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Rare bird sighting - Fox - 2/19/2004 6:54:21 PM
- re: Rare bird sighting - Larry J - 2/19/2004 7:03:35 PM
  - Ah come on... - Scott Evil - 2/19/2004 7:06:23 PM
    - re: Ah come on... - Larry J - 2/19/2004 7:25:14 PM
      - I bet a lot of those flyovers are the unplanned type. - Scott Evil - 2/19/2004 7:31:41 PM
        
        Naw - Larry J - 2/19/2004 8:11:38 PM

APOD, amateur astronomer discovers nebula in Orion - SteveS - 2/19/2004 4:35:14 PM

Oh no! Not another Face! - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2004 6:58:51 AM
- Ack! Now it's the Jolly Green Giant! - Tom Brosz - 2/19/2004 7:12:57 AM
- re: Oh no! Not another Face! - Spook - 2/19/2004 5:36:02 AM
- What's kind of creepy though... - LJ - 2/19/2004 12:49:36 AM
  - Fractal Mars - Nick Hoffman - 2/19/2004 2:17:04 AM
    - Now that's funny on so many levels... (n/t) - JMS - 2/19/2004 2:38:42 AM
- re:It's all in the brain - Raoul - 2/18/2004 6:43:46 PM
  - It's called "Pareidolia" - JMS - 2/19/2004 4:02:49 PM
- probably just another fossilized Black Helicopter pilot (n/t) - Daniel - 2/18/2004 3:10:42 PM

Spirit's travel itinerary - Tom Brosz - 2/19/2004 7:08:10 AM
- getting close to higher albedo ejecta blanket - JMS - 2/19/2004 2:32:00 PM

I hear the VASIMR VX-10 is getting a higher power RF heater. (n/t) - et - 2/19/2004 5:24:42 AM

Oldest Galaxy Observed / & my own observations - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/16/2004 3:32:27 PM
- re: Oldest Galaxy / Perhaps someone could explain it to me. - Johannes - 2/17/2004 1:43:37 AM
  - Expanding space time... - Adam - 2/18/2004 2:24:54 PM
    - re: Thanks Adam and SDAI - Johannes - 2/19/2004 5:01:29 AM
  - re: Oldest Galaxy / Perhaps someone could explain it to me. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/17/2004 6:01:12 AM
    - The insane leading the uneducated - R.L. - 2/17/2004 7:49:19 PM
      - re: The educated not understanding the question? (n/t) - Johannes - 2/19/2004 5:04:09 AM
- re: Oldest Galaxy - Raoul - 2/16/2004 5:28:41 PM
  - re: Stars Just Beginning to Blink On - Success_Machine - 2/16/2004 11:06:19 PM

Giant Diamond in Core of White Dwarf - Success_Machine - 2/19/2004 2:46:43 AM

Can people go to Mars, or not? "It's a question of radiation," - Chris Vancil - 2/18/2004 10:01:23 PM
- I suspect that boron may be used as a structural fiber to reduce radiation effects. - David F Mayer - 2/19/2004 1:48:10 AM

Space shuttles likely to be grounded till 2005 - Bowser - 2/18/2004 7:14:13 PM
- Will the pathetic Shuttle survive Kerry or Edwards (who BOTH enjoy double digit leads over Bush now)? - ~tax leech - 2/18/2004 9:56:48 PM
- re: OPF - Raoul - 2/18/2004 7:29:07 PM

Update to PanCam filter graph - JMS - 2/18/2004 8:55:06 PM

"Problems with Mars probes? The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves" - Mark Eby - 12/31/2003 7:17:52 PM
- Money alone isn't the solution - Larry J - 12/31/2003 8:03:55 PM
  - FBC seems to have been tossed by the wayside. - Lee - 1/1/2004 7:21:08 AM
    - Price alone isn't a good measure of FBC - Larry J - 1/1/2004 5:43:26 PM
    - FBC is a scam idea - ebnelson - 1/1/2004 3:55:53 PM
      - Clinton didn't want to waste money on Space Exploration - Gary - 1/1/2004 8:25:48 PM
      - Pure Baloney - Mark Eby - 1/1/2004 4:41:47 PM
        
        re: Yes - Raoul - 1/1/2004 4:55:51 PM
  - Some Things You Overlooked - Markk Eby - 12/31/2003 9:44:17 PM
    - re: Some Things You Overlooked - Larry J - 1/1/2004 12:20:30 AM
      - re: Some Thing You're Wrong About - Chris Vancil - 1/1/2004 10:39:28 AM
        
        Nope - Larry J - 1/1/2004 5:32:07 PM
        
        re: Name some Apollo hardware influenced in design by Gemini hardware...Gemini and Apollo where parallel...reread your own post! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2004 8:30:57 AM
        
        Well, let's see... - Larry J - 1/2/2004 4:30:19 PM
        
        re: Yes, let's see... - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2004 5:48:34 PM
        
        You're going to need a life support system... - Larry J - 1/2/2004 7:53:46 PM
        
        re: You're going to need a life support system... - Chris Vancil - 1/3/2004 9:27:27 PM
        
        re: Spacesuits - Raoul - 1/2/2004 11:06:25 AM
        
        re: Nope, two limbs on a branch of the spacesuit tree... (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2004 5:21:40 PM
        
        We can go incrementally to Mars and bypass the Moon - Gary - 1/1/2004 8:14:42 PM
        
        Perhaps we can. I don't believe we should. - Larry J - 1/2/2004 4:48:38 PM
        
        re: Perhaps we can. I don't believe we should. - Chris Vancil - 1/2/2004 5:55:11 PM
        
        A simple guestion - Buster - 1/2/2004 5:18:42 PM
        
        Target fixation - Larry J - 1/2/2004 8:00:43 PM
        
        So your solution is to fixate on the Moon instead or focus on nothing? - Buster - 1/2/2004 8:45:39 PM
        
        I don't know where you got that idea - Larry J - 1/3/2004 3:33:20 PM
        
        re: Spaceship - Raoul - 1/2/2004 11:06:24 PM
        
        False Premise - Mark Eby - 1/1/2004 6:08:26 PM
        
        re: Tests - Raoul - 1/1/2004 8:31:51 PM
        
        re: Tests - Mark Eby - 1/1/2004 10:15:05 PM
      - re: Some Things You Overlooked - Mark Eby - 1/1/2004 3:53:44 AM
        
        Apollo was an end in itself - Larry J - 1/1/2004 6:04:30 PM
        
        re: Apollo was an end in itself - Andrew - 2/18/2004 7:55:12 PM
        
        re: Apollo was an end in itself - Andrew - 2/18/2004 7:55:02 PM
        
        re: Fuel Cells - Raoul - 1/2/2004 11:20:40 AM
        
        Maybe It's Just Semantics - Mark Eby - 1/1/2004 6:21:33 PM
        
        re: Some Things You Overlooked - Raoul - 1/1/2004 9:17:09 AM
        
        re: Some Things You Overlooked - Mark Eby - 1/1/2004 4:36:58 PM
- Key quote - Gary - 12/31/2003 7:29:50 PM

Apollo 11 in comic - Raoul - 2/18/2004 7:02:47 PM

Russians to build bigger, better Soyuz Spacecraft - Chris Vancil - 2/17/2004 11:41:37 PM
- Next thing we know - carl - 2/18/2004 5:48:57 PM
  - re: Yep - Raoul - 2/18/2004 6:34:43 PM
- re: Okay, now let's make a connection between heretofore distinct concepts... - Success_Machine - 2/18/2004 3:42:45 PM

Ever wonder where the waterskiing squirrel hibernates? - Success_Machine - 2/18/2004 3:10:22 PM
- re: Ever wonder where the waterskiing squirrel hibernates? - Tom Brosz - 2/18/2004 4:45:37 PM

Getting hard to see lander - DavidV - 2/18/2004 4:30:30 PM

Martian 'pebbles' don't prove watery past NASA probe could be walking on broken glass. - Chris Vancil - 2/18/2004 7:14:28 AM
- We already have samples of Mars. - Jacob Samorodin - 2/18/2004 3:28:07 PM

Did somebody ask for stereo? - Robert - 2/17/2004 3:10:38 AM
- Any way to add an option to reverse the stereo pair, Robert? (n/t) (n/t) - kosmos - 2/17/2004 5:25:54 PM
  - Doh! - Robert - 2/17/2004 8:46:46 PM
    - re: Doh! - kosmo - 2/18/2004 11:02:36 AM
- re: Did somebody ask for stereo? - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2004 5:23:37 AM
  - re: Did somebody ask for stereo? - kosmos - 2/17/2004 5:23:42 PM
  - These pairs work - JMS - 2/17/2004 5:44:24 AM
    - Synthetic colour - Nick Hoffman - 2/17/2004 9:41:10 AM
- I don't suppose... - Nick Hoffman - 2/17/2004 5:19:14 AM
  - I've been thinking about it - Robert - 2/17/2004 8:41:17 PM
  - re: I don't suppose... - Chris Vancil - 2/17/2004 9:06:50 AM
    - Useful link - Robert - 2/17/2004 8:48:06 PM
- Fantastic. - JMS - 2/17/2004 5:09:43 AM
  - re: Fantastic. - Robert - 2/17/2004 10:41:27 PM
- Super. An address, please. - Bowser - 2/17/2004 3:25:06 AM
  - Hi Bowser - Robert - 2/17/2004 3:55:53 AM

I just missed the press conference...anyone watch it? (n/t) - JMS - 2/17/2004 9:55:59 PM
- re: not much in the way of results - dtb - 2/17/2004 11:59:07 PM
  - Seems as if hematite is becoming a non-issue. - Bowser - 2/18/2004 2:06:36 AM
    - re: Seems as if hematite is becoming a non-issue. - dtb - 2/18/2004 4:11:53 AM
    - What would they be doing if they found liquid water? - Gary - 2/18/2004 3:42:47 AM
    - It's all geology - JMS - 2/18/2004 2:58:57 AM
      - As it should be - Gary - 2/18/2004 5:59:08 AM

From Space, a New View of Doomsday - Bowser - 2/18/2004 4:10:34 AM
- re: From Space, a New View of Doomsday - dtb - 2/18/2004 5:16:49 AM

Question for Gary about Beagle 2 heat shield - dlp_79 - 2/15/2004 9:46:14 PM
- re: Question for Gary about Beagle 2 heat shield - Gary - 2/16/2004 5:46:03 AM
  - re: Question for Gary about Beagle 2 heat shield - Doug Ellison - 2/17/2004 9:34:35 PM
    - Some of the world's best aeronautical engineers are British - Gary - 2/18/2004 4:11:20 AM
  - re: Question for Gary about Beagle 2 heat shield - dlp_79 - 2/16/2004 6:44:12 AM
    - re: Question for Gary about Beagle 2 heat shield - Gary - 2/16/2004 7:22:40 AM
  - A typo - GAry - 2/16/2004 6:20:18 AM

A photo for the history books - Buck Galaxy - 2/17/2004 7:26:13 AM
- re: A photo for the history books - Doug Ellison - 2/17/2004 9:26:54 PM
- Is that an antenna or is MER just happy to ........ :-) (n/t) - Tony - 2/17/2004 3:32:32 PM
- Ahhhh!!!...Run for your lives!!...H.G. Wells was right!! ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2004 2:30:27 PM
  - You laugh, as the hapless, tiny spherical Martians are mercilessly trampled down into the dirt. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2004 5:57:11 PM
    - They like dirt. - Bowser (snuffle) - 2/18/2004 2:50:03 AM

Russia 2 build new spacecraft - carl - 2/17/2004 8:34:51 PM
- re: Russia 2 build new spacecraft - Raoul Lannoy - 2/17/2004 8:49:05 PM
  - re: Russia 2 build new spacecraft - Raoul - 2/17/2004 9:16:44 PM
    - If "outsourcing" is so darned good for everyone else, I wonder about NASA. - Bowser - 2/18/2004 2:09:25 AM

Beagle Found? - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2004 11:31:40 PM
- - outstanding imaging hardware .. what a picture! (n/t) - Daniel - 2/18/2004 12:54:03 AM

Where was Opportunity on Sol 23? - LJ - 2/17/2004 5:10:20 PM
- re: Where was Opportunity on Sol 23? - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2004 5:40:53 PM
  - images labeled "New" that are several days old - Buck Galaxy - 2/17/2004 9:32:06 PM
- re: Where was Opportunity on Sol 23? - DavidV - 2/17/2004 5:33:16 PM
  - re: Where was Opportunity on Sol 23? - LJ - 2/17/2004 5:44:07 PM
    - re: I thought you meant drilling, LJ. - Marcia - 2/17/2004 8:41:19 PM
    - re: Pressing soil, trenching and hopefully drilling soon. - Marcia - 2/17/2004 8:35:33 PM
      - before departure - JMS - 2/17/2004 10:06:58 PM

Another debris near ISS - Raoul - 2/17/2004 9:09:16 PM

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