http://www.spacedaily.com/images/hubble-ultradeep-desk-1024.jpg This is the Hubble's greatest photo that was taken of a black speck of sky in a previous...

Originally posted in sci.astro by Andrew Yee News Service Washington State University Pullman, Washington Contact: Dirk Schulze-Makuch, WSU School of Earth...

What do you think are the current (or at least most near-term) TECHNICALLY feasible low cost Earth to LEO solutions? Let's hand-wave the politics and economic...

On Jan 8, 4:25 pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote: On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:16:00 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat Flannery...

I was reading about the idea of Accelerator Driven Thorium Reactors, and while surfing later on came across this: http://www.physorg.com/news10433.html I'd...

When, and I assume there will be a when. When 1/2 Doz people set off for Mars, long dangerous flight, unless some leap in propulsion technology comes along,...

It seems to me that a space pier would still require very advanced materials so that its gigantic balloons could transmit their lift to the large, heavy...

Whenever I've heard talk about O'Neil style space colonies. L5 is always the suggested location, but what other orbits/locations would be good? Would there be...

Y A O H Ú S H U A FACTS SHOCKING BUT TRUE! 1. The real, original and genuine Name of our Creator in the original Hebrew Holy Scriptures is 'YAO-HOO'...

Prompted by a posting by Bill Haught, I looked up space piers. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-space-pier.htm It seems to me that it's all very well...

References: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, "Jonathan" wrote: Just after the first moon...

Joe Strout wrote: Holding up a launcher from balloons would take a lot of very tall balloons, but it still sounds a lot easier to me than building a ...

It is good to here that the drum beat from the stupid did not win out! A new fresh look at the data, (a old story, (But great to see it back in the...

I just posted my 1:48th, Scale Saturn V Rocket on Google Base! It was simple, and I think this new service will smoke EBAY! Finally a giant killer! Good Bye to...

For anybody who's interested in SF set in space habitats, I just wanted to mention that I've added a new short story to my Space Settlement site. It's called...

Pat Flannery wrote: Rand Simberg wrote: Just what is it you think that this "vote" will accomplish? Who knows? I think it will demostrate that...

One of the primary attractions of low-gravity environments (such as a lunar colony, or the low-G areas of an orbital colony) is likely to be the possibility...

NASA's Lunar Architecture Team concluded: "the most advantageous approach is to develop a solar-powered lunar base and to locate it near one of the poles of...

http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_post-darwinist_archive.html Friday, December 08, 2006 MORE Quick posts: Recent events in the intelligent...

MRO is coming along just fine. Too bad about MGS, though. http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/ For those of you still struggling with the high...