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I think I got an APOD accepted... - R.L. - 2/6/2005 10:35:20 PM

How do you put a computer to use? - RobVG - 10/14/2004 12:30:08 AM
- re: How do you put a computer to use? - SDG - 2/6/2005 6:07:46 AM
  - Well... - RobVG - 2/6/2005 8:37:13 PM
- re: How do you put a computer to use? - Cary Pichan - 2/5/2005 4:31:37 AM
  - Buried metal - Tom Brosz - 2/6/2005 7:25:05 PM
  - How much metal and what kind? (n/t) - et - 2/5/2005 11:26:24 PM
- Pistols at sunrise! - et - 10/14/2004 6:58:50 PM
  - What's PP? - RobVG - 10/15/2004 3:42:16 AM
    - It's you're best friend if you lean how to use it. - et - 10/15/2004 4:59:09 AM
  - Why not the serial port? - Art Martin - 10/14/2004 8:38:58 PM
    - No reason.... - et - 10/15/2004 1:11:01 AM
    - No reason.... - et - 10/15/2004 1:10:34 AM
  - re: Pistols at sunrise! - REB - 10/14/2004 7:19:18 PM
- re: How do you put a computer to use? - LJ - 10/14/2004 4:52:21 AM
  - Looks promising. - RobVG - 10/15/2004 3:36:49 AM
- Sensor - Tom Brosz - 10/14/2004 2:16:38 AM
  - Program. - RobVG - 10/14/2004 2:44:48 AM
    - You could always try Current Events... - E.P. Grondine - 10/14/2004 4:36:52 AM
      - Nicely done. - RobVG - 10/15/2004 3:44:24 AM

Beagle 2 - Raoul - 2/3/2005 10:11:12 PM
- Not surprising - Donald - 2/4/2005 2:05:20 AM
  - Is Pilinger a "bad" guy - or just a man without enough resources? - LJK - 2/4/2005 4:59:33 PM
    - Pillinger used wrong tactics - Gary - 2/5/2005 4:57:17 AM
      - re: Pillinger used wrong tactics - 22 - 2/5/2005 8:10:43 AM
        
        Paradigm vs luck - dtb - 2/5/2005 6:54:56 PM
        
        To further enhance boredom - Gary - 2/6/2005 6:48:36 PM
        
        Strategy, and future MER targets? - dtb - 2/6/2005 7:12:03 PM
        
        There was no paradigm - Gary - 2/5/2005 6:14:00 PM
        
        How valid was Beagle 2's science package? - LJK - 2/5/2005 4:15:38 PM
        
        re: How valid was Beagle 2's science package? - Doug Ellison - 2/5/2005 9:46:46 PM
  - "Pill" should retire or find a new career (he's finished) (n/t) - Gary - 2/4/2005 5:41:24 AM

Terraforming Mars - gbaikie - 2/1/2005 12:55:45 PM
- Glaze over canyons on Mars - Gary - 2/2/2005 4:42:35 PM
  - re: Glaze over canyons on Mars - Nick Hoffman - 2/3/2005 10:09:48 AM
    - re: Glaze over canyons on Mars - Gary - 2/4/2005 5:59:55 AM
      - Algae - Nick Hoffman - 2/4/2005 7:36:31 AM
        
        We would I put the images? - Gary - 2/5/2005 4:23:22 AM
        
        re: We would I put the images? - Nick Hoffman - 2/6/2005 8:43:22 AM
        
        Ask Robert S. - SDG - 2/5/2005 5:54:31 PM
        
        Carl Sagan plan for terraforming Mars - LJK - 2/5/2005 5:02:05 PM
        
        re: Carl Sagan plan for terraforming Mars - Gary - 2/5/2005 6:24:22 PM
        
        re: Carl Sagan plan for terraforming Mars - LJK - 2/6/2005 3:08:57 PM
        
        Nuclear winter - Gary - 2/6/2005 5:42:48 PM
        
        Colonizing Greenland - Gary - 2/6/2005 5:59:13 PM
- Why not just build a network of subterranian colonies? - Scott Evil - 2/1/2005 4:33:51 PM
  - re: Why not just build a network of subterranian colonies? - gbaikie - 2/2/2005 9:26:32 AM
    - re: The lower Gravity should make tunneling easier. - Scott Evil - 2/2/2005 3:50:15 PM
      - Cabin Fever - Nick Hoffman - 2/3/2005 10:11:55 AM
  - Have at it ya Morlok bastard.... (n/t) - et - 2/2/2005 5:01:08 AM
- Already covered.... - Nick Hoffman - 2/1/2005 3:28:27 PM

About the CEV, LSAM, etc... - Raoul - 2/6/2005 10:29:26 AM
- re: Lunar Surface Access Module - Raoul - 2/6/2005 3:52:22 PM

Our "Radio-Active" galaxy from APOD - et - 2/6/2005 12:54:58 AM

Destination Mars: Arrival in one month - phil - 2/3/2005 8:22:46 PM
- Microwave Sciences... - Adam - 2/4/2005 6:13:44 PM
  - Zapping Cosmos 1 with a laser to send it out of Earth orbit - LJK - 2/5/2005 6:00:55 PM
- What would the pay load be.... - FrankC - 2/4/2005 5:43:42 PM
- It's not that straightforward. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/3/2005 11:25:03 PM
  - Cosmos 1 - Just 23 days from launch - LJK - 2/5/2005 5:51:40 PM
  - Yes it is - phil - 2/4/2005 12:56:15 AM

Machholz still visible, above Cassiopeia - Raoul - 2/5/2005 5:03:14 PM

Fast Company's Article on Space X - phil - 2/5/2005 3:13:45 PM
- re: Same article as Larry's post, below (n/t) - Raoul - 2/5/2005 4:58:17 PM

White House Cuts Hubble Servicing Mission from 2006 Budget Request - Chris Vancil - 1/22/2005 8:06:42 AM
- Re-tread - Peter Bruener - 1/23/2005 4:05:16 AM
- There comes a time when you have to look at the costs for maintenance... - Larry J - 1/22/2005 5:31:07 PM
  - Have you considered used Japanese parts? - Gary - 1/23/2005 9:11:33 PM
    - re: Have you considered used Japanese parts? - Masheleni - 2/4/2005 6:46:33 AM
      - I can't offer advice specific to your model - Gary - 2/5/2005 6:46:06 AM
    - Not applicable - Larry J - 1/24/2005 1:54:08 AM
      - Looks like a nice car. - Gary - 1/24/2005 3:01:27 AM
  - The Next Generation Telescope does not cover all the wavelengths that HST does - LJK - 1/22/2005 10:08:03 PM

R.L. you are on the front page of Fox News. - REB - 2/4/2005 5:56:33 PM
- Nope- I wasnt even remotely involved with that... - R.L. - 2/5/2005 5:57:53 AM
- the press release from Keck: - jms - 2/4/2005 6:50:03 PM

Re-entry Physics... - Adam - 2/3/2005 4:21:55 AM
- There are closed form solutions - Gary - 2/4/2005 5:35:47 AM
  - Where is it found? - Adam - 2/4/2005 11:02:42 AM
    - Abebooks - Gary - 2/5/2005 4:20:42 AM
- re: Re-entry Physics... - Tom Brosz - 2/3/2005 5:02:36 AM
  - 40 gees is no fun... - Adam - 2/3/2005 1:04:46 PM
    - Foot note: Scared a couple astronauts, too... - DALeffler - 2/5/2005 2:54:25 AM

Microscopic imager - Tom Brosz - 2/4/2005 6:06:13 AM
- me two, - jms - 2/4/2005 6:25:00 AM
  - Clearly a fossil version of this animal - pwokenyaw - 2/4/2005 10:34:28 PM
    - That's it! - jms - 2/5/2005 3:02:17 AM

Rosetta - Raoul - 2/4/2005 11:47:24 PM

Very good SpaceX article - Larry J - 2/4/2005 11:44:08 PM

The crater that Opportunity made when she touched down on Mars... - Marcia - 1/22/2005 5:27:49 AM
- Vostok - jms - 1/22/2005 5:43:12 AM
  - re: Vostok - Marcia - 1/22/2005 3:26:38 PM
    - re: Marcia, how do you interpret what this image shows? - BRFelix - 1/23/2005 7:39:25 PM
      - re: Here's some interesting interpretation - BRFelix - 1/24/2005 5:08:27 AM
        
        re: So if I'm seeing things correctly (no guarantees) - BRFelix - 1/24/2005 6:57:11 PM
        
        re: So if I'm seeing things correctly (no guarantees) - Marcia - 1/24/2005 9:09:52 PM
    - Nice view - jms - 1/23/2005 4:40:21 AM
      - re: Nice view - Marcia - 1/25/2005 2:21:42 AM
      - re: Nice view - Marcia - 1/24/2005 3:49:31 AM
        
        That's a good article... - jms - 1/24/2005 11:08:54 PM
        
        re: Contours? did someone say contours? - BRFelix - 1/25/2005 2:05:20 AM
        
        I did, I did say contours. - jms - 1/26/2005 3:32:42 AM
        
        re: I did, I did say contours. - Nick Hoffman - 1/26/2005 4:41:01 PM
        
        rats, no DEM - jms - 1/27/2005 5:13:00 AM
        
        re: rats, no DEM - SDG - 1/27/2005 3:52:41 PM
        
        something else worth trying - SDG - 1/27/2005 4:16:42 PM
        
        re: something else worth trying - jms - 1/28/2005 5:32:25 AM
        
        re: Contours? did someone say contours? - Marcia - 1/25/2005 11:25:57 PM
    - re: Vostok - Doug Ellison - 1/22/2005 8:25:18 PM
      - re: Vostok - Marcia - 1/22/2005 10:30:01 PM
        
        re: Vostok - Doug Ellison - 1/23/2005 11:27:21 AM
        
        re: Vostok - dtb - 1/23/2005 5:58:19 PM
        
        re: Yes, I know. - Marcia - 1/24/2005 2:15:21 AM
    - re: Themis image. - Marcia - 1/22/2005 3:37:36 PM
  - The Monolith fell over! - LJK - 1/22/2005 2:21:15 PM
    - re: The Monolith fell over! - Jacob Samorodin - 1/22/2005 3:36:19 PM
      - Actually in all seriousness.... - Gary - 1/23/2005 10:38:56 PM
        
        About those deceleration engines... - LJK - 1/24/2005 10:58:03 PM
        
        Starship deceleration engines (BIS: Daedalus Study) - Gary - 1/25/2005 5:24:31 AM
        
        re: Starship deceleration engines (BIS: Daedalus Study) - LJK - 2/4/2005 7:57:20 PM

Starry echo (HST) - Raoul - 2/4/2005 6:40:37 AM
- re: Optical Illusion? - BRFelix - 2/4/2005 4:25:35 PM
- re: Starry echo (HST) - Mr. Fibuli - 2/4/2005 8:55:42 AM

Rhea looking battered - Adam - 2/3/2005 1:27:58 PM
- re: *Is* that a surface feature? - Nathan Koren - 2/3/2005 11:10:48 PM
  - re: *Is* that a surface feature? - JJB - 2/4/2005 8:53:01 AM
    - re: *Is* that a surface feature? - Nathan Koren - 2/4/2005 2:44:35 PM
- Note the other fainter streaks above it - LJK - 2/3/2005 2:26:13 PM

What on Saturn is it??? - JJB - 2/2/2005 5:27:56 PM
- It's a moon. - et - 2/2/2005 6:33:59 PM
  - re: It's a moon. - JJB - 2/4/2005 9:01:33 AM
- I blew it up and enhanced it - R.L. - 2/2/2005 5:54:40 PM
  - AAAAHHH!!....They're coming!!...Run for your lives!! ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/3/2005 4:48:24 PM

Cool model of earth's crust - alcaray - 2/3/2005 4:33:06 PM
- That's cool... - jms - 2/3/2005 5:26:24 PM
  - analog models - REB - 2/3/2005 6:36:20 PM
    - re: I still do that... - jms - 2/4/2005 6:34:04 AM

Creatures of the deep - Tom Brosz - 2/4/2005 6:27:09 AM

I'd give a kidney for ... - Alberto - 2/3/2005 12:13:03 AM
- re: Heck, why not? It seems like a good idea whatever happens. Save Hubble! (n/t) - Vince - 2/3/2005 3:20:36 AM
  - re: Heck, why not? It seems like a good idea whatever happens. Save Hubble! - Doug Ellison - 2/3/2005 12:30:37 PM
    - How about a IST? - Alberto - 2/3/2005 10:35:36 PM
      - ...or maybe IHOP - Alberto - 2/4/2005 3:10:54 AM

5 new gas giant planets - one in the habitable zone? - pwokenyaw - 2/1/2005 11:22:14 PM
- re: HD 188015 b - Marcia - 2/2/2005 1:53:10 PM
  - re: HD 188015 b - Nick Hoffman - 2/3/2005 12:45:32 AM
    - re: HD 188015 b - pwokenyaw - 2/3/2005 5:21:50 AM
    - Water Giant? - FrankC - 2/3/2005 5:02:08 AM
      - re: Water Giant? - REB - 2/3/2005 1:58:52 PM
        
        re: A moon with the mass of the Earth would be a nicer place - Nick Hoffman - 2/3/2005 2:46:17 PM
        
        scaling Titan/Saturn mass ratio to 5xJupiter mass - pwokenyaw - 2/3/2005 5:12:49 PM
        
        Solar system analogs are a mistake - phil - 2/4/2005 1:02:00 AM
        
        No one's betting the farm on available data, so I think it's okay (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 2/4/2005 1:31:47 AM
        
        5xJupiter mass - FrankC - 2/3/2005 6:08:00 PM
        
        I think brown dwarfs are a minimum 13xJupiter mass (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 2/4/2005 12:03:17 AM
        
        You are more right than me, min. MJ10 (n/t) - FrankC - 2/4/2005 2:42:15 AM
        
        re: 5xJupiter mass - Marcia - 2/3/2005 11:59:37 PM
      - re: Water Giant? - or how to bake your own planet at home - Nick Hoffman - 2/3/2005 9:58:50 AM
        
        P.S. Re: WaterMoons - Nick Hoffman - 2/3/2005 10:03:52 AM
        
        Also... - Jacob Samorodin - 2/3/2005 9:46:12 PM
        
        re: Also.... Thank goodness for comets and icy asteroids. - Marcia - 2/4/2005 12:59:47 AM
  - re: Come on Maecia...You made this up because the Movie "waterworld" was on TV last night. - Scott Evil - 2/2/2005 3:57:37 PM
    - re: LOL Nope, I did not make it up and yes, we saw Waterworld last night. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 2/2/2005 10:37:10 PM
    - re: Come on Marcia...You made this up because the Movie "waterworld" was on TV last night. - pwokenyaw - 2/2/2005 5:57:10 PM
      - re: Capturing light we may otherwise never get to see. - Marcia - 2/2/2005 11:16:59 PM
  - Thanks folks for the links - phil - 2/2/2005 3:01:24 PM

Just in case the thread below disappears in the next 24 hours, I repeat... - Jacob Samorodin - 2/3/2005 11:41:09 PM

Methan here, methane there? - Doug Ellison - 2/3/2005 3:02:22 PM
- re: Methan here, methane there? - Adam - 2/3/2005 9:47:05 PM

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