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Boom deployment completed - Raoul - 5/11/2005 6:08:04 PM
- thanks for the heads-up, raoul!! - JimO - 5/11/2005 9:10:05 PM
- YES! :) (n/t) - et - 5/11/2005 6:41:44 PM
- One down, two to go. - alcaray - 5/11/2005 6:21:55 PM
- Can they conduct any science with the one boom? - ljk - 5/11/2005 6:12:13 PM
  - No - Doug Ellison - 5/12/2005 7:31:56 AM

Opportunity Ready To Make Its Great Escape - Chris Vancil - 5/11/2005 11:21:50 PM
- Front wheels have been straightened - Tom Brosz - 5/12/2005 4:12:16 AM
  - Looks like the back ones, too. - Tom Brosz - 5/12/2005 4:25:28 AM

Philip Morrison, SETI Pioneer - ljk - 4/25/2005 12:44:23 PM
- re: Someone ought to answer this question - SDF - 4/27/2005 6:15:12 PM
  - re: Someone ought to answer this question - phil - 4/27/2005 6:21:22 PM
- I knew Philip Morrison, and he was a hell of a nice guy, - David F Mayer - 4/26/2005 7:47:28 PM
  - More details? - ljk - 4/27/2005 12:57:12 PM
    - I met him while a student long ago. He was seriously deformed, but - David F Mayer - 4/28/2005 7:41:25 PM
      - Web Memorial to Phil and Phylis Morrison - ljk - 5/11/2005 6:56:49 PM
  - re: I knew Philip Morrison, and he was a hell of a nice guy, - Tony - 4/27/2005 2:13:28 AM
    - How many Manhattan Project guys are left? - David F Mayer - 4/28/2005 7:42:39 PM
- The full post - ljk - 4/25/2005 12:45:12 PM
  - Detailed Obituary - ljk - 4/26/2005 1:24:00 PM
    - See the original Nature paper from 1959 that started Modern SETI - ljk - 4/26/2005 1:31:06 PM
      - Obit and Papers from Secrecy News - ljk - 4/26/2005 6:26:36 PM
      - Obit and Papers from Secrecy News - ljk - 4/26/2005 6:26:27 PM
        
        Morrison's SETI work from The SETI Institute - ljk - 4/27/2005 12:56:02 PM
        
        His eyewitness account of the Trinity Test - ljk - 4/27/2005 1:01:10 PM

MARSIS boom-1 deploy malfunction - JimO - 5/9/2005 2:06:35 PM
- tech details on boom - JimO - 5/11/2005 11:58:46 AM
  - re: tech details on boom - Chris Vancil - 5/11/2005 4:34:10 PM
  - Gambling with other people's poker chips - Gary - 5/11/2005 3:37:02 PM
- JimO's msnbc reprise - JimO - 5/10/2005 5:57:04 PM
- They'll have to send someone out there to fix it -- Pronto!!! (n/t) - SDF - 5/10/2005 5:21:07 PM
- Not as bad as JimO's subject sounds. 12 out of 13 lengths fully extended. - et - 5/9/2005 2:41:13 PM
  - ESA was "asking for it" when they designed a 65 ft antenna - Gary - 5/9/2005 3:50:46 PM
    - Longer wavelengths need longer antennas.... - et - 5/9/2005 4:07:30 PM
      - re: Longer wavelengths need longer antennas.... - phil - 5/9/2005 6:07:25 PM

New Sherrif in Town - phil - 5/10/2005 8:19:22 PM
- Does he want to see a "boilerplate' version fly in 2006? - Jacob Samorodin - 5/10/2005 8:34:23 PM
  - Mike Griffin maybe the Space Program's Messiah - Gary - 5/11/2005 3:25:30 PM
    - What might make the difference - Buck Galaxy - 5/11/2005 4:34:01 PM

Scientific/cultural consensus? - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 12:33:28 AM
- More quality work from canadafreepress.com... - et - 5/9/2005 3:14:14 PM
  - Not the point. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 4:20:50 PM
    - Oh no? - et - 5/9/2005 4:38:55 PM
      - Credibility and trust is the point - pwokenyaw - 5/10/2005 7:09:39 PM
        
        Peiser = some bozo. Looks like this "debate" is over. - Sam F. - 5/11/2005 3:33:45 PM
        
        Answer this... - et - 5/11/2005 4:06:09 PM
        
        above post should've replied to Tom B's 9:20 a.m. post (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/10/2005 7:10:57 PM
- ".....tens of thousands [of scientists], from around the world, all agreeing on one issue: that there is no scientific evidence of man-made global warming" - Sam F. - 5/9/2005 7:51:33 AM
  - WHo knows what sleight of hand that may be at work in the compilation of that number. - et - 5/9/2005 3:16:35 PM
    - Documentation, for what it's worth. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 4:37:09 PM
      - Wow - Sam F. - 5/9/2005 6:17:48 PM
        
        Now, watch what happens to him. - Tom Brosz - 5/10/2005 4:07:00 AM
        
        American Enterprise Institute?! - Sam F. - 5/10/2005 6:54:28 AM
      - I bet we could've compiled a similar list Re: Iraq WMD pre-war. - et - 5/9/2005 4:48:59 PM
      - The list raises more questions than it answers, IMESHO. - et - 5/9/2005 4:46:07 PM
- re: Scientific/cultural consensus? - gbaikie - 5/9/2005 2:54:48 AM

Spirit sol 464 - Raoul - 4/28/2005 5:28:32 AM
- Don't touch it....it's evil! - Lee - 4/30/2005 1:14:21 AM
  - re: Don't touch it....it's evil! - Waylon Townes - 5/11/2005 12:50:43 PM
    - Time Bandits, I think. - SDG - 5/11/2005 2:44:35 PM
  - LOL! - Tom Brosz - 4/30/2005 5:12:26 PM
- Looks like a meteorite! - carl - 4/29/2005 3:20:20 PM
- Kind of looks like a mushroom shape. A little "hoodoo?" - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2005 8:37:57 PM
- re: Spirit sol 464 - LJ - 4/28/2005 4:39:28 PM
  - image - LJ - 4/28/2005 4:40:18 PM
    - Whatever it it, it looks like its levitating. -) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/28/2005 6:21:17 PM
- re: It's a chocolate! - BRFelix - 4/28/2005 2:32:08 PM
  - Or a dehydrated monolith. ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/28/2005 2:53:02 PM
    - re: Or a dehydrated monolith. ;-) - dtb - 4/28/2005 7:08:58 PM
      - LOL. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/28/2005 7:48:18 PM

Many issues... - Raoul - 5/10/2005 6:30:20 PM
- Griffin seems to want to address them - Buck Galaxy - 5/11/2005 4:42:22 AM

Serenity comic book series from Darkhorse - et - 5/11/2005 2:43:26 AM

Supernovae early-warning system; is it possible? - Jacob Samorodin - 5/10/2005 6:22:00 PM
- re: Rigel - Raoul - 5/10/2005 6:34:05 PM
  - 700-900 Light-Years?...That's too close. Scary. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/10/2005 6:39:29 PM

Reducing the hiatus - Raoul - 5/9/2005 3:46:25 PM
- Another link here - Buck Galaxy - 5/10/2005 4:32:01 PM

Phoebe a KB object captured by Saturn - SteveS - 5/9/2005 2:21:17 PM
- Too many interesting things in the Saturn system - Gary - 5/9/2005 3:38:55 PM
- re: Phoebe a KB object captured by Saturn - phil - 5/9/2005 3:07:48 PM
  - And now Saturn has twelve more moons to boot! - LJK - 5/10/2005 2:55:47 AM
    - Catching up with Jupiter - SteveS - 5/10/2005 2:30:00 PM

Terrestrial planets around Alpha Centauri - Adam - 5/9/2005 12:58:41 PM
- Geez, don't DO that! - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 4:02:27 PM
  - LOL... sorry... - Adam - 5/9/2005 9:49:09 PM
- Follow Ups... - Adam - 5/9/2005 1:25:34 PM
  - An old article on the subject. - REB - 5/10/2005 1:12:11 PM

Extrasolar Visions Redux - Adam - 5/10/2005 11:45:02 AM

Birth of a black hole - Raoul - 5/9/2005 5:28:32 PM
- I refuse to believe it! Where's are the gravity-waves? - Jacob Samorodin - 5/9/2005 7:48:59 PM
  - Too far away for any current gravity wave detector. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/10/2005 12:36:29 AM
  - re: I refuse to believe it! Where's are the gravity-waves? - dd - 5/9/2005 10:04:40 PM
    - Maybe it was a weapon in a massive intergalactic war - LJK - 5/10/2005 2:40:41 AM

Amateur movies in the solar system - Raoul - 5/9/2005 5:33:29 AM
- 2 missing movies - E.P. Grondine - 5/10/2005 2:29:58 AM

NASA to swap out MAIN TANK - carl - 5/9/2005 5:39:00 PM
- re: NASA to swap out MAIN TANK - Raoul - 5/9/2005 8:11:34 PM

Spirit checking out this track - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2005 10:53:08 PM
- My guess is to help replicate the dune material for the engineering model. (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/9/2005 4:35:55 AM
  - re: My guess is to help replicate the dune material for the engineering model. - Doug Ellison - 5/9/2005 9:33:23 AM
    - oops! (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/9/2005 7:36:10 PM

The Great Silence - Adam - 5/3/2005 3:47:03 AM
- The paper is indecisive. - SDF - 5/4/2005 5:37:43 AM
  - I'd like to hear about your proof that interstellar travel is impossible to survive. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2005 4:02:45 PM
    - 10 percent lightspeed is the limit - SDF - 5/8/2005 12:56:34 PM
      - What, exactly is the density of interstellar protons? (n/t) - alcaray - 5/9/2005 3:31:17 PM
      - I think .2c - .3c could be reached with manned craft. - Lee - 5/9/2005 5:09:41 AM
      - Bigger issues - Gary - 5/8/2005 10:44:51 PM
        
        I personally know someone who has survived 100 yrs exposure to cosmic rays. - alcaray - 5/9/2005 5:20:14 PM
        
        I think it's totally unrealistic - SDF - 5/9/2005 1:36:09 PM
        
        Why refit? - Lee - 5/9/2005 7:19:25 PM
        
        For our generation, unfortunately true - Gary - 5/9/2005 4:05:03 PM
  - Logarithmic scales... - Adam - 5/5/2005 11:01:47 AM
    - We.... haven't.....achieved..... interstellar travel - SDF - 5/8/2005 1:11:59 PM
- 'Astrobiology' = extremophiles + speculation + funding - Daniel - 5/3/2005 4:45:52 AM
  - Too Early? On the Apparent Conflict of Astrobiology and Cosmology - ljk - 5/3/2005 12:17:40 PM
    - thanks .. - Daniel - 5/4/2005 9:55:45 AM
    - rToo Early?Too Late?, or Just Right??? - Nick Hoffman - 5/3/2005 3:59:37 PM
      - re: rToo Early?Too Late?, or Just Right??? - ljk - 5/3/2005 4:06:22 PM
        
        Sounds a little like a state lottery ad: "You can't win if you don't play" - Mary Anne - 5/8/2005 3:44:37 PM
    - re: Too Early? On the Apparent Conflict of Astrobiology and Cosmology - Nick Hoffman - 5/3/2005 3:36:49 PM
      - Using math to find out how many inhabitants are in the Cosmos - ljk - 5/3/2005 5:15:46 PM
        
        Obviously not a mathematician - Adam - 5/3/2005 11:35:30 PM
        
        re: Obviously not a mathematician - ljk - 5/4/2005 1:26:58 PM

Dark Matters - phil - 5/9/2005 6:14:44 PM

Carbon dioxide should be buried - Adam - 5/6/2005 11:53:23 AM
- How do you bury carbon dioxide? (n/t) - SDF - 5/6/2005 12:31:25 PM
  - Ask the EPA's webmaster. - et - 5/6/2005 4:44:13 PM
    - All that fossil fuel is just old biomass, right? Why not liberate it? - SDF - 5/8/2005 12:48:44 PM
  - Some interesting graphs showing historic CO2 variation - SDF - 5/6/2005 12:40:37 PM
    - Reality doesnt give a damn what you think - R.L. - 5/8/2005 11:29:39 PM
      - That graph you linked to... - SDF - 5/9/2005 1:18:54 PM
        
        re: That graph you linked to... - Davin L. - 5/9/2005 5:23:44 PM
      - Yes, let's discuss reality - Sam F. - 5/9/2005 8:22:41 AM
        
        The only negative I can see to global warming is that some Islands may be submerged. - Scott Evil - 5/9/2005 6:02:07 PM

MIT Time Traveler Conference - and only one is needed - ljk - 5/6/2005 2:31:20 PM
- I went, had a crappy time, so I went back to the day before I left and talked myself out of going at all. - jms - 5/6/2005 5:23:31 PM
  - LOL! I was hoping H.G. Wells would have shown up. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/6/2005 6:23:34 PM
    - re: LOL! I was hoping H.G. Wells would have shown up. ;-) - ljk - 5/9/2005 6:01:29 PM
- It was fun the first time I attended...But by the 8th appearance, it got boring. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/6/2005 2:57:02 PM
  - Did you meet yourself during any repeat visits? - ljk - 5/6/2005 4:03:13 PM
    - ROTFLMAO!! ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/6/2005 4:12:20 PM
      - re: ROTFLMAO!! ;-) - ljk - 5/6/2005 4:19:56 PM

tSpace gets a writeup in Space News. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 4:47:56 PM

Mars Polar Lander found? - RobVG - 5/8/2005 11:45:42 PM
- w/pics - RobVG - 5/9/2005 2:14:49 AM
  - As usual Raoul beat us all to this one - R.L. - 5/9/2005 4:30:37 AM
    - I should have known. Thanks (n/t) - RobVG - 5/9/2005 1:38:45 PM

Enceladus - high density confirmed - Adam - 5/9/2005 12:55:14 PM

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