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Mysterious object discovered by the HST
Raoul
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9/11/2008 7:30:49 PM
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Brightens 120 times
then vanishes..;No explanation so far.
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Mysterious object discovered by the HST
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Raoul
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9/11/2008 7:30:49 PM
re: Mysterious object discovered by the HST
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Marcia
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9/14/2008 3:26:48 AM
We have a possible size constraint
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ER
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9/14/2008 2:41:40 AM
re: We have a possible size constraint.
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Marcia
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9/14/2008 3:59:11 AM
Link to paper- Interesting that there is strong absorption on the Sodium lines....
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ARRELL
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9/12/2008 3:23:26 AM
re: Link to paper- Interesting that there is strong absorption on the Sodium lines....
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Robert Clark
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9/14/2008 12:16:18 PM
Technical problems with the above message
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Robert
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9/14/2008 1:35:26 AM
hmmmmmm- must be browser specific.... it worked for me
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ARRELL
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9/14/2008 2:55:08 PM
Server-side problem
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Robert
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9/14/2008 6:20:19 PM
re: Technical problems with the above message. FWIW, Thanks, Robett!
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Marcia
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9/14/2008 3:28:22 AM
de nada
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Robert
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9/14/2008 3:39:00 AM
Link to removed text
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Robert
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9/14/2008 1:37:08 AM
First and LAST light...
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nick hoffman
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9/11/2008 9:50:37 PM
Maybe someone else just tested their LHC...
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ER
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9/11/2008 7:49:42 PM
Something along those lines might explain Fermi's paradox....
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ARRELL
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9/11/2008 11:00:17 PM
our example v. probability and the Fermi Paradox
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pwokenyaw
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9/14/2008 5:20:56 PM
Depends how BIG of a bang it makes
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nick hoffman
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9/15/2008 3:34:40 AM
more time scales and probability
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pwokenyaw
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9/16/2008 6:44:34 PM
Energy required to move off-planet
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Bluh
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9/14/2008 9:38:31 PM
There is a much more powerful particle accelerator sitting in the center of the Milky Way galaxy
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Socrates II
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9/15/2008 5:16:55 PM
re: There is a much more powerful particle accelerator sitting in the center of the Milky Way galaxy
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Nick Hoffman
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9/16/2008 12:39:21 AM
Build it on the moon.
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ER
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9/16/2008 2:47:15 AM
You can't start linear
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nick hoffman
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9/16/2008 9:33:03 AM
Depends on the mass of what you are accellerating.
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alcaray
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9/17/2008 12:47:59 AM
at CERN...
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Nick Hoffman
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9/17/2008 3:46:02 AM
Still too puny.
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Socrates II
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9/16/2008 3:59:10 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.