Space Forum / Space Policy / April 2006

To borrow that well-traveled title.
The electricity is back on! My area was in the first ten
percent restored.
There's something 3 million South Florida residents without power

If I were them, I might be crazy enough to manufacture
an international crisis that would result in oil prices skyrocketing.
Iran would be 'punished' with boatloads of cash as a result, while
our economy would start...sinking.

Don't know if this has been discussed before, but I noticed some time ago
that the LSAM will be discarded after it performs its duties. What are some
thoughts on a less wasteful approach:
1) An LSAM that travels between lunar orbit and lunar surface in one piece

In order to advance technology, one doesn't require that an experiment
goes off on its own operating schema in order to solve "itself".  The
experimental process is often slow and tedious, and rife with
conditional "error".  However, smaller "experiments" within the

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This guy looks RE-E-E-A-L-L-Y scary.
He has his own website www.panarin.com
Kommersant, April 25: RKA APPOINTS NEW PRESS SECRETARY --
Newspaper reports on the April 24 appointment of the political analyst and

There appears to have been some work on trapping antiprotons inside
buckyballs
http://www.answers.com/topic/antimatter-weapon
and don't forget BEC :)

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12319764/
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NASA keeps mum on space robot’s failure
DART report considered too sensitive for public release

Manned mission to 'Mars'
Another Mars probe from NASA was settling into orbit last month around
the Red Planet, 132 million miles away. Back on Earth, at the Mars
Desert Research Station in Utah, the crew had a problem.

1) turn China and India and South America into rabid self aggrandising
capitalists, in the manner of the West, but more so, turn all of their
citizens into profligately wasteful materialistic fashion victims, just like
we are, but more so

I think we have another space race on our hands. America says it is
going to the Moon and then  on to Mars (I bet the money never comes
through for the latter).
Why go to the Moon and especially if the plan is to set up a base which

They found at the bottom of the ocean, worms that live in ice. Methane ice
that is. If that's so, then the possibility of life on Titan is good.

I see that Hubble recently measured the bulging waist of Xena, aka
2003 UB313, and came to the conclusion that Xena has a diameter of
2400 +/-100 km, which would mean that it is only slightly larger than
Pluto's diameter of 2306 +/-20 km.