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About SF - Raoul - 6/1/2002 2:48:11 PM

"Nasa boldly goes where man has been before" :-) - Robert Clark - 6/1/2002 8:43:56 AM

Space author for children dies this month at age 86 (also posted at CE) - Mary Anne - 5/31/2002 5:11:46 PM

Galileo's latest (and last) images of Io - Vince - 5/31/2002 8:19:12 AM

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy - Raoul - 5/30/2002 7:58:42 PM
- Re: Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy - Delbert - 5/30/2002 3:56:19 PM
- Blue sky - Bowser - 5/30/2002 12:46:21 PM
- Fun things to think about, Raoul. - Marcia - 5/30/2002 11:01:12 AM

A Good Time To Visiy Marsnews.com for H2O News - Mark Eby - 5/29/2002 11:04:46 AM
- It seems to me that Hoffman and Blackwell are right here - E.P. Grondine - 5/30/2002 6:46:48 PM

Frequency of water planets - E.P. Grondine - 5/27/2002 8:47:13 AM
- Re: Frequency of water planets - Scott - 5/30/2002 9:14:14 AM
- Re: Europa, Jovian Moon - SM - 5/28/2002 11:19:36 AM
  - Re: Europa, Jovian Moon - John O'Halloran - 5/30/2002 5:30:47 PM
  - Low sublimation because... - Nick Hoffman - 5/28/2002 3:33:47 PM
    - Re: Low sublimation because... - Bowser - 5/28/2002 6:37:00 PM
      - Volume of ice - Nick Hoffman - 5/29/2002 10:04:45 AM
        
        Will the RADAR on Express shed any light on this? - alcaray - 5/29/2002 4:57:38 PM
        
        Subsurface radar sounding of Mars - Alex R. Blackwell - 5/29/2002 6:08:46 PM
        
        Re: Will the RADAR on Express shed any light on this? - Nick Hoffman - 5/29/2002 10:28:09 AM
        
        Re: Volume of ice - Bowser - 5/29/2002 3:12:09 PM
        
        Re: Volume of ice - Nick Hoffman - 5/29/2002 10:34:54 AM
        
        Re: Volume of ice - John O'Halloran - 5/30/2002 5:57:22 PM
        
        Thanks. - Bowser - 5/29/2002 11:10:00 AM
        
        Ice, not water n/t (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 5/30/2002 11:15:22 AM
  - Re: Europa, Jovian Moon - E.P. Grondine - 5/28/2002 2:09:43 PM
    - my guess is tidal factors - Scott - 5/28/2002 5:12:03 PM
    - Re: Europa, Jovian Moon - Bowser - 5/28/2002 2:22:10 PM
      - Re: Europa, Jovian Moon - John O'Halloran - 5/30/2002 6:02:15 PM
  - SM, it is only the surface of Mars that is bone dry - ebnelson - 5/28/2002 8:22:27 AM

Dazzling Duo . . . - D. Spires - 5/24/2002 9:45:21 AM
- Re: Dazzling Duo . . . - Raoul - 5/24/2002 12:25:07 PM
  - Re: Dazzling Duo . . . - i - 5/30/2002 5:03:48 PM

Fish prof says "Hands off celestial bodies" - p - 5/24/2002 7:27:33 PM
- It's Just Stupid - Mark Eby - 5/27/2002 6:09:33 PM
  - Re: It's Just Stupid - John O'Halloran - 5/30/2002 3:40:54 PM
- This makes me so mad. - ebnelson - 5/26/2002 3:20:55 PM
  - I say we send his ilk to the moon - Lee - 5/26/2002 7:16:06 PM
    - I don't see him and his reasoning as liberal - Scott - 5/28/2002 8:54:03 AM
- what if - Delbert - 5/25/2002 3:18:01 PM
  - Re: what if - Raoul - 5/26/2002 2:15:13 PM
    - Re: what if - Scott - 5/28/2002 8:48:35 AM
  - Re: what if - gbaikie - 5/26/2002 11:35:34 AM
    - Re: what if - John O'Halloran - 5/30/2002 4:02:08 PM
- Re: Fish prof says - D. Spires - 5/24/2002 7:59:07 PM
  - Re Why is it beautiful? - Raoul - 5/24/2002 8:46:09 AM
    - 'magnificent desolation' - Robert - 5/25/2002 8:47:39 AM
      - Re: 'magnificent desolation' - Raoul - 5/25/2002 9:36:45 AM
        
        Paradise - Bowser - 5/25/2002 12:41:58 PM
    - Re: Re Why is it beautiful? - gbaikie - 5/24/2002 9:59:24 AM
      - Re: Re Why is it beautiful? - Raoul - 5/24/2002 12:22:15 PM
- Re: Fish prof says - Delbert - 5/24/2002 11:28:05 AM
- Re: Fish prof says - gbaikie - 5/24/2002 10:11:14 AM

Ice Oceans Found On Mars - Don - 5/26/2002 2:17:38 PM
- Re: Definitely time to go . . . (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 5/28/2002 5:48:19 PM
  - Re: We certainly need to get the lander program back at full throttle - Scott - 5/28/2002 8:27:10 AM
- Didn't somebody post that one of Mars's moons is due to crash into the Planet in 600,000 years? - Scott - 5/28/2002 8:37:02 AM
- Re: Ice Oceans Found On Mars - SM - 5/27/2002 2:07:35 PM
  - Re: Ice Oceans Found On Mars - SM - 5/28/2002 8:16:04 AM
- Oh Wow, Man! - Right, is the backcontamination risk now higher? - E.P. Grondine - 5/27/2002 8:34:30 AM
  - What is the NRC? The only one I am aware of is Nuclear. ø (n/t) - ebnelson - 5/27/2002 3:49:25 PM
    - Re: What is the NRC? The only one I am aware of is Nuclear. ø - Chris Vancil - 5/28/2002 7:25:26 PM
    - National Research Council & Their Report On BC - Mark Eby - 5/28/2002 11:46:00 AM
      - Wait a minute... Isn't the National Research Council the same group of looneys who told me I shouldn't eat too much cheese on my vegitarian pizza? - Scott - 5/28/2002 12:40:10 PM
        
        You may be thinking of Center For Science In the Public Interest (looneys indeed) (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 12:21:32 PM
        
        They can't be looneys, they have "science" in their name - Scott - 5/30/2002 9:30:10 AM
        
        How dare they!! - Bowser - 5/28/2002 6:39:24 PM
      - Re: National Research Council & Their Report On BC - Robert Clark - 5/28/2002 12:30:53 PM
        
        Explosive welding and re-entry heat sterilization - E.P. Grondine - 5/28/2002 12:55:32 PM
  - Re: Oh Wow, Man! - Right, is the backcontamination risk now higher? - Mark Eby - 5/27/2002 9:50:48 AM
    - Re: Oh Wow, Man! - Right, is the backcontamination risk now higher? - E.P. Grondine - 5/28/2002 4:59:42 PM
      - Re: Oh Wow, Man! - Right, is the backcontamination risk now higher? - Mark Eby - 5/28/2002 11:43:07 AM
        
        Re: Oh Wow, Man! - Right, is the backcontamination risk now higher? - E.P. Grondine - 5/28/2002 12:50:06 PM
        
        EP, what you are implying would then also pertain to any other planet/planetisimal capable of sustaining life outside Earth. - Marcia - 5/29/2002 4:33:01 PM
- Old images - Nick Hoffman - 5/26/2002 4:41:57 PM
  - Wave Runners on Mars - Buck Galaxy - 5/27/2002 4:11:59 PM
  - Re: Old images - gbaikie - 5/26/2002 5:58:40 PM
- Re: Ice Oceans Found On Mars - Raoul - 5/26/2002 4:19:18 PM
  - Seems more like a big permafrost area, to me. (n/t) - ebnelson - 5/26/2002 8:35:30 AM
    - I think... - Don - 5/26/2002 9:35:51 AM
      - Re: I think... - Nick Hoffman - 5/26/2002 4:37:22 PM
        
        So the premafrost concept won't hold up? - ebnelson - 5/27/2002 4:39:46 PM
- How thick? - Bowser - 5/26/2002 10:19:42 AM
- Re: Ice Oceans Found On Mars - Tom Brosz - 5/26/2002 8:38:38 AM

Painful - Raoul - 5/28/2002 10:22:35 AM
- Can't see orbiter in damage picture - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 6:15:43 PM
  - Re: Orbiter wrecked - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 12:17:52 PM
  - Re: Can't see orbiter in damage picture - Nathan Koren - 5/29/2002 8:13:30 AM
- Re: Crushed like a tin can.... nt - SM - 5/28/2002 11:26:01 AM

Thursday's Mars Press Release Package - Nick Hoffman - 5/28/2002 3:23:53 PM
- Beautiful! Thanks guys! - alcaray - 5/29/2002 5:24:21 PM

Shuttleworth - Raoul - 5/26/2002 4:22:18 PM
- Could 'also' have been stress, age, geneterically related. n/t (n/t) - Marcia - 5/29/2002 4:13:50 PM
  - ...make that: generically n/t - Marcia - 5/29/2002 4:16:55 PM

Time's running up - Raoul - 5/29/2002 3:51:26 PM
- Re: The Institute of Biomedical Problems?!? LOL. - SM - 5/29/2002 4:13:56 PM
  - Re: The Institute of Biomedical Problems?!? LOL. - kosmo - 5/29/2002 8:54:36 AM

Earthgazing, NASA-style . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 12:30:25 PM
- Re: Earthgazing, NASA-style . . . - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 3:38:12 PM

Martian chronicles - p - 5/29/2002 3:12:55 PM
- Re: The Martian Chronicles . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 11:42:49 AM

Nick, about this H2O ice. - ebnelson - 5/26/2002 4:56:19 PM
- H2O and CO2 - Scott - 5/28/2002 11:52:27 AM
  - Re: H2O and CO2 - Nick Hoffman - 5/28/2002 3:37:51 PM
    - Re: H2O and CO2 - Robert Clark - 5/29/2002 12:07:32 PM
- Re: Nick, about this H2O ice. - Mark Eby - 5/26/2002 7:01:46 PM
  - On Loss Mechanisms - Mark Eby - 5/26/2002 7:43:07 PM
- Didn't Nick predict this? - Justin Kelly - 5/26/2002 6:42:28 PM
  - That is what I recall - ebnelson - 5/26/2002 8:34:56 AM
- Re: Nick, about this H2O ice. - Nick Hoffman - 5/26/2002 4:31:21 PM
  - Understood. - ebnelson - 5/27/2002 1:55:15 PM
    - Older 500m Martian Water Estimates - Mark Eby - 5/27/2002 4:53:41 PM

ISS: 'Newest' spacestation; old problem. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/29/2002 10:41:00 AM

Ice discovery warms up controversy - Jeff F - 5/29/2002 9:05:56 AM
- Re: Ice discovery warms up controversy - Robert Clark - 5/29/2002 10:21:27 AM

Euros approve planet finding mission - p - 5/28/2002 5:33:10 PM
- Yeah, but they sacked Venus Express :( n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 5/28/2002 6:58:41 PM
  - Re: Yeah, but they sacked Venus Express :( n/t - Robt Clements - 5/28/2002 2:58:37 PM

Tool Use Not Automatic Path To Technology - Mark Eby - 5/23/2002 1:14:45 PM
- Re: Tool Use Not Automatic Path To Technology - gbaikie - 5/24/2002 10:20:39 AM
  - Raccoons, "washing". - Bowser - 5/26/2002 2:04:56 PM
  - Re: Tool Use Not Automatic Path To Technology - Mark Eby - 5/24/2002 1:38:51 PM
    - Watch Those Double Negatives - Mark Eby - 5/24/2002 2:35:06 PM
      - One way that UFO's could be extraterrestrial - Lee - 5/25/2002 7:53:35 PM
        
        I Agree But - Mark Eby - 5/25/2002 2:14:41 PM
- Are you sure? - Bowser - 5/23/2002 5:48:51 PM
  - BBC may say it best - Mark Eby - 5/24/2002 3:03:43 PM
  - maybe not - Mark Eby - 5/24/2002 2:51:54 PM
  - Re: Are you sure? - Mark Eby - 5/24/2002 2:27:56 PM
    - Niche competition stalled chimp development? - pwokenyaw - 5/27/2002 10:21:24 AM
    - Re: Are you sure? - John O'Halloran - 5/25/2002 7:27:39 PM
      - Don't you just hate it - Mark Eby - 5/26/2002 3:41:53 PM
    - Fascinating stuff. - Bowser - 5/25/2002 4:18:07 PM
      - Re: Fascinating stuff. - Mark Eby - 5/26/2002 3:40:15 PM
        
        Re: Fascinating stuff. - Bowser - 5/27/2002 11:07:49 AM
    - Gould outa data - p - 5/25/2002 1:52:38 PM
      - Re: Gould outa data - Mark Eby - 5/25/2002 9:12:38 AM
        
        Thanks, Mark - Fox - 5/26/2002 12:45:02 PM
        
        Impure thoughts - p - 5/28/2002 6:02:49 PM

Latest issue of JPLs co news letter includes... - alcaray - 5/28/2002 4:57:37 PM

41st anniversary of Kennedy's Moon Speech - p - 5/25/2002 5:00:46 PM
- Space Rocks! - Kadet Ken - 5/27/2002 5:17:03 PM

I have an interesting space-physics puzzle for those of you who are physics buffs. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/25/2002 7:54:21 PM
- Try This... - Nick Hoffman - 5/25/2002 1:48:27 PM
  - The orbiting-satellite gravity-vanishing myth. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/26/2002 8:23:47 AM
    - No - Nick Hoffman - 5/26/2002 4:49:02 PM
- A couple of corrections. - Jacob Samorodin - 5/25/2002 8:07:56 AM
  - Re: A couple of corrections. - docmoore - 5/26/2002 1:22:27 PM

Just goes to show, it's always something... - Tom Brosz - 5/23/2002 4:13:42 PM
- Reference question - Fox - 5/26/2002 12:35:32 PM
- It's them damn lib'rals again! (n/t) (n/t) - Robert - 5/24/2002 4:10:47 PM
- Starfire by Charles Sheffield - Buck Galaxy - 5/24/2002 3:31:09 PM
- Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! - Scott - 5/24/2002 12:06:23 PM
- Have I got a deal for you. - Bowser - 5/23/2002 6:10:44 PM
- Many Dooms Again - Mark Eby - 5/23/2002 5:10:15 PM

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