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Posts: 6698 (01/18/04 10:26 PM) SARS Incubator |
Reuters article looks at the possible American militarization of space.
story.news.yahoo.com/news...weapons_dc In the room the women come and go
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Posts: 4513 (01/18/04 11:45 PM) Audio Ambassador |
 Once again you beat me to the post!
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Posts: 6698 (01/19/04 12:03 AM) SARS Incubator |
 It's a pretty scary prospect. Nowadays, it seems like you can always count on America to ruin a good thing. In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot |
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Posts: 4513 (01/19/04 1:49 AM) Audio Ambassador |
Certainly sheds light on Bush's desire for a permanent moon base. If he cared at all about science, he wouldn't be cutting off the Hubble to fund it.
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (01/21/04 1:01 AM) Audio Ambassador |
The first pictures are coming back from Europe's Mars Express:
www.spacedaily.com/news/m...s-04e.html |
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Posts: 4513 (01/23/04 11:49 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Europe's Mars Express detects water ice on the South Pole of Mars!
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/spa...index.html |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (02/02/04 12:07 AM) Audio Ambassador |
Maybe you can't go to the moon yourself, but you can soon send your business card...
www.spacedaily.com/2004/0...n3iwc.html Sounds a bit like space littering, eh? |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (02/05/04 2:34 AM) Audio Ambassador |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (02/06/04 5:09 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Well maybe not "Today in the Galaxy...", maybe millions of years ago in the Universe... The Hubble takes a great shot of the "black eye galaxy":
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/spa...index.html |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (02/06/04 5:28 PM) SARS Incubator |
Ooh, that's cool.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (02/16/04 12:50 PM) SARS Incubator |
Astronomers find a star made of crystallized carbon, which, weighing in at 10 billion trillion trillion carats, makes it the largest diamond ever discovered by Man.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...492919.stm Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (02/16/04 3:14 PM) Audio Ambassador |
That is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard of!
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (02/16/04 4:05 PM) SARS Incubator |
Seriously, right? I can already see it becoming the stuff of sci-fi legend, with powerful Galactic Emperors securing such diamond stars as engagement presents for their brides-to-be.
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Posts: 4513 (02/17/04 1:47 AM) Audio Ambassador |
And in news beyond the galaxy, way beyond, The Hubble with the help of the Keck observatory spots the farthest known galaxy in the Univeres, some 13 billion light years away:
www.spacedaily.com/news/g...e-04b.html |
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Posts: 4513 (02/20/04 5:35 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Hubble spots planetoid deemed biggest Solar System object since Pluto:
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/spa...index.html |
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (02/24/04 3:40 PM) SARS Incubator |
The Earth was minutes away from being put on impact alert on January 13th, after astronomers identified an object that had a one-in-four chance of striking the planet.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...517319.stm Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 4513 (02/24/04 6:16 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Consequently, scientists are murmuring about the need for a War on Asteroids!
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Posts: 633 (02/25/04 4:29 PM) COBRA Commander |
Here's some info on plans to avert deadly asteroid impacts.
BBC "A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
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