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Is there a chemical model for life in the universe? - phil - 2/24/2005 2:52:33 PM

Starless galaxy made of dark matter - Andrew - 2/23/2005 4:04:45 PM
- Better URL - Nick Hoffman - 2/24/2005 1:25:40 AM
  - re: Better URL - Vince - 2/24/2005 4:18:30 AM
    - My take on exploration of the universe - R.L. - 2/24/2005 7:59:51 AM
      - supurb n/t (n/t) - Marcus - 2/24/2005 2:35:04 PM

Frost on Mars. - RobVG - 2/22/2005 4:15:32 AM
- soil study. - jms - 2/22/2005 5:24:15 AM
  - Darn. That explains it. (n/t) - RobVG - 2/22/2005 3:16:10 PM
- re: Frost on Mars. - Tom Brosz - 2/22/2005 5:13:00 AM
  - Dunes - Tom Brosz - 2/22/2005 5:16:09 AM
    - re: Dunes - Doug Ellison - 2/22/2005 10:36:06 AM
    - Just realized something... - Tom Brosz - 2/22/2005 5:19:25 AM
      - re: The future is MORE than here! - Nathan Koren - 2/22/2005 9:09:04 PM
        
        Wow...drove by that bridge today. - Tom Brosz - 2/24/2005 8:23:13 AM
        
        re: Wow...drove by that bridge today. - Nathan Koren - 2/24/2005 1:20:23 PM
        
        re: whoops, linked to the wrong image - Nathan Koren - 2/22/2005 9:10:11 PM
        
        Homesick - dtb - 2/23/2005 6:42:22 AM

Spacesuit Casque? - Chris Vancil - 2/23/2005 10:41:39 AM
- re: Spacesuit Casque? - Nick Hoffman - 2/24/2005 1:33:30 AM
  - re: Spacesuit Casque? - Chris Vancil - 2/24/2005 8:01:14 AM
- Talk about odd words - Keith Cowing - 2/23/2005 8:07:45 PM
  - re: Netiquette? - Chris Vancil - 2/23/2005 8:54:14 PM
    - re: Netiquette? - Keith Cowing - 2/23/2005 9:05:24 PM
      - re: Netiquette? - Chris Vancil - 2/23/2005 9:21:21 PM
        
        re: Netiquette? - Keith Cowing - 2/23/2005 9:31:50 PM
        
        re: Flame Board (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 2/23/2005 10:30:26 PM
- re: Spacesuit Casque? - Raoul - 2/23/2005 7:47:39 PM
  - re: Spacesuit Casque? - Chris Vancil - 2/23/2005 8:38:30 PM

Saturn's Rings and Moons - Adam - 2/22/2005 4:43:38 AM
- Oops... here's the link - Adam - 2/22/2005 4:48:09 AM
  - re: Dance of the Moons! (Mimas and the Rings) - Raoul - 2/22/2005 7:33:46 PM
    - re: Dance of the Moons! (Dione and Titan) - Raoul - 2/22/2005 7:38:31 PM
      - re: Dance of the Moons! (Dione and Tethys) - Raoul - 2/22/2005 7:40:49 PM
        
        AWESOME!!! - Adam - 2/22/2005 11:59:43 PM
        
        re: Crowded! - Raoul - 2/23/2005 8:43:25 PM
  - Beautiful! I'd love to see more examples people come across... (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 2/22/2005 4:05:49 PM

How to make the Space Shuttle pay for itself. - David F Mayer - 2/23/2005 5:17:47 AM
- re: How to make the Space Shuttle pay for itself. - SDG - 2/23/2005 8:27:04 PM
- as always you're a barrel of laughs, David - Daniel - 2/23/2005 6:35:06 AM

Are the "dark matter" and "dark energy" misinterpretaions of observation? - David F Mayer - 2/22/2005 7:06:13 PM
- Kepler's Supernova - Adam - 2/22/2005 11:49:11 PM
  - The evidence for acceleration is still rather tenuous, as you point out. - David F Mayer - 2/23/2005 4:39:43 AM
- most of the theories I've heard - alcaray - 2/22/2005 9:22:15 PM
  - Negative pressure, or negative energy density - David F Mayer - 2/23/2005 4:35:53 AM
    - There are several theories to explain the accelleration - alcaray - 2/23/2005 4:23:49 PM
      - Nonsense. My comments are totally speculative. - David F Mayer - 2/23/2005 7:56:54 PM

Manned Mars Mission References - Mark Eby - 2/18/2005 11:37:25 PM
- So Once Again People Would Rather Comment In Ignorance Than Read The Details - Mark Eby - 2/20/2005 8:21:11 PM
  - References appreciated - Adam - 2/21/2005 2:16:47 PM
    - They're In There - Mark Eby - 2/21/2005 7:15:13 PM
      - I would suggest... - Adam - 2/22/2005 2:55:09 AM
        
        Not Really Interested In Going To Mars Myself - Mark Eby - 2/23/2005 12:06:08 AM
  - On the contrary... - Tom Brosz - 2/21/2005 4:18:27 AM

not a great sourse, but interesting! - Davin :. - 2/21/2005 2:29:51 PM
- Bulldust! - Nick Hoffman - 2/22/2005 1:33:04 AM
  - What you really should do, Nick, is... - Jacob Samorodin - 2/22/2005 8:55:20 PM
  - Of course, but... - Adam - 2/22/2005 2:58:30 AM
- er, um... source I mean. (n/t) - Davin :. - 2/21/2005 2:30:23 PM

Rover self-portraits - Tom Brosz - 2/22/2005 5:28:35 AM
- re: Rover self-portraits - Doug Ellison - 2/22/2005 10:34:35 AM
  - Roll over ROVERS....... - carl - 2/22/2005 6:03:44 PM

Observing - Raoul - 2/21/2005 9:57:53 PM
- Beautiful. Thanks for sharing the pics. (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/22/2005 2:23:34 AM

Harlan Ellison - FrankC - 2/17/2005 6:55:56 AM
- re: Harlan Ellison - Arthur Smith - 2/17/2005 9:13:06 PM
  - ebooks - FrankC - 2/17/2005 11:18:51 PM
- Haven't read anything recent - alcaray - 2/17/2005 5:58:57 PM
  - re: Haven't read anything recent - FrankC - 2/17/2005 6:44:34 PM
    - He tried to improve SF on television - LJK - 2/18/2005 1:00:17 AM
      - Wrote "The Beast With the Glass Hand" for classic Outer Limits - alcaray - 2/18/2005 8:12:38 PM
      - re: He tried to improve SF on television - Gary - 2/18/2005 4:52:47 PM
        
        re: He tried to improve SF on television - LJK - 2/18/2005 11:18:25 PM
        
        "The Invaders" was fun but not very believeable - Gary - 2/19/2005 6:37:14 AM
        
        Remember the "War of the Worlds" series from the 1980s? - Lee - 2/20/2005 5:05:06 AM
- It depends. - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2005 4:46:19 PM
  - The story of his height - ebnelson - 2/21/2005 5:47:49 PM
    - re: The story of his height - Tom Brosz - 2/21/2005 6:15:51 PM
      - re: The story of his height - ebnelson - 2/21/2005 6:20:49 PM
  - P.S. - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2005 4:49:36 PM
    - I'll try those - FrankC - 2/17/2005 6:48:33 PM
- re: Harlan Ellison - ebnelson - 2/17/2005 7:17:59 AM
  - LOL, good story! (n/t) - FrankC - 2/17/2005 6:50:33 PM
  - Wonderful, thanks Ed :-) (n/t) - McFly - 2/17/2005 2:27:16 PM

Space Journalism Prize Announced - phil - 2/21/2005 2:39:26 PM

Beat this Enceladus image - pwokenyaw - 2/20/2005 9:29:47 PM
- Thank you, that's breathtaking! (n/t) - McFly - 2/21/2005 2:32:51 AM
- re: It's Rhea - Raoul - 2/20/2005 10:07:19 PM
  - Thanks - someday I'll learn to read (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 2/21/2005 1:41:23 AM
- Whoah! That is so cool... - Adam - 2/20/2005 9:47:30 PM

Neutron Star Flare - brighter than the full moon - phil - 2/19/2005 7:51:20 PM
- re: More energy in two hundredth of a second than what the sun produces in 250,000 years (n/t) - Raoul - 2/20/2005 8:41:36 PM
- re: En effet - Raoul - 2/19/2005 10:39:40 PM

NASA STATEMENT ON FALSE CLAIM OF EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON MARS - Chris Vancil - 2/18/2005 8:12:23 PM
- I think the researchers probably found inconclusive indicators - alcaray - 2/19/2005 3:30:13 PM
  - The Martian methane concentrations are tiny - Gary - 2/20/2005 7:49:24 PM
- "Cold Fusion" deja vu - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2005 9:54:24 PM
  - Cold Fusion Was A Bogus Claim By The Scientists Invoved Not Just Bad Journalism (n/t) - Mark Eby - 2/18/2005 11:28:55 PM
  - re:I hope not... - Chris Vancil - 2/18/2005 10:06:08 PM
    - More like polywater - bruced - 2/20/2005 1:08:08 AM

The frustrations of a space fan - Raoul - 2/20/2005 10:14:35 AM

A huge invisible explosion - Raoul - 2/19/2005 11:02:54 AM
- Wasn't me! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/20/2005 7:12:09 AM
- Those crazy kids and their interstellar hotrods! - LJK - 2/19/2005 4:44:13 PM

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. F/U on Lindy's post.l - Bowser - 2/19/2005 2:17:59 AM
- It's been ages since I've read it, thanks (n/t) - McFly - 2/19/2005 10:04:42 PM
- re: Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. F/U on Lindy's post.l - LJ - 2/19/2005 6:12:20 AM

Latest news story on methane on Mars - Tom Brosz - 2/16/2005 10:31:59 PM
- "Space agency denies report about Red Planet life" - jms - 2/18/2005 8:07:13 PM
  - NASA Public Affairs has already done the damage control on this one - Gary - 2/19/2005 6:50:33 AM
- A lot more on this from "Badastronomy.com" - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2005 6:31:21 AM
  - the link went bad... - jms - 2/18/2005 6:37:32 PM
    - it's available via the homepage. (n/t) - jms - 2/18/2005 6:45:06 PM
- Is there a difference between methane from life or volcanoes? - LJK - 2/17/2005 11:28:56 PM
- I am STILL on record for believing that there IS INDEED life on Mars. - David F Mayer - 2/17/2005 11:17:26 AM
  - Not "on" but "under" - Nick Hoffman - 2/18/2005 3:05:13 AM
  - Rare occurance, I agree- mostly- with DFM on this point... - R.L. - 2/17/2005 9:19:51 PM
    - 1 Is Reasonable Given Life's Rapid Rise on Earth... - Mark Eby - 2/18/2005 2:07:34 AM
      - I agree that it SEEMS reasonable given our one data point, BUT... - R.L. - 2/18/2005 6:24:27 AM
- NASA Ames team claiming "evidence of life" in CH4 - dtb - 2/17/2005 1:24:22 AM
  - This is very interesting - R.L. - 2/17/2005 7:36:39 AM
  - I suspect they were blind sided by Brian Berger - Gary - 2/17/2005 5:32:09 AM
    - blind sided - JimO - 2/17/2005 6:03:29 AM
      - oh joy... more ef***g good news - E.P. Grondine - 2/17/2005 6:29:00 AM
        
        Uncle Eddie, my man...are you channeling Smythe? (n/t) - phil - 2/17/2005 6:27:48 PM
        
        Survey question on back contamination... - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2005 4:59:27 PM
        
        You've Been BDed Tom - Mark Eby - 2/18/2005 2:04:40 AM
        
        Personally... - Adam - 2/18/2005 1:13:23 AM
        
        Both of you are almost certainly right. - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2005 2:55:06 AM
        
        sounding like a crazy tree-hugger, Tom (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 2/19/2005 2:38:44 AM
        
        Don't have to be a tree-hugger to know that rabbits in Australia was a bad idea. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/19/2005 6:36:49 PM
        
        I Agree With Caution - Mark Eby - 2/18/2005 4:17:38 AM
        
        more incoherent than usual - Adam - 2/17/2005 10:42:27 AM
        
        re: more incoherent than usual - Doug Ellison - 2/17/2005 3:10:16 PM
        
        Have you noticed that... - Gary - 2/17/2005 4:53:45 PM
        
        re: Have you noticed that... - Doug Ellison - 2/18/2005 11:26:57 AM
        
        Crazy Eddie - Adam - 2/17/2005 9:58:27 PM
        
        re: Have you noticed that... - phil - 2/17/2005 6:30:48 PM
- If it withstands peer review, it could be a real spur for more Mars exploration. (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/16/2005 11:03:28 PM

May 15, 2005..STS return to SPACE - carl - 2/19/2005 4:46:37 PM

More on Martian methane from Italy - LJ - 2/17/2005 11:28:24 PM
- Is there a difference between methane from life or volcanoes? - LJK - 2/17/2005 11:55:52 PM
  - Chemistry and Isotopes - Nick Hoffman - 2/18/2005 2:46:00 AM
    - I stand corrected (n/t) - alcaray - 2/18/2005 7:44:05 PM
  - Assuming that the life got the carbon from the atmosphere, - alcaray - 2/18/2005 12:28:08 AM

Another rover picture that made me jump... - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2005 5:48:35 AM
- re: Groovy :) (n/t) - Johannes - 2/18/2005 5:37:33 PM
- Opportunity still trucking... - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2005 5:53:33 AM

Martian water clues go wider and deeper - Imran - 2/18/2005 4:40:37 PM

Enceladus - Adam - 2/17/2005 10:49:59 AM
- Previous mention and reference - Adam - 2/18/2005 1:33:29 AM
- re: Enceladus - Doug Ellison - 2/17/2005 8:16:52 PM
  - re: Enceladus - Gregg - 2/18/2005 2:53:40 AM
    - re: Enceladus - Doug Ellison - 2/18/2005 9:27:39 AM
- re: Enceladus - Raoul - 2/17/2005 7:44:57 PM
- More raw Enceladus images here - LJK - 2/17/2005 4:29:06 PM
  - re: More raw Enceladus images here - et - 2/17/2005 6:39:03 PM
    - re: More raw Enceladus images here - phil - 2/17/2005 6:41:27 PM
      - Sorry to be a wet blanket, JIMO's been cancelled.. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2005 8:34:56 PM
- re: Enceladus - REB - 2/17/2005 2:36:16 PM
- re: Enceladus - Adam - 2/17/2005 10:51:35 AM
  - Wow Those Ridges Look A Lot Like Europa - Mark Eby - 2/18/2005 2:20:28 AM
  - Is that an image of Enceladus or Europa? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2005 2:59:15 PM
    - OK! Enceladus: The Saturnian version of Europa, how's that? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2005 8:37:09 PM
      - re: OK! Enceladus: The Saturnian version of Europa, how's that? - Doug Ellison - 2/17/2005 10:55:57 PM
        
        NTYMI...parts of Enceladus are a bit like Ganymede too. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2005 11:06:03 PM
        
        Enceladus is just like.... - Doug Ellison - 2/18/2005 1:28:31 PM

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