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DART spacecraft -- almost dead-on-arrival? - JimO - 11/9/2004 11:07:07 PM
- re: lawsuit threatened - JimO - 11/10/2004 5:49:06 AM
  - re: Seems really unusual that they would threaten a lawsuit so quickly... - Scott Evil - 11/10/2004 3:22:21 PM
- Thanks for the explanation (n/t) - SteveS - 11/9/2004 11:34:30 PM

The Dry Look - Raoul - 11/4/2004 4:44:42 PM
- seems similar to Nick H's views .. - Daniel - 11/4/2004 4:55:24 PM
  - Needs to be a lot colder for CO2 to work - LJK - 11/4/2004 5:06:22 PM
    - re: Needs to be a lot colder for CO2 to work - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2004 2:16:01 AM
      - Thanks, Nick. As Burns cliff would say - Excellent - Phil Simon - 11/10/2004 2:45:25 AM
    - yes - "needed" (past tense) - Daniel - 11/4/2004 5:26:41 PM
      - Assumptions - Philip Simon - 11/4/2004 11:52:29 PM
        
        Mars - the core of a migrated gas giant - REB - 11/5/2004 1:42:04 PM
        
        No. 2 is right - Nick Hoffman - 11/6/2004 12:28:00 PM
        
        I vote fpr concurrent formation - Philip Simon - 11/5/2004 4:01:10 PM
        
        Linear mix - Nick Hoffman - 11/6/2004 12:29:28 PM
        
        re: Mars - the core of a migrated gas giant? - REB - 11/5/2004 1:42:55 PM
        
        re: Mars - the core of a migrated gas giant? - Adam - 11/9/2004 2:26:09 PM
        
        re: Mars - the core of a migrated gas giant? - REB - 11/10/2004 2:46:50 PM
        
        re: Assumptions - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2004 2:23:07 AM
        
        Viable alternative - Philip Simon - 11/5/2004 4:37:28 PM
        
        re: Viable alternative - Nick Hoffman - 11/6/2004 12:26:12 PM
        
        Thanks for the reference. - Philip Simon - 11/8/2004 3:03:41 PM
        
        So much to learn, so little time - Nick Hoffman - 11/9/2004 3:57:12 AM
        
        I'll read those, but keep in mind... - Philip Simon - 11/10/2004 3:22:41 AM
        
        The martian atmospheric ratios of N14 to N15. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/5/2004 6:03:56 PM
        
        Good idea! How about C13/C12? - Philip Simon - 11/5/2004 7:30:46 PM
        
        BTW, Philip!... - Jacob Samorodin - 11/5/2004 8:11:35 PM
        
        Call me crazy, but... - Philip Simon - 11/8/2004 3:51:39 PM
        
        OK, "I think you're crazy" n/t (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 11/9/2004 3:59:13 AM
        
        re: Good idea! How about C13/C12? - Jacob Samorodin - 11/5/2004 7:54:28 PM
        
        It has been done. - et - 11/5/2004 7:12:39 PM
        
        Thanks for the info. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/5/2004 7:55:15 PM

Cassini observations show dynamic dance at Saturn - SteveS - 11/9/2004 7:40:46 PM
- re: Cassini observations show dynamic dance at Saturn - Raoul - 11/9/2004 7:48:24 PM
  - re: Yes - Raoul - 11/9/2004 10:20:01 PM
  - Absolutely. Remember the "spokes" that Voyager found? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/9/2004 10:04:03 PM
    - re: Yes - Raoul - 11/9/2004 10:22:07 PM

Cassini Radar Sees Bright Flow-Like Feature on Titan - SteveS - 11/9/2004 7:10:44 PM
- Try this link - SteveS - 11/9/2004 7:24:37 PM
- re: Access to the site not obvious, it seems - Raoul - 11/9/2004 7:20:06 PM
  - re: Link to the JPL site.... - Marcia - 11/9/2004 9:23:09 PM
    - re: Thansk, Marcia and Steve - Raoul - 11/9/2004 9:35:29 PM
      - re: well...Thanks, I meant (n/t) - Raoul - 11/9/2004 10:01:49 PM

Soyuz launch - Raoul - 11/9/2004 8:29:38 PM

Sunspots (the sun seems quite active, even now) - Raoul - 11/8/2004 6:49:49 PM
- re: Sunspots (the sun seems quite active, even now) - Vince - 11/9/2004 1:42:03 AM
- re: Sunspots - SteveS - 11/8/2004 11:41:28 PM
  - re: Sunspots - Marcia - 11/9/2004 12:17:26 AM
    - re: Sunspots - SteveS - 11/9/2004 1:28:59 PM
- Solar minimum? Really? - LJ - 11/8/2004 8:54:43 PM
  - re: Aurora from Canada - Raoul - 11/9/2004 6:27:46 AM
    - There's an Aurora alert for tonight too, magnetic storm in progress now - SteveS - 11/9/2004 8:29:05 PM
  - Really.... - et - 11/8/2004 9:58:44 PM

"Is NASA Watch's Keith Cowing just seeing things that aren't there?" by LJK removed - Robert Shepherd - 11/8/2004 4:00:46 PM
- My apologies and an explanation - LJK - 11/9/2004 2:28:47 AM
- The answer to the question: Yes. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/9/2004 1:30:02 AM
- re: "Is NASA Watch's Keith Cowing just seeing things that aren't there?" by LJK removed - Keith Cowing - 11/9/2004 1:15:26 AM
- Cowing's reason for coming to uninHabitable Zone - E.P. Grondine - 11/8/2004 4:36:22 PM
  - re: Cowing's reason for coming to uninHabitable Zone - Keith Cowing - 11/9/2004 1:21:41 AM
    - M\easure of the man - E.P. Grondine - 11/9/2004 7:02:55 PM
  - P.S. - Tom Brosz - 11/8/2004 5:21:17 PM
  - Same old, same old. - Tom Brosz - 11/8/2004 5:19:15 PM

Questions for Gary - from the CE board - Larry J - 11/5/2004 2:47:49 PM
- "Unfortunately all proposed CEV designs that I have seen are CM derivative." Mine aren't. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/6/2004 3:05:12 AM
  - Okay, you have my attention. What's the shape? - Gary - 11/6/2004 5:56:06 AM
    - re: Okay, you have my attention. - Tom Brosz - 11/6/2004 6:37:16 PM
      - It's obscene! LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/9/2004 2:09:03 AM
- Answers for Larry - Gary - 11/5/2004 5:15:09 PM
  - Will Iraq kill the Bush space inititative the same way Vietnam did Apollo? - E.P. Grondine - 11/6/2004 2:36:27 AM
  - A somewhat related question for Gary. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/5/2004 6:21:15 PM
    - Answers for Jacob - Gary - 11/6/2004 5:37:41 AM
      - Follow up question - Larry J - 11/7/2004 3:24:33 PM
        
        Aerocapture - Gary - 11/7/2004 5:22:27 PM
        
        re: Aerocapture - Larry J - 11/8/2004 2:35:13 PM
        
        It all boils down to mass and launch cost - Gary - 11/8/2004 5:08:59 PM
        
        I was thinking along the lines of aerocapture followed by aerobraking... - Larry J - 11/8/2004 6:28:43 PM
        
        Ballutes - Gary - 11/9/2004 3:19:26 AM
        
        Sounds like we need a test flight - Larry J - 11/9/2004 3:10:18 PM
        
        Nonmilitary test flights are incredibly difficult to fund - Gary - 11/9/2004 4:56:27 PM
        
        I believe it - Larry J - 11/9/2004 5:50:30 PM
      - That would also explain why Soviet Zonds were targeted for the Indian Ocean. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/6/2004 7:29:18 PM
  - Thanks - Larry J - 11/5/2004 5:29:46 PM

AviationNow: "SpaceShipOne Lessons Feeding into RASCAL Aircraft" - Larry J - 11/8/2004 6:55:37 PM
- The same thermal protection as SpaceShipOne? Gary might say, what thermal protection? ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/9/2004 4:03:25 PM
  - The thermal protection was up to the task - Larry J - 11/9/2004 5:35:35 PM

Discovery of the world's largest impact field - PtDave - 11/9/2004 5:22:35 PM

Astronaut's son arrested - Tom Brosz - 11/9/2004 8:50:36 AM
- I am reading "All American Boys" by Walt Cunningham - ebnelson - 11/9/2004 4:27:23 PM

Carl Sagan's rationale for human spaceflight - Plus he would have been 70 on Nov. 9 - LJK - 11/9/2004 3:09:47 AM
- He would have said, there are millions and millions of places to go up there. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/9/2004 4:05:32 PM
- Bill Nye's Tribute to Carl Sagan - LJK - 11/9/2004 3:43:56 AM

JPL says Oppy heading up and out - LJ - 11/8/2004 8:50:18 PM
- At Burns cliff, and the deeper layers. - Nick Hoffman - 11/9/2004 3:22:16 AM
  - There be polygons - jms - 11/9/2004 5:49:56 AM
    - re: There be polygons - REB - 11/9/2004 1:00:06 PM
    - How about dessication cracking? - Philip Simon - 11/9/2004 6:20:25 AM
      - dessication - jms - 11/9/2004 6:35:49 AM
- Layers and more layers (big pic) - LJ - 11/8/2004 9:03:21 PM
  - This is the image with Keith Cowing's "fossil" - LJK - 11/9/2004 3:24:49 AM
  - My first guess - jms - 11/8/2004 10:46:02 PM
- Burns Cliff (pic) - LJ - 11/8/2004 8:52:46 PM
  - that is so cool - jms - 11/8/2004 10:52:57 PM

Shadows... or pieces of 8 - Philip Simon - 11/9/2004 4:56:49 AM
- Berries on stems, not ventifacts. - Phil - 11/9/2004 5:18:16 AM

The kind of rockets we don't want launched... - LJK - 11/9/2004 2:13:25 AM

DART mission go to launch 11/9 - SteveS - 11/8/2004 1:29:16 PM
- Launch scrubbed due to structural load data review, gee, you'd think that was a done deal. (n/t) - SteveS - 11/9/2004 12:04:42 AM

China begins to deal with the NEO hazard - E.P. Grondine - 11/8/2004 4:28:59 PM

Reprisal: Earth as seen from Mars (MGS) - Daniel - 11/4/2004 2:58:22 PM
- re: Reprisal: Earth as seen from Mars (MGS) - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2004 2:31:37 AM
  - thanks; the summary at the end will be useful - Daniel - 11/5/2004 5:26:50 PM
    - Continental Fit - Nick Hoffman - 11/6/2004 12:38:30 PM
      - re: Continental Fit - Adam - 11/7/2004 11:41:13 PM
      - Questions for Nick about New Zealand and Gondwana - Gary - 11/7/2004 5:18:53 AM
        
        re: Questions for Nick about New Zealand and Gondwana - Nick Hoffman - 11/8/2004 12:19:53 AM
        
        Fascinating and thanks - Gary - 11/8/2004 1:15:23 AM
        
        Reconstructing the past - Nick Hoffman - 11/8/2004 12:49:59 PM
      - re: Continental Fit - Daniel - 11/6/2004 4:51:14 PM
  - Brilliant! - dtb - 11/5/2004 4:20:50 PM
- re: Reprisal: Earth as seen from Mars (MGS) - Hans - 11/4/2004 3:42:35 PM
  - MGS MOC high resolution camera - Daniel - 11/4/2004 4:18:06 PM

Is NASA Watch's Keith Cowing just seeing things that aren't there? - LJK - 11/8/2004 3:36:10 AM

Burt gets the check! - Tom Brosz - 11/8/2004 2:32:14 AM

Pieces from the World Trade Center on the Mars Rovers - LJK - 11/8/2004 2:29:54 AM

More power to Oppy! - Raoul - 11/5/2004 11:05:03 PM
- Now if only Marvin the Martian could check the oil and tires too. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 11/6/2004 7:36:28 PM
- re: More power to Oppy! - Tom Brosz - 11/6/2004 12:23:37 AM
  - re: More power to Oppy! - Doug Ellison - 11/6/2004 12:21:27 PM
    - I'm pro-nuclear and think RTGs are safe but .... - Gary - 11/7/2004 4:37:56 AM
      - re: I'm pro-nuclear and think RTGs are safe but .... - pwokenyaw - 11/8/2004 12:30:06 AM
        
        You're right about Mars Sample Return - Gary - 11/8/2004 1:46:15 AM
      - re: I'm pro-nuclear and think RTGs are safe but .... - Doug Ellison - 11/7/2004 11:30:15 AM
        
        Don't be so sure - Gary - 11/7/2004 5:47:48 PM
    - RTG=Sensible? - Nick Hoffman - 11/7/2004 3:51:32 AM
  - Another engineer with no practical experience! - AIRJet MYA$$ - 11/6/2004 6:43:03 AM
    - Electric football! - Lee - 11/7/2004 5:02:54 AM
    - re: Another engineer - Tom Brosz - 11/6/2004 5:17:38 PM
      - Jus joshing T-Bone.... - et - 11/6/2004 5:39:42 PM
        
        Actually, come down to it, I'm with Doug. Go nuke. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/6/2004 6:38:32 PM

Daylight moon this sunday morning - Raoul - 11/7/2004 9:55:33 AM
- re: Daylight moon this sunday morning - SteveS - 11/7/2004 2:10:36 PM
  - re: Daylight moon this sunday morning - Raoul - 11/7/2004 3:57:15 PM

For Australians on the 10th - vel - 11/7/2004 12:14:28 AM
- re:And from the US west coast there's a Jupiter occultation - Raoul - 11/7/2004 9:39:48 AM

Nice image of interesting area on Mars - E.P. Grondine - 11/7/2004 2:11:21 AM

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