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Search for Planetary Candidates within the OGLE Stars - ljk - 5/17/2005 1:06:52 PM

Alien Planet, comments after the show - phil - 5/16/2005 9:17:29 PM
- quibbles... - Adam - 5/17/2005 11:02:36 AM
  - Even More Quibbles... - Adam - 5/17/2005 11:25:46 AM

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity Begins Careful Rollout - REB - 5/16/2005 9:18:32 PM
- Great news! (n/t) - Davin L. - 5/17/2005 5:35:29 AM
- Squyres update just posted - JimO - 5/16/2005 9:50:39 PM

Without the Shuttle, what about the ISS? - Raoul - 5/15/2005 12:53:46 PM
- What do the Europeans want to do about it? - Jacob Samorodin - 5/15/2005 5:48:39 PM
  - re: Their experience - Raoul - 5/15/2005 9:36:26 PM
  - re: What do the Europeans want to do about it? - Doug Ellison - 5/15/2005 5:58:25 PM
    - True but - Buck Galaxy - 5/15/2005 10:44:07 PM
      - re: Not that important - Raoul - 5/16/2005 7:45:43 AM
        
        re: Not that important - p - 5/16/2005 9:20:35 PM
        
        re: Starsem - Raoul - 5/16/2005 9:55:50 PM

At last an atomic battery that seems practical - Delbert - 5/14/2005 9:18:23 PM
- It's an upgraded RTG (n/t) - Gary - 5/14/2005 11:05:12 PM
  - A little skim with the coffee Gary? (n/t) - et - 5/16/2005 5:06:07 PM
  - re: It's an upgraded RTG - Delbert - 5/14/2005 11:25:23 PM
    - Very little "thermal" about it. - et - 5/16/2005 5:16:48 PM
    - re: It's an upgraded RTG - Greg - 5/15/2005 8:35:46 AM
      - Perhaps the Ford Nucleon will become a reality at last! - ljk - 5/16/2005 12:51:16 PM

Alien Planet on The Discovery Channel Saturday, May 14 - ljk - 5/12/2005 7:40:03 PM
- BAD Astronomy - phil - 5/14/2005 8:56:50 PM
  - ALIEN/Bad Astronomy - Lindy - 5/15/2005 9:43:03 PM
  - re: BAD Astronomy - LJK - 5/14/2005 10:23:51 PM
    - re: BAD Astronomy - p - 5/15/2005 12:34:39 PM
      - re: BAD Astronomy - Curtis Clark - 5/16/2005 5:51:39 AM
        
        re: BAD Astronomy - ljk - 5/16/2005 12:42:05 PM
- They showed an extended preview of this... - alcaray - 5/12/2005 9:49:57 PM
  - It's from Barlowe's classic Expedition book - ljk - 5/13/2005 1:40:58 PM
    - Got it, but - alcaray - 5/13/2005 3:39:00 PM
      - re: Got it, but - Curtis Clark - 5/16/2005 5:53:40 AM
        
        So how plausable was the ship's propulsion system? - Lee - 5/16/2005 9:00:54 AM
        
        re: So how plausable was the ship's propulsion system? - Curtis Clark - 5/16/2005 2:30:52 PM
      - re: Got it, but - ljk - 5/13/2005 4:19:36 PM
        
        The most plausible prediction... - alcaray - 5/13/2005 4:29:20 PM
        
        re: The most plausible prediction... - ljk - 5/13/2005 5:11:01 PM
  - It's Barlowe - phil - 5/12/2005 10:26:59 PM
    - Ahhhrrrrgggg. And R.L. accuses me of being a scientific idiot. - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:37:59 PM

Ambassador of Exploration - Raoul - 5/13/2005 4:28:27 PM
- As far as Lunar samples go; you could buy Lunar meteorite samples for $3,000/gram. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/14/2005 7:54:30 PM
- re: Ambassador of Exploration - Delbert - 5/14/2005 12:51:31 AM
  - re: Moonrocks - Raoul - 5/14/2005 3:48:15 PM
  - re: Ambassador of Exploration - Raoul - 5/14/2005 2:50:00 PM
- Uh, wait a minute... - ljk - 5/13/2005 4:59:22 PM
  - re: Not for long - Raoul - 5/13/2005 5:44:17 PM
    - re: Not for long - ljk - 5/13/2005 6:30:21 PM
      - re: Not for long - Raoul - 5/13/2005 10:00:11 PM
        
        re: Not for long - ken murphy - 5/14/2005 10:04:21 PM
        
        It's... a rock. - ljk - 5/16/2005 12:50:06 PM

Oppy picture - Raoul - 5/16/2005 9:59:42 AM

Huygens descent views of Titan surface processed further - LJK - 5/14/2005 11:18:04 PM
- More descent images via The Planetary Society - LJK - 5/14/2005 11:28:24 PM

Global Warming - Greg - 5/13/2005 12:39:32 AM
- Paper - A climatic thermostat making Earth habitable - ljk - 5/13/2005 3:26:57 PM
  - re: Paper - A climatic thermostat making Earth habitable - gbaikie - 5/14/2005 11:43:18 AM

Using oil platforms for fish farms gets another look - gbaikie - 5/14/2005 2:45:00 AM

Space Shuttle quality assurance specialist indicted for 83 counts of fraud - SDF - 5/12/2005 7:07:22 AM
- I wonddder if they'll ever prosecute BRS Search for $300 million TMIS foul-up. - E.P. Grondine - 5/12/2005 4:13:27 PM
  - This is about a guy who didn't do his job. He lost his job. But they want to lock him up too. That's what communists did. - SDF - 5/13/2005 3:23:05 AM
    - The moral of the story: keep your paperwork straight - E.P. Grondine - 5/14/2005 1:45:23 AM

Working those wheels! - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 1:45:14 AM

CME - Raoul - 5/13/2005 10:02:34 PM

Houston schools may drop science and math requirement for high school graduation - Delbert - 5/12/2005 5:36:05 PM
- re: Houston schools may drop science and math requirement for high school graduation - Jacob Samorodin - 5/12/2005 6:39:19 PM
  - re: Houston schools may drop science and math requirement for high school graduation - Rusty - 5/13/2005 4:16:42 PM
  - Japan, China, and Korea for letting those scientists get away. - Scott Evil - 5/12/2005 7:04:55 PM
    - re: Japan, China, and Korea for letting those scientists get away. - who - 5/12/2005 8:27:14 PM
      - I think you did misunderstand. - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:49:08 PM

New moon found in the Keeler gap at Saturn..... - JJB - 5/11/2005 10:50:46 AM
- Wave maker - SteveS - 5/11/2005 12:54:48 PM
  - Ever read Footfall? - ljk - 5/11/2005 7:50:19 PM
    - No, but I'll guess a star ship? (n/t) - SteveS - 5/12/2005 12:17:14 AM
      - Ummm... - ljk - 5/12/2005 1:06:54 PM
        
        re: Well... - SteveS - 5/12/2005 11:18:15 PM
        
        re: Well... - ljk - 5/13/2005 1:24:33 PM
        
        The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us - SteveS - 5/13/2005 8:39:27 PM

Paper - Constraints on the Orbital Evolution of Triton - ljk - 5/13/2005 3:18:44 PM

ISS passage tonight, 22:12 local time, Antwerp, Belgium with the Sony DSC-V1 digital camera - Raoul - 5/12/2005 9:14:57 PM
- re: ISS passage tonight, 22:12 local time, Antwerp, Belgium with the Sony DSC-V1 digital camera - SteveS - 5/12/2005 11:04:26 PM
  - re: re:Earthshine - Raoul - 5/13/2005 5:26:08 AM
    - re: re:Earthshine - SteveS - 5/13/2005 12:50:00 PM

Global warming - gbaikie - 5/9/2005 2:07:26 AM
- another important factor - E.P. Grondine - 5/10/2005 2:40:52 AM
  - re: another important factor - gbaikie - 5/10/2005 4:45:38 AM
- Yup- ya just disproved the whole global warming myth! - R.L. - 5/9/2005 5:01:00 AM
  - R.L. please inform us of your educational credentials on this subject? - Scott Evil - 5/9/2005 5:55:08 PM
  - re: Yup- ya just disproved the whole global warming myth! - gbaikie - 5/9/2005 6:42:16 AM
    - LOL you are illiterate I guess - R.L. - 5/9/2005 7:07:01 AM
      - re: LOL you are illiterate I guess - gbaikie - 5/9/2005 8:42:42 AM
        
        A non-peer reviewed, opinion article from 2000? - et - 5/9/2005 2:33:52 PM
        
        Levitus - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 5:07:18 PM
        
        Peer review: Oreskes v. Peiser - pwokenyaw - 5/9/2005 7:23:01 PM
        
        But peer review failed! - Sam F. - 5/10/2005 7:45:50 AM
        
        no it didn't, here's the proof that Peiser lacks credibility - pwokenyaw - 5/10/2005 4:56:01 PM
        
        proof - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2005 3:02:56 AM
        
        Landsea doesn't disagree with AGW - pwokenyaw - 5/11/2005 4:57:42 PM
        
        A couple more items. - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2005 3:36:47 AM
        
        A couple more desperate flailings.... - et - 5/11/2005 4:14:54 AM
        
        Solar activity - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2005 5:11:22 AM
        
        More sources newer than 5 years old? - et - 5/11/2005 5:16:26 AM
        
        What, did the existing data wear out? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2005 11:41:27 PM
        
        The existing contention lingers on. - et - 5/12/2005 6:13:30 PM
        
        Short synopsis - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 2:58:26 AM
        
        okay, here's your refutation on cosmic rays - pwokenyaw - 5/12/2005 1:04:33 AM
        
        Okay - Tom Brosz - 5/12/2005 3:47:19 AM
        
        I also liked that link as a source. - et - 5/11/2005 3:31:12 AM
        
        Fudging - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2005 4:16:04 AM
        
        re: Fudging - et - 5/11/2005 4:28:17 AM
        
        re: no it didn't, here's the proof that Peiser lacks credibility - gbaikie - 5/11/2005 2:09:51 AM
        
        Extract and answer.... - End Trans. - 5/11/2005 2:52:51 AM
        
        re: Extract and answer.... - gbaikie - 5/11/2005 6:10:06 AM
        
        Extract first, then answer.... - et - 5/11/2005 2:51:27 PM
        
        re: Extract first, then answer.... - gbaikie - 5/12/2005 4:19:10 AM
        
        Fine. Now draw those lines on the graphs, and tell me what you see. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/10/2005 3:58:46 AM
        
        re: Fine. Now draw those lines on the graphs, and tell me what you see. - pwokenyaw - 5/10/2005 5:22:09 PM
        
        That's an interesting read - Sam F. - 5/9/2005 9:11:29 AM
- Urban Heat Island myth passed around by denialists - pwokenyaw - 5/9/2005 4:31:19 AM
  - re: Urban Heat Island myth passed around by denialists - gbaikie - 5/9/2005 6:17:42 AM
- A few thoughts. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 2:52:51 AM
  - re: A few thoughts. - gbaikie - 5/9/2005 4:59:45 AM
    - re: A few thoughts. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 7:17:43 AM

Keck assists in imaging GRB afterglow - R.L. - 5/12/2005 9:27:43 PM

Today's APOD. Darn perdy... - et - 5/11/2005 3:01:26 PM
- re: 05 05 05 - Raoul - 5/11/2005 8:57:26 PM
  - Missed it... (n/t) - et - 5/11/2005 9:08:18 PM
- Digestible size. - et - 5/11/2005 8:39:08 PM
- Full size. - et - 5/11/2005 8:38:10 PM
- Spectacular! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 5/11/2005 4:38:27 PM
  - Very Cool - who - 5/12/2005 8:41:25 PM

Westerlund 1 (ESO Wide Field Imager) - Raoul - 5/12/2005 7:10:24 PM

Should Humanity Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines? - ljk - 5/5/2005 9:40:58 PM
- Bad Movie "COLLOSUSS, the FORBIN PROJECT" - carl - 5/11/2005 4:22:02 PM
  - re: Bad Movie "COLLOSUSS, the FORBIN PROJECT" - ljk - 5/11/2005 4:40:59 PM
    - re: Bad Movie "COLLOSUSS, the FORBIN PROJECT" - carl - 5/11/2005 4:57:25 PM
      - If Man Cannot Solve the Problem, I Can - ljk - 5/11/2005 6:10:29 PM
- If we did... - Peter Bruener - 5/8/2005 10:31:59 PM
  - Post of the year! ROTFL! (n/t) - p - 5/9/2005 12:17:04 AM
- a skeptic - phil - 5/5/2005 10:13:26 PM
  - There are many kinds of intelligence and its a continuum - Sawyer - 5/8/2005 12:36:00 PM
    - re: There are many kinds of intelligence and its a continuum - p - 5/8/2005 9:47:19 PM
      - re: There are many kinds of intelligence and its a continuum - Sawyer - 5/9/2005 6:45:40 AM
        
        re: There are many kinds of intelligence and its a continuum - phil - 5/9/2005 1:54:41 PM
        
        re: (case closed, except for the unreasoning obstinate) - Sawyer - 5/9/2005 5:23:52 PM
      - I agree- we have MUCH to learn from nature... - R.L. - 5/9/2005 12:50:42 AM
  - A really cool book about the mine and Penrose - Gary - 5/6/2005 6:00:13 AM
    - We've done pretty good in 60 years what took evolution 4 billion years - ljk - 5/6/2005 1:13:58 PM
      - I think it's actually 3 1/2 billion years but your point is made - Gary - 5/6/2005 3:20:06 PM
        
        you're only a 0.65 billion years out on the age of the earth - Tony - 5/6/2005 5:47:01 PM
    - Sigh.... I meant "mind" not "mine". (n/t) - Gary - 5/6/2005 6:01:21 AM
  - more and more, design-work like this is turned over to computers. - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:40:52 PM
    - Old news - phil - 5/5/2005 10:50:59 PM
      - fruitfly navigation and avoidence? - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:59:51 PM
        
        re: fruitfly navigation and avoidence? - p - 5/6/2005 2:55:43 PM
        
        And fruitflies still find the time to be attracted to other fruitflies! (n/t) - Scott Evil - 5/11/2005 1:55:20 PM
        
        Mers do not have to avoid flyswatters, true. - alcaray - 5/6/2005 3:16:47 PM
        
        re: Mers do not have to avoid flyswatters, true. - p - 5/9/2005 1:56:18 PM
- The word Godlike is getting a demotion, I see. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2005 9:51:15 PM
  - Unless it's god with a small g and not a capital G. (n/t) - Lee - 5/9/2005 4:17:12 AM
  - This is also about what words sell books - ljk - 5/6/2005 1:07:49 PM
    - intelligence - JE King - 5/10/2005 12:22:42 AM
      - What would an advanced intelligence want from us anyway? - LJK - 5/10/2005 2:37:53 AM
        
        Art - Fox - 5/10/2005 11:26:46 PM
        
        re: Art - ljk - 5/11/2005 1:15:59 PM
        
        re: What would an advanced intelligence want from us anyway? - JEKing - 5/10/2005 10:56:06 PM
        
        re: What would an advanced intelligence want from us anyway? - ljk - 5/11/2005 1:54:56 PM
        
        re: What would an advanced intelligence want from us anyway? - JEKing - 5/12/2005 6:35:26 PM

A challenge I throw at astronomers, both professional and amateur. Detecting an earth-mass planet orbiting a brown-dwarf. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/5/2005 3:59:53 PM
- re: Too much of a challenge - Raoul - 5/5/2005 4:33:41 PM
  - re: Too much of a challenge - Jacob Samorodin - 5/5/2005 5:04:55 PM
    - Paper - Astrometric Discovery of GJ 802b: In the Brown Dwarf Oasis? - ljk - 5/12/2005 1:10:27 PM

The Sun and the Moon - Raoul - 5/11/2005 6:56:09 PM
- re: The Sun and the Moon - SDF - 5/12/2005 7:25:22 AM
- re: The Sun and the Moon - SDG - 5/11/2005 7:54:21 PM
  - re: The Sun and the Moon - Raoul - 5/11/2005 8:19:26 PM
    - re: The Sun and the Moon - Doug Ellison - 5/12/2005 8:54:27 AM

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