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What do y'all know about "Tholins" ? - jms - 1/17/2005 5:49:22 AM
- Paper on Tholins at Titan - LJK - 1/18/2005 7:30:04 AM
  - re: Also Lynn Margulis' "Environmental Evolution" - Nick Hoffman - 1/20/2005 4:46:38 AM
    - now I gotta go to the library... - jms - 1/21/2005 1:02:06 AM
      - Forget the Library... - Nick Hoffman - 1/21/2005 3:28:43 AM
  - That's what I was looking for. - jms - 1/18/2005 4:16:42 PM
    - If you want even more information on Titan... - LJK - 1/19/2005 10:52:04 PM
- re: What do y'all know about "Tholins" ? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/17/2005 3:47:16 PM
- Invented by the creator of Astrobiology - Carl Sagan. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/17/2005 1:12:12 PM
  - Sagan nicely debunked by Michael Crichton - Gary - 1/17/2005 9:07:07 PM
    - Crichton nicely debunked by Realclimate.org - pwokenyaw - 1/18/2005 5:18:37 AM
      - re: Crichton nicely debunked by Realclimate.org - LJK - 1/19/2005 12:42:51 AM
      - The linked Crichton speech concerned Sagan's "Nuclear Winter" (n/t) - Gary - 1/18/2005 5:26:52 AM
        
        And to denigrate global warming. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/18/2005 2:38:18 PM
        
        And also SETI. - Robert Clark - 1/18/2005 3:31:53 PM
        
        re: And also SETI. - LJK - 1/18/2005 4:29:28 PM
        
        Terrestrial Planet Finder - Gary - 1/18/2005 4:56:58 PM
        
        re: Terrestrial Planet Finder - Robert Clark - 1/18/2005 9:20:18 PM
        
        Bob puts his foot into another gaping hole in his knowledge - Nick Hoffman - 1/19/2005 2:10:42 AM
        
        Sounded like a reasonable question to me - alcaray - 1/19/2005 5:07:31 PM
        
        re: Sounded like a reasonable question to me - Robert Clark - 1/20/2005 1:16:35 PM
        
        P.S. Start Here... - Nick Hoffman - 1/21/2005 3:26:12 AM
        
        Table of detection ranges. - Robert Clark - 1/21/2005 4:39:06 PM
        
        re: Sounded like a reasonable question to me - Nick Hoffman - 1/21/2005 2:38:10 AM
        
        And the answer is? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/19/2005 6:44:06 AM
        
        The answer is? (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 1/19/2005 7:22:23 AM
        
        TPF and CFCs - pwokenyaw - 1/18/2005 8:24:25 PM
        
        re: TPF and CFCs - Marcia - 1/19/2005 1:00:46 AM
    - Becareful, you'll bring up a big argument about global warming! - Robert Clark - 1/18/2005 12:30:17 AM
- It's what a Texan calls them aliens that build that web-thang to catch starships. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2005 6:50:31 AM

Titan from 10 km up... - Adam - 1/20/2005 12:47:43 AM
- Long-lasting myths - Nick Hoffman - 1/20/2005 4:19:56 AM
  - Reply to Nick... - Adam - 1/20/2005 10:19:39 PM
  - Bacteria - Cambrian delay -- how long elsewhere? - dtb - 1/20/2005 6:23:13 PM
  - why only 1 G.A. years for oceans on Venus? - pwokenyaw - 1/20/2005 5:27:59 PM
  - re: Nice summary of some of the mythology of the planets - BRFelix - 1/20/2005 2:46:23 PM
    - Opik on Jupiter... - Adam - 1/21/2005 5:48:51 AM
- As someone once said, sometimes a crater is just a crater. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/20/2005 2:04:00 AM

About the prospects for the private space sector. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2005 9:50:22 PM
- Off the radar screen, but.... - Tom Brosz - 1/21/2005 3:16:33 AM
- SpaceX has a better idea - Larry J - 1/20/2005 10:49:55 PM
  - re: SpaceX has a better idea - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2005 11:09:00 PM

Exoplanet Discoveries Called Into Question - Marcia - 1/20/2005 3:42:05 AM
- It's about time - Gary - 1/20/2005 5:22:11 AM
  - Jupiter is far from being a star - LJK - 1/20/2005 12:20:45 PM
  - 13 Jupiter masses - Adam - 1/20/2005 10:41:08 AM
    - re: Thanks, Adam! - Marcia - 1/20/2005 7:22:14 PM
      - Muddying the waters... - Adam - 1/20/2005 11:02:00 PM
        
        re: Understood. Thank you, Adam. :) (n/t) - Marcia - 1/21/2005 12:51:25 AM
  - When they came for Pluto, and said it wasn't a planet, I did nothing. - Lee - 1/20/2005 8:32:43 AM

This might be western Europe's definitive space year. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2005 4:42:55 PM
- Interesting how the private sector has been almost completely excluded from this discussion. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/20/2005 2:06:50 AM
  - re: Interesting how the private sector has been almost completely excluded from this discussion. - Nathan Koren - 1/20/2005 5:44:57 PM
    - re: Just a bit more time - Raoul - 1/20/2005 10:05:15 PM
- re: This might be western Europe's definitive space year. - J - 1/19/2005 7:40:57 PM
  - Don't you get it? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2005 9:02:39 PM
    - So are doing a parody of an ugly American? - alcaray - 1/20/2005 12:37:54 AM
      - Each nation or group of states will or have their moment in the sun. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2005 5:10:47 PM
        
        You seemed to derive pleasure from telling us our space program is foundering - alcaray - 1/20/2005 5:25:17 PM
        
        You're joking, right? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2005 10:09:26 PM
        
        First post was joking. Not second post. Nor here. - alcaray - 1/20/2005 10:35:57 PM
        
        OK! The question might not be so silly 50 years from now. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/20/2005 11:12:22 PM
        
        I could never learn to keep the sarcastic editorial comments out of my prose - alcaray - 1/21/2005 12:03:02 AM
  - re: The image thing - Raoul - 1/19/2005 8:55:57 PM
- re: This might be western Europe's definitive space year. - JJB - 1/19/2005 6:10:41 PM
  - Left out Phoenix lander (n/t) - alcaray - 1/19/2005 7:07:18 PM
- Don't delude yourself. - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2005 5:42:31 PM
  - Whose deluding who? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2005 9:29:55 PM
    - Actually this nationalism thing bugs the hell out of me. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2005 9:47:40 PM
      - not so much nationalism - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2005 10:07:25 PM
        
        Your going to rest on your opinions and let NASA gradually fade... - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2005 10:48:30 PM
        
        You nailed it! - Gary - 1/20/2005 3:42:47 AM

Opportunity to look at Meteorite or WRONG? - carl - 1/18/2005 7:04:28 PM
- New Scientist report Nickel-Iron meteorite - Nick Hoffman - 1/19/2005 2:05:05 AM
  - Well, that explains why it's so lonely out there. - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2005 3:53:31 AM
  - re: Kewl! What's the yalla stuff on it? - BRFelix - 1/19/2005 3:05:28 AM
    - limonite or jarosite (n/t, really) (n/t) - jms - 1/19/2005 8:02:20 PM
      - re: jarosite (also the pyrite and/or sulfur possibility) - BRFelix - 1/20/2005 6:16:59 PM
        
        nice picture - jms - 1/20/2005 11:44:48 PM
    - Powdered pyrite? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/19/2005 4:26:37 PM
- re: Opportunity to look at Meteorite or WRONG? - Doug Ellison - 1/18/2005 7:43:05 PM
  - a close look at the RAT - jms - 1/18/2005 8:01:02 PM
  - Way COOOOL!!!!!!! - carl - 1/18/2005 7:46:58 PM

Our Moon - Raoul - 1/20/2005 8:34:50 PM
- re: Our selves from the Moon - Chris Vancil - 1/20/2005 10:53:43 PM

The worlds without gods (presocratic cosmology-from an article in Ciel et Espace) - Raoul - 1/19/2005 9:53:06 PM
- Gods and Greeks - Davin :. - 1/20/2005 4:54:09 PM
  - re: Gods and Greeks - Tom Brosz - 1/20/2005 6:46:44 PM
    - Re: Comic Books and Deity - Davin :. - 1/20/2005 8:26:45 PM
    - re: Gods and Greeks - Raoul - 1/20/2005 7:14:12 PM
- Earth was not the center of the Universe - it was at the *bottom* - LJK - 1/19/2005 10:16:29 PM
  - Plurality of worlds... - Adam - 1/19/2005 11:40:12 PM
  - re: ... and hell was at the center of the Earth... - Marcia - 1/19/2005 11:18:06 PM
    - re: ... that should have been: LJK -n/t (n/t) - Marcia - 1/19/2005 11:21:13 PM

David Grinspoon Talk on Astronobiology Online - LJK - 1/19/2005 10:05:51 PM

Columbia crew catches a mysterious TIGER in the Indian Ocean - Jack Herer - 1/19/2005 6:18:11 PM
- re: Tigers, elves and sprites from space. - Marcia - 1/19/2005 9:43:32 PM

Titan raw images finally "officially" posted online - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2005 6:52:18 AM
- Is there a "gap" in the images? - LJK - 1/18/2005 12:03:25 PM
  - re: Is there a "gap" in the images? - Marcia - 1/18/2005 1:31:45 PM
    - More of Titan's secrets to be unveiled on January 21 - LJK - 1/18/2005 5:42:46 PM
      - re: More of Titan's secrets to be unveiled on January 21 - Thank you, LJK! (n/t) - Marcia - 1/18/2005 11:24:29 PM
      - Is it possible to get real data from signals received by Earth radio telescopes? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2005 6:20:52 PM
        
        re: Is it possible to get real data from signals received by Earth radio telescopes? - Marcia - 1/18/2005 11:31:20 PM
        
        Questions on Huygens and Titan answered by an expert - LJK - 1/19/2005 9:43:21 PM
        
        Huygens landed in Titanian mud and a descent movie - LJK - 1/19/2005 12:45:05 AM

A question relating to a thread below- Is there a moon in our solar system that isnt tidally locked? - R.L. - 1/19/2005 5:38:18 AM
- re: Around Jupiter - Raoul - 1/19/2005 6:54:55 PM
- Saturn's Phoebe - Gary - 1/19/2005 4:53:48 PM
- I found this... - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2005 6:11:28 AM
  - re: I found this... - Marcia - 1/19/2005 2:52:14 PM
  - re: I found this... - LJK - 1/19/2005 2:41:14 PM

Next stop: Opportunity's own impact crater? - Marcia - 1/19/2005 4:01:14 PM
- That is such a cool picture! - Gary - 1/19/2005 4:39:26 PM
- re: Opportunity's own impact crater. - Marcia - 1/19/2005 4:27:04 PM
  - Much of that darker material is SLA-561V and ash - Gary - 1/19/2005 4:43:30 PM
    - re: Much of that darker material is SLA-561V and ash - Marcia - 1/19/2005 5:25:12 PM

New window to cosmic background? - alcaray - 1/18/2005 3:57:32 PM
- Don't think so - Nick Hoffman - 1/19/2005 7:38:23 AM
  - Well I meant "new" as in: - alcaray - 1/19/2005 3:56:14 PM

Auroras galore - SteveS - 1/19/2005 2:48:41 PM

Conglomerates on Mars? - Robert Clark - 1/16/2005 3:06:21 PM
- re: Obviously some fluid(s) have been operating - BRFelix - 1/17/2005 3:31:08 PM
- Reading Skills - Remedial Tuition - Nick Hoffman - 1/17/2005 1:26:44 AM
  - Sedimentary rocks at Pathfinder. - Robert Clark - 1/17/2005 4:22:38 PM
    - Re: phosphorus in Pathfinder and Gusev rocks. - Robert Clark - 1/18/2005 10:22:48 AM
      - Another rock type to compare to Wishstone - jms - 1/18/2005 4:52:13 PM
      - Well, maybe, but, - jms - 1/18/2005 4:11:01 PM
  - Tuition? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 1/17/2005 1:13:26 PM
    - Yeah - Tuition, my way. - Nick Hoffman - 1/19/2005 7:33:38 AM
  - White Mars, Nick? - crank - 1/17/2005 1:31:29 AM
    - Are you still having problems with the physics of water, crank? - lemonade lucy - 1/17/2005 4:09:45 AM

One data channel of two on Huygens was lost due to software error - Gary - 1/16/2005 6:23:33 PM
- Loss of half pictures -- how bad really? Not too bad? - JimO - 1/17/2005 1:43:55 PM
  - Also, - Davin L - 1/18/2005 1:44:12 PM
  - Can you elaborate on your earlier Galileo Probe comment? - Gary - 1/17/2005 6:05:08 PM
    - earlier Galileo Probe comment - JimO - 1/17/2005 6:13:41 PM
      - Interesting - Gary - 1/17/2005 6:50:49 PM
        
        follow-up - JimO - 1/17/2005 7:15:25 PM
        
        Dead, retired or gone (most of their expertise went with them) - Gary - 1/17/2005 8:17:32 PM
        
        This is a similar point... - Larry J - 1/17/2005 10:04:51 PM
        
        We've lost the original formula for carbon-phenolic - Gary - 1/17/2005 10:43:32 PM
        
        The biggest difference between Genesis and the MSR proposal - Larry J - 1/17/2005 11:24:01 PM
        
        Don't mean to hijack the thread, - alcaray - 1/17/2005 11:51:47 PM
        
        I haven't heard - Gary - 1/18/2005 12:13:12 AM
  - Take cost of Hyugens, divide by two - E.P. Grondine - 1/17/2005 3:56:31 PM
    - and you still get opinion. - Davin L. - 1/18/2005 1:45:26 PM
    - re: Take cost of Hyugens, divide by two - Doug Ellison - 1/17/2005 4:24:55 PM
      - Okay: Take cost of Hyugens, divide by six, and then start to add - E.P. Grondine - 1/18/2005 12:47:47 AM
        
        re: Okay: Take cost of Hyugens, divide by six, and then start to add - Doug Ellison - 1/18/2005 9:04:18 AM
        
        Looks like you and I made the same mistake - Davin :. - 1/18/2005 1:48:20 PM
        
        re: Looks like you and I made the same mistake - E.P. Grondine - 1/19/2005 6:05:37 AM
- They changed to URL. - Gary [the original one] - 1/16/2005 6:29:24 PM
  - Spaceflight Now has a good article on this error - LJK - 1/16/2005 7:31:35 PM
    - Future Titan work - Gary - 1/16/2005 10:08:00 PM
    - re: Radio astronomers - Raoul - 1/16/2005 9:30:23 PM
      - And don't worry about those missing images. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/17/2005 3:43:40 PM
      - I wonder if anyone got anything of that second channel... - E.P. Grondine - 1/17/2005 4:02:07 AM
      - re: Radio astronomers - Marcia - 1/16/2005 10:53:27 PM

Scientists Assess Value of Publicizing Their Work - LJK - 1/18/2005 6:40:32 PM
- re: enjoyed that, thanks for the link. (n/t) - jms - 1/18/2005 7:24:37 PM
  - A new variant on the "no text" topic (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 1/19/2005 2:07:13 AM

Star Drives: NASA concepts, and 'spacetime bubbles' - Daniel - 1/18/2005 6:02:32 PM
- Problems and Possibilities... - Adam - 1/18/2005 10:52:55 PM
  - Very cool post...thanks (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 1/19/2005 12:26:54 AM
  - re: Problems and Possibilities... - Adam - 1/18/2005 10:56:22 PM
    - @#*!! html... - Adam - 1/18/2005 10:58:26 PM

HST - Raoul - 1/18/2005 9:41:56 PM

Space X Successfully Tests Merlin Engine - AndyMc - 1/18/2005 7:50:34 PM

speculations on Titan... - Davin L. - 1/18/2005 1:19:04 AM
- Speculate! Speculate! - Jacob Samorodin - 1/18/2005 3:10:10 PM
- Titanic Tides - Nick Hoffman - 1/18/2005 6:45:19 AM
  - Tidal locking - Davin L. - 1/18/2005 1:31:28 PM
    - Hey, I had to look it up, too. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2005 6:21:53 PM
    - re: Tidal locking - Marcia - 1/18/2005 1:49:46 PM
- Nitrogen, Methane, And ionizing radiation.. - R.L. - 1/18/2005 4:31:39 AM
  - Running an arc through a nitrogen / methane mixture and smelling the result is a bad idea - Gary - 1/18/2005 5:36:43 AM
  - Burnt Almonds - LJ - 1/18/2005 5:14:51 AM
    - definitely a mobeus candidate but I think the committee is on hiatus (n/t) - FrankC - 1/18/2005 7:05:30 AM
- re: speculations on Titan... - Tom Brosz - 1/18/2005 1:31:27 AM
  - Lifting Titan's Veil - pwokenyaw - 1/18/2005 5:06:38 AM

Iapetus quarried? - Adam - 1/17/2005 11:59:54 PM
- Iapetus was the location of the Second Monolith in novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey - LJK - 1/18/2005 4:59:26 AM
  - Zubrin's Saturn Explorer - Adam - 1/18/2005 3:11:52 PM
- re: Heck why not? - BRFelix - 1/18/2005 3:07:37 AM
  - Saturn's rings the result of intensive mining? - LJK - 1/18/2005 5:16:58 AM
- You've earned a "gold star". What a cool idea! (n/t) - Gary - 1/18/2005 12:15:54 AM
  - I think it is either a giant, ancient Pokemon ball, or a Death Star prototype - LJK - 1/18/2005 4:55:11 AM
    - Looks like a Death star to me - Tony - 1/18/2005 5:12:48 PM

Do you agree with this? : - Gary - 1/16/2005 1:24:01 PM
- re: Do you agree with this? : - Peter Bruener - 1/17/2005 3:17:57 AM
- Absolutly - Eric - 1/16/2005 6:14:15 PM
  - Yup... - R.L. (AKA 'THEY') - 1/18/2005 2:03:02 AM
    - re: Yup... - SteveS - 1/18/2005 4:22:21 PM
  - Why are you posting stuff here? - Gary [who doesn't like anomalists] - 1/16/2005 6:41:13 PM
    - To provide an opportunity for you to learn something new and true. - Eric - 1/17/2005 3:53:44 PM
      - Take it somewhere else. Do us a favor and leave. (n/t) - Gary - 1/17/2005 8:49:32 PM
        
        After you my son. (n/t) - Eric - 1/17/2005 9:08:21 PM
- Please use a different name at HabitableZone - Gary [the original one] - 1/16/2005 5:22:49 PM
  - Why not just use your last name, Gary? (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 1/17/2005 3:39:45 AM
    - Why dont you use your first and middle name, Eustace Pooter Grondine? (n/t) - R.L. - 1/18/2005 3:53:40 AM
- absolutely not - alcaray - 1/16/2005 5:15:25 PM
  - re: Thank you! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/16/2005 7:19:18 PM
  - I'm with you... (n/t) - Fox - 1/16/2005 7:07:13 PM
    - re: I'm with you... - Marcia - 1/16/2005 11:34:56 PM
- re: Do you agree with this? : - Mark Eby - 1/16/2005 4:26:50 PM
  - If I'm not careful, I'll turn into a Jeff Bell. - Gary [the original one] - 1/16/2005 5:40:28 PM
- re: Do you agree with this? : - SteveS - 1/16/2005 4:00:44 PM
  - re: Happy! - Raoul - 1/16/2005 6:58:27 PM
  - re: Do you agree with this? : - Doug Ellison - 1/16/2005 6:56:42 PM
- To some degree, but not as harshly - dtb - 1/16/2005 3:16:12 PM
- re: Do you agree with this? : - Doug Ellison - 1/16/2005 1:56:40 PM
- ESA PR - Raoul - 1/16/2005 1:44:39 PM
  - re: ESA PR - Suzy - 1/17/2005 12:50:38 AM
    - re: Russian involvement - Fox - 1/17/2005 3:53:09 AM

great new panorama - Daniel - 1/18/2005 10:27:24 AM
- I'll be looking at that for awhile - jms - 1/18/2005 4:14:37 PM
- A helicopter point of view. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/18/2005 3:04:21 PM

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