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Hubble Captures Asteroid Breaking Apart - SteveS - 3/8/2014 1:02:55 AM

NEO Asteroid 2014 DX110 Pass Today - SteveS - 3/5/2014 2:27:16 PM

Earth Wind Map - podrock - 3/1/2014 5:52:48 AM
- Does it include private weather station data? - RobVG - 3/1/2014 7:15:38 PM
  - No. But the Wundermap does. - podrock - 3/1/2014 7:22:06 PM
    - Couldn't find the legend. - RobVG - 3/1/2014 8:33:14 PM
      - Should be some tabs in the upper right corner... - podrock - 3/1/2014 8:53:23 PM
        
        Aha. thanks n/t - RobVG - 3/1/2014 10:31:44 PM

"The main sequence ends there." - ER - 2/28/2014 10:58:56 PM

Lunar impact video - RobVG - 2/25/2014 1:38:20 AM
- Seismic measurments. - bowser - 2/28/2014 7:26:01 AM

High-Powered Lasers Deliver Fusion Energy Breakthrough . . . - DanS - 2/14/2014 3:44:07 PM
- The cruel equations - ER - 2/18/2014 2:47:42 AM
- Re: High-Powered Lasers Deliver Fusion Energy Breakthrough . . . - JEKing - 2/17/2014 7:04:55 PM

Ancient American's Genome Mapped . . . - DanS - 2/13/2014 2:45:24 PM

"E-Thrust" Airliner - RobVG - 2/8/2014 7:01:42 PM
- The abominable DC10 - FrankC - 2/9/2014 7:57:24 AM
  - The Lockheed was more pleasing to the eye. - RobVG - 2/9/2014 6:18:32 PM
- Probably the wave of the future, though. - bowser - 2/9/2014 3:56:14 AM

Something to crow about - Jody - 2/8/2014 6:14:09 PM
- A clever troublemaker, but not a geniius . . . - DanS - 2/9/2014 1:30:45 AM
  - A crow story. - bowser - 2/9/2014 9:51:25 AM
  - What a sad story. n/t - ER - 2/9/2014 3:51:58 AM
    - Not so sad . . . - DanS - 2/9/2014 3:15:59 PM
  - A nice documentary from PBS: - podrock - 2/9/2014 1:59:40 AM
    - You really do need to get back to the desert. - ER - 2/9/2014 3:51:08 AM
      - Aye - podrock - 2/9/2014 5:58:41 AM
- You'll enjoy this, then: - podrock - 2/9/2014 12:43:18 AM
  - :) I do! - Jody - 2/9/2014 4:50:59 AM
- That's nothing, Jody. I could have figured that one out. - bowser - 2/8/2014 8:24:14 PM
  - Bwahahaha....yeah well. - Jody - 2/8/2014 8:37:07 PM

Sweet - Jody - 2/8/2014 12:24:10 AM
- I wonder - - - - bowser - 2/8/2014 4:53:20 AM
  - That's exactly what human males have to do. - ER - 2/8/2014 4:58:35 AM
    - I was thinking of a more physical presentation. - bowser - 2/8/2014 7:48:44 AM
- sea slugs are sweeter, nudibranchs are neater - ER - 2/8/2014 4:50:24 AM
  - Beautiful! - Jody - 2/9/2014 4:52:02 AM
  - I had no idea those things existed. The world is a better place. - bowser - 2/8/2014 4:57:49 AM
    - google "sea slugs" and "nudibranchs". - ER - 2/8/2014 5:08:44 AM
      - There are many, many pictures on Google. - bowser - 2/8/2014 8:08:47 AM
- wow 2.0 - Robert - 2/8/2014 4:30:33 AM
- WOW - johannes - 2/8/2014 1:40:15 AM

New Martian Impact Crater - SteveS - 2/6/2014 2:16:01 PM
- Impacts like this are high value lander destinations. - BuckGalaxy - 2/8/2014 8:13:49 AM
- I wonder how Mars' impact rates compare to Earth's. - ER - 2/6/2014 3:31:29 PM
  - Based on size it doesn't look good - SteveS - 2/6/2014 8:04:56 PM
    - I would have to agree with the bunker/bomb-shelter approach. (n/t) - DanS - 2/7/2014 12:15:24 PM

Bill Nye vs Ken Ham: Evolution vs Creation - Robert - 2/5/2014 12:04:35 AM
- Albert Einstein's thoughts on the subject. - johannes - 2/5/2014 10:14:35 PM
- A sweater from a lamb - Jody - 2/5/2014 4:23:38 PM
- truly pointless debate - FrankC - 2/5/2014 6:19:56 AM
- Debating those guys is purely counterproductive. - bowser - 2/5/2014 4:41:16 AM
  - The best defense would be to simply shut the door on them . . . - DanS - 2/7/2014 12:44:40 PM
  - I'm sure you're right - mcfly - 2/5/2014 6:54:18 PM
- I'm bleeding from the ears - Robert - 2/5/2014 12:30:59 AM
  - Don't let these guys depress you, Robert. - ER - 2/5/2014 1:04:10 AM

Pyroclastic flow...with tornados! - podrock - 2/6/2014 1:56:17 AM
- Ash Devils would be right . . . - DanS - 2/7/2014 12:10:37 PM
- Pod...you are such a boffin! - Jody - 2/6/2014 4:22:56 PM
  - Thank-you, that's very kind of you. - podrock - 2/6/2014 10:30:31 PM
    - :) - Jody - 2/6/2014 11:28:27 PM
- Like a major forest fire creating its own atmospheric weather, scary - SteveS - 2/6/2014 1:13:17 PM
- Breathtaking! - Jody - 2/6/2014 3:32:49 AM

The January numbers - ER - 2/5/2014 9:44:18 PM

13 billion year old life - ER - 2/3/2014 10:53:08 PM
- DNA is very clever, far more so than Man. - bowser - 2/5/2014 4:59:18 AM
- What could DNA evolve into if it had 13 billion years to play with . . . ? - DanS - 2/3/2014 11:16:32 PM
  - After 13 Gyr, it should know whether it was or not - ER - 2/4/2014 1:21:33 AM

One man's trash is another man's treasure - Jody - 2/3/2014 5:37:32 PM
- The stuff is bad news. - ER - 2/3/2014 7:54:22 PM
  - I would imagine - - - - bowser - 2/3/2014 9:23:20 PM
    - I don't know how you would go about doing that. - ER - 2/3/2014 10:00:32 PM
      - Right now they are using controlled fires. - Jody - 2/3/2014 11:39:22 PM
        
        It'll stop the spread of seed pods . . . - DanS - 2/4/2014 7:25:51 PM
        
        If I'm not mistaken... - ER - 2/4/2014 9:13:53 PM
      - Chemicals . . . - DanS - 2/3/2014 11:11:50 PM
        
        I live here, - ER - 2/4/2014 1:01:54 AM
- Century of the Triffids. (n/t) - DanS - 2/3/2014 6:01:44 PM

Frack, Baby, Frack . . . ? - DanS - 2/3/2014 12:35:01 PM

Happy Landing Day, Opportunity! - podrock - 1/25/2014 4:27:50 AM
- Oppy needs a bath big time - BuckGalaxy - 2/1/2014 12:48:54 AM
- Opportunity's latest findings disclose past favorable conditions for life. - bowser - 1/25/2014 5:52:19 AM

Star Party - ER - 1/28/2014 11:23:26 PM
- Nice going - SteveS - 1/29/2014 2:53:32 PM
- Super! My neighbor would do that, we loved it. - bowser - 1/29/2014 5:14:49 AM

Safe Is Not An Option - SteveS - 1/28/2014 3:38:17 PM
- Safety - US v. Soviets - bowser - 1/29/2014 5:13:47 AM
  - Risk vs. Safety - SteveS - 1/29/2014 2:46:21 PM
- Futile Obsession? - ER - 1/28/2014 6:58:52 PM
  - Man will get into space the same way that the Americas were found, explored and exploited - FrankC - 1/28/2014 9:38:35 PM
    - We need Inca gold, Aztec Silver, furs, sugar cane and tobacco. - ER - 1/28/2014 11:10:55 PM
      - I expect the resources will be there when cheap access is available - FrankC - 1/29/2014 12:09:35 AM

On the microscopic level - Jody - 1/25/2014 4:40:54 AM
- "Oh, eck!" - DanS - 1/27/2014 3:30:51 PM
  - ;) - Jody - 1/27/2014 8:22:05 PM

"Nearby" supernova just blew. - bowser - 1/26/2014 9:07:51 AM

Dr Halton C. Arp (1927-1913) - ER - 1/23/2014 3:50:30 AM
- The left fielder's mitt . . . - DanS - 1/23/2014 3:00:16 PM
- Surely you jest! - bowser - 1/23/2014 3:53:53 AM
  - He was definitely for real. - ER - 1/23/2014 4:41:58 AM
    - When everyone is looking left, someone needs to look right. - bowser - 1/23/2014 7:11:11 AM

Murmuration - Jody - 1/23/2014 1:30:09 AM
- Indeed - FrankC - 1/23/2014 3:31:59 AM
- Boids. - ER - 1/23/2014 3:07:25 AM

Gaia on schedule - ER - 1/17/2014 1:48:01 PM
- Yo, Bowser. - ER - 1/17/2014 4:31:54 PM
  - That's one heckuva satellite. - bowser - 1/18/2014 6:45:29 AM
- Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (EL-2) . . . - DanS - 1/17/2014 3:48:10 PM
  - What do you mean by "radio shadow"? - ER - 1/17/2014 4:13:20 PM
    - Solar noise . . . - DanS - 1/17/2014 4:44:55 PM
      - You're right, of course. - ER - 1/17/2014 5:01:35 PM
        
        The "drift" . . . - DanS - 1/17/2014 7:42:07 PM

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