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This is your brain... - Tom Brosz - 5/21/2004 12:14:53 AM
- Mars gets more bizarre and unique by the day - Daniel L - 5/21/2004 1:04:22 PM
  - Jesus visible on Mars rock! - LJK - 5/21/2004 10:24:33 PM
    - re: Jesus on Mars - Fox - 5/21/2004 11:55:50 PM

Don Peterson asks questions - Raoul - 5/12/2004 7:56:25 PM
- re: Don Peterson New Article Fleshs Out His Objections - Chris Vancil - 5/21/2004 8:16:52 PM
- re: Don Peterson asks questions - Chris Vancil - 5/12/2004 8:20:07 PM

Orbital Mechanics Problem (Focus the Sun cont'd) - Success_Machine - 5/21/2004 5:12:58 PM
- Focus is what you're lacking. - et - 5/21/2004 8:15:47 PM
- re: Orbital Mechanics Problem (Focus the Sun cont'd) - Doug Ellison - 5/21/2004 6:42:49 PM
  - re: Orbital Mechanics Problem (Focus the Sun cont'd) - et - 5/21/2004 8:13:08 PM

Little details but big theories - Raoul - 5/20/2004 9:43:31 PM
- A question? - JReid - 5/21/2004 3:06:19 PM
  - re: Death of a star - Raoul - 5/21/2004 6:34:28 PM
    - Question about Eta Carinae - JReid - 5/21/2004 6:55:21 PM
      - re: Question about Eta Carinae - Raoul - 5/21/2004 7:06:50 PM
        
        Thanks - JReid - 5/21/2004 7:26:39 PM
- re: Little details but big theories - Dave M - 5/21/2004 2:43:39 PM

A stolen moonrock - Raoul - 5/21/2004 6:18:23 PM
- Send in Inspector Poirot to find it! ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/21/2004 7:14:24 PM
  - re: The universe is full of mysteries (n/t) - Raoul - 5/21/2004 7:22:25 PM

SoloTrek down in the dumps... - MrPex - 3/18/2003 3:45:30 PM
- Well, until the market catches up with the technology... - RobVG - 3/18/2003 4:07:36 PM
  - Or, for about $25,000, you can get one of these... - Larry J - 3/19/2003 5:32:43 PM
    - re: Or, for about $25,000, you can get one of these... (n/t) - Neftali Valentin - 5/21/2004 1:07:21 PM

What was the astronaut doing in front of the computer? (joke) - Success_Machine - 5/21/2004 10:29:35 AM
- applying for a job with Scaled Composites (n/t) - Daniel L - 5/21/2004 1:00:28 PM

Rocket Carrying Ham Radio Payload Reaches Space! - Ray Williams - 5/18/2004 1:17:43 PM
- Congratulations to the team! Another link... - Tom Brosz - 5/18/2004 4:04:14 PM
- AWESOME!!!...This is the end of the government monopoly for space-travel!!...YES!! - Jacob Samorodin - 5/18/2004 3:38:26 PM
  - That's Mr. Burt Rutan! (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/18/2004 4:33:38 PM
  - What must we do to get NASA to finally offer LAUNCH-RELATED competitive prizes? - ~tax leech - 5/18/2004 4:08:19 PM
    - Who controls NASA? President Bush, or Mr. O'Keefe. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/18/2004 4:31:48 PM
      - Isn't CONGRESSIONAL approval always needed? Congress depends on VOTERS. - ~tax leech - 5/18/2004 7:11:36 PM
        
        Voters? Space? Don't hold your breath... - Fox - 5/18/2004 8:57:40 PM
        
        Leadership - Robert - 5/19/2004 5:22:35 PM
        
        yeah... - Fox - 5/19/2004 8:52:31 PM
        
        re: yeah... - Robert - 5/19/2004 9:37:40 PM
        
        re: yeah... - Delbert - 5/20/2004 3:34:01 PM
        
        Political ads are poking fun at Bush's space initiative? How short-sighted. :-( - ~tax leech - 5/19/2004 6:31:11 AM
        
        re: Political ads and Bush's space initiative - Fox - 5/19/2004 11:50:15 PM
        
        Are there other examples of paid Space Vision-bashing? - ~tax leech - 5/21/2004 1:35:55 AM

Man This Geek Board Is Slow - temporary lurker - 5/20/2004 3:14:07 AM
- All the really good stuff is on the Secret Board. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/20/2004 2:39:54 PM
- We're taking a rest between MER and Cassini (n/t) - Gary - 5/20/2004 4:45:23 AM

Aerospace books and reports for sale - Martin Bayer - 5/20/2004 2:39:41 PM

4th-Order Runge Kutta approximation for Orbital Integrals Inaccurate - Success_Machine - 4/29/2004 3:46:19 PM
- There are techniques based upon the Calculus of Variations that give good global fit to orbital parameters. - David F Mayer - 5/20/2004 12:35:24 AM
- Depends on how you calculate the trajectory - Gary - 4/30/2004 2:19:17 AM
  - re: Depends on how you calculate the trajectory - gokhan - 5/18/2004 10:40:09 AM
    - Reference books on the Gauss-Jackson predictor corrector - Gary - 5/19/2004 5:38:36 PM
      - re: Reference books on the Gauss-Jackson predictor corrector - gokhan - 5/20/2004 6:05:15 AM
    - re: Depends on how you calculate the trajectory - Gary - 5/19/2004 6:55:30 AM
  - re: I took a course on predictor-corrector methods - Success_Machine - 4/30/2004 5:29:44 AM
- I've got a home brewed rk4 fortran subroutine. - et - 4/29/2004 8:34:56 PM

Eugene MAllove Murdered - LJK - 5/20/2004 1:27:59 AM
- Oh, write of me not "died in bitter pains" but "emigrated to another star" - Lee - 5/20/2004 4:41:20 AM
- Words from Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society - LJK - 5/20/2004 1:42:24 AM
  - Late night radio - Tom Brosz - 5/20/2004 3:00:24 AM

Entirely New Life Form Found on ---- EARTH. - David F Mayer - 5/19/2004 11:28:35 PM
- No one has commented officially about the small dark filaments - Philip Simon - 5/20/2004 1:27:28 AM
- re: What forms of life might escape notice on Mars ? - Success_Machine - 5/19/2004 11:54:08 PM
  - Very small, slow growing organisms like these nanobacteria. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/20/2004 12:29:45 AM

Wind erosion at Endurance Crater - Nick Hoffman - 5/15/2004 11:54:26 AM
- If sulfate rocks are soft then what of NASA exhumation model for blueberry formation - bruced - 5/16/2004 10:17:44 PM
  - Thank you - yes, they are tektites - E.P. Grondie - 5/17/2004 10:55:01 PM
    - re: Yes, let us skip the science and play with fiction. - Chris Vancil - 5/17/2004 11:23:36 PM
      - No thanks... - E.P. Grondine - 5/19/2004 7:07:21 PM
- Crater asymmetry - Philip Simon - 5/15/2004 9:38:37 PM
- re: Wind erosion at Endurance Crater - Tom Brosz - 5/15/2004 2:34:44 PM
  - Cracked - RobVG - 5/15/2004 9:40:27 PM
  - Ventifacts - Flat vs Pointy - Nick Hoffman - 5/15/2004 3:24:20 PM
    - Thanks! - Tom Brosz - 5/15/2004 6:01:59 PM

China Cancels Moon Plans to Focus on Space Station - Bowser - 5/18/2004 5:59:06 AM
- Another moron-reporter - JimO - 5/18/2004 4:35:49 PM
  - Could China take the lead in manned spaceflight around 2040? - E.P. Grondine - 5/19/2004 7:01:47 PM
  - Perhaps not - Larry J - 5/18/2004 6:11:53 PM
- I'm not so sure. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/18/2004 3:50:37 PM
- re: Doubt that this'll last for long - Nathan Koren - 5/18/2004 3:09:20 PM

Acceleration - Raoul - 5/19/2004 6:13:49 PM

Another scoop: Ky Michaelson plans to carry out a space-first as early as Monday. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/14/2004 5:42:08 PM
- re: Another scoop: Ky Michaelson plans to carry out a space-first as early as Monday. - Art Martin - 5/14/2004 10:09:50 PM
  - re: Another scoop: Ky Michaelson plans to carry out a space-first as early as Monday. - Luu Ann McFarland - 5/19/2004 2:51:12 PM

"Utah microbes point to Mars" - Bowser - 5/19/2004 1:18:49 AM
- Thanks for the link - jms - 5/19/2004 4:30:59 AM

MiniTES and temperature changes of Endurance Crater - jms - 5/18/2004 2:19:21 PM

Venus, live - Raoul - 5/17/2004 4:05:04 PM
- re: Venus, live - REB - 5/17/2004 6:40:19 PM
  - Terraforming France - Nick Hoffman - 5/18/2004 12:02:03 AM
    - You gotta be careful mentioning McDonalds - Tom Brosz - 5/18/2004 2:17:58 PM
    - You mess with McDonalds, and - - - - Bowser - 5/18/2004 12:55:57 AM
      - :-] !!!!! (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 5/18/2004 11:49:11 AM

Basaltic Sandstone: latest from New Scientist - jms - 5/18/2004 1:49:48 PM

Focusing the Sun (super advanced sci-fi idea) - Success_Machine - 5/14/2004 11:11:45 AM
- Forced orbit around the Sun... - Adam - 5/14/2004 12:43:03 PM
  - re: Good Idea! - Success_Machine - 5/15/2004 3:11:59 PM
    - Bad Idea! - Nick Hoffman - 5/16/2004 8:22:41 AM
      - re: LOL, try a small experimental model first - Success_Machine - 5/16/2004 1:34:55 PM
        
        900 kilowatts? - et - 5/16/2004 9:39:00 PM
        
        re: 900 kilowatts? - Nick Hoffman - 5/16/2004 11:21:25 PM
        
        re: Yeah, I made another mistake - Success_Machine - 5/17/2004 1:48:16 PM
  - Soletta - Nick Hoffman - 5/14/2004 2:42:24 PM
    - re: Morals learned from sci-fi novels... - Success_Machine - 5/17/2004 11:12:28 PM
      - Human motives learned from sci-fi novels... - Nick Hoffman - 5/17/2004 11:58:03 PM
        
        re: 22 million horrendous calamities published - Success_Machine - 5/18/2004 12:24:54 AM
        
        Not all calamities, but much food for thought. - Nick Hoffman - 5/18/2004 12:13:02 PM
    - Don't forget the Dyson Sphere concept - LJK - 5/14/2004 4:31:03 PM

Here is a chilling thought - R.L. - 5/17/2004 8:14:06 AM
- Artificial Meteor Shower - jms - 5/17/2004 5:30:10 PM
  - re: Artificial Meteor Shower - DWC - 5/17/2004 10:59:46 PM
- Yet another chilling thought - dtb - 5/17/2004 5:01:10 PM
  - re: Yet another chilling thought - Larry J - 5/17/2004 5:30:32 PM
- re: Another chilling thought - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2004 3:32:03 PM
- The Sky Road - et - 5/17/2004 3:26:53 PM
  - re: The Sky Road - NotNader - 5/17/2004 5:53:08 PM
    - Not space or science.... - et - 5/17/2004 6:31:42 PM
      - Thanks a bunch! Just what I need...another one. ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2004 10:55:50 PM
- re: Here is a chilling thought - Larry J - 5/17/2004 2:47:30 PM

The comet, the cluster and the station - Raoul - 5/17/2004 4:24:47 PM

Q4 NEAT - Raoul - 5/16/2004 10:36:04 AM
- re: Q4 NEAT (on the 13th) - Raoul - 5/16/2004 3:44:51 PM
  - re: Q4 NEAT (on the 13th) - Raoul - 5/16/2004 5:15:43 PM
  - re: Q4 NEAT (on the 13th) - phil - 5/16/2004 4:06:39 PM
    - Undecipherable code - Nick Hoffman - 5/17/2004 12:53:59 PM
      - Decipherable code - Nick Hoffman - 5/17/2004 1:03:24 PM

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