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Looks like you will have front row seats, R.L. - REB - 11/5/2004 1:05:00 PM
- Hoping for clear skies! - R.L. - 11/6/2004 5:34:27 AM
  - I hope you don't witness it burning up. - Gary - 11/6/2004 6:29:39 AM
    - UV is probably not an option (n/t) - R.L. - 11/6/2004 7:05:57 AM
    - Me too - r.l. - 11/6/2004 6:59:36 AM
      - The Keck telescope could play a very importan role - Gary - 11/6/2004 7:23:32 PM
        
        28 A.U. away in Jan '05.... - ultra-violET - 11/6/2004 8:44:52 PM
        
        CN is an incredibly efficient UV radiator - Gary - 11/6/2004 8:52:46 PM
    - Lost in the sunlight.... - WouldnET be nice? - 11/6/2004 6:51:22 AM

Space colonization poll at slashdot.com - et - 11/6/2004 5:32:56 PM
- geez, China is ahead of the US! - Daniel - 11/6/2004 5:46:41 PM
  - I recommend slashdot.com but many of the guys that post there are moonbats. (n/t) - Gary - 11/6/2004 6:06:34 PM
    - What means moonbat? (n/t) - illiterET - 11/6/2004 6:14:17 PM
      - Diehard Moonfirsters - Mark Eby - 11/6/2004 7:32:32 PM
      - wife of sundog, maybe (n/t) - daniel - 11/6/2004 6:18:38 PM

Titan: radar image in color (>1 MB heavy) - Raoul - 11/5/2004 11:42:53 PM
- I am clueless about what these images mean - Gary - 11/6/2004 6:12:26 AM
  - Would Organic Rain Erode Hard Ice? - Mark Eby - 11/6/2004 3:50:42 PM
  - If I could specularate for a moment.. - RADAR RetURN - 11/6/2004 6:32:03 AM
    - Titan: Ganymede with frequent small impacts - E.P. Grondine - 11/6/2004 7:01:32 PM
- Love the part about how no fresh impact craters are seen (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 11/6/2004 2:29:39 AM

Venus-Jupiter-Moon-Saturn - Raoul - 11/5/2004 6:36:51 AM
- re: Venus-Jupiter-Moon-Saturn - SteveS - 11/5/2004 3:43:22 PM
  - re: Venus-Jupiter-Moon-Saturn - Raoul - 11/5/2004 4:43:53 PM
    - re: Didider Favre - Raoul - 11/5/2004 4:48:16 PM
      - re: Didider Favre - SteveS - 11/6/2004 2:32:22 AM

What makes great - gbaikie - 11/4/2004 10:27:28 PM
- Importance of water? - Philip Simon - 11/5/2004 12:03:45 AM
  - re: Importance of water? - gbaikie - 11/5/2004 5:14:21 AM
    - It currently costs several thousand dollars per pound to LEO - Larry J - 11/5/2004 11:33:47 PM
    - Makes sense. Thanks (n/t) - Phil - 11/5/2004 3:20:13 PM
  - Yes. Fuel that does not have to be lifted from our grav well. - alcaray - 11/5/2004 12:09:48 AM

Did Jupiter also migrate inwards? - Raoul - 11/2/2004 10:04:49 PM
- What about Mars. - REB - 11/5/2004 1:44:34 PM
- Supports the idea that a migrating Jupiter changed Mars orbit. - Robert Clark - 11/5/2004 12:19:54 AM

Heading up the hill - Tom Brosz - 11/5/2004 7:15:00 AM
- Depending on the traction, they will either go to Burns Cliff, or drive out of the crater. - REB - 11/5/2004 1:08:39 PM

OK Dubya - let's get moving - Daniel - 11/4/2004 3:03:10 PM
- re: OK Dubya - let's get moving - Chris Vancil - 11/5/2004 9:49:04 AM
  - I think Gary is right, though - Daniel - 11/5/2004 10:10:06 AM
- But will we survive long enough to put humans on Mars? - LJK - 11/4/2004 4:08:53 PM
  - The premise of 'Dark Age' is not very credible. - ebnelson - 11/4/2004 6:49:02 PM
  - what - 20 or 30 years? I think so! - Daniel - 11/4/2004 4:26:46 PM
    - I'm just hoping for four - alcaray - 11/4/2004 10:04:07 PM
    - re: what - 20 or 30 years? I think so! - Bushwacked - 11/4/2004 4:37:13 PM
      - re: what - 20 or 30 years? I think so! - Chris Vancil - 11/5/2004 10:01:53 AM
      - And so ..? - Daniel - 11/4/2004 4:44:20 PM

New AIAA Position Paper On Asteroid Search - Mark Eby - 11/5/2004 2:59:44 AM

Huygens-watch, Prospects, Info. And who is going to explain "Auger electrons" to me??? - alcaray - 11/4/2004 11:55:59 PM

News from China - Raoul - 11/4/2004 9:46:43 PM

Hubble Spots Rare Triple Eclipse on Jupiter - SteveS - 11/4/2004 9:32:45 PM

Why are globular clusters spherical while galaxies are flattened? - Raoul - 10/25/2004 6:35:44 PM
- re: Why are globular clusters spherical while galaxies are flattened? - Fabrice Roy - 11/4/2004 9:12:31 PM
- I wonder if it has to do with black holes, and/or the conditions which lead to one. (n/t) - Bowser - 10/26/2004 7:51:35 PM
- I thought it was a question with an obvious answer... I was wrong - R.L. - 10/25/2004 11:28:23 PM
- The averaged angular momentum of the mass which formed the galaxy. And cluster. - Bowser - 10/25/2004 7:23:02 PM
  - re: Lots of theories - Raoul - 10/25/2004 8:00:52 PM

Russia Pulls Military Missions Out of Baikonur - Hans - 11/4/2004 12:30:32 PM
- That could pose some problems - Larry J - 11/4/2004 3:42:39 PM
  - re: They upgraded the booster - Nathan Koren - 11/4/2004 8:18:21 PM

China has noticed SS1... - Nathan Koren - 11/4/2004 2:44:07 AM
- re: China has noticed SS1... - ebnelson - 11/4/2004 6:51:15 PM
- Please depart ASAP - p - 11/4/2004 4:15:31 PM
- re: China has noticed SS1... - Tim - 11/4/2004 8:21:26 AM
- re: China has noticed SS1... - Tim - 11/4/2004 8:21:22 AM

Telescopes - Raoul - 11/4/2004 6:50:39 PM

Venus Jupiter conjunction Friday AM - SteveS - 11/4/2004 3:33:25 PM
- I saw them close together this morning. - REB - 11/4/2004 4:30:55 PM

Polarized clouds on Mars, further evidence for liquid water in Solis Lacus, Mars? - Robert Clark - 11/3/2004 2:17:00 AM
- But are the Martian gullies the result of water? - LJK - 11/4/2004 3:50:03 PM

Titan appears to be remarkably flat. - Jacob Samorodin - 10/30/2004 4:27:00 PM
- What gives? Impacts pound Titan's surface "flat". - E.P. Grondine - 10/31/2004 12:00:01 AM
  - Smaller "Rocky" moons have no atmosphere - E.P. Grondine - 10/31/2004 12:06:00 AM
    - there are no rocky moons... - Adam - 10/31/2004 10:12:24 AM
      - "rocky" with parens - like "flat" (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 10/31/2004 11:06:08 PM
- Is Titan's rotation synchronized with its orbit (like our Moon?) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/30/2004 7:24:24 PM
  - Due to the eccentricity of its orbit, it has high tidal forces pulling on it. - REB - 11/2/2004 1:27:53 PM
    - tidal forces less than the Moon - A Crowl - 11/3/2004 3:30:12 AM
      - re: tidal forces less than the Moon - REB - 11/3/2004 8:27:11 PM
  - Yes (n/t) - phil - 10/30/2004 8:46:34 PM
- More computer models down the drain - phil - 10/30/2004 4:49:14 PM
  - You are as hooked on finger-pointing and conspiracies as tax-leech (in your own way) - alcaray - 11/1/2004 5:31:06 PM
    - please read and think before replying - phil - 11/2/2004 8:05:17 PM
      - You imply someone does take them seriously in a way that is improper. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/3/2004 8:30:56 PM
      - re: Uhmm, like what Titan has 'revealed' lately. - Marcia - 11/2/2004 9:51:55 PM
        
        Titan still a mystery - phil - 11/3/2004 6:22:01 AM
  - Any pre-Cassini model about Titan was almost worthless - Gary - 10/30/2004 5:47:02 PM
  - Future Titan surface-rovers might end up stuck. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 10/30/2004 4:55:53 PM
    - re: Future Titan surface-rovers might end up stuck. - Doug Ellison - 10/31/2004 8:23:03 AM
      - Try a helicopter instead - LJK - 11/3/2004 1:41:07 AM
        
        I like balloon's - REB - 11/3/2004 10:51:53 PM
        
        Dirigibles better... - Adam - 11/4/2004 12:22:41 PM
        
        re: I like balloon's - LJK - 11/3/2004 11:19:12 PM

Foam? - Davin L. - 2/20/2003 8:52:56 PM
- re: Foam? - Doug Ellison - 11/4/2004 9:46:37 AM
- Re: Foam? - SDG - 2/20/2003 1:20:48 PM
  - Density - MrPex - 2/20/2003 7:55:44 PM
    - Re: Density - SDG - 2/21/2003 4:30:15 PM
      - re: Re: Density - Ashlie Norris - 11/1/2004 7:34:16 PM
        
        look here: webelements.com (n/t) - et - 11/1/2004 7:41:14 PM
      - online source - SDG - 2/21/2003 4:49:33 PM
      - online source - SDG - 2/21/2003 4:49:32 PM
- That foam was over 200 degress below zero - Larry J - 2/20/2003 1:20:39 PM
- Re: Water at extreme pressure can cut through stone. - Marcia - 2/20/2003 10:08:43 AM
  - Re: Water at extreme pressure can cut through stone/Fishing for numbers - Davin L. - 2/20/2003 10:36:21 AM
    - Re: Water at extreme pressure can cut through stone/Fishing for numbers - Marcia - 2/20/2003 10:59:22 AM
      - A test was conducted with foam. - Delbert - 11/2/2004 4:34:24 PM
        
        Old thread Del. (n/t) - et - 11/2/2004 8:10:23 PM
        
        splain lucie (n/t) - Delbert - 11/3/2004 4:33:39 PM
      - Re: Water at extreme pressure can cut through stone/Fishing for numbers - Davin L. - 2/20/2003 11:12:16 AM
        
        Re: Copy that. - Marcia - 2/20/2003 12:17:03 PM
        
        Re: Copy that. (Hey, rob lafon, read this!) - Davin L. - 2/20/2003 12:54:31 PM

325 million worlds with the remains of ancient civilizations? - LJK - 10/30/2004 4:35:12 PM
- Again, one of my pet fantasies is we'll find an old starship part in our Solar System - Gary - 10/30/2004 5:58:39 PM
  - If you do, it's mine. I'm sure my name is on it somewhere. Mine. MINE! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/30/2004 7:29:20 PM
- There's Drake's Equation....Mr. Drake is an optimist. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 10/30/2004 4:58:15 PM
  - Nice speculation, but... - LJK - 11/3/2004 11:31:26 PM

New task for the community - Art Martin - 11/2/2004 11:22:42 PM
- Not really. And it wouldn't matter if Bush or Kerry was the President. - Tom Brosz - 11/3/2004 3:33:35 AM
- Goals - Bowser - 11/3/2004 12:25:06 AM
- re: New task for the community - Marcia - 11/2/2004 11:44:38 PM

Try it this way - E.P. Grondine - 11/3/2004 12:47:24 AM
- re: Try it this way - steve smyth - 11/3/2004 1:49:18 AM

Alan Bean - Raoul - 11/1/2004 8:06:34 PM
- re: Alan Bean - LJK - 11/3/2004 1:38:11 AM

sahib - steve smyth - 11/3/2004 12:14:22 AM
- re: sahib - steve smyth - 11/3/2004 12:17:52 AM

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