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Last week someone brought up Enterprise. So what did y’all think? - REB - 5/8/2003 5:03:15 PM
- I enjoyed that episode. A minor question though... - Outer Limits fan - 5/8/2003 6:32:17 PM
  - Re: I enjoyed that episode. A minor question though... - REB - 5/8/2003 6:46:26 PM
    - So Borg cube wreckage can "safely" land on Earth, but Columbia couldn't? - Outer Limits fan - 5/8/2003 7:42:50 PM
      - Re: So Borg cube wreckage can - REB - 5/8/2003 7:53:59 PM
- Re: I think it's a mistake to make any more episodes with the borg - SM - 5/8/2003 5:26:15 PM
- Borg chat - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 1:55:02 PM

Could somebody respond to this 'info'? - Jacob Samorodin - 5/6/2003 7:46:09 PM
- Re: Could somebody respond to this 'info'? - Success_Machine - 5/7/2003 11:53:52 AM
- In case you were wondering... - Jacob Samorodin - 5/6/2003 8:17:42 AM
  - Dumb Question - Nick Hoffman - 5/8/2003 3:58:32 PM
    - Taken into account. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/8/2003 6:10:20 PM
  - Re: 10,000 psi tank - Success_Machine - 5/7/2003 11:46:57 AM
    - What volume is it? What weight [empty] ? [n/t] (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/7/2003 2:41:21 PM
      - Re: Here is what a QTWW representative told me - Success_Machine - 5/8/2003 5:55:45 PM
  - Re: Happy camper - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 10:16:56 AM
    - Response. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/7/2003 2:34:21 PM
      - P.S. - Tom Brosz - 5/7/2003 4:20:42 PM
      - Which back issue? Got a date? Article title? - Tom Brosz - 5/7/2003 4:17:33 PM
        
        I ask thev wrong request of you in the heat of the moment. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/8/2003 6:23:48 PM
      - The reason. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/7/2003 2:39:04 PM
        
        Re: The reason. - John Carmack - 5/7/2003 9:52:00 AM
        
        You need to hold onto your money. Tom, too. [n/t] (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 5/8/2003 6:24:55 PM

Back to the future with NASA's OSP - phil - 5/8/2003 5:46:49 PM

Asteroid resources - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2003 4:14:00 PM
- Thanks, Tom...an enlightening read n/t (n/t) - McFly - 5/7/2003 11:21:56 AM
- Re: Asteroid resources - ebnelson - 5/5/2003 4:23:16 PM
  - Re: Asteroid resources - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2003 4:31:40 PM
    - Price collapse - Nick Hoffman - 5/6/2003 9:11:15 AM
      - How much of economics is real? - Gary - 5/7/2003 6:33:49 PM
        
        Re: How much of economics is real? - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 4:08:08 PM
        
        If desire is all that is required - ebnelson - 5/8/2003 2:59:34 PM
      - Supply and demand says the price wouldn't plunge to much - Scott - 5/6/2003 5:14:16 PM
      - Re: Price collapse - ebnelson - 5/6/2003 12:59:00 PM
        
        Resentment - Nick Hoffman - 5/6/2003 3:12:23 PM
        
        Geez, you guys...roll up the crepe already. - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 3:24:10 PM
        
        Of course. - ebnelson - 5/6/2003 5:02:49 PM
        
        Forget using Asteroid resources on the Earth, use them in Space. - REB - 5/6/2003 4:36:41 PM
        
        I'm with Tom - alcaray - 5/6/2003 4:24:35 PM

Mercury transit right now!!! Fantastic!!!!! Visible through the ETX! More on it later (n/t) (n/t) - Raoul Lannoy - 5/6/2003 6:02:34 PM
- SOHO transit page URL. - et - 5/7/2003 7:40:36 PM
- TRACE image - et - 5/7/2003 7:36:05 PM
  - Re: and - Raoul Lannoy - 5/7/2003 7:54:13 PM
    - SACRE BLEU!!!! Ø (n/t) - et - 5/7/2003 7:57:58 PM
  - Re: TRACE image - Tom Brosz - 5/7/2003 8:32:33 AM
    - Re: TRACE image - REB - 5/8/2003 12:40:43 PM
      - Of course. Thanks! (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2003 4:04:51 PM
- Wicked Cool Image of Transition - Vince - 5/7/2003 2:02:14 PM
  - Re: Great, Vince! - Raoul Lannoy - 5/7/2003 3:03:12 PM

Don Pettit took this picture (today's APOD) - Raoul Lannoy - 5/7/2003 8:52:48 AM
- Re: Don Pettit took this picture (today's APOD) - Nick Hoffman - 5/8/2003 3:55:16 PM

Indian space program - Delbert - 5/8/2003 3:53:26 PM

Ooou. Back to Becquerel - BRFelix - 5/4/2003 2:33:17 PM
- Re: Back to Becquerel - Tom Brosz - 5/4/2003 4:07:06 PM
  - Welllll..... - BRFelix - 5/5/2003 1:22:32 PM
    - Even you have to admit..... - et - 5/6/2003 8:51:53 AM
      - What's exotic about a sinkhole? - BRFelix - 5/6/2003 10:24:07 AM
        
        Re: Exotic sinkholes . . . - D. Spires - 5/8/2003 3:21:32 PM

Send Your Name to a Comet! - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/8/2003 2:21:33 PM

Nanofuture - phil - 5/7/2003 12:36:43 PM
- House passes $2.36B nanotek bill - p - 5/8/2003 12:58:17 PM

I want to blow bubbles in space! - alcaray - 5/8/2003 10:18:39 AM
- And these lucky b*s get paid for this! n/t (n/t) - LJ - 5/8/2003 10:46:44 AM

The lighter side of global warming - LJ - 5/8/2003 10:16:55 AM

Astrobiology (Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2003) - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/7/2003 4:20:18 PM
- Re: Thank you Alex for the link, great topics! n/t (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 5/7/2003 7:58:01 PM

Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars - Alex R. Blackwell - 4/3/2003 6:09:04 PM
- Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars - et - 4/3/2003 7:05:51 PM
  - Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars - Yoshihiro IWAMOTO - 5/7/2003 2:45:31 PM
  - Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars (n/t) - YOSHIHIRO - 5/7/2003 2:38:10 PM
  - Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars - p - 4/3/2003 7:58:09 PM
    - Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars - pwokenyaw - 4/3/2003 11:05:19 AM
      - What about extinct life? - Nipper Wolf - 4/3/2003 4:10:56 PM
    - Hitchhiking Bacteria's guide to the Solar System. - et - 4/3/2003 9:02:00 AM
      - BTW, Jupiter moon count up to 57 now. - et - 4/3/2003 9:05:57 AM
        
        Re: Jupiter and M44 - Raoul - 4/3/2003 9:15:58 AM
- Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars - Robert Clark - 4/3/2003 4:46:15 PM
  - Re: Hypothetical peroxides on Mars would not be a deterrent to life - BD - 4/4/2003 5:53:36 PM
- COSPAR PLANETARY PROTECTION POLICY - BD - 4/3/2003 9:10:41 AM

Soyuz's parachute - Raoul Lannoy - 5/6/2003 8:42:57 AM
- Ballistic descent - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 5:16:26 PM
  - Good old Russian engineering - Larry J - 5/7/2003 1:53:38 PM

Science article on anthropogenic atmospheric warming. - et - 5/7/2003 8:17:03 AM
- Re: Science article on anthropogenic atmospheric warming. - gbaikie - 5/7/2003 9:54:20 AM
  - Not sure we are on the same wavelength - alcaray - 5/7/2003 10:32:46 AM

Parting Shots, EP? Earth/Mars Analogs Exist on Many Levels! - Chris Vancil - 5/2/2003 7:54:03 PM
- No they don't - E.P. Grondine - 5/6/2003 11:05:50 AM
  - Got a degree in Geology, EP? They do and they say analogs exist...Clueless! n/t (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 5/7/2003 10:11:38 AM

Astronaut Suggests Lunar Bases as Stepping Stone to Mars, Universe - Don - 5/2/2003 1:57:24 PM
- Re: Moon Dreams - Chris Vancil - 5/4/2003 5:10:13 PM
- He's not the first - Mark Eby - 5/2/2003 4:29:56 PM
  - Huh? - ken murphy - 5/3/2003 1:08:56 PM
    - Re: Huh? - Mark Eby - 5/3/2003 2:14:51 PM
      - Hmm... - ken murphy - 5/3/2003 6:34:59 PM
        
        Re: Hmm... - Mark Eby - 5/4/2003 1:15:17 PM
        
        Assumptions and Presumptions - ken murphy - 5/5/2003 7:14:24 PM
        
        Not Enough - Mark Eby - 5/4/2003 1:05:44 PM
      - Re: Huh? - Don - 5/3/2003 2:57:17 PM
        
        Re: Huh? Same old lines of BS. - Chris Vancil - 5/3/2003 7:59:55 PM
        
        What's The ISS For Don? - Mark Eby - 5/3/2003 3:44:43 PM
        
        Take a good look at Dr. Mazanek's CAPS NEO detection system - E.P. Grondine - 5/3/2003 5:56:32 PM
        
        Re: Take a good look at Dr. Mazanek's CAPS NEO detection system - Chris Vancil - 5/3/2003 7:32:29 PM
        
        uhhh, Chris... - E.P. Grondine - 5/6/2003 11:02:04 AM
        
        Re: Right NEA not NEO... - Chris Vancil - 5/7/2003 10:09:13 AM
        
        Sorry Was Updated Just Wouldn't Work - Mark Eby - 5/4/2003 1:22:54 PM
        
        Updated Link - Mark Eby - 5/4/2003 1:17:16 PM

Yipes! - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2003 7:32:54 PM
- Re: Yipes! - Raoul Lannoy - 5/6/2003 8:40:03 AM
  - Fire Insurance - Nick Hoffman - 5/6/2003 11:21:44 AM
    - Re: Fire Insurance - Raoul Lannoy - 5/6/2003 6:01:23 PM
      - Re: Fire Insurance Contract - Nick Hoffman - 5/7/2003 9:56:04 AM
    - Re: Fire Insurance - Raoul Lannoy - 5/6/2003 6:01:21 PM
  - Statistics - Nick Hoffman - 5/6/2003 11:20:06 AM
    - What do they say about statistics? - ebnelson - 5/6/2003 5:09:39 PM

Mercury transit - Raoul Lannoy - 5/7/2003 9:04:42 AM

Rotary Rocket Roton ATV to make its last flight - Tom Brosz - 5/7/2003 8:22:26 AM

Ramjet Powered Mach 30 Space Plane: Will it ever happen? - David F Mayer - 5/4/2003 6:40:32 PM
- Towers and tethers to escape the blue. Forget Mach numbers.... (n/t) - et - 5/6/2003 7:23:10 PM
- No.... Do the math - Gary - 5/5/2003 3:43:43 PM
  - Re: Yes, but not with a ramjet - Success_Machine - 5/6/2003 2:27:09 PM
  - Re: Do the math - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2003 5:16:56 PM
- Re: Ramjet Powered Mach 30 Space Plane: Will it ever happen? - Success_Machine - 5/5/2003 2:22:03 PM
- Re: What would be the point? - Success_Machine - 5/5/2003 12:33:18 PM
- Re: Ramjet Powered Mach 30 Space Plane: Will it ever happen? - Tom Brosz - 5/4/2003 9:33:05 AM
  - Re: Ramjet Powered Mach 30 Space Plane: Will it ever happen? - John Carmack - 5/4/2003 10:47:13 AM
- Re: Ramjet Powered Mach 30 Space Plane: Will it ever happen? - ebnelson - 5/4/2003 8:06:04 AM

Road Rules - alcaray - 5/6/2003 2:48:22 PM
- "And we sure aren't ready to perform in front of an audience" - LJ - 5/6/2003 5:48:25 PM
- Exciting Times - Less than one month away from the launch of mutiple Mars rovers (Mars Express/Beagle 2 and NASA's Mars Exploration Rover). - Vince - 5/6/2003 4:42:34 PM
  - And Cassini and SIRTF! - alcaray - 5/6/2003 5:05:24 PM

Matt Drudge on the radio thinks man was not meant to fly... - Tom Brosz - 5/4/2003 2:12:52 PM
- Maybe he should go back to the trees. - REB - 5/6/2003 12:46:43 PM
  - "...and some people thought that even the trees had been a mistake, and we never should have left the oceans in the first place." n/t - Nathan Koren - 5/6/2003 3:02:03 PM
    - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? - REB - 5/6/2003 3:20:34 PM
      - Yup, Hitchhiker's Guide (n/t) - Nathan Koren - 5/6/2003 4:30:13 PM
- Yeah, but his radio show is beamed..... - carl - 5/5/2003 5:43:34 PM
  - I think he was specifically talking about manned space flight. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2003 5:54:02 PM
- Re: Well, we're not designed to fly . . . - D. Spires - 5/5/2003 1:22:06 PM
- No sense of adventure? - Nipper Wolf - 5/4/2003 5:17:10 PM
  - It's Drudge. There is No Sense. n/t (n/t) - Tony - 5/5/2003 9:17:35 AM

Article on Beagle 2 mission to Mars - Barry D. - 5/4/2003 12:11:18 PM
- Beagle 2 will cost $48 million dollars plus launch costs while NASA's twin rovers will cost U.S. taxpayers over $800 million - Shouldn't NASA offer competitive prizes like DARPA? - 5/4/2003 4:01:30 PM
  - There's a minimum amount you have to spend. - Gary - 5/4/2003 5:07:50 PM
  - 2 Big Rovers vs 1 Small Stationary Lander - Mark Eby - 5/4/2003 12:20:06 PM
    - How much did the entire Sojourner Rover mission cost? - Multiples more than Beagle 2, right? - 5/4/2003 4:37:20 PM
      - About The Same as Beagle 2, That's Why I mentioned It - Mark Eby - 5/5/2003 7:33:00 PM
        
        Please Note I was Referring To Sojourner Only - Mark Eby - 5/5/2003 7:35:15 PM
      - How much would the Beagle cost if it were launched by itself? - Larry J - 5/5/2003 6:44:08 PM
      - Re: Nozomi and Probes - Chris Vancil - 5/4/2003 4:54:50 PM
        
        Japan's $86 million Nozomi Mars mission: permanently unable to transmit? - SpaceProjects.com - 5/5/2003 2:31:17 PM
        
        Re: Nozomi Mars mission: unable to transmit. - Chris Vancil - 5/5/2003 5:25:01 PM
        
        We lose time and now spacecraft by over use of planetary swingbys - ebnelson - 5/5/2003 1:30:24 PM
        
        Swinbye Needed Due To Malf After Launch N/T (n/t) - Mark Eby - 5/6/2003 2:11:34 PM

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