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Just to show you how timid NASA has become... - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 4:58:41 PM
- To boldly go where no one has gone before... unless.... - LJK - 12/7/2004 3:46:39 PM
- re: Space stations - Raoul - 12/6/2004 6:39:57 PM
  - What ISS crews have experienced doesn't come close to the November 1966 meteor event. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 6:56:06 PM
    - Nobody knew the 1966 storm would be so intense - dtb - 12/6/2004 9:59:13 PM
      - Of course ISS is supposed to be quite well-shielded...against small-sized hits. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 10:25:34 PM
- Sounds like a prudent choice, to me. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/6/2004 5:20:35 PM
  - Compare NASA's boldness then, to NASA's timidity today. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 6:32:51 PM
    - or recklessness then to their prudence, now - alcaray - 12/6/2004 7:21:14 PM
      - Space exploration by humans is not for the timid - Larry J - 12/6/2004 7:37:56 PM
        
        Remember what Q said to Picard in one of the early ST:TNG episodes - LJK - 12/7/2004 3:50:07 PM
        
        not again (n/t) - alcaray - 12/6/2004 10:32:05 PM
        
        re: Manned space exploration - Raoul - 12/6/2004 7:59:01 PM
        
        re: Manned space exploration - Delbert - 12/6/2004 9:16:05 PM
        
        re: Manned space exploration - Larry J - 12/6/2004 8:10:01 PM
        
        re: Manned space exploration - Raoul - 12/6/2004 9:03:28 PM
        
        re: Manned space exploration - Suzy - 12/7/2004 12:57:27 AM
        
        People will be people no matter where they go - LJK - 12/7/2004 4:02:18 PM

Solar storms can smack a cometâ€™s tail - SteveS - 12/7/2004 2:47:27 PM

NASA attack on comet lights up Star Wars fear - Eric - 12/6/2004 7:01:05 PM
- No star wars mentioned except in the title. - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 2:57:48 AM
- Not the tree-huggers, AGAIN!! - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 8:25:30 PM
  - A little premature angst on my part. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 10:23:15 PM

Mars CSI : Cut & Slime - Alberto - 12/5/2004 7:55:45 PM
- re: Mars CSI : Cut & Slime - LJK - 12/5/2004 11:59:13 PM
  - re: Mars CSI : Cut & Slime - Alberto - 12/6/2004 7:51:52 PM
  - It's part of this Spirit microscopic imager sequence - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 12:16:01 AM
    - re: It's part of this Spirit microscopic imager sequence - Alberto - 12/6/2004 4:05:14 AM
      - re: It's part of this Spirit microscopic imager sequence - Alberto - 12/6/2004 4:18:07 AM
    - BTW, don't know why new Opportunity shots aren't being posted. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 12:25:12 AM

Moon Jupiter - Raoul - 12/4/2004 10:59:38 AM
- Naked eye occultation - SteveS - 12/6/2004 2:05:32 PM
  - re: Naked eye occultation - Raoul - 12/6/2004 4:26:29 PM

Euhyperamoeba biospherica - Raoul - 12/5/2004 9:24:23 PM
- Closed ecosystem - Tom Brosz - 12/5/2004 11:05:07 PM
  - Another reason to send our AI instead? - LJK - 12/6/2004 12:04:07 AM

ETIs or Noise? - Adam - 12/3/2004 12:03:26 AM
- SETS - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Supidity - E.P. Grondine - 12/4/2004 4:15:02 AM
- Beacons vs. eavesdropping - phil - 12/3/2004 1:22:06 AM
  - Indeed... - Adam - 12/3/2004 12:57:50 PM
    - Or maybe... - LJK - 12/3/2004 1:07:25 PM
      - a few quibbles - Adam - 12/4/2004 11:25:55 AM
        
        And one more... - LJK - 12/4/2004 5:12:44 PM
        
        A few more quibbles - LJK - 12/4/2004 5:05:23 PM
        
        cute analogy - Adam - 12/5/2004 2:08:41 PM
        
        re: cute analogy - LJK - 12/5/2004 11:40:15 PM
      - re: Or maybe... - p - 12/3/2004 1:17:54 PM
        
        re: Or maybe... - LJK - 12/3/2004 5:10:09 PM
        
        As I've written before... - Larry J - 12/3/2004 5:52:24 PM
        
        re: As I've written before... - phil - 12/3/2004 6:21:58 PM
        
        Belief verses knowledge - Larry J - 12/3/2004 7:02:35 PM

Prospects for Long Life... - Adam - 12/3/2004 1:12:05 PM
- I wish it were true, but - Lee - 12/4/2004 4:33:30 AM
  - Unfortunately, I think you're right - Gary - 12/4/2004 9:09:31 PM
    - A new species of Man. - Lee - 12/5/2004 4:51:47 AM
- I'm good for another 300 years at least - Gary - 12/3/2004 4:30:32 PM
  - "the first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already" - FrankC - 12/5/2004 7:47:15 PM

The amazing F Ring (from NASA-JPL- animation); - Raoul - 12/5/2004 9:29:43 AM

New book on interstellar travel - Centauri Dreams - LJK - 12/3/2004 2:35:50 PM
- Good to hear it, my copy of The Starflight Handbook is getting a bit worn out. (n/t) - Lee - 12/4/2004 3:51:14 AM

H2O confirmed on MARS...OHH OHHHHH!!!!! - carl - 12/3/2004 7:20:48 PM
- Flap-Jack, my pet bunny, is going to bite you. - et - 12/3/2004 8:46:42 PM
  - Flip-Flop - Goober - 12/3/2004 9:22:14 PM
    - Retraction? - Nick Hoffman - 12/4/2004 3:48:08 AM
    - Water has been confirmed on Mars for decades - ebnelson - 12/3/2004 11:15:50 PM
      - White Mars - goober - 12/3/2004 11:57:36 PM
    - You twit - R.L. - 12/3/2004 11:11:55 PM
    - Flap-Jack. KILL! (n/t) - et - 12/3/2004 10:02:43 PM

Thirtieth Anniversary of Pioneer 11 Flyby of Jupiter - LJK - 12/3/2004 5:42:31 PM
- re: Saturn - Raoul - 12/3/2004 11:25:58 PM

Comet Machholz - Raoul - 12/3/2004 11:20:41 PM

Saturn's moons - Raoul - 12/2/2004 6:57:56 PM
- re: Thanks. The shadows cast by Saturn's rings are truely stunning. (n/t) - Vince - 12/3/2004 11:01:46 PM
- Inclination too high... - Adam - 12/3/2004 2:26:30 AM

Kick Ass Pilot Report Inside Space Ship One - phil - 12/3/2004 4:15:33 PM
- Thanks - Larry J - 12/3/2004 4:47:01 PM
  - re: Thanks - Delbert - 12/3/2004 6:06:39 PM
  - re: Thanks - phil - 12/3/2004 6:01:39 PM

The rings and where are the spokes? - Raoul - 12/2/2004 9:35:59 PM
- re: The rings and where are the spokes? - JJB - 12/3/2004 2:46:39 PM

Opportunity finally heading out of the crater? - Tom Brosz - 12/2/2004 6:16:34 AM
- Opportunity's first 90 days on Mars in special issue of Science magazine - LJK - 12/3/2004 2:44:36 PM
- Almost, but not this time. - jms - 12/3/2004 12:57:47 AM
- re: Opportunity finally heading out of the crater? - Doug Ellison - 12/2/2004 9:46:14 AM

More on the "Planet X" controversy. - Robert Clark - 11/26/2004 3:24:00 PM
- Sedna and near misses... - Adam - 12/3/2004 2:18:50 AM

An arrow on Titan - Raoul - 12/2/2004 7:45:17 PM
- re: An arrow on Titan - Raoul - 12/2/2004 7:51:43 PM
  - It's the elongated "X" the arrow is pointing to that I find interesting... ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/3/2004 12:02:56 AM
  - Do we have a naming convention for Titanian features, yet? - alcaray - 12/2/2004 10:12:07 PM
    - Nautical would be better, if we find liquid. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/2/2004 11:01:46 PM

Zubrin's proof-of-concept Mars 'Gashopper' - Daniel - 12/1/2004 4:55:59 AM
- Nothing To Do With Mars Direct - Mark Eby - 12/2/2004 2:30:37 AM
  - ok, me wrong (n/t) - Daniel - 12/2/2004 11:52:46 AM
- re: Zubrin's proof-of-concept Mars 'Gashopper' - Tom Brosz - 12/1/2004 6:06:33 PM
  - re solution in search of a problem - Daniel - 12/1/2004 7:02:27 PM
    - re: re solution in search of a problem - Tom Brosz - 12/1/2004 11:32:22 PM
- Makes Armadillo Aerospace look like Nasa. - RobVG - 12/1/2004 2:21:48 PM
  - A lot of prototypes look less than sophisticated. Not always something you can judge by. - Tom Brosz - 12/1/2004 6:10:25 PM
    - Not quite 13 micron (or whatever their down to now) (n/t) - RobVG - 12/2/2004 3:33:39 AM
      - .13 micron is a recent process.... - et - 12/2/2004 2:43:35 PM
        
        re: .13 micron is a recent process.... - p - 12/2/2004 3:52:36 PM
        
        re: .13 micron is a recent process.... - et - 12/2/2004 8:56:33 PM
      - re: Not quite 13 micron - Tom Brosz - 12/2/2004 5:36:38 AM
  - Yes I did notice that too - Daniel - 12/1/2004 6:05:10 PM
- Pretty slick! - E.P. Grondine - 12/1/2004 6:53:10 AM

A robot to the HST, not simple... - Raoul - 11/29/2004 6:33:05 AM
- It shows a troubling mindset at NASA - Larry J - 11/29/2004 8:01:57 PM
  - We need to fix this! - Gary - 11/30/2004 4:59:54 AM
    - It has been developing for a long time - Larry J - 11/30/2004 3:05:19 PM
      - re: Liftoff-Landing - Raoul - 11/30/2004 5:35:58 PM
      - Human beings are capable of enormous courage - Gary - 11/30/2004 5:01:45 PM
        
        There are still plenty of brave individuals but few brave bureaucracies - Larry J - 11/30/2004 6:10:14 PM
        
        I think you guys are blaming the wrong party. - alcaray - 11/30/2004 6:45:16 PM
        
        NASA is also afflicted - Larry J - 11/30/2004 6:57:43 PM
        
        NASA (like Soylent Green) is people - alcaray - 11/30/2004 9:26:45 PM
        
        True, NASA gets its funding from the people... - Larry J - 11/30/2004 10:09:55 PM
        
        Why is it more dangerous? - Nick Hoffman - 12/1/2004 3:36:46 AM
        
        How about fixing the problem? - Larry J - 12/1/2004 2:51:51 PM
        
        You're being way to logical - Gary - 12/2/2004 6:26:29 AM
        
        Silly me - Larry J - 12/2/2004 2:35:57 PM
        
        One way missions -- selection criteria - dtb - 12/1/2004 2:28:38 PM
        
        re: True, NASA gets its funding from the people... - phil - 12/1/2004 1:32:44 AM
        
        re: Flight - Raoul - 12/1/2004 6:34:15 AM
        
        You are preaching to the choir - alcaray - 11/30/2004 10:47:12 PM
        
        Actually, I wouldn't be in favor of funding levels nearly that high - Larry J - 12/1/2004 2:55:18 PM
        
        Faulty assumption - Tom Brosz - 11/30/2004 6:01:25 PM
- re: For $2.2 Billion you could go a long way toward designing a new space based telescope - Scott Evil - 11/29/2004 6:04:39 PM
  - re: For $2.2 Billion you could go a long way toward designing a new space based telescope - dwc - 11/29/2004 9:38:35 PM
- A poor idea - p - 11/29/2004 4:22:51 PM
  - re: I agree. Let it die, then there is a need for a new and better telescope in space. - Scott Evil - 11/29/2004 5:51:35 PM

Human-animal chimeras. Bio-engineering's next 'brave-new world'; will your boss lay off in the future and replace you with a monkey-human chimera? - Jacob Samorodin - 12/1/2004 5:03:52 PM
- Transgenics is going to alter life on Earth in a big way. - Lee - 12/2/2004 3:48:23 AM
- Hey, it's worked for the US presidency... (n/t) - p - 12/1/2004 9:02:01 PM
  - re: Hey, it's worked for the US presidency... - steve smyth - 12/1/2004 10:03:35 PM
    - LOL - Lindy - 12/2/2004 6:22:02 AM
  - BDS alert! (n/t) - Tony - 12/1/2004 9:16:26 PM
    - ROTFL! - phil - 12/2/2004 12:28:39 AM
    - Real BDS in Canada - Tom Brosz - 12/1/2004 11:50:43 PM
- Only if he can afford infinite typewrites!! (n/t) - Davin L. - 12/1/2004 5:54:00 PM

Here's a good gift to give yourself... - Larry J - 12/2/2004 4:23:14 AM
- Just ordered the set. Thanks! - Tom Brosz - 12/2/2004 5:34:45 AM

what's real and what's not - J. E. King - 12/2/2004 3:05:02 AM

Rocketman - Arianespace Chief Q&A - AndyMc - 12/2/2004 12:46:56 AM

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