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Category: Space
Dynamic of the Cats as some commentary on the LCROSS landing the moon. The "big news" is the very high confidence now that one can put on the proposition that the moon does have water. Since humans are mostly water...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:32 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Science
Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK. H/T Anthropology.net...
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Category: Space
I notice that the NOVA documentary, Is there life on Mars?, is viewable online (from December 2008). Check it out....
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Category: Space
I just listened to a radio segment on public sentiments toward the Apollo space program expenditures in hindsight. The polling had a small N, 3 people in Los Angeles on the street. But it got me wondering: who supports the...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:25 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Environment
Hawaii Looks to Space Tourism to Aid Recession Woes: According to the Honolulu Advertiser, the state would start by spending up to a million dollars developing a spaceport. But Hawaii isn't alone: The state is already facing heady competition from...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:20 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Space
Seed's Mr. Space Lee Billings has an interesting piece, The Long Shot: "If planets are found around Alpha Centauri, it's very clear to me what will happen," Marcy said. "NASA will immediately convene a committee of its most thoughtful space...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Space
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech I rarely post anything on space because I really don't know much more than the average reader of this weblog; no value-add from me. But yesterday I ran across an article which reported the financial overruns in...
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Category: Space
Flyby of Mercury Answers Some Old Questions: Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the Sun, but it has water in some form. It has volcanoes. It appears to have an active magnetic field generated by a molten...
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Category: Space
As you probably know, the Phoenix has landed on Mars. No problems so far. I assume the best place to track the data as it comes back is the NASA mission page for Phoenix. Here are the mission goals: --Determine...
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Category: Space
I too defend space cadets, what is mankind without a dream? I remember back in the late 1980s a speech by Joseph P. Kennedy II as he stood on the floor of the house of representatives and asked his fellow...
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