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The Pelican Nebula from APOD - Raoul - 10/13/2003 9:13:50 AM
- Hmmm... - BR Felix - 10/13/2003 9:56:45 PM
  - re: EGG - Raoul - 10/13/2003 10:14:19 PM
    - re: EGG - BRFelix - 10/14/2003 2:39:16 AM
      - re: EGG - Raoul - 10/14/2003 9:53:40 AM
- re: The Pelican Nebula from APOD - et - 10/13/2003 6:37:59 PM

Soyuz - Raoul - 10/13/2003 10:07:16 PM

Recent daylight fireball not so? - et - 10/13/2003 6:27:36 PM

UC(SD) scientists discover plant gene that promotes production of ozone-destroying methyl halides - et - 10/13/2003 6:04:57 PM

Mars in august 1982 - Raoul - 10/13/2003 8:46:37 AM

NASA demonstrates beam-powered R/C aircraft - Success_Machine - 10/12/2003 4:13:52 PM

Shenzhou to be spotted? - Raoul - 10/11/2003 8:39:35 PM
- No, solid grey with blue trim paint job - Robert - 10/12/2003 2:33:36 AM
  - re: LOL Lol :-) tres drole ! (n/t) - Raoul - 10/12/2003 3:33:33 PM

Ex-astronaut calls moon stepping stone to Mars - Don - 10/10/2003 1:09:12 AM
- re:This is old news and at best it's handwaving... - Chris Vancil - 10/12/2003 12:38:10 AM
  - re: re:The Moon - Raoul - 10/12/2003 12:51:31 AM
    - re:The Moon - Chris Vancil - 10/12/2003 7:29:37 AM
- Same old Schmitt Story - Mark Eby - 10/11/2003 2:29:01 AM
  - re: Same old Mars Society Story - Life in the Tin Can - BD - 10/11/2003 12:53:04 PM
    - re:You know Barry it is the same old record you play over and over...ry - Chris Vancil - 10/12/2003 12:47:43 AM
    - Your Post Has Zero Relevance To My Points - Try Again (n/t) - Mark Eby - 10/11/2003 4:07:18 PM
- Thanks, Don - McFly - 10/10/2003 3:01:30 PM
  - The Obvious Answer Is Wrong - Mark Eby - 10/11/2003 3:29:10 AM
    - re: Landing on Mars and on the Moon - Raoul - 10/12/2003 12:59:32 AM
      - The Details Have Been Worked Out Long Ago - Mark Eby - 10/12/2003 3:56:22 AM
- re: In reality, we've got a big bump on our heads after hitting the moon while on the way to Mars nt - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 1:34:17 PM
  - I say...1st the moon...Then the Moons of Mars and maybe a near earth object...Then Mars... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 3:19:33 PM
- re: Ex-astronaut calls moon stepping stone to Mars - BD - 10/10/2003 12:16:52 PM

Shenzhou - Raoul - 10/10/2003 10:55:00 PM
- How exactly do you pronounce Shenzhou? - Lee - 10/11/2003 5:04:10 AM
  - Thanks guys. (n/t) - Lee - 10/11/2003 5:29:09 PM
  - Also, more like Shun than Shen... - Nick Hoffman - 10/11/2003 3:22:21 PM
  - re: zoo - Raoul - 10/11/2003 10:02:47 AM

Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now... - Carl - 10/10/2003 3:12:43 PM
- I could tune the earth's magnetic field.... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/11/2003 7:00:08 AM
- Don't move Earth... Stir the Sun - Adam - 10/11/2003 3:43:50 AM
- Manekatopokanemahedo - from Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Origin - 10/11/2003 1:29:58 AM
- re: Andromeda and our Galaxy - Raoul - 10/10/2003 10:05:35 PM
- how to move the Earth away from an evolving main sequence star - phil - 10/10/2003 6:49:56 PM
  - World Out of Time.. er.. the Way... - Adam - 10/11/2003 3:59:20 AM
- re: Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now... - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 6:15:40 PM
  - *So, how many people does it take to change a star? - et - 10/10/2003 6:39:39 PM
    - So, how many people does it take to change a star? - Nick Hoffman - 10/11/2003 3:32:59 PM
      - LOL!! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2003 4:25:42 PM
    - Nah...just turn it off and let it cool down for about fifteen minutes. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 8:28:04 PM
- re: An 'old' idea. - Marcia - 10/10/2003 5:04:11 PM
- re: Temporal discontinuity - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 4:25:11 PM
- 5 BILLION YEARS may seem like a long time... - McFly - 10/10/2003 4:16:34 PM
- re: The Habitable zone - Raoul - 10/10/2003 4:07:44 PM
- re: Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now... - DWC - 10/10/2003 3:35:34 PM
  - re: The volume of the works of Man - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 4:33:02 PM
- We could alter the moon's orbit in such a way that it would pull the Earth into a safer orbit around the Red Giant Sun - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 3:25:29 PM
  - re: Momentum exchange - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 6:10:46 PM
  - Uhh, Nuke waste dumps on the MOON? - Carl - 10/10/2003 3:47:30 PM
    - just move a large gravitational source to hover somewhere around L2 - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 4:53:42 PM
      - Wait... I think it would need to be somewhere just beyond L2... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 4:58:04 PM
        
        Wait...Danger, Danger, Danger... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 5:04:29 PM

Rocks Could Reveal Secrets Of Life On Earth â€“ And Mars - BD - 10/11/2003 1:01:36 PM

Who remembers "The Invaders"? - LJ - 10/7/2003 9:03:16 PM
- re: Who remembers "The Invaders"? - Oneil - 10/10/2003 8:18:42 AM
  - re: Who remembers "The Invaders"? - O'Neil - 10/11/2003 8:33:16 AM
- re: Who remembers "The Invaders"? (n/t) - Oneil - 10/10/2003 8:09:42 AM
- You can still pick up one of those models - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 5:24:29 AM
- Roy Thinnes ROCKS!!!!!!! - Carl - 10/8/2003 5:57:03 PM
  - Model source - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 5:30:05 AM
- re: Who remembers "The Invaders"? - ebnelson - 10/8/2003 4:36:51 AM
- kinda sorta... - McFly - 10/7/2003 10:42:41 PM
  - re: NEVER confuse the two . . . - D. Spires - 10/7/2003 11:39:10 PM
  - Never saw Captain Scarlatt - alcaray - 10/7/2003 10:53:14 PM
    - Supermarionation fans... - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 3:27:37 AM
    - Ahh, poor old Cappy S - McFly - 10/8/2003 1:15:08 AM
- re: I do! - Raoul - 10/7/2003 9:13:35 PM
- re: I do! - Raoul - 10/7/2003 9:13:26 PM
- re: I do! - Raoul - 10/7/2003 9:13:17 PM

Our Lonely Galaxy: Parts I & II - Mark Eby - 10/11/2003 4:03:08 AM

Laser Guide star first light - R.L. - 10/10/2003 7:57:30 PM
- re: super! - Raoul - 10/10/2003 9:52:59 PM

Closest asteroid yet flies past Earth - SteveS - 10/3/2003 6:21:28 PM
- re: Closest asteroid yet flies past Earth - Larry J - 10/3/2003 6:30:57 PM
  - 1972 Great Teton Fly-by - E.P.Grondine - 10/4/2003 3:50:53 PM
  - re: Closest asteroid yet flies past Earth - SteveS - 10/3/2003 7:39:29 PM
    - Asteroid Capture - Nick Hoffman - 10/5/2003 3:52:04 PM
      - Comet fragment capture - E.P. Grondine - 10/6/2003 10:47:42 PM
        
        re: Comet fragment capture - Nick Hoffman - 10/6/2003 11:12:33 PM
        
        re: Comet fragment capture - E.P. Grondine - 10/10/2003 9:10:21 PM
  - re: Closest asteroid yet flies past Earth - et - 10/3/2003 6:42:19 PM

Ammonia! Ammonia! - Raoul - 10/10/2003 7:54:43 PM
- re: Ammonia! Ammonia! - phillippe - 10/10/2003 9:02:21 PM

SPACE IS CRUCIAL TO OUR SURVIVAL - DWC - 10/9/2003 5:57:52 AM
- re: Knowledge always pays off, sometime and somehow (Paul Spudis) (n/t) - Raoul - 10/10/2003 3:57:49 PM
- Rebuttal - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 4:33:59 PM
  - Sometimes these guys come across as just plain greedy - ebnelson - 10/10/2003 3:37:15 AM
    - re: Sometimes these guys come across as just plain greedy - McFly - 10/10/2003 3:13:31 PM
  - re: well - Raoul - 10/9/2003 4:40:53 PM
- re: Garn - Raoul - 10/9/2003 3:41:27 PM
  - re: To do or not. - Marcia - 10/9/2003 5:01:05 PM
    - re: To do or not. - Delbert - 10/9/2003 5:59:19 PM
      - re: To do or not. - Johannes - 10/9/2003 7:30:28 PM
        
        re: To do or not. - Raoul - 10/9/2003 7:36:41 PM

October 15th? - Raoul - 10/5/2003 4:25:26 PM
- 14 orbits! - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 4:36:19 PM
- Not just 1 orbit. - Delbert - 10/9/2003 3:16:01 PM
  - re: Not just 1 orbit. - Raoul - 10/10/2003 10:30:16 AM
    - Number of orbits - Nick Hoffman - 10/10/2003 3:17:19 PM
- I refuse to call them that. Tell them to think up another name. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 3:47:05 AM
  - re: Sorry but - Raoul - 10/6/2003 9:30:43 AM
  - re: Sorry but - Raoul - 10/6/2003 9:30:33 AM
    - Astronaut - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 3:11:26 PM
      - re: Astronaut - Nick Hoffman - 10/6/2003 11:10:02 PM
        
        re: Astronaut - Delbert - 10/7/2003 1:17:41 AM
        
        Local terminology - Nick Hoffman - 10/7/2003 8:33:51 AM
      - re: Astronaut !!! LOL ! - Raoul - 10/6/2003 4:22:12 PM
        
        From Space Earth is a heavenly body (n/t) - gbaikie - 10/6/2003 4:48:22 PM
        
        We are all astronauts... - Raoul - 10/6/2003 7:22:57 PM
- Who knows? - JonClarke - 10/5/2003 10:45:05 PM
- re: October 15th? - Nick Hoffman - 10/5/2003 4:39:07 PM
  - re: Confirmed - Raoul - 10/8/2003 8:26:11 AM
    - re: Confirmed?? 1 orbit or 1 day? - Delbert - 10/8/2003 2:44:58 PM
      - However....... - Delbert - 10/8/2003 3:25:56 PM
        
        re: However.......looks like 90 minutes ... 1 orbit. - Delbert - 10/8/2003 3:28:31 PM

SpaceShipOne Test Flight Discussion - phil - 10/9/2003 7:47:37 PM
- re: SpaceShipOne Test Flight Discussion - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 12:52:57 AM
  - Rutan has built dozens of designs over the past 30 years - Larry J - 10/10/2003 2:02:41 PM

Patching shuttle's heat shield in orbit may be simple job - et - 10/8/2003 6:20:44 PM
- re: Patching shuttle's heat shield in orbit may be simple job - Nipper Wolf - 10/10/2003 3:20:40 AM
- E.T. F O A M HOME!!!! - Carl - 10/9/2003 4:13:01 PM
  - Forgot to add... - Larry J - 10/9/2003 8:58:04 PM
    - Tiles fall off. - RobVG - 10/9/2003 10:36:41 PM
  - Government purchasing - Larry J - 10/9/2003 8:54:39 PM
- For want of a nail..... - ebnelson - 10/9/2003 4:04:49 AM
  - This repair kit still wouldn't fix a huge hole on the underside of a shuttle. - Scott Evil - 10/9/2003 5:45:28 PM

With all that refraction . . . - D. Spires - 10/10/2003 3:13:38 AM

Universe could be football-shaped ( but probably not...) - et - 10/8/2003 6:24:09 PM
- Uhh, but what's on the other side? - carl - 10/9/2003 3:56:18 PM
- Universe could recollapse SOON... - Adam - 10/9/2003 12:37:32 AM
  - re: Relative rate of temporal progression - Success_Machine - 10/9/2003 4:13:27 PM
- Oh - *real* football, not that silly American game ;-) (n/t) - Fox - 10/8/2003 11:30:21 PM
- re: Universe could be football-shaped ( but probably not...) - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 7:44:16 PM

Solar contribution to 'global warming' predicted to decrease - et - 10/1/2003 6:45:57 PM
- re: In the meantime... - Marcia - 10/2/2003 12:39:01 AM
- "This work is speculative..." - SDT1 - 10/1/2003 8:26:57 PM
  - cyclicity and predictability - Nick Hoffman - 10/2/2003 2:33:10 AM
    - Let's put it his way... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/9/2003 12:02:29 AM

New Mars photos astound scientists - Chris Vancil - 10/7/2003 10:13:27 PM
- Just the evidence of the vortical motion of energy - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 8:09:05 PM

"Hayabusa" (MUSES-C) Flying Smoothly and Ion Engines Reached 1,000 Operation Hours! - Chris Vancil - 10/7/2003 9:32:06 PM
- "Hayabusa" - LJ - 10/8/2003 8:02:21 PM

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