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Posting just a title line sometimes links to an empty body. RobVG November 5, 2025 1:02 pm (GeekSpeak)

Trump nominates a NASA chief — again BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 10:28 pm (Space/Science)

Muskfinger - and other evil space billionaires BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 10:19 pm (Space/Science)

New Glenn set for its second launch on November 9 BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 9:15 pm (Space/Science)

Spanberger projected to win VA BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 5:10 pm (CurrentEvents)

The destruction of Goddard is illegal RL October 31, 2025 9:41 am (Space/Science)

Weighing the scales on Elon Musk BuckGalaxy October 30, 2025 9:28 pm (Flame)

Bunker Envy ? podrock October 30, 2025 6:18 pm (CurrentEvents)

Message in a bottle BuckGalaxy October 29, 2025 10:55 am (Off-Topic)

According to some, we're a nation of illiterate dependents looking for a handout RobVG October 27, 2025 8:56 pm (CurrentEvents)

The 1% RobVG October 27, 2025 10:54 am (Off-Topic)

Parting Shot ER October 27, 2025 4:36 am (Off-Topic)

Partisan Propagandist (@ ER) by TB February 9, 2012 2:46 pm

The whole thing looks like much ado over nothing. by BuckGalaxy 2012-02-11 17:18:47
It's always political with you two. by Robert 2012-02-09 20:29:47
- Sounds a bit like censorship to me Robert by RobVG 2012-02-10 10:18:52
  - ROB! Dammit! I had to go re-read Robert's post...and now here I go Ms. Wishy Washy.;) I have a need to ... by Jody 2012-02-10 12:06:46
    - It's all good by RobVG 2012-02-10 17:18:54
  - I take that seriously. by Robert 2012-02-10 11:34:49
    - I agree with Rob. It is censorship. ER has stated his objective. Therefore the ball is our court...how we deal with ... by Jody 2012-02-11 10:28:50
      - Too seriously by RobVG 2012-02-11 11:09:43
- I don't think you quite got it. by TB 2012-02-10 09:07:15
  - I got it. by Robert 2012-02-10 10:16:01
- Huh. ER gave me the same lecture today on another thread. He was correct. And it got ... by bowser 2012-02-09 21:14:09
  - No freer rein. by Robert 2012-02-09 22:12:39
- I agree with you Robert. .....it would seem that if there is something someone doesn't like, we change our own ... by Jody 2012-02-09 20:58:57
  - It's both more or less than that, Jody. by Robert 2012-02-09 22:35:57
- Fair enough. by ER 2012-02-09 20:58:50
  - Fair enough by Robert 2012-02-09 22:24:07
  - I think that's silly. The issue seems to be when you respond to TB's street-fighting by street-fighting. You ... by bowser 2012-02-09 21:24:08
For those of you wondering what provoked this indignant little outburst, by ER 2012-02-09 15:26:14
- Well, of course I side with Tom. by RobVG 2012-02-10 10:10:18
  - "If I had done that (turned that thread into a political statement) RobVG would have been protecting the HZ to ... by bowser 2012-02-10 15:07:18
    - Maybe I didn't make my point clear by RobVG 2012-02-10 17:09:33
  - On the rovers' budget... by Robert 2012-02-10 11:44:09
- Nah. It's political with TBs second post, when he describes expensive and time-consuming as virtues for government projects. EDITED: ... by bowser 2012-02-09 16:57:19

Mysterious object found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea by RobVG January 30, 2012 11:06 pm

Does it have a Nazi flag flying, I mean drifting above it? The perfect conspiracy theory: The Nazis are going to create ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-11 16:42:26
Oh, god. I think I have an idea of what it might be, after reading the word "cylinder" in the newspost. ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-05 01:50:36
- Unfortunately, right or wrong, that seems to be an excellent conjecture. by bowser 2012-02-07 08:15:08
- That's scary. The Baltic also has a large "dead zone" an anaerobic area containing no oxygen and posonous H2S ... by ER 2012-02-06 18:01:17
  - Lemme guess... These thermoclines have some sort of narrow release point where the toxins are released in their condensed for, ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-07 15:19:47
    - Thermoclines are layers in a body of water where there is an abrupt change in temperature. In the ocean, they ... by ER 2012-02-09 05:50:37
      - I think I recall quite a few of those. Especially with the gas eruptions of underwater lakes there, which ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-09 14:48:35
They will go after it last May, when they figure out how to get the time machine feature to work. by alcaray 2012-01-31 07:42:05
- ahh, flubbed that one I did. n/t by RobVG 2012-01-31 09:44:45

An observation by Jody February 11, 2012 11:36 am

How to tell when you are being flim-flammed. A classic example. by bowser February 10, 2012 9:36 pm

In this case they're killing their own countrymen- over 6000 now. n/t by RobVG 2012-02-11 10:39:39

Brozism explained by BuckGalaxy February 11, 2012 2:16 am

A solution to NASA and military cost over-runs. by bowser February 11, 2012 12:58 am

Well look on the bright side - at least now the missions cost less than a B-2 bomber :D by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-11 01:13:13

A provocative post, and unintended consequences. by bowser February 10, 2012 8:05 pm

A discussion in Community would be the more civilized way to handle the problem. by Robert 2012-02-10 23:35:14
- The only purposes of my post were to clarify that particular issue for me, and to point out what I ... by bowser 2012-02-11 00:41:04

Well, there's Sadie Hawkin's Day coming up, but then what? by Jeff-Wash February 11, 2012 12:32 am

)(&)(*&^&*(&^%*%$^@$#%^#%&^*%^&(*)_ by bowser February 10, 2012 2:47 am

The purest of flames. (n/t) by Robert 2012-02-10 10:16:56
- ...ah the art of language...Warning...rough language by Jody 2012-02-10 12:09:41
  - No! I think bowser has just deciphered an alien tongue. ;) Or, perhaps, he got teed off at the obnoxious Russian ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 13:23:47
    - Either that, or he read my latest blog. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-10 20:15:58

The Wine-dark sea by ER February 9, 2012 5:50 pm

One of the theories about the "Bermuda Triangle" disappearances is methane release. "Mythbusters" tried to sink a boat with compressed ... by RobVG 2012-02-10 18:23:28

Some things are better. by bowser February 7, 2012 11:24 am

The testing, animated by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:03:00
- I couldn't help but wonder if the tests were a form of posturing by RobVG 2012-02-10 18:03:18
- Except for the first 40 or so, all those nuclear explosions took place in my lifetime. by Robert 2012-02-10 10:36:19
- The mix includes some surprises for some people. The Tsar Bomba, ostensibly 100 megatons, was detuned by the Russian scientists to ... by bowser 2012-02-09 22:00:59
- I've never seen that. It is terrifying. Did you notice the 20-odd bursts in the South Atlantic, SW ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:52:23
  - I don't have the citations available right now, but I've read that the South Africans and Israel collaborated and each ... by bowser 2012-02-10 12:51:31
When I was being trained for work in the nuke industry (1972), we were given a tour of a laboratory ... by ER 2012-02-07 13:08:05
- I had no idea they were that detectable. In HS in the late '50s I was the student lab assistant in ... by bowser 2012-02-07 13:52:17
  - A radio-isotope decays by emitting alpha and beta particles, and gamma rays, of various energies, into other isotopes, some of ... by ER 2012-02-07 14:56:35
    - Neutron source by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:21:46
      - Yes, I think I must have looked up the same Wiki article! Several of the Transuranics undergo spontaneous fission, or ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:14:05
        
        The construction industry (soils engineers) uses density meters to test soil compaction. There's a joke among heavy equipment operators, "if you ... by RobVG 2012-02-07 21:03:04
        
        I also found this: "Neutrons are produced when alpha particles impinge upon any of several low atomic weight isotopes including isotopes ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:22:32
    - That is a very good question. The second I read your post I started wondering. I was 16 and 17 ... by bowser 2012-02-07 16:21:46

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