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Mars - Sam - 5/12/2003 5:55:42 PM
- Re: Mars' closest approach in ~60,000 years - Chris Vancil - 5/12/2003 7:36:35 PM
  - Re: Meeus - Raoul Lannoy - 5/12/2003 9:41:14 AM
- Re: 55,7 - Raoul Lannoy - 5/12/2003 6:16:34 PM
- ATTN Sam - Davin L. - 5/12/2003 6:09:28 PM
- About 5 months. [sorry couldn't resist] n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 5/12/2003 6:06:05 PM
  - Re: funnnyyyyy :-)))))))))))))))) !!(n/t) (n/t) - Raoul Lannoy - 5/12/2003 6:12:12 PM

Columbia - notes - E.P. Grondine - 5/12/2003 7:32:55 PM
- A Columbia question - Delbert - 5/12/2003 9:03:33 AM

Lunar Eclipse - Sam - 5/12/2003 12:37:54 PM
- Hey, guys ~ - Fox - 5/12/2003 7:13:52 PM
- A suggestion - give up astronomy Sam. - Vince - 5/12/2003 5:56:31 PM
- Howwwwwwelllll! - REB - 5/12/2003 12:55:06 PM
  - Re: Howwwwwwelllll! (correction!!! for sam) - Davin L. - 5/12/2003 2:24:56 PM
    - Re: Howwwwwwelllll! (correction!!! for sam) - REB - 5/12/2003 5:10:47 PM
      - Solar Eclipse Viewing Safety - Tom Brosz - 5/12/2003 5:30:15 PM
- google.com n/t (n/t) - ebnelson - 5/12/2003 12:42:40 PM
- Re: Lunar Eclipse - RobVG - 5/12/2003 11:19:23 AM
- How OLD are you Sam? (n/t) - Lindy n/t - 5/12/2003 10:08:25 AM

4 millimeters long and counting! - alcaray - 5/12/2003 6:04:29 PM
- Re: 4 millimeters long and counting! - REB - 5/12/2003 6:29:22 PM
  - When we can mass-produce them, there's going to be a revolution. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 5/12/2003 10:20:06 AM

US Space STation Status - Sam - 5/12/2003 12:33:42 PM
- Re: US Space STation Status - Raoul Lannoy - 5/12/2003 4:20:06 PM
- google.com n/t (n/t) - ebnelson - 5/12/2003 12:43:17 PM

Thanks, et :-) - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/12/2003 3:57:59 PM

Is Freon really hurting the ozone layer. - REB - 5/8/2003 11:59:18 AM
- Kind of a moot point, now. - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 2:10:26 PM
  - The Antarctic Hole was discovered in IGY1 in 1957 - ebnelson - 5/10/2003 1:21:55 PM
  - Re: Kind of a moot point, now. - REB - 5/9/2003 2:56:50 PM
  - "I just don't like it." - et - 5/9/2003 8:31:19 AM
    - Re: Responsibility - Tom Brosz - 5/12/2003 3:45:54 PM
      - Fiddle away you fiendish fiscal flak. - et - 5/12/2003 12:59:19 PM
- Re: Is Freon really hurting the ozone layer? - REB - 5/8/2003 12:02:18 PM
  - I don't know, but Is there an Ozone layer on Mars? N/T (n/t) - Scott - 5/8/2003 3:17:53 PM
    - Not to speak of, far to little Osub2/sub to begin with... Ø (n/t) - et - 5/8/2003 9:43:39 AM
  - No - Tony - 5/8/2003 2:56:50 PM
    - You're wrong. - et - 5/8/2003 9:40:37 AM
  - While I doubt the truth of the anti-freon claims - ebnelson - 5/8/2003 2:56:15 PM
    - Re: While I doubt the truth of the anti-freon claims - REB - 5/8/2003 3:25:52 PM
      - Um, REB, I think yer dead wrong here... - Davin L. - 5/8/2003 4:32:29 PM
        
        Re: Um, REB, I think yer dead wrong here... - REB - 5/8/2003 4:54:55 PM
        
        This was beaten to death over a decade ago - pwokenyaw - 5/8/2003 6:19:37 PM
        
        Re: This was beaten to death over a decade ago - REB - 5/8/2003 6:31:59 PM
        
        yes they can, precisely because CFCs are so stable - pwokenyaw - 5/8/2003 7:15:06 PM
        
        I can't help with the chemistry... - alcaray - 5/8/2003 6:02:31 PM
      - But does Cl2 decompose to 2 Cl- n the upper atmosphere - Tony - 5/8/2003 4:15:54 PM

Astronomy History - Sam - 5/11/2003 3:42:47 PM
- I was refering to this article - Sam - 5/11/2003 7:17:42 PM
  - Re: IRAS - Raoul Lannoy - 5/11/2003 8:30:54 AM
- Speaking of PX... - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2003 5:49:09 PM
  - TomTomTom... (Sigh) - Davin Disciple L. - 5/12/2003 2:34:31 PM
- I beg of you, do NOT have sex & reproduce n/t (n/t) - p - 5/11/2003 4:45:49 PM
- You are a complete idiot/troll - R.L. - 5/11/2003 4:36:18 PM
  - Re: You are a complete idiot/troll - ebnelson - 5/11/2003 3:37:46 PM
- Re: Astronomy History - Don - 5/11/2003 8:10:57 AM

Star Drek Wackjobs - p - 5/11/2003 3:34:16 PM
- Live Long and Prosper, Dude :-) n/t (n/t) - McFly - 5/12/2003 1:51:15 PM
- Re: Star Drek Wackjobs - O'Neil - 5/11/2003 6:16:53 PM
- Re: Klingon: better than Esperanto - Mary Anne - 5/11/2003 5:32:05 PM
- Re: Star Drek Wackjobs - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2003 5:27:41 PM

Water on Mars - The latest - Don - 5/8/2003 1:19:48 PM
- I don't by it. - REB - 5/9/2003 10:55:22 AM
  - Hard to say - Don - 5/9/2003 12:52:27 PM
  - Meanders - Nick Hoffman - 5/9/2003 12:07:27 PM
    - Re: Meanders - REB - 5/9/2003 12:11:09 PM
      - Re: Meanders - Nick Hoffman - 5/9/2003 7:41:10 PM
        
        Re: Meanders - et - 5/9/2003 8:37:10 AM
        
        'competence' and 'capacity' - Nick Hoffman - 5/9/2003 5:27:06 PM
        
        Re: 'competence' and 'capacity' - et - 5/11/2003 12:29:37 PM
        
        Re: 'competence' and 'capacity' - Nick Hoffman - 5/12/2003 10:40:06 AM
  - Info on Meanders - REB - 5/9/2003 12:05:57 PM
- Here we go again... - BRFelix - 5/8/2003 3:08:46 PM
- Re: Water on Mars - The latest - Barry D. - 5/8/2003 2:00:30 PM
- Re: Water on Mars - The latest - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/8/2003 1:45:18 PM

Roton ATV delivery scheduled for 6:30 AM May 10th. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2003 5:13:31 PM
- Re: Kind of wobbly... - Tom Brosz - 5/10/2003 11:39:49 AM
  - More details... - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2003 5:58:27 PM

MUSES-C is on it's way. - et - 5/9/2003 7:32:19 PM
- I hope Murphy's Law steers clear. [n/t] (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/11/2003 5:20:41 PM

Astro-club - Raoul Lannoy - 5/11/2003 2:34:31 PM

Starship Generations Update --- Skyhook Simulator 1.0 - Success_Machine - 5/7/2003 12:09:39 PM
- What's in the .zip file? Ø (n/t) - et - 5/7/2003 7:41:54 PM
  - Re: Need unzipping utility to open .zip file - Success_Machine - 5/7/2003 1:40:51 PM
    - What is IN the zip file? What files? Ø (n/t) - et - 5/8/2003 9:38:08 AM
      - Re: Why don't you unzip it and find out? nt - SM - 5/8/2003 1:14:41 PM
        
        I'm just asking for a list. That's all....Ø (n/t) - et - 5/9/2003 6:57:55 PM
        
        Re: WHY ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? nt - SM - 5/10/2003 12:51:46 PM
        
        So he knows whether or not it's worth bothering with? - Nathan Koren - 5/10/2003 6:56:36 PM
        
        Re: Then don't. nt - SM - 5/11/2003 1:10:49 PM

Hydrogen Fuel Cells supplying more and more electricity - Scott - 5/8/2003 7:19:27 PM
- Would a fundraising President Bush risk annoying the petro sector, though? - SpaceProjects.com - 5/8/2003 7:58:03 PM
  - Why would the petroleum industry be nervous about fuel cells? - ebnelson - 5/11/2003 8:08:56 AM
  - Shell Oil Company is funding hydrogen fuel cells. - REB - 5/9/2003 12:44:36 PM
    - Doesn't investing facilitate spying and sabotage, though? (n/m) (n/t) - Beware the bringer of gifts... - 5/9/2003 1:36:49 PM
      - Shhhhhh!!!! - ebnelson - 5/11/2003 9:07:39 AM
  - Well, "environmentalist" Ted Kennedy opposes renewable energy - phil - 5/8/2003 9:28:21 AM
  - DOW and other chemical comanies would benefit the most from a decline in the cost of petroleum - Scott - 5/8/2003 8:53:23 AM
    - Re: DOW and other chemical companies - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 2:13:57 PM

Astronomy Day - Fox - 5/10/2003 11:18:58 AM
- Re: Astronomy Day - Raoul Lannoy - 5/10/2003 12:02:49 PM
  - Weather, or not... - Fox - 5/10/2003 1:48:52 PM
    - Re: vexation law - Raoul Lannoy - 5/11/2003 8:58:43 AM

Just got an E-mail from SpaceX - Nathan Koren - 5/8/2003 12:47:30 PM
- Predictions for the next decade - Nathan Koren - 5/8/2003 2:08:36 PM
  - What will you need to pay for service of the Water Closet ? n/t (n/t) - RingXero - 5/10/2003 7:16:52 PM
  - Re: Predictions for the next decade - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 5:45:38 PM
    - Re: Predictions for the next decade - Nathan Koren - 5/9/2003 7:44:45 PM

Active geysers on Mars? - Robert Clark - 5/3/2003 12:02:08 PM
- Re: Active geysers on Mars? - Robert Clark - 5/8/2003 12:38:04 PM
  - This looks like... - BRFelix - 5/9/2003 1:03:18 PM
- Just for fun... - BRFelix - 5/3/2003 3:44:49 PM
  - At the risk of saying just what you think I'd say..... - et - 5/6/2003 8:14:30 AM
    - ¿Quien Sabe? - BRFelix - 5/6/2003 10:55:36 AM
      - Mars, the planet of inconclusive and ambiguous images. - et - 5/7/2003 7:32:30 PM
        
        I hate it when they switch from .jpg to .png - BRFelix - 5/10/2003 6:42:05 PM
  - Re: Just for fun... - Robert Clark - 5/4/2003 11:58:03 AM
    - Actually.... - BRFelix - 5/4/2003 3:37:02 PM
      - Re: Actually.... - Robert Clark - 5/4/2003 4:00:25 PM

Potassium decay heating the Earth's core? - et - 5/7/2003 8:08:33 AM
- More: "Evidence For Potassium As Missing Heat Source In Planetary Cores" - et - 5/8/2003 10:00:27 AM
- Wasn't there an article about the core being a natural uranium reactor? - ebnelson - 5/7/2003 4:42:14 PM
  - K, not Na - Nick Hoffman - 5/8/2003 3:50:30 PM
    - Re: K, not Na - ebnelson - 5/10/2003 5:24:56 PM

Are aliens 'hiding' their communications signals? - et - 5/8/2003 11:01:54 AM
- Re: The usual suspects - O'Neil - 5/9/2003 7:28:47 PM
- This presupposes that there ARE aliens, which I doubt - p - 5/9/2003 12:10:30 PM
  - Yep...we're it: The center of the intelligent universe. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/9/2003 9:43:32 AM
    - Chortle-snort LOL! Ø (n/t) - et - 5/9/2003 9:45:15 AM
- Perhaps intelligent life destroys itself? - But DEMOCRACIES have NEVER gone to war with one another - 5/8/2003 4:58:30 PM
  - Not exactly correct there... - Hans - 5/9/2003 8:28:54 AM
    - It depends on how you define "democracies" and "wars" - Hoover Institution quoter - 5/9/2003 11:20:49 AM
      - Re: It depends on how you define - Hans - 5/9/2003 6:22:50 PM
        
        But di the North respect the South's government? - Arguably the Civil War wasn't between 2 "democracies" - 5/10/2003 3:35:51 PM
- Re: Are aliens 'hiding' their communications signals? - Nipper Wolf - 5/8/2003 2:45:04 PM

Helix Nebula - Don - 5/10/2003 2:51:45 PM

The deepest view of the universe from HST - Raoul Lannoy - 5/8/2003 3:58:07 PM
- Amazing - RobVG - 5/8/2003 7:05:36 PM
  - Re: Amazing - Raoul - 5/8/2003 7:39:00 PM
    - Re: Amazing - Fox - 5/8/2003 2:25:46 PM
      - Re: Yes, it's a foreground object: The cluster - Marcia - 5/9/2003 8:59:42 AM
        
        Hey, Marcia? - RobVG - 5/9/2003 11:02:40 AM
        
        Re: Hey to all! :) - Marcia - 5/9/2003 2:01:36 PM
        
        That's not what I meant. :) - RobVG - 5/10/2003 11:10:51 AM
        
        Cool.. the Blues Breakers Cluster - Fox - 5/10/2003 11:07:52 AM
  - That's 2 million LY, not 200 million n/t (n/t) - p - 5/8/2003 9:43:53 AM
    - Oops, that explains it- thanks (n/t) (n/t) - RobVG - 5/8/2003 9:49:09 AM
- which universe? - p - 5/8/2003 5:32:38 PM
  - Re: the size - Raoul Lannoy - 5/8/2003 8:54:48 AM
- Re: I'm beginning to think the universe is infinite - SM - 5/8/2003 5:31:34 PM
- I can see my house from here. - REB - 5/8/2003 5:16:17 PM

Congressman says Shuttle not safe - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 5:40:34 PM
- Enough is ENOUGH!!! - Sarandon - 5/10/2003 9:50:21 AM
- Re: Congressman says Shuttle not safe - Delbert - 5/9/2003 3:50:10 PM
  - Re: Congressman says Shuttle not safe - Bert Harnois - 5/9/2003 5:21:50 PM

Latest THEMIS Mapping Mission Images - ectoterrestrial - 5/9/2003 7:20:21 PM

Shotgun on SOYUZ's????? - Carl - 5/5/2003 5:41:30 PM
- Russian capsule lands off target. - RobVG - 5/6/2003 7:01:00 PM
  - (Excuse me while I go crawl under a rock) n/t (n/t) - RobVG - 5/6/2003 7:04:04 PM
    - Why? (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 3:25:12 PM
      - It's bascially the same article that Larry posted below. (n/t) (n/t) - RobVG - 5/6/2003 4:01:53 PM
        
        Geez, like none of the rest of us do that at least once a week. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 11:43:39 AM
- Arggggh! Just when I was feeling elated... - Jacob Samorodin - 5/6/2003 8:41:50 AM
  - Re: Arggggh! Just when I was feeling elated... - Jim C - 5/9/2003 2:00:33 PM
- Yeah, I saw that in the CNN article - Larry J - 5/5/2003 6:26:03 PM
  - Re: Yeah, I saw that in the CNN article - Raoul Lannoy - 5/5/2003 7:08:24 PM
- Re: Shotgun on SOYUZ's????? - Raoul Lannoy - 5/5/2003 6:22:32 PM
- Re: Shotgun on SOYUZ's????? - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2003 5:53:09 PM
  - Is that the (gasp!) dreaded TRENCH knife? n/t (n/t) - p - 5/6/2003 2:03:31 PM
    - That's not a TRENCH knife - Larry J - 5/6/2003 6:49:40 PM
      - Ach! Ein Verboten Schtickenpoken! (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 10:19:50 AM
        
        Und smashing skullen und... - Larry J - 5/7/2003 1:57:53 PM

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