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Not Quite Everything for a Theory of Everything:	28 Feb 2010 16:33 GMT	-
Not Quite Everything for a Theory of Everything: (click link) http://www.amperefitz.com/not.quite.everything.for.a.theory.of.everything.htm Enjoy,
>>> Some Random Mistakes: why the "new" NASA plan is WORSE than the old one [updated] >>>	28 Feb 2010 07:46 GMT	-
-- -- Some Random Mistakes: why the "new" NASA plan is WORSE than the old one [updated]
In the interests of time	27 Feb 2010 09:16 GMT	2
How is the perversion of mining on the moon not applicable to the ideas of what a particular ideas inters frame is in the accordance's of what we see & seek as a particular alternatives to the ideas of what a simpled ideas inters-structure is in this world of what we would see as ...
India Plans To Send Two Astronauts Into Space	24 Feb 2010 02:42 GMT	3
"The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to send two astronauts to space within six to seven years, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said."
Cost of Space Travel	24 Feb 2010 01:33 GMT	12
The General Accounting Office (GAO) has released a report of the costs of Shuttle Operations. I have taken this from the 2009 figures - there were five flights, cost per flight was $596.34 million each. With a 24.4 metric ton payload this is a cost of $24.44 million per
NASA's being stupid again	23 Feb 2010 18:36 GMT	1
http://spacenews.com/civil/100222-nasa-requesting-funds-first-stage- rocket-engine.html Why does NASA want to develop a rocket engine if U.S. companies already own the rights to produce the Russian RD-180? The stated goal of this
Low-cost, more efficient solar cells mostly plastic	23 Feb 2010 08:01 GMT	-
"By growing arrays of silicon wires in a polymer substrate, researchers have demonstrated what they say are flexible solar cells that absorb up to 96 percent of incident light." See:
Recent Night Launch-Exhaust Strangeness	23 Feb 2010 02:24 GMT	6
I've seen pictures from the recent night launch that seem to show something strange in the SRB exhust. I'm pretty sure it's not a lens internal reflection. Does anybody know what these are? See
Looking Buy used scrap rails	22 Feb 2010 22:12 GMT	-
Looking Buy used scrap rails http://buy-sell-old-ship-iron-scrap-minerals.blogspot.com
>>> why the Constellation's supporters have lost their minds >>>	22 Feb 2010 02:26 GMT	2
-- Why the Constellation's supporters have lost their minds... -- http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts2/063constellationend.html
>>> COTS-CRS price-per-ton-to-ISS is OVER FOUR TIMES HIGHER than Shuttle >>>	20 Feb 2010 13:34 GMT	36
--- Shuttle: launch cost $600M, payload 24 tons max (+7 astronauts) = $25M per ton to ISS ---
Opposing the Inhuman Aspect of Overdesign with Private (As Well as Bureaucratic) Pork in a Post-Pork World	18 Feb 2010 22:49 GMT	-
Just another example of how the agnostic anti-intuitives can't raise their heads out of the sand when it comes to real innovation: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/anthony-kang/2010/02/17/kid-rock-i-have-nightmares- everyone-will-be-driving-priuses-condos-and#comments Every comment here ...
US Space Program Rebranded	18 Feb 2010 10:23 GMT	8
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9767/usspaceprogram.jpg
Has the 130 BILLION spent on ISS worth it?	18 Feb 2010 02:02 GMT	10
Just watched a show on the technology of ISS, the largest constuction project ever. Said by 2016 it will have cost 130 BILLION. That number astounds me.
Male Olympic figure skaters	18 Feb 2010 00:18 GMT	2
I mean, I have to question the sanity of any male that wears something like this..."Oh...look at my feathers...I'm a bird...watch me fly"......gawd is it really possible for this guy not to realize how stupid he looks? How can he not know?