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Avaition Week: Zero Point Energy - phil the skeptic - 4/3/2004 7:04:37 PM
- Riddled with bad history and bad physics - R.L. - 4/3/2004 8:59:34 PM
  - re: Riddled with bad history and bad physics - phil - 4/3/2004 10:23:21 PM

Todays Press Briefing - SAIDias - 4/1/2004 7:26:10 PM
- Anagrams, anyone? - R.L. - 4/2/2004 8:20:17 AM
- Graphs from JPL - jms - 4/2/2004 2:58:22 AM
  - Arm-waving about Cl.... - jms - 4/3/2004 4:57:37 PM
    - (well, salt, of course) - j~s - 4/3/2004 7:23:12 PM
  - re: Graphs from JPL - dtb - 4/2/2004 6:41:50 AM
    - chlorine, salty lakes - jms - 4/3/2004 5:34:28 PM
    - Chlorine come from a salty lake? - REB - 4/2/2004 1:30:13 PM
    - re: Graphs from JPL - Doug - 4/2/2004 8:29:17 AM
      - I don't get it - Robert - 4/2/2004 11:45:05 PM
        
        Blue subsurface in the JPL released images. - Robert Clark - 4/3/2004 1:09:53 PM
        
        re: Blue subsurface in the JPL released images. - Robert Clark - 4/3/2004 1:43:29 PM
        
        To Robert: - Robert Clark - 4/3/2004 1:52:24 PM
      - re: Graphs from JPL - Robert Clark - 4/2/2004 5:01:26 PM
      - re: Graphs from JPL - dtb - 4/2/2004 3:31:22 PM

Well!....These latest Mars discoveries have not discredited the sci-fi work of writers like Kim Stanley Robinson. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/3/2004 5:22:00 PM

The 6th planet! - Raoul - 4/2/2004 9:34:33 PM
- I take it that Gattaca is the inflight movie. ;) (n/t) - Lee - 4/3/2004 6:25:34 AM
- question .. - Daniel - 4/3/2004 3:10:27 AM
  - re: question .. - Raoul - 4/3/2004 12:09:07 PM
- re: The 6th planet! - Fox - 4/2/2004 9:57:26 PM
  - re: The 6th planet! - Raoul - 4/2/2004 10:09:43 PM
    - re: The 6th planet! - phil - 4/3/2004 2:55:01 PM
      - re: The 6th planet! - Marcia - 4/3/2004 3:14:44 PM

Ottawa affirms commitment to missile defence talks, Nunavut high on list of possible missile, radar sites - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 11:08:36 AM
- - I can see that (as you mentioned) you are indeed on holidays .. - Daniel - 4/1/2004 1:38:08 PM
  - re: Something about BMD is reminiscent of Hydrogen Fuel Cells (a shiny thing) - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 2:11:45 PM
- re: Canada's Policy on Ballistic Missile Defence - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 11:19:29 AM
  - re: That the Senate of Canada recommend that the Government of Canada refuse to participate in the U.S.- sponsored Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, because: - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 11:52:02 AM
    - re: Church leaders encourage alternatives to Ballistic Missile Defence System - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 12:04:08 PM
      - I was going to comment on this at some point in the thread... - Tom Brosz - 4/1/2004 4:56:56 PM
        
        re: We already know (n/t) - Success_Machine - 4/2/2004 1:27:22 AM
        
        re: Surprising attitude, given the WMD screwup in Iraq. - Success_Machine - 4/2/2004 2:20:58 AM
        
        Defending North America - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2004 5:19:45 AM
        
        re: Fear of the Boogeyman Pre-Dated 9-11, so did Canadian & US Cooperation - Success_Machine - 4/2/2004 7:38:17 AM
        
        re: Canadian & US Cooperation - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2004 7:01:52 PM
        
        re: Sure, we manned the radar lines for 40 years. - Success_Machine - 4/3/2004 2:42:09 PM
      - re: Northrop Grumman team to develop boost-phase ABM system - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 12:14:22 PM
        
        re:BMD, NORAD, and Canada-US security - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 12:50:59 PM
        
        re: NORAD: D.C. airways still vulnerable - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 12:54:33 PM
        
        re: NORAD could evolve into N.A. NATO: U.S. military leader - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 1:01:06 PM
        
        re: Canadian Norad staff worry they'll lose jobs - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 1:05:53 PM
        
        That's not what concerns me. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/1/2004 2:12:52 PM
        
        re: What concerns me is hype - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 2:56:38 PM
        
        re: That's not what concerns me. - Larry J - 4/1/2004 2:40:42 PM
        
        a delivery system... - jms - 4/2/2004 1:44:49 AM
        
        Not really - Larry J - 4/2/2004 4:29:26 PM
        
        re: Zealots for Space Weaponization - Success_Machine - 4/2/2004 3:01:05 AM
        
        Pick whose weapons you want in orbit: ours, or China's. - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2004 5:22:14 AM
        
        re: Are we going to have this paranoid discussion every time a country puts a man in space? - Success_Machine - 4/2/2004 8:04:58 AM
        
        China's strategy - Daniel - 4/3/2004 5:09:13 AM
        
        ps "the politics of that source do not necessarily reflect those of this poster" - Daniel - 4/3/2004 5:16:07 AM
        
        re: That is a description of China's countermeasures to American weapons in space - Success_Machine - 4/3/2004 2:52:47 PM

TITAN 2 have MONSTER WAVES? - carl - 3/31/2004 8:00:05 PM
- re: Will Cassini map Titan before releasing the Huygens Probe ? - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 5:15:26 AM
  - re: Will Cassini map Titan before releasing the Huygens Probe ? - Pete B. - 4/1/2004 1:09:47 PM
    - re: First Landing on a Moon orbiting another Planet - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 1:37:05 PM
      - Skies are way too smoggy for that (n/t) - alcaray - 4/1/2004 3:32:31 PM
        
        Above the smog layer, there is a layer of atmosphere that is clear and blue. - REB - 4/2/2004 1:36:12 PM
      - re: Saturn from Huygens - Pete B. - 4/1/2004 3:04:34 PM
  - Splashdown ok -- it floats - dtb - 4/1/2004 5:24:17 AM
    - re: How does something float in a cryogenic liquid ? (n/t) - Success_Machine - 4/1/2004 9:56:53 AM
      - I have seen plenty of things float in LN2 - R.L. - 4/3/2004 7:58:33 AM
      - Archimedes' principle is temperature independent (n/t) - Gary - 4/3/2004 3:42:13 AM
    - How long is Huygens expected to 'live' on the surface? (n/t) - Hans - 4/1/2004 5:49:57 AM
      - apparently designed to send back data for about 2 hours (n/t) - Daniel - 4/1/2004 6:19:03 AM
        
        re: apparently designed to send back data for about 2 hours - Frank - 4/1/2004 4:26:13 PM
        
        re: apparently designed to send back data for about 2 hours - Frank - 4/1/2004 4:26:04 PM
        
        re: apparently designed to send back data for about 2 hours - Frank - 4/1/2004 4:25:55 PM
        
        Huygens will have descent imaging - Daniel - 4/2/2004 11:16:47 AM
        
        re:Huygens DISR - Pete B. - 4/2/2004 2:19:52 PM

ISS crew hears STRANGE SOUNDS again..... - Carl - 4/2/2004 9:46:04 PM
- sounds like your 3rd guess could be right - Daniel - 4/3/2004 2:57:07 AM
- re: Same place - Raoul - 4/2/2004 10:06:01 PM

Is anybody here going to be at Space Access '04? - Nathan Koren - 4/2/2004 8:31:33 PM
- I wish I could - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2004 11:43:45 PM

KH 15D - Raoul - 4/2/2004 9:53:29 PM

WHAT'S NEW Re: The Hafnium bomb - et - 4/2/2004 9:46:32 PM

Huge fireball crashed to earth. ..like 50000 lights. - Jack Herer - 4/1/2004 6:12:42 PM
- Not an April Fool's either... - Adam - 4/1/2004 7:45:14 PM
  - re: Not an April Fool's either... - gbaikie - 4/1/2004 11:30:45 PM
- Let's hope Nick wasn't in the "outback" at the time near "Ground Zero". (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/1/2004 6:52:38 PM
  - Safely in K.L. again... - Nick Hoffman - 4/2/2004 4:28:28 PM
- I wanted a Bud light. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/1/2004 6:51:06 PM

a truly alien scene .. - Daniel - 4/2/2004 2:36:08 PM
- hey .. what's with the thumbnail pic? - Daniel - 4/2/2004 2:42:54 PM

Aboard MIR in1991... - Raoul - 4/2/2004 1:49:36 PM

Glassy material at the Spirit site. - Robert Clark - 3/28/2004 4:47:07 PM
- Mazatlal rock--MI and color - Robert - 3/29/2004 9:57:01 PM
  - re: Mazatlal rock--MI and color - Daniel Crotty - 4/1/2004 12:13:32 AM
    - re: Mazatlal rock--MI and color - Daniel Crotty - 4/1/2004 3:32:50 AM
      - re: Mazatlal rock--MI and color - Robert - 4/1/2004 4:47:28 PM
    - Are you saying that one can access the exposure times for every image now? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 4/1/2004 1:15:45 AM
  - re: Mazatlal rock--MI and color - Robert Clark - 3/31/2004 12:54:44 AM
    - ...do post some links...I'm interested... (n/t) - jms - 3/31/2004 2:47:42 AM
    - Just wanted to say "You are right" - jms - 3/31/2004 1:42:51 AM
      - Blue or Grey? - Robert Clark - 4/2/2004 1:31:19 AM
  - re: Mazatlal rock--my $0.02c worth - Nick Hoffman - 3/30/2004 11:43:36 AM
    - right side grind? - jms - 3/30/2004 7:56:43 PM
      - re: right side grind? - REB - 3/30/2004 8:58:13 PM
        
        optical illiusion - jms - 3/30/2004 9:53:03 PM
        
        I had it backwards. - REB - 3/31/2004 1:07:34 PM
    - You're probably right - Robert - 3/30/2004 6:14:18 PM
    - re: Mazatlal rock--my $0.02c worth - REB - 3/30/2004 3:41:09 PM
      - Copper on Mars? - Robert Clark - 3/31/2004 12:43:12 AM
  - Blue brightness too high? - dtb - 3/30/2004 2:16:43 AM
    - On second thought.... - dtb - 3/30/2004 2:45:53 AM
      - re: On second thought.... - Robert - 3/30/2004 6:02:06 PM
  - Robert, a "pit bull on the pants leg" of martian color! - jms - 3/30/2004 12:46:00 AM
    - Gamma Rays & Rocks: a good read... - jms - 3/30/2004 9:40:54 PM
      - Moon rocks and radiation? - dtb - 3/31/2004 12:50:01 AM
        
        funny you should ask.. - jms - 3/31/2004 1:28:11 AM
    - Hey, I resemble that remark! - Robert - 3/30/2004 5:41:30 PM
      - more blue minerals - jms - 3/30/2004 7:15:30 PM
    - Reading list: color centers - jms - 3/30/2004 2:49:18 AM
  - For comparison - Robert - 3/29/2004 10:37:40 PM
- Clarification - Robert - 3/29/2004 3:53:12 PM
  - re: Clarification - Robert Clark - 3/29/2004 4:27:59 PM
- some guesses and first impressions - jms - 3/29/2004 3:59:45 AM
- 3D image of the glassy material. - Robert Clark - 3/29/2004 3:04:37 AM

Hey, Phil! You didn't tell me your name is on Mars right now. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/1/2004 5:19:58 PM

Google, looking for 'space' engineers. . . ;-) - Justin Kelly - 4/1/2004 9:33:40 AM
- re: Feast of Fools: Google Copernicus Center! - Chris Vancil - 4/1/2004 11:12:27 AM

If it looks right... - Doug Ellison - 3/29/2004 2:04:39 PM
- re: If it looks right...fine with me - Delbert - 3/29/2004 4:46:33 PM
- Same old objection... - alcaray - 3/29/2004 3:55:08 PM
  - re: Same old objection... - Pete B. - 3/29/2004 4:16:13 PM
- Unfortunate timing - Robert - 3/29/2004 3:27:29 PM
  - re: Unfortunate timing - Doug Ellison - 3/31/2004 9:39:49 AM
    - The travails of true color - Robert - 3/31/2004 4:48:04 PM
      - re: The travails of true color - Doug Ellison - 3/31/2004 9:45:36 PM
  - Looking at the reflected clear blue sky in the chrome... - E.P. Grondine - 3/30/2004 9:46:27 PM
    - re: Looking at the reflected clear blue sky in the chrome... - Robert - 3/31/2004 2:19:14 AM
  - If you would like my opinion - Jim Heald - 3/30/2004 12:29:17 AM
  - re: Unfortunate timing - Robert Clark - 3/29/2004 4:14:53 PM
    - Patience - Robert - 3/29/2004 4:40:27 PM
- re: If it looks right... - Robert Clark - 3/29/2004 2:28:41 PM
  - re: If it looks right... - Doug Ellison - 4/1/2004 10:24:23 AM

PRAVDA: Boriska-boy from Mars - Juan - 3/13/2004 10:28:05 PM
- re: PRAVDA: Boriska-boy from Mars - K9999 - 4/1/2004 8:02:04 AM
- re: No grok-ski (n/t) - AllenC - 3/14/2004 8:36:41 PM
- TYhat boy was probably chasing....rabbits....and blueberries. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/13/2004 11:49:30 PM

Spirit raw images - Tom Brosz - 3/29/2004 10:59:47 PM
- I think I see a very faint hill or mountain. - REB - 3/30/2004 3:48:41 PM
  - re: I think I see a very faint hill or mountain. - Doug Ellison - 3/30/2004 4:19:07 PM
    - I wonder how high they rise above the crater floor? - REB - 3/30/2004 4:38:00 PM
    - re: I think I see a very faint hill or mountain. - Tom Brosz - 3/30/2004 4:22:34 PM
      - is this the map you're looking for? - jms - 3/30/2004 5:20:31 PM
        
        No that's not it: Here it is - Buck Galaxy - 3/30/2004 5:36:11 PM
        
        re: Thanks for the image and link, Buck. (n/t) - Marcia - 3/31/2004 7:55:35 PM
        
        You are very welcome, Marcia :-) - Buck Galaxy - 4/1/2004 6:09:38 AM
- re: Spirit raw images - Doug Ellison - 3/30/2004 9:58:34 AM

Best way to get shuttle to return to flight fast - Buck Galaxy - 4/1/2004 5:41:40 AM

X-Prize 2 - Success_Machine - 3/26/2004 4:38:29 PM
- Reminds me of Star-Raker... - Adam - 3/28/2004 4:58:02 AM
  - re: Scaling up ARMXER has some unique challenges - Success_Machine - 3/28/2004 2:59:10 PM
    - re: Neat factoid - Success_Machine - 3/29/2004 2:19:07 PM
- re: SteamJet Cycle aircraft engines (U.S. Patent US 6,202,404, Mar. 20, 2001) - Success_Machine - 3/26/2004 5:01:51 PM
  - re: versus the Marquardt Ramjet aircraft engine - Success_Machine - 3/26/2004 10:29:38 PM
    - Dead link to D-21 (n/t) - Gary - 3/30/2004 7:13:40 AM
      - re: wierd (n/t) - Success_Machine - 3/30/2004 8:50:56 AM
        
        Maybe he got a phone call from the FBI? (n/t) - Gary - 3/31/2004 5:43:06 AM
        
        re: Why would he get a phone call from the FBI ? (n/t) - Success_Machine - 3/31/2004 9:25:14 AM
        
        ITAR restricted data - Gary - 4/1/2004 5:07:35 AM
        
        re: Marquardt no longer exists - Success_Machine - 3/30/2004 9:04:44 AM
    - Were you once employed by Marquardt? (n/t) - Gary - 3/28/2004 4:56:49 AM
      - re: No, but the guy who wrote that website obviously was - Success_Machine - 3/28/2004 2:31:39 PM
    - re: The one decisive advantage of the Marquardt Ramjet - Success_Machine - 3/27/2004 3:03:18 PM
      - The D-21 was a very nice design. (n/t) - Gary - 3/30/2004 7:15:36 AM

New science observations using laser guide star - R.L. - 4/1/2004 3:23:16 AM

Well?...CNN, and the ESA website, both confirm the Mars 'methane" story. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/30/2004 5:46:54 PM
- re: ESA the link - Raoul Lannoy - 3/30/2004 6:15:10 PM
  - The discovery is definitely 'historic". (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/30/2004 6:18:53 PM
    - chemistry may also play a role - bruced - 3/31/2004 6:33:12 AM
      - I don't know.... - Jacob Samorodin - 3/31/2004 2:24:55 PM
        
        re: I don't know.... - Johannes - 3/31/2004 3:28:09 PM
        
        re: I don't know.... - Jacob Samorodin - 3/31/2004 4:24:11 PM
        
        re: Thanks Jacob (n/t) - Johannes - 4/1/2004 3:03:35 AM

Any huge announcements scheduled for tomorrow? - REB - 3/31/2004 9:32:15 PM
- Yes! - Jacob Samorodin - 4/1/2004 12:06:10 AM

JIMO to include cryobots! - Buck Galalxy - 3/30/2004 5:24:19 PM
- 'Plunging into and burrowing' through a few miles of ice? - ebnelson - 3/31/2004 1:24:16 PM
  - how about passively sitting there with a heated surface on the bottom? (n/t) - alcaray - 3/31/2004 10:14:57 PM
- The UPI reporter appears to be on drugs - pwokenyaw - 3/30/2004 5:43:57 PM
  - He's definitely on drugs or spinning yarns for the fun of it (n/t) - Gary - 3/31/2004 5:45:27 AM
  - Cryobots - Buck Galaxy - 3/30/2004 7:23:33 PM

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