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Video: Dr. Robert Forward's interview regarding space tether construction for a documentary on Virginia Harvey - Success_Machine - 2/12/2004 10:37:40 PM
- Does not seem to be very practical to me. - David F Mayer - 2/17/2004 6:04:58 PM
  - re: Distinction: ARMXER dips into atmosphere, HASTOL does not - Success_Machine - 2/17/2004 8:32:54 PM
- re: Virginia Harvey Documentary - Success_Machine - 2/12/2004 10:56:44 PM

Some interesting stuff in Opportunity raw images - Tom Brosz - 2/16/2004 8:43:58 PM
- Where is the chute.... - LJ - 2/16/2004 11:56:35 PM
  - Answering my own question - LJ - 2/16/2004 11:59:38 PM
    - how about the heat shield impact site - Delbert - 2/17/2004 4:10:38 PM

More blue rocks at Gusev. - Robert Clark - 2/17/2004 2:56:56 PM
- OK, Nick!...With RC spouting off the usual, the "Blue Mars" advocates ever going to disappear? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/17/2004 3:34:01 PM

The Zone's new Rover Image Viewer - Robert - 2/13/2004 10:31:38 PM
- Very creative, Thanks! - SteveS - 2/17/2004 3:34:01 PM
- Thanks for sharing such great work - ebnelson - 2/17/2004 3:28:38 AM
  - Thanks Ed. I'm having fun. (n/t) - Robert - 2/17/2004 4:05:30 AM
- re: Great job, Robert. - Marcia - 2/17/2004 2:10:46 AM
  - re: Great job, Robert. - Robert - 2/17/2004 4:04:31 AM
    - re: Thanks, Robert. - Marcias - 2/17/2004 3:19:41 PM
- Wowee!! Keep scratchin'. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/14/2004 3:52:06 PM
- Way to go, and more.. - Nick Hoffman - 2/14/2004 4:25:16 AM
  - Thanks very much! - Robert - 2/14/2004 6:25:34 AM
    - re: Thanks very much! - Justin Kelly - 2/14/2004 2:46:23 PM
      - re: Thanks very much! - Robert - 2/14/2004 9:28:04 PM
    - re: Thanks very much! - Nick Hoffman - 2/14/2004 10:32:29 AM
      - re: Thanks very much! - Robert - 2/14/2004 9:14:55 PM
        
        Gaps in vision - Nick Hoffman - 2/15/2004 5:27:42 AM
        
        Gotta get me one a those - Robert - 2/15/2004 6:05:24 PM
        
        Two of Those... (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 2/16/2004 5:20:55 AM
- Nice job! I've saved it to Favorites! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/14/2004 1:17:00 AM
  - So have I, in the same folder as the MER home page - Fox - 2/15/2004 3:50:09 PM
- Stereo Viewing - JMS - 2/14/2004 12:24:06 AM
  - No Color Stereo Pairs Possible, see pancam-human eye post (n/t) - JMS - 2/15/2004 10:33:32 PM
  - Viewer for computer screen: http://www.pokescope.com/ - JMS - 2/14/2004 12:39:37 AM
    - re: Viewer for computer screen: http://www.pokescope.com/ - Robert - 2/14/2004 7:00:41 AM
      - Seeing in Stereo - Nick Hoffman - 2/14/2004 10:21:55 AM
        
        re: Seeing in Stereo - Robert - 2/14/2004 8:49:37 PM
        
        re: Seeing in Stereo - BRFelix - 2/14/2004 11:43:56 PM
        
        re: Seeing in Stereo - Delbert - 2/14/2004 3:34:37 PM
        
        Homemade sterographs - JMS - 2/15/2004 4:04:23 AM
- re: Robert! That is BEYOND Cool!!! - BRFelix - 2/14/2004 12:13:23 AM
  - Thanks! - Robert - 2/14/2004 7:01:51 AM
  - Gotta agree - McFly - 2/14/2004 1:37:55 AM

A comet getting closer! - Raoul - 2/16/2004 7:19:53 PM
- re: A comet getting closer! - Fox - 2/17/2004 4:29:31 AM
  - re: A comet getting closer! - SteveS - 2/17/2004 3:07:44 PM

Spirit: hasta la vista, lander! - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2004 6:44:47 AM
- re: Another great historic move, but - Marcia - 2/17/2004 2:52:52 PM

Opportunity makes a trenching - DavidV - 2/16/2004 10:24:55 PM
- It looks chalk like. Here's a closer shot - Buck Galaxy - 2/17/2004 3:45:33 AM
  - Great shot! Obviously not rock like I first thought - Tom Brosz - 2/17/2004 6:45:03 AM
  - re: may not be as bright as it looks - dtb - 2/17/2004 4:42:33 AM
    - dig it. - JMS - 2/17/2004 5:33:41 AM
- WHERE'S NICK? (n/t) - Bowser - 2/17/2004 1:58:17 AM
- bedrock just below the surface cover? - JMS - 2/16/2004 10:47:19 PM
  - "I wonder how far they'll have to trench to hit bedrock outside the crater?"' Excellent question. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/17/2004 3:20:27 AM
  - ...or the outcrop is really soft to begin with... - JMS - 2/16/2004 10:49:56 PM
- Light material is probably more of the same rock that seems to be just under the surface here. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/16/2004 10:35:19 PM
  - Or ice? - LJ - 2/16/2004 11:46:36 PM
    - re: Or ice? - DavidV - 2/16/2004 11:57:30 PM
      - re: Or ice? - LJ - 2/17/2004 12:01:30 AM
        
        re: Or ice? - DavidV - 2/17/2004 12:09:30 AM
- What's interesting... - Donald - 2/16/2004 10:34:16 PM
- Typo: Title should be "Opportunity makes a trench" (n/t) - DavidV - 2/16/2004 10:27:40 PM

Huge New Development for Aerospace Professionals, Starting Now, in 2004 - Success_Machine - 2/17/2004 1:19:47 AM

Why don't they use the RAT more? - Buck Galaxy - 2/16/2004 11:20:01 PM

Geologic Observations of Outcrop Near Charlie. - JMS - 2/16/2004 6:50:00 PM

Gusev -- where's the hydrogen? - dtb - 2/16/2004 4:34:56 AM
- re: Gusev -- where's the hydrogen? - Robert Clark - 2/16/2004 6:16:34 PM
- Notice that those darn spherules are...everywhere? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/16/2004 2:52:01 PM
- re: Gusev -- where's the hydrogen? - Jim Heald - 2/16/2004 2:43:56 PM

Scales - Raoul - 2/16/2004 5:05:57 PM
- Extremely cool! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/16/2004 5:50:44 PM

Europa -- seas of battery acid? - dtb - 2/16/2004 5:18:25 PM

If you like big big diamonds Check this story out! - Jacob Samorodin - 2/16/2004 3:35:02 PM
- Don't tell my wife - Donald - 2/16/2004 4:17:06 PM
- Typo alert: It should be 'story'. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/16/2004 3:36:45 PM

Titan rockets - Raoul - 2/14/2004 5:34:27 PM
- About time - Larry J - 2/16/2004 3:28:41 PM
- We need to develop a fully reuseable launch system with a 1 week (or less) turnaround time. (Of course, it may be impossible to do so.) (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/16/2004 1:33:34 AM
- Fun trivia about Titan rockets - Gary - 2/14/2004 7:31:55 PM
  - re:more trivia on nukes - dtb - 2/15/2004 4:12:24 PM
    - I stand corrected - Gary - 2/15/2004 6:41:20 PM
      - Really big bombs and warheads were created for 2 reasons... - Larry J - 2/16/2004 2:29:38 AM
  - re: Twice used Gemini 2 - Raoul - 2/14/2004 10:13:37 PM
- re: Titan rockets - Tom Brosz - 2/14/2004 5:57:22 PM

Startling new theory explains Opportunity spherules! - Donald - 2/16/2004 12:38:18 AM
- Yr link is bad - Nick Hoffman - 2/16/2004 5:19:03 AM
  - Ya don't want to know - Donald - 2/16/2004 2:51:08 PM
  - You don't want to step in pink elephant turd, do you, Nick? ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 2/16/2004 2:39:14 PM

DARPA's competitive prize has created jobs for FORMER NASA engineers, among others - ~tax leech - 2/16/2004 8:26:45 AM

Questions: What are the criteria for affordable space flight? What technologies will satisfy them? (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/16/2004 1:28:27 AM
- Cost and Convenience (long ramble) - Nick Hoffman - 2/16/2004 6:18:45 AM
- 1: $20 million to spare. 2: Stock options. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/16/2004 2:49:00 AM

Pancam filters and the human eye - JMS - 2/15/2004 10:17:44 PM
- Colour Stereo - Nick Hoffman - 2/16/2004 5:22:55 AM

NASA Chief: Fall Shuttle Launch Unlikely - Bowser - 2/15/2004 3:54:45 AM
- Well, the preview showed it working. Here's the link, "en clair". - Bowser - 2/15/2004 3:56:49 AM
  - Let me try... - Niper Wolf - 2/16/2004 3:35:21 AM
    - Might be something in the BBS HTML. n/t - Nipper Wolf - 2/16/2004 3:46:08 AM

Blue rocks at Gusev? - Robert Clark - 2/15/2004 12:17:04 AM
- re: Blue rocks at Gusev? - Robert Clark - 2/15/2004 12:19:03 AM
  - "....take my kodachrome awayyyy....." - JMS - 2/15/2004 6:03:48 AM
    - Color filter combos. - Robert Clark - 2/15/2004 7:15:32 AM
      - Don't think I can get that blue...see new thread... (n/t) - JMS - 2/15/2004 10:21:53 PM

Funny anti-Bush space policy article - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2004 8:27:47 PM

What kind of rock does Mimi look like to you geologist types? - Buck Galaxy - 2/14/2004 1:55:11 AM
- re: What kind of rock does Mimi look like to you geologist types? - BRFelix - 2/15/2004 8:13:04 PM
- Shale? It's not, but that's what it looks like. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/14/2004 7:56:31 PM
- Visual field notes: Mimi - I've never heard of - 2/14/2004 6:42:17 AM
  - But what about the color? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 2/15/2004 12:28:03 AM
  - layering -- lava tube wall or something similar? - dtb - 2/14/2004 5:14:14 PM
  - oops..posting error..JMS (n/t) - JMS - 2/14/2004 6:44:32 AM
- re: What kind of rock does Mimi look like to you geologist types? - Tom - 2/14/2004 4:31:52 AM
- Some kind of Mica? - REB - 2/14/2004 3:45:57 AM
- re: What kind of rock does Mimi look like to you geologist types? - dtb - 2/14/2004 2:54:36 AM

HUH!? GAO on another planet??? (profanity) - Buck Galaxy - 2/14/2004 2:12:55 AM
- OKay, an explanation - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2004 6:30:37 PM
- stunned by the sheer idiocy of the GAO - phil - 2/14/2004 3:15:06 PM
  - This takes "dumb big government" to a whole new level. - Buck Galaxy - 2/14/2004 4:11:57 PM
    - And some people want the same type bureaucracy running our healthcare system. (n/t) - Lee - 2/14/2004 10:35:58 PM

threads in Opprtunity images - Greg - 2/14/2004 1:19:15 PM
- The guy admits using a highliter to mark his threads - ebnelson - 2/14/2004 2:31:14 PM
  - re: The guy admits using a highliter to mark his threads - Greg - 2/14/2004 3:09:15 PM
    - Thanks. He is seeing constellations in sand grains, imho. - ebnelson - 2/15/2004 4:02:02 AM
      - It's not about life - Greg - 2/15/2004 7:20:20 AM
- I think you're overdoing it. - Nick Hoffman - 2/14/2004 1:31:08 PM
  - re: I think you're overdoing it. - Greg - 2/14/2004 2:17:28 PM

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