questions... here are a FEW answers - R.L. - 6/1/2005 8:19:06 PM
  - Is this it? - Adam - 6/1/2005 10:42:00 AM
    - No, but thanks for the link! - R.L. - 6/1/2005 10:59:37 AM
  - re: I read an interesting paper a while back.... - LJK - 5/25/2005 3:27:57 AM
    - re: I read an interesting paper a while back.... - R.L. - 5/25/2005 3:41:16 AM
      - Not if they are Gamma Ray Beams - SDF - 5/27/2005 5:49:55 PM
        
        True- see my post above on GRB theory (n/t) - R.L. - 5/27/2005 6:22:08 PM
  - re: I read an interesting paper a while back.... - phil - 5/25/2005 1:07:36 AM
- so what do we DO about it? - JimO - 5/24/2005 4:05:37 PM
  - Hope we luck out, and the Moon is in the way. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2005 3:36:01 AM
    - BTW, how much could the Moon shield? - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2005 5:05:29 PM
      - Funny you should mention that... - R.L. - 6/1/2005 8:25:47 PM
        
        re: Funny you should mention that... - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2005 3:35:47 AM
  - Super-size the ozone layer and build underground survival shelters. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 5/27/2005 5:19:48 PM
  - Manipulate earth's existing fields. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/26/2005 10:33:04 AM
    - Absolute gibberish.... - R.L. - 5/26/2005 2:29:15 PM
      - re: Absolute gibberish.... - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2005 3:37:12 AM
    - Absolute gibberish.... - R.L. - 5/26/2005 2:27:50 PM
      - LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/26/2005 8:45:57 PM
        
        It is so CUTE when you try to play scientifically literate! - R.L. - 5/27/2005 4:51:21 AM
  - If I pay you will you create a GRB for me? (n/t) - Dr. Evil - 5/25/2005 7:44:00 PM
    - Interesting proposition: An artificial Gamma Ray Beam (n/t) - SDF - 5/27/2005 5:51:36 PM
  - Colonize Mars - Gary - 5/25/2005 3:38:05 PM
    - re: Colonize Mars - Mark Eby - 5/31/2005 12:01:58 AM
  - How about that huge sun shield... - ljk - 5/24/2005 6:20:00 PM
    - And they scoffed at my tin-foil hat..... (n/t) - dtb - 5/24/2005 10:11:04 PM
    - The further from earth you move the thing... - alcaray - 5/24/2005 8:10:27 PM
      - Scratching alcarey off my list of "people to call in the event of comic catastrophe"... - R.L. - 5/24/2005 10:47:37 PM
        
        Don't forget diffraction... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2005 3:39:26 AM
        
        I didnt - R.L. - 5/31/2005 9:01:35 PM
        
        I know - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2005 5:03:21 PM
        
        What if the tiny obstruction has enormous gravity? - Scott Evil - 6/1/2005 2:46:51 PM
        
        On the contrary, my speciality is comic catastrophes - alcaray - 5/24/2005 10:58:20 PM
        
        :) I didnt mean to be so abrupt - R.L. - 5/25/2005 12:48:58 AM
        
        re: :) I didnt mean to be so abrupt - Nick Hoffman - 5/25/2005 12:48:25 PM
        
        Yep. That's where I went wrong. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/25/2005 3:14:22 PM
  - re: so what do we DO about it? - alcaray - 5/24/2005 5:39:28 PM
    - Use Saturn's rings as a shield - ljk - 5/26/2005 1:54:41 PM
      - Easiest shield to erect would be... - alcaray - 5/27/2005 3:40:57 PM

Analysis of the GCR contribution to climate change. - et - 5/19/2005 11:26:31 PM
- re: Analysis of the GCR contribution to climate change. - gbaikie - 5/20/2005 2:52:01 AM
  - here ya go - pwokenyaw - 5/20/2005 4:59:54 PM
    - re: here ya go - gbaikie - 5/20/2005 8:58:18 PM
      - Obviously you don't understand how funny that is. - gbaikie - 5/21/2005 3:15:58 AM
      - re: here ya go - pwokenyaw - 5/20/2005 9:38:50 PM
        
        here we don't go - E.P. Gronddine - 5/21/2005 7:31:18 AM
        
        re: here we don't go - pwokenyaw - 5/23/2005 10:40:34 PM
        
        re: here we don't go - gbaikie - 5/24/2005 1:47:42 AM
        
        care to make this debate more interesting? - pwokenyaw - 5/24/2005 3:18:16 PM
        
        re: care to make this debate more interesting? - gbaikie - 5/25/2005 12:51:12 AM
        
        small-money bets that denialists can still get in on - pwokenyaw - 5/25/2005 7:00:16 AM
        
        re: small-money bets that denialists can still get in on - gbaikie - 5/26/2005 1:40:00 AM
        
        re: small-money bets that denialists can still get in on - pwokenyaw - 5/26/2005 3:21:51 PM
        
        Interesting debate - Tom Brosz - 5/24/2005 4:17:44 PM
        
        Uninteresting rhetoric - et - 5/25/2005 4:35:52 PM
        
        "We know why." No. You don't. - Tom Brosz - 5/26/2005 1:57:21 AM
        
        Well, anyone who doesn't think a warming trend has been established should be interested in my little bets. (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/26/2005 3:24:56 PM
        
        re: a warming trend - Tom Brosz - 5/28/2005 8:59:24 PM
        
        re: a warming trend - pwokenyaw - 5/31/2005 10:04:10 PM
        
        re: a warming trend - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2005 5:26:20 PM
        
        re: Uninteresting rhetoric - gbaikie - 5/25/2005 9:10:48 PM
        
        Whoa Nellie..... - et - 5/26/2005 5:39:29 PM
        
        re: Whoa Nellie..... - gbaikie - 5/27/2005 3:38:24 AM
        
        looks like the standard forcing/feedback mistake in your post - pwokenyaw - 5/27/2005 4:44:03 PM
        
        re: looks like the standard forcing/feedback mistake in your post - gbaikie - 5/29/2005 1:54:49 AM
        
        odds are that you would lose - pwokenyaw - 6/2/2005 1:35:41 AM
        
        re: looks like the standard forcing/feedback mistake in your post - gbaikie - 5/27/2005 9:24:00 PM
        
        re: looks like the standard forcing/feedback mistake in your post - pwokenyaw - 5/28/2005 3:28:16 PM
        
        GW - gbaikie - 6/1/2005 5:15:51 AM
        
        lifetime of anthropogenic CO2 - pwokenyaw - 6/1/2005 9:57:56 PM
        
        re: lifetime of anthropogenic CO2 - gbaikie - 6/2/2005 12:55:49 AM
        
        you misread the article - pwokenyaw - 6/2/2005 1:22:43 AM
        
        That's what he does best. - et - 6/2/2005 3:19:54 AM
        
        Ok, so off to Mars - gbaikie - 5/27/2005 12:00:09 PM
        
        re: Ok, so off to Mars - gbaikie - 5/29/2005 3:21:33 AM
        
        re: Whoa Nellie..... - gbaikie - 5/27/2005 3:51:03 AM
- I would expect the CRF to change with time... - R.L. - 5/20/2005 1:10:39 AM
  - Read the linked article. - et - 5/20/2005 2:23:09 AM
    - Yup... I should have read it- I didnt have time... hence the disclaimer I put on my comment... - R.L. - 5/20/2005 4:02:44 AM

A lot of olivine on Mars - Raoul - 5/29/2005 8:07:57 PM
- It's just one section of Mars - Buck Galaxy - 5/30/2005 12:12:44 AM
  - re: It's just one section of Mars - Nick Hoffman - 5/30/2005 9:30:27 AM
    - Related Questions - Buck Galaxy - 5/31/2005 5:07:16 AM
      - Traces of stowaway Algae Could Survive on Mars, Study Finds - ljk - 5/31/2005 6:31:06 PM
        
        re: Heh - BRF - 6/1/2005 4:32:10 PM
        
        DNA testing should be able to identify any microbes as Earth contaminates. - Scott Evil - 6/1/2005 5:03:27 PM
        
        Now there's a question... - ljk - 6/1/2005 7:53:50 PM
        
        re: Now there's a question... - Scott Evil - 6/1/2005 10:21:13 PM

Mars Express - Raoul - 6/1/2005 8:19:34 PM
- re: Mars Express - Raoul - 6/1/2005 8:23:46 PM

Voyagers not the only deep space satellites in trouble - ljk - 6/1/2005 8:16:30 PM

Planet Migration & Charged Black Holes... - Adam - 6/1/2005 10:45:34 AM
- The Accretion of Dark Energy onto a Black Hole - ljk - 6/1/2005 4:39:33 PM
  - re: Dark Energy or a Black Hole ? - Johannes - 6/1/2005 7:08:13 PM

The true meaning of the Space Program - LJK - 5/29/2005 11:20:28 PM
- Get Real - E.P. Grondine - 6/1/2005 2:00:37 AM
- An Optimistic View For A Change - Mark Eby - 5/30/2005 1:55:22 AM
  - The Project - LJK - 5/30/2005 8:43:44 PM
    - WorldShip syndrome - Adam - 5/31/2005 10:19:12 AM
      - re: WorldShip syndrome - ljk - 5/31/2005 1:04:43 PM
        
        re: WorldShip syndrome - Raoul - 6/1/2005 5:31:47 AM
        
        re: WorldShip syndrome - Adam - 6/1/2005 10:24:47 AM
        
        re: WorldShip syndrome - ljk - 6/1/2005 4:22:31 PM

Big Congressional Appropriation For NEOs Passes Committee - Mark Eby - 5/24/2005 11:07:25 PM
- More MN04 Info: Impact Simulations & Potential 2029 Breakup - Mark Eby - 5/31/2005 12:42:23 AM
  - The Space Review article and B-612 Foundation Paper - ljk - 5/31/2005 12:54:28 PM
- And Rusty Schweickart's Call For More Research On MN04 - Mark Eby - 5/24/2005 11:25:14 PM
  - Funny how things work sometimes - E.P. Grondine - 5/25/2005 1:52:14 AM

Using APollo Seismometers for Search for Strange Quark Nuggets - LJK - 5/31/2005 8:16:36 AM

X-Ray Flares of Sun-Like Young Stellar Objects and Their Effects on Protoplanetary Disks - LJK - 5/31/2005 7:17:04 AM

Seeking exoplanets together - Raoul - 5/24/2005 5:28:38 AM
- Direct Detection of Extra-Solar Comets is Possible - LJK - 5/25/2005 5:18:11 AM
  - Aptly named "the vermin of the skies" (n/t) - p - 5/25/2005 11:26:58 PM
    - I thought that was the name for planetoids - ljk - 5/26/2005 1:42:49 PM
- A Jovian-mass Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071 - ljk - 5/24/2005 2:08:11 PM
  - Testing General Relativity with the Transiting Extrasolar Planet HD 209458b - LJK - 5/25/2005 5:35:22 AM
- I'm not surprised. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/24/2005 1:32:57 PM
  - re: I'm not surprised. - ljk - 5/24/2005 1:40:33 PM
    - A substellar companion around the intermediate-mass giant star HD 11977 - ljk - 5/26/2005 2:13:24 PM
      - A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940 - ljk - 5/27/2005 1:10:14 PM
        
        Translation: "We saw nothing very interesting, but here is a paper on that fact" - R.L. - 5/27/2005 7:25:54 PM
        
        The XO Project: Searching for Transiting Extra-solar Planet Candidates - LJK - 5/31/2005 7:12:12 AM

Pulsars as Tools for Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics - LJK - 5/31/2005 7:07:11 AM

Voyager 1 boldly going where no one or robot has gone before - ljk - 5/24/2005 5:08:08 PM
- Suddenly, inexplicably, Voyager's signal appears red-shifted and coming from an unexpectedly distant location .... - SDF - 5/28/2005 2:17:58 PM
- Want to hear the sounds of Voyager 1 crossing the boundary? - LJK - 5/25/2005 3:29:28 AM
  - Don Gurnett has been doing this since the 60s, I believe .. - Daniel - 5/25/2005 3:27:35 PM
    - The Planetary Society speaks out on saving the Voyager probes - ljk - 5/26/2005 3:09:11 PM
      - as the saying goes: - Daniel - 5/26/2005 3:28:38 PM
        
        Shutting down Voyagers to save 0.025% of NASA Budget - ljk - 5/27/2005 8:45:54 PM
        
        thanks (n/t) - Daniel - 5/28/2005 4:39:06 PM
        
        rather 0.00025% (n/t) - dd - 5/28/2005 4:02:07 PM
        
        I stand corrected. I missed the %. (n/t) - dd - 5/28/2005 4:21:55 PM
        
        Washington Post article on TPS response to Voyager - LJK - 5/28/2005 6:50:21 PM
        
        Voyager on reprieve - for the moment - LJK - 5/28/2005 6:57:51 PM
        
        Reconnection at the Heliopause - LJK - 5/31/2005 7:01:48 AM

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