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Highly recommended ER May 23, 2025 9:20 pm (Off-Topic)

At least they didn't waste a perfectly good bottle of champagne BuckGalaxy May 22, 2025 10:31 pm (Flame)

Re-writing history ER May 22, 2025 8:24 pm (CurrentEvents)

Taking a fresh look at terraforming Mars BuckGalaxy May 20, 2025 11:07 am (Space/Science)

the v and d correction ER May 19, 2025 9:49 am (GeekSpeak)

Clearly threatening language BuckGalaxy May 16, 2025 3:43 pm (Flame)

Most common planet type in the Galaxy BuckGalaxy May 16, 2025 1:51 pm (Space/Science)

Large Loathsome Legislation fails in committee BuckGalaxy May 16, 2025 1:14 pm (CurrentEvents)

Large Hadron Collider Eureka! BuckGalaxy May 15, 2025 11:44 am (Space/Science)

Plan(et) 9 from Outer Space BuckGalaxy May 13, 2025 10:58 am (Space/Science)

Shouldn't there be an Afrikaaner-American studies department in our universities? ER May 12, 2025 2:59 pm (CurrentEvents)

The April numbers ER May 8, 2025 5:59 am (Space/Science)

Aligned planets: Interesting celestial show. by johannes February 24, 2012 10:37 am

15 richest counties in America by TB February 21, 2012 5:26 pm

And yet, any attempt to control the cash spent on politics is anathema? n/t by alcaray 2012-02-23 17:00:11
- No, there are only attempts to control the cash the opposition can spend on politics. by TB 2012-02-23 18:38:42
  - So you are for half of them? I must have missed those. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-23 21:02:37
    - Goes for all sides. by TB 2012-02-23 21:07:58
      - An alternative explanation of your position would be that you are pro-oligarchy. by alcaray 2012-02-24 00:48:53
        
        The end result of unregulated capitalism, or in the case of the US of regulated capitalism, is a plutocracy. ... by bowser 2012-02-24 01:55:52
In all fairness, I'd suspect that in most countries the wealth is centered around the capital. Wealth seems to ... by bowser 2012-02-23 12:50:04
- In many countries, the capital is also the largest city and often the center of commerce as well. by TB 2012-02-23 14:11:07

SpaceX plans for reusable launchers by TB February 8, 2012 11:41 am

Y'know, it's strange..... ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-08 22:19:46
- NASA isn't about space transportation, and the Shuttle wasn't about low-cost reusability. by TB 2012-02-09 07:33:30
  - The bottom line is that it's all private enterprise. Who makes the Shuttle, who makes nuclear warheads, who makes ... by bowser 2012-02-09 14:10:32
  - I'd love to see private enterprise show NASA and ESA how to get to the planets, but unfortunately, I don't ... by ER 2012-02-09 09:16:39
    - Yes, ER, I agree that BOTH the Government-run space program and "private" space programs have BOTH become notorious for? Delays, delays, ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 01:04:07
    - Seven years from this July it will have been half a century since NASA first landed men on the Moon. by TB 2012-02-09 09:48:55
      - Are you serious, TB? Bigelow has launched NO man-rated orbital spacehab yet. And even if he did within the next five years, there's ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 01:22:04
      - TB, I do not condemn or ridicule private enterprise's efforts to put space on a self-paying basis. I understand perfectly ... by ER 2012-02-09 10:13:14
        
        "I’d love to see private enterprise show NASA and ESA how to get to the planets, but unfortunately, I don’t ... by TB 2012-02-09 10:32:14
        
        I'm 64 years old. I'm not likely to see a manned exploration of the planets by anybody. As far as ... by ER 2012-02-09 10:44:49
        
        "Will you still need me, will you still feed me..." by alcaray 2012-02-10 04:32:09
        
        I've been in this business for over thirty years, and worked with a lot of people both inside and outside ... by TB 2012-02-09 11:21:20
        
        "That statement isn’t ideology." by ER 2012-02-09 11:39:51
        
        For what it's worth; I agree with ER's opinion here, even if it did start a firestorm. The Space Board ... by Lindy 2012-02-23 17:13:44
- It is a lot easier to build something that will work perfectly once, than to make something that can be ... by ER 2012-02-09 05:37:02

Today was apparantly the day that the GOP decided it did not need women's votes. by alcaray February 16, 2012 7:36 pm

And then they doubled down by alcaray 2012-02-22 18:02:19
- If these women want an abortion, then they need to get over this *intrusion*....the vacuum pump sucking action of the ... by Jody 2012-02-22 21:22:28
  - I see I misunderstood the reasoning behind the law. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-22 23:43:18

Now it is Santorum's turn. by alcaray February 21, 2012 10:06 pm

Initially I don't like him alcaray. He stated that 90% of all abortions are because the fetus has been diagnosed ... by Jody 2012-02-22 12:37:58
- The actual statistic is that over 90 percent of all fetuses diagnosed with Down's Syndrome are aborted. by TB 2012-02-22 13:05:33
  - Thanks Tom n/t by Jody 2012-02-22 20:02:19
Santorum is rather a loose cannon. He's loose with inflamatory rhetoric, refuses to back down, and has a lot ... by bowser 2012-02-22 09:41:06

The Monster Breaking NASA's Back by TB February 21, 2012 12:23 pm

Pretty depressing... by BuckGalaxy 2012-02-21 17:24:01

The roots of primate... mammalian moral outrage. by alcaray February 20, 2012 8:07 pm

That's fascinating, really. It can be applied to economic systems and other relationships, too. (I especially admired the ... by bowser 2012-02-20 21:43:49

Sigh! The latest US Fed cutbacks mean the end of NASA's unmanned deepspace dominance. by Jeff-Wash February 16, 2012 12:37 am

Hmmmm...... Could a company develop that exists almost solely for the purpose of scientific missions? I imagine it'd be a ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-16 13:23:18
- If there were such an entity, they would go broke in years like this. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-16 16:53:51
  - Yes, but I'm wondering if there was ANY way such a company could survive by catering a little more to ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-18 20:45:25
    - Well, someone (who is curious - hint, hint) should do a study, like you do prior to starting a new business. by alcaray 2012-02-20 17:20:29
- I'm thinking that ESA, China and a more confident and restored JAXA are a more likely source of future deep-space robotic ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-16 13:42:15

Armageddon super virus by RobVG February 20, 2012 11:05 am

A guess would be that mutation is coming down the pike anyway. If it hit without epidemiologists being ready ... by bowser 2012-02-20 15:52:06

Godspeed, John Glenn! by Jeff-Wash February 20, 2012 10:59 am

Fossil water by RobVG February 6, 2012 5:59 pm

"Pressure solution" Ice this thick weighs enough to depress the continental crust below it. However the interface between bedrock and glacier ... by podrock 2012-02-18 21:29:38
- What about insulation? by RobVG 2012-02-19 12:18:27
I wonder why it's liquid? Is there some source of heat down there, or is there some other reason ... by ER 2012-02-06 18:15:01
- Well, Antarctica does have an active volcano, so I wouldn't be surprised if geothermal heating is involved in 'warming' that lake's ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 01:38:14
- Well, there's always radioactive isotopes. by alcaray 2012-02-07 22:26:10
- Exothermic microbial action? n/t by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:35:03
  - Now that would be scary. A lot of bugs down there generating enough heat over thousands of years to ... by ER 2012-02-07 21:04:05
- Maybe it has something do do with the lake sediment? Just a random guess. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-07 15:15:55
- Looks like the lake might have existed before the glaciers by RobVG 2012-02-06 19:08:46
  - That's true, but you still think it would have frozen solid by now, unless there was some source of heat. ... by ER 2012-02-06 19:22:53
    - Another thought. Doesn't water need impurities to freeze, the way steam needs small dust particles to form drops? by bowser 2012-02-06 20:14:27
      - At STP, even the purest water will freeze. However, adding a solute, such as a salt (or a water soluble ... by ER 2012-02-06 21:17:52
    - The Earth's core heat comes to the surface in a lot of places - volcanoes, hot springs, geysers. There's ... by bowser 2012-02-06 19:40:46

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