Space Forum / Space Policy / March 2007

Highly recommended congressional testimony:
Lieutenant General Henry A. Obering III, USAF // Director, Missile Defense
Agency
Missile Defense Program and Fiscal Year 2008 Budget

One solution to the global warming problem would be to bio-engineer
microbes that could either manufacture or themselves form a reflective
layer that would reflect away  a high percentage of the Suns energy.
Aircraft can lead to global dimming due to the vapour trails they

New data posted on NSF
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5056
Although the video of the launch webcast cut off just after 5 minutes
of flight, SpaceX have now gained visuals from the entire flight, past

A large black hole is headed for earth at 50,000 miles per hour.
What will happen when it hits?

Monopolists REALLY hate to lose that position. The pays good, make
your own hours, martini lunches,
it's low stress, fat and lazy with no competition.
Then a bloated bunch of government bureaucrats suddenly finding their

I am studying for an  Astrophysics degree.  I am carrying out a short
theoretical study considering the problems associated with placing an
" unmanned lander" on the surface (from the point of view of radiation
shielding ) on the surface of the Jovian moon Io.  I know that

Per SpaceX, the Dragon capsule carries 1200 kg propellant, which
"supports a safe mission profile from sub-orbital insertion to ISS
rendezvous to reentry."  Questions:
1.  What is the propellant?

According to New Scientist, researchers are working on silicon based
rockets that fire out nano particles. These would typically be small
carbon nanotubes or perhaps nano drops of aluminium. The fabrication
is using the same tools for manufacturing chips, and the nanoparticles

Take a light source and a sheet of material with two fine closely
spaced lines cut in it and a projection screen.  These are the
elements of a double slit experiment.
The two slits will become sources of radiation that are in phase with

      I did some research in Time-space teleportation:
    1        The Lord, My Spirit Guide
http://cydonia-armageddon.blogspot.com/2007/02/lord-philippians-311-if-by-any-me
ans-i.html
    2       Waves of Creation, - Spirallohedron

Visit the site that present this theory at
http://www.magneticgalaxy.com
The Big Bang theory, dark matter and dark energy could be replaced
with a simple theory based on magnetic fields in the galaxy. The

The Lower Side Band Approach to Increasing Phase Velocity
is a method for extracting the lower sideband transmission,
and utilize it as the new carrier frequency, and perform an-
other phase modulation to again increase phase velocity.

Consider the reaction;
   p + 11B --->  3  4He + 8.54 MeV
It requires that the protium and boron-11 be united with an energy of
123 KeV.

http://smart-machines.blogspot.com/2007/03/nasa-robot-to-repair-and-refuel.html
Why was this not done instead of building the Shuttle?
- Ian Parker

I'm watching the live video feed now... the software-added countdown
timer seems to be stuck at T+00:00:29, which is a bit odd.  But clearly
things are going on; the rocket is vertical, and venting something from
the side.  It's also swaying a bit in the window (or maybe that's ...