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Human caused global warming may have a long history - Tom Brosz - 12/12/2003 9:42:50 AM
- Meanwhile, Bush's evil opposition to Kyoto is causing problems elsewhere in the solar system - phil - 12/12/2003 5:04:53 PM

Eliminating the Van Allen belts? - Lee - 12/8/2003 8:12:48 AM
- re: Who disproved the theory that the Van Allen belts cause the magnetic field? (n/t) - Johannes - 12/11/2003 3:28:00 PM
  - Nobody bothered. - et - 12/12/2003 1:40:52 AM
    - re: Nobody bothered. - Johannes - 12/12/2003 2:58:38 AM
      - re: Nobody bothered. - et - 12/12/2003 3:27:21 AM
        
        re: Thanks, I may do that (n/t) - Johannes - 12/12/2003 12:34:16 PM
- re: Somewhat skeptical - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 8:07:11 AM
  - re: Besides, the van Allen belts are constantly being replenished by the solar wind - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 8:11:20 AM
- No, I don't see the possible side effects - Tom Brosz - 12/8/2003 5:06:07 PM
  - A possible 'Farside' cartoon comes to mind: - ebnelson - 12/9/2003 3:12:48 AM
  - Just some thoughts. - Lee - 12/8/2003 10:52:12 PM
    - re: Just some thoughts. - et - 12/10/2003 9:37:29 PM
  - re: No, I don't see the possible side effects - et - 12/8/2003 7:29:00 PM
- 'More research needed' - ebnelson - 12/8/2003 12:42:45 PM
  - re: 'More research needed' : I AGREE !!! - Johannes - 12/10/2003 2:52:47 PM
    - re: The main field is generated by electrical currents in the core-mantle boundary - Success_Machine - 12/12/2003 5:29:37 AM
      - re: The main field is generated by electrical currents in the core-mantle boundary - Johannes - 12/12/2003 1:24:23 PM
  - re: I understand you are quite a supporter of nuclear power - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 6:45:32 AM
    - Scale and Perspective, S_M - ebnelson - 12/10/2003 3:13:37 AM
      - re: Well, it wouldn't work anyway... but if it did.... - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 4:11:14 AM
- No side effects... just benefits - Adam - 12/8/2003 10:42:28 AM

Titan-II Mk.6 Reentry vehicle - Gary - 12/11/2003 8:25:59 PM
- Perhaps some form of structural reinforcement? - Larry J - 12/12/2003 3:02:11 AM
  - re: Perhaps some form of structural reinforcement? - Gary - 12/12/2003 8:23:05 AM

Other Earths... the simulation - Adam - 12/11/2003 10:17:11 PM
- re: Cool - Success_Machine - 12/12/2003 5:44:46 AM
  - re: Cool - Nipper Wolf - 12/12/2003 7:04:12 AM
  - re: Clarification: Dogs are not very good at being humans. nt - Success_Machine - 12/12/2003 5:48:53 AM

Shipborne antimissile system has successful test - Tom Brosz - 12/11/2003 11:55:09 PM
- re: It must be the last half-mile-to-target that's hard to get perfect - Success_Machine - 12/12/2003 5:19:59 AM

All will be forgiven if George returns NASA to the moon. 6 days & counting. - Spartacus - 12/11/2003 5:16:02 PM
- So the excessive spending is okay if it's for OUR particular favorite porkbarrel? ;) - Tom Brosz - 12/11/2003 10:56:45 PM
- Who gives a damn whether you "forgive" us or not? - Larry J - 12/11/2003 7:11:51 PM
  - re: Who gives a damn whether you "forgive" us or not? - brian gyles - 12/11/2003 11:32:33 PM
    - Of course space isn't owned by the US... - Larry J - 12/12/2003 3:08:58 AM
  - I was talking about forgiving your friend Georgie, the one in the White House. - Spartacus - 12/11/2003 8:07:59 PM
    - Who gives a damn if you "forgive" Bush? - Larry J - 12/11/2003 11:16:54 PM

Venus colonisation... - Adam - 11/2/2003 1:09:17 PM
- re: Venus colonisation... - Robert E. Bleier - 11/4/2003 11:23:15 AM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:37:05 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:55 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:45 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:33 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:10 PM
    - Courtesy of Oxford.EDnet.NS.CA. (n/t) - et - 12/12/2003 1:46:33 AM
  - Big prob bob. - et - 11/4/2003 7:33:39 PM
- How's this for an idea. - et - 11/3/2003 7:58:50 PM
  - re: How's this for an idea. - Chris Vancil - 11/4/2003 1:35:41 AM
- Terraformation versus interstellar travel costs - Gary - 11/3/2003 12:43:23 AM
  - re: Terraformation versus interstellar travel costs - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:10:07 PM
    - 50 billion exajoules... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:30:10 PM
      - 8 to One... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:42:18 PM
        
        re: Power versus Energy - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:39:41 AM
        
        re: A sunshade as big as a planet, covered in solar power modules - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:47:17 AM
        
        200 years... - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:20:17 AM
        
        re: Chemical reactors might be more useful than just stripping the atmosphere - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:54:48 AM
        
        re: Ultimate problem with Venus, it's too close to the Sun - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:58:53 AM
        
        re: Create a self-regulating troposphere on Venus - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 2:14:42 AM
        
        Very tricky... - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:29:07 AM
        
        Not tricky at all... - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2003 1:19:19 PM
  - re: Terraformation versus interstellar travel costs - Tom Brosz - 11/3/2003 4:30:41 AM
    - Why waste the energy? - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:00:13 PM
- The cost benefit analysis - ebnelson - 11/2/2003 8:31:51 PM
  - Nitrogen for Mars... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:04:35 PM
- $64,000 question: why bother? - Tom Brosz - 11/2/2003 7:24:45 PM
  - re: Atmosphere or no atmosphere - Raoul - 11/2/2003 9:13:23 PM
    - The US survived landing on Venus by accident - Gary - 11/3/2003 1:01:38 AM
      - re: The US survived landing on Venus by accident - Davin L. - 11/3/2003 6:17:07 PM
      - re: Electric heaters function normally at over 500 deg.K - Success_Machine - 11/3/2003 1:36:33 PM
        
        I believe(?) most integrated circuits flake out at T > 100deg.C - Gary - 11/3/2003 4:33:38 PM
        
        re: integrated circuits flake out - Tom Brosz - 11/3/2003 8:00:33 PM
        
        Refrigerators on Venus - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 4:08:15 AM
        
        re: Refrigerators on Venus - Tom Brosz - 11/4/2003 4:31:07 AM
        
        re: Refrigerators on Venus - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 3:36:55 PM
        
        Cool! (sorry.) - Tom Brosz - 11/4/2003 5:01:59 PM
        
        re: Corrosion of RTG and high winds on Venus - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 4:54:42 PM
        
        One word: "ceramics." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/4/2003 5:04:01 PM
        
        re: I believe(?) most integrated circuits flake out at T > 100deg.C - Frank - 11/3/2003 7:31:20 PM
        
        re: Hard to say - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:33:08 AM
        
        re: I believe(?) most integrated circuits flake out at T > 100deg.C - Frank - 11/3/2003 7:31:04 PM
- re: Venus - Raoul - 11/2/2003 3:49:59 PM
  - Venus planetary dynamo - et - 11/3/2003 7:46:40 PM
    - re: Venus planetary dynamo - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 4:01:49 PM
      - Where did it all go? - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:26:04 AM
        
        That damn Baxter, I did not. - et - 11/5/2003 5:43:56 PM
      - re: Venus planetary dynamo - et - 11/4/2003 7:26:48 PM
        
        You're right. - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2003 1:15:51 PM
    - re: Yes, perhaps (n/t) - Raoul - 11/3/2003 8:21:56 PM
- re: Colonization of low-earth orbit - Success_Machine - 11/2/2003 3:31:18 PM
  - Good point SM... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:48:40 PM
    - Mars Geology and Minerals - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 4:13:41 PM
      - Thanks for the precis, Nick... Mercury mines anyone? - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:08:38 AM
        
        re: He3 - Raoul - 11/5/2003 12:42:42 PM
        
        Would you trust... - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2003 1:13:00 PM
        
        re: Would you trust... - Raoul - 11/5/2003 4:20:38 PM

For anyone in the LA area - alcaray - 12/11/2003 11:54:34 PM

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission - SteveS - 12/11/2003 3:12:00 PM
- re: M31 - Raoul - 12/11/2003 3:54:13 PM
  - re: M31 - SteveS - 12/11/2003 5:55:27 PM

Merry Christmas to thee from NASA and Me - Johannes - 12/11/2003 5:23:40 PM

Galactic collision spawns black holes and neutron stars - phil - 12/11/2003 3:45:51 PM

Cash tacked to Space Station wall - Tom Brosz - 12/11/2003 5:16:21 AM
- That's easy. They must be Geocachers - RobVG - 12/11/2003 2:12:38 PM

Returning back from the Moon - Raoul - 12/5/2003 9:50:29 PM
- The high failure rate of Mars bound craft - ebnelson - 12/8/2003 12:48:27 PM
- re: Returning back from the Moon - Larry J - 12/6/2003 3:14:32 PM
  - re: Returning back from the Moon - Raoul - 12/6/2003 10:05:09 PM
    - re: Returning back from the Moon - Larry J - 12/6/2003 11:51:40 PM
      - re: Returning back from the Moon - Raoul - 12/7/2003 10:09:50 AM
        
        re: Returning back from the Moon - Larry J - 12/8/2003 1:13:00 AM
- re: Returning back from the Moon - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2003 1:29:18 AM
  - re: Returning back from the Moon - Raoul - 12/6/2003 9:05:11 AM
    - Hydrogen storage - Tom Brosz - 12/7/2003 12:28:44 AM
      - re: Hydrogen storage - JonClarke - 12/8/2003 11:29:30 AM
        
        re: Hydrogen storage - Tom Brosz - 12/9/2003 8:12:59 AM
        
        re: Hydrogen storage - JonClarke - 12/11/2003 11:00:06 AM

Morrison must either apologize or resign - E.P. Grondine - 12/10/2003 6:33:54 PM
- My apology and resignation, Please,God, forgive me! - Morrison - 12/10/2003 7:37:17 PM
  - re: David Morrison? - Chris Vancil - 12/11/2003 7:37:40 AM
    - re: re:Victor Clube and Bill Napier? - Chris Vancil - 12/11/2003 7:51:39 AM

Panspermia redux... - Adam - 12/10/2003 10:22:38 PM

Nozomi will skip Mars - Raoul - 12/9/2003 7:34:52 PM
- Unfortunate... - Donald - 12/10/2003 2:23:28 PM
  - Mars score 0 for 1. Hoping for at least 4 for 5 now. (n/t) - Delbert - 12/10/2003 4:06:09 PM
    - Or Earth 14-Mars 18 (Since 1960) - SteveS - 12/10/2003 7:32:50 PM
- Sad news - SteveS - 12/9/2003 8:13:12 PM
  - re: Sad news - Raoul - 12/9/2003 8:26:48 PM
- So much for Japan's $88 million dollar Mars mission (and the inept Japanese govt. that planned it). - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 8:07:48 PM
  - Your support is pretty fickle (n/t) - alcaray - 12/9/2003 9:32:48 PM
    - When have I EVER supported blatantly SOCIALIST space programs? Japan should have offered Mars PRIZES, not contracts. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 10:51:20 PM
      - re: When have I EVER supported blatantly SOCIALIST space programs? Japan should have offered Mars PRIZES, not contracts. - alcaray - 12/10/2003 12:19:55 AM
        
        Space socialists or space entrepreneurs, I wish Nozomi had succeeded. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 2:08:24 AM
        
        Amen comrade. (n/t) - et - 12/10/2003 9:53:27 PM

Irregular moons - phil - 12/10/2003 9:40:24 PM

Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA? - phil - 12/9/2003 6:02:57 PM
- Comm on admit it--NASA is just cover for Bush & Rumsfield's plan to Militarize Space N/T (n/t) - Ima Liberal - 12/9/2003 10:18:58 PM
- re: Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA? - Tom Brosz - 12/9/2003 7:39:53 PM
  - Congress says NASA *can* offer competitive prizes. Here's the official link documenting this... - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 8:01:55 PM
    - I didn't say they "couldn't" offer prizes. I said they "won't." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/10/2003 12:34:17 AM
    - re: Privatization could increase the cost to launch - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 8:47:46 PM
      - There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 9:22:39 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 9:51:05 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that - McFly - 12/9/2003 10:57:43 PM
        
        re: Ok, point taken, but... - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:18:03 AM
        
        re: Yuk, Yuk - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:22:35 AM
        
        Itys a long way between government regulation of homebuilders and haveing a Government Homebuilding Agency - Scott Evil - 12/9/2003 10:25:54 PM
        
        re: What costs more: Building the house, or building the utilities? - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:04:28 AM
        
        In the United States... Utilities and roads leading to housing developments are installed and paid for by the developers - Scott Evil - 12/10/2003 12:38:09 AM
        
        re: Ok, here is an interesting analogy - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 1:32:22 AM
        
        re: To add to my statement - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 9:55:50 PM
        
        re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 10:22:41 PM
        
        Huh? Boeing has lobbied AGAINST tax incentives, and COMPETITIVE prizes. It hired Ms. Druyun (a corrupt Air Force contracting official) before firing her last week, too. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 11:07:27 PM
        
        re: They are in it for the money - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:06:20 AM
        
        They're in it for TAXPAYERS' money, not private consumers'. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 2:11:21 AM
        
        re: They're ALL in it for taxpayer's money - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 3:19:43 AM
        
        Perhaps the best test of whether a space company's truly entrepreneurial: would they support NASA's offering competitive prizes. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 7:07:07 AM
        
        Your fixation on competitive prizes is pretty naive - Larry J - 12/10/2003 6:29:46 PM
        
        But campaign finance reform prevailed today at the Supreme Ct. level. Unions and huge contractors lost. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 9:00:26 PM

Armadillos? - Spartacus - 12/9/2003 4:42:40 PM

CCNet News Items -- Pope Rekindles Dino-Killer Controversy . . . - D. Spires - 1/25/2002 9:54:45 AM
- Implications for Kevin Pope’s KT-Boundary Impact Clouding Model . . . - D. Spires - 1/26/2002 7:31:14 PM
  - re: Implications for Kevin PopeÂ’s KT-Boundary Impact Clouding Model . . . - Jack Parker - 12/9/2003 1:45:16 PM
- Impact Dust Not The Cause Of The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction (part 1) . . . - D. Spires - 1/26/2002 6:56:09 PM
  - Impact Dust Not The Cause Of The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction (part 2) . . . - D. Spires - 1/26/2002 6:57:03 PM
- Scientists Comment on Pope’s Paper . . . - D. Spires - 1/26/2002 6:30:30 PM
- There's far more to an impact than just dust - Splinx - 1/26/2002 5:44:52 PM
- Gradual K/T Extinctions Suggest Prolonged Volcanism & Multiple Impacts . . . - D. Spires - 1/26/2002 5:33:05 PM
- Re: CCNet News Items -- Pope Rekindles Dino-Killer Controversy . . . - p - 1/25/2002 10:32:16 AM

A strange event - Raoul - 12/7/2003 7:55:49 PM
- re: A strange event - Chris Vancil - 12/8/2003 11:19:19 PM
- re: A strange event - Tom Brosz - 12/8/2003 8:22:07 PM
  - re: A strange event - Raoul - 12/8/2003 9:49:08 PM
  - I was thinking the same thing, you beat me to it - SteveS - 12/8/2003 8:44:46 PM
    - re: I was thinking the same thing, you beat me to it - Tom Brosz - 12/9/2003 7:55:54 AM
    - Clarification - SteveS - 12/8/2003 9:05:22 PM
  - Good point. Heres that part of the sky. - et - 12/8/2003 8:33:06 PM
    - re: They don't know - Raoul - 12/8/2003 9:44:05 PM
      - What I'd like to know is... - et - 12/8/2003 10:02:22 PM
- re: A strange event - et - 12/8/2003 7:11:20 PM
  - re: A strange event - Raoul - 12/8/2003 7:17:37 PM
- re: A strange event - Adam - 12/8/2003 10:26:08 AM
  - re: A strange event - Raoul - 12/8/2003 5:23:05 PM
    - re: A strange event - SteveS - 12/8/2003 10:07:45 PM
      - re: A strange event - Raoul - 12/9/2003 6:31:01 AM
        
        re: A strange event - SteveS - 12/9/2003 1:44:07 PM
      - re: A strange event - Chris Vancil - 12/8/2003 10:38:36 PM

Re: Earth's collapsing dipole, I wonder if these will be on NASA TV. - et - 12/8/2003 10:25:34 PM

Speaking of Earth's radiation belts. - et - 12/8/2003 9:08:18 PM

Fantasy sims - black holes and neutron stars - phil - 12/8/2003 4:49:17 PM

Needing a list of Iron-nickel asteroids. - Lee - 12/8/2003 9:50:43 AM
- Short list asteroids spectral class. - SteveS - 12/8/2003 3:33:02 PM
- re: Needing a list of Iron-nickel asteroids. - Adam - 12/8/2003 10:36:13 AM
  - Out to prove a point. - Lee - 12/8/2003 10:48:40 AM
    - Amun 3554 could be a contender - Asteroids R Us - 12/8/2003 1:24:33 PM
      - re: Amun 3554 could be a contender - Tom Brosz - 12/8/2003 4:45:24 PM
    - I thought Eros was nickel-iron... - Adam - 12/8/2003 11:57:53 AM
      - Unlikely Eros is nickel-iron... - gbaikie - 12/8/2003 1:21:30 PM

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