Just read Baxter's MANIFOLD SPACE- its a great novel, that has an interesting take on Fermi's Paradox, and a great twist at the end. Just wanted to recommend...

Question: For those who have seen the blurb on NASA Watch: any comments on the purported increase in cost to modify the SRB for CLV use from $1B to $3B? Was...

$$ Tom Roberts wrote: Standard clocks in GPS satellites do not remain in synch with clocks on earth, by ~38us/day. 3. Have...

Ice Age, the Meltdown The first weekend, it's a smash with the kiddies. Get your official screen saver today. http://www.iceagemovie.com/index.html And...

Ramon F Herrera wrote: If we can successfully land a robot on Mars, we can setup an effective border patrol policy... Aren't you forgetting that...

No, this is not just sarcasm, it's the dripping kind. I heard the Nasa administrator was solicting opinions on how best to justify, rationalize, conjure or...

http://www.spacex.com Click on the Updates tab. Three video sequences, one from a distance showing that Falcon 1 actually got up into the clouds; none show...

JimO: This is an excellent survey article and displays the political power plans of some scientists -- it's wrong that people know we might have an engineering...

Recently we had a short discussion about how to power the Moonbase. The suggestions by NASA (solar-electric and LOX/LH2 nighttime storage) was considered...

Google in Any group to see that Herb is an ignorant and rude Luddite who thinks ISS is high tech.

The best way to fix beach erosion is NOT to spend billions and billions upon billions of dollars to rebuild dry land and levies but it IS to get the hell out...

Space Access '06 April 20-22, Phoenix Arizona Conference Information Due to a catatonic laptop holding all our files hostage, we're a bit late with this...

The hard-to-believe AW report of the Blackstar claimed a "fuel breakthrough" using a "boron-based gel having the consistency of toothpaste". I thought it...

An end to Nations, and the rise of City-States. In my home of South Florida, the last hurricane season gave us a glimpse of the future. Hurricane Katrina...

nightbat wrote Jim Oberg wrote: "NASA Scientist proves Holy Ka'ba Stone is semiconductor from outer space" ...

Regarding: 11:15 From ERA to Eurobot and Exploration Robots by Gianfranco Visentin (ESA) ... 14:00 Visit to ESTEC (optional), comprising...

Space Access '06 April 20-22, Phoenix Arizona Conference Information Due to a catatonic laptop holding all our files hostage, we're a bit late with this...

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:33:13 GMT, "Jim Oberg" wrote, in part: Abd Al-Baset Sayyid: The British Museum announced that it...

This is partly in answer to the Scientific American article about cosmic rays likely preventing human spaceflight. I have long believed that O'Neill colonies...

In this post I suggested delivering electrical power to "lifter" craft using long cables: From: Robert Clark - view profile Date: Tues, May 17 2005 2:53...