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"Creative destruction" in the space industry by TB April 7, 2012 9:23 pm

It's great news that these good men will be able to find employment in their field of interest. It would ... by ER 2012-04-09 09:21:32
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Hey, after the Ares Project, it was only a matter of time. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-08 00:21:18
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A question about Cape Canaveral. by Lee April 2, 2012 4:47 pm

It's only slightly illegal if you climb past the fences there, right? :D by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-03 12:01:41
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- But you can't see anything from the slam, can you? They're so afraid of someone taking those things out ... by bowser 2012-04-03 18:02:58
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Check with one of the tour bus outfits. They're really reasonable. They'll pick you up at your hotel, take you ... by RobVG 2012-04-02 20:49:58
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Check this out. by TB 2012-04-02 17:54:10
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Hoberman Fullerenes? by Vitruvius March 30, 2012 6:09 pm

Judging from the lack of responses, I'm thinking this was a stupid question after all. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-01 15:29:03
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- I doubt it was stupid, I just don't have any answers except that I believe the strength of carbon materials ... by bowser 2012-04-01 16:14:15
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- Actually, it was an excellent question. by TB 2012-04-01 16:12:18
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Strange "cloud" on Mars by TB March 24, 2012 3:42 pm

Mars' mystery cloud explained. "It's most likely a condensate cloud/haze, H2O in composition," Bruce Cantor, senior staff scientist at Malin Space ... by bowser 2012-03-31 22:32:19
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I was very excited by this, especially when Jaeschke said in the comments section of his site, "They [NASA] sent ... by Ainz 2012-03-30 03:00:27
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- That is interesting. It might have had such a mundane cause as to not appear newsworthy. A meteor ... by bowser 2012-03-30 13:13:06
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  - Maybe the orbiter drivers are just too busy collecting data? (at that location) A fresh impact would be fun to look ... by Ainz 2012-03-30 14:26:42
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    - I don't know about you, but I'm going to keep an eye open for giant cylinders crashing into the ground. by TB 2012-03-30 14:53:14
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Seems to have the characteristics including latency of a meteor impact. by bowser 2012-03-25 00:19:56
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Don't we have an orbiter around Mars that could send us some imagery to get a better look at this? by ER 2012-03-24 17:42:11
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- How about three of them? MRO, Mars Express and Odyssey. They'll get down to the bottom of this. Oooops! Bad Marianas Trench pun. by Jeff-Wash 2012-03-25 21:16:17
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- That's what I'm thinking. This could very well be a result of crappy pictures and blurriness and whatnot (Just ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-24 18:04:56
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  - Strange clouds, as well as mists, sand storms, and other meteorological phenomena are not uncommon on Mars. There's a particularly ... by ER 2012-03-24 19:04:27
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If Man were serious about colonizing outside the solar system. by bowser March 28, 2012 12:07 am

Sounds like a possible sci-fi story! by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 01:39:53
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- Bowser's musings about a dying race sending off its genetic material to the stars in order to secure some sort ... by ER 2012-03-28 07:12:14
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  - Not a new idea at all. It's called "panspermia", and has been around since ancient times. My point is that ... by bowser 2012-03-28 16:13:56
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  - Find a way to make money out there, and the investment will be made. by TB 2012-03-28 09:05:50
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    - Hey, you're preaching to the choir. I want to go, even if I have to pay for my own ticket. "Find ... by ER 2012-03-28 09:33:24
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Very important test by johannes March 27, 2012 11:37 am

Which theory would that be? I've not heard it. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-27 18:06:12
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- Thanks for asking When I have a chance I’ll post some info about it on Mysteries Of The Multiverse by johannes 2012-03-28 10:13:54
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- You asked for it. by podrock 2012-03-27 18:20:57
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NASA says water ice may be on Mercury by bowser March 27, 2012 6:50 pm

Allow me to enlighten you on what I know here.... While ice might be found on Mercury, the Chances are slim ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-28 01:38:50
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The Wow! Signal by ER March 26, 2012 4:51 pm

Google Sky isn't the most reliant of sources either, so I've been checking star charts myself. So far, nothing ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 17:21:44
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- Those two narrow bands are the Right Ascension boundaries of the error box of the signal. Their heights represent ... by ER 2012-03-26 17:49:33
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  - Wiki? by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 21:34:15
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    - I meant Wikipedia. by ER 2012-03-27 04:59:14
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      - Thanks for the clarification, but I read it in an encyclopedia. What I was confused about was why it ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-27 13:41:08
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        No, MY source was the Wikipedia entry on the WOW signal, and I put a link to it in my ... by ER 2012-03-27 14:32:01
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        I still wonder if we're barking up the wrong trees. by TB 2012-03-27 14:56:14
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        If you assume ET doesn't want to give its position away, (which is a perfectly reasonable assumption!) you must also ... by ER 2012-03-27 15:31:22
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        Personally, I think that they'll be using quantum telephones and radios, like the ones in "Crimes and Glory" Basically, two or ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-27 18:18:38
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Some optimistic SETI material by ER March 27, 2012 11:22 am

Tweeted from James Cameron by TB March 25, 2012 3:49 pm

A little more news here. by TB 2012-03-26 09:07:04
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That is truly impressive. by bowser 2012-03-25 22:23:18
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I can't wait see what he's sharing. Far Out! No...wait...Far In?...Far Under? Anyway, I raise my glass to the man, the ... by podrock 2012-03-25 18:09:37
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- He'll get to the bottom of it all by tomorrow. by ER 2012-03-25 18:13:17
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  - He may find that Silt Happens. by podrock 2012-03-25 18:35:09
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  - I'm sure we'll get an in-depth report. by ER 2012-03-25 18:15:47
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    - Give him time...he's under a lot of pressure right now. by podrock 2012-03-25 18:36:45
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      - Hey, if we had to sit under seven miles of water, we might leak something nasty too. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-26 01:21:47
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He's in way over his head. by ER 2012-03-25 17:03:55
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A question for ER by bowser March 22, 2012 11:43 pm

Flex by RobVG 2012-03-23 09:22:44
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- I was in Deck Dept. Those guys in the black gang (Hull Dept), are all crazy. We used to ... by ER 2012-03-23 10:38:57
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- That's about an inch of torque deflection every three feet or so. That sounds pretty high for high-strength steel. by TB 2012-03-23 10:04:35
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  - I don't remember my ship flexing like that, but we were much smaller, and much more ruggedly built and internally ... by ER 2012-03-23 10:24:02
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    - This is one thing we need to fix if we want good spacecraft. Vehicles planetside (mainly air and sea ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-23 20:18:43
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      - Everything constructed to resist any kind of load will "flex" under that load. by TB 2012-03-23 21:43:14
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        I did notice that in the video. I also noticed all the parts that were flying off the shuttle ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-03-24 00:44:01
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        That's ice coming loose. by TB 2012-03-24 11:09:13
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That's a pretty standard high speed turn, its what destroyers are designed to do, high-speed maneuvers while chasing or dodging ... by ER 2012-03-23 05:28:19
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- Appendix by ER 2012-03-23 06:51:39
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SpaceX on "60 Minutes" by TB March 19, 2012 7:14 pm

Saw it. Touching when Musk teared up talking about Armstrong and Cernan and their criticism. (n/t) by RobVG 2012-03-19 20:59:35
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