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*~ Mint on Ludes, Live ~ !**	24 May 2005 11:16 GMT	1
"Needin' or hurtin'? What's The matter?" ~ Folly "Food in your cupboard, coins
Q regarding "Guidestar software"	24 May 2005 10:15 GMT	2
I have upgraded to windows XP and it appears that the software that can talk to my telescope does not run :( I have a Celestron NexStar114GT. I can't find the software anywhere on the net. Does anyone know of software that would do the same thing? Would
Smoking lengthens dark-adaption time by a factor of three!	24 May 2005 08:22 GMT	19
Swedish medical researchers discovered quite by accident that smoking reduces blood flow to the eye and dark adaption time was seriously extended. They considered it dangerous to drive at night within three hours of
nightbat Where Are You?	24 May 2005 06:38 GMT	66
At 3:49 AM cental time yesterday morning, after a prolific posting session, nightbat made a final post, then dropped abruptly off the radar screen. Has he been picked up by Darla's ship?
How Jack Sarfatti made the discovery of Macro-Quantum Gravity with Dark Energy	24 May 2005 02:10 GMT	1
On May 21, 2005, at 5:18 PM, iksnileiz@earthlink.net wrote: Jack Sarfatti wrote: On May 21, 2005, at 2:15 PM, iksnileiz@earthlink.net wrote: Z: Your BEC vacuum inflation is a physical process. Aren't you confusing
New Planet	24 May 2005 01:31 GMT	1
Just heard on the news a new planet has just been discovered. Anyone know any more about this? Cheers, Margret
Diagonal question.	23 May 2005 19:35 GMT	3
Is the Meade Model #937 2" diagonal that was made for use with their DS series refracting telescopes any good, worth buying? Price $24.95 + shipping.
What who when where	23 May 2005 18:05 GMT	11
Is it just my box, or do all the posts here get cleared out every so often? What a sham(e) - now there is no good place to discuss astronomy... :(
Binoviewers	23 May 2005 16:29 GMT	7
Has anyone tried using binoviewers for astroimaging, ie. one eyepiece for imaging, the other for autoguiding? Might save some weight on my scope. Just a thought, they're going for £99 at BC&F.
Dynamos = Sun Spots	23 May 2005 15:46 GMT	13
There easy to spot. Black against the white surface of the Sun,and they can be three times the size of Earth.(vary in size) We know they get more plentiful every 11 years.,and their magnetic activity is increased. I see them like dynamos,and we know dynamos are created in planets
Does Space help make Gamma Ray Bursts? Does Space help particle decay?	23 May 2005 14:16 GMT	1
Going with the macro gamma ray burst that come out of unsure theories,but these theories try to tell us great shock waves are produced,and these shockwaves give us a flood of high intensity EM radiation called "gamma" Stop here to say these come a long way,and
Galaxy cluster at z=1.4 challenges BBT	23 May 2005 12:49 GMT	104
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio news this morning carried an interview with Chris Mullis about a galaxy cluster, discovered initially with X-rays and then confirmed spectroscopically with the VLT.
Crisis in Cosmology	23 May 2005 12:46 GMT	8
The near-final version of the program for the 1st Crisis in Cosmology Conference, CCC-I is now downloadable from http://www.cosmology.info/2005conference/program.htm Comments are welcome.
Newbie in the Full Moon department ...however ...	23 May 2005 12:11 GMT	1
I Havent seen the Moon SO CLOSE .. in a long time. One of those "feel like I can reah out and touch it..." Pretty amazing.
The Best way to Tell the Universe's Age	22 May 2005 21:05 GMT	47
The Stars tell their age. Our sun is 5 billion years old.Our Milky Way galaxy is using its 90% stars in it that they are 5 billion years old making it 6 billion years old. Have good reason for making it older than its medium stars. Now we know that in 5 billion more years most of ...