Space Forum / Space Science / December 2005

It seems to me that the astronaut and cosmonaut on ISS only  have
little time for experiments.
Would it be possible to mount a sort of Comsat on the backbone of the
station and then control a number of experiments from a control room on

-> This is a simple pyramid scheme.  
Quite so. And your e-mail address ends with ".ca", which means you're
in Canada, where pyramid schemes are ILLEGAL.
                            dow

I heard that there is a lot of GOLD on Metis.
Is that true? Will there be a new GOLD rush soon, now a interplanetary
one ?

How long have we been familiar with the nine of old planets...and we are
still discovering Moons and Rings?
We should have discovered all of the Moons and Rings back in the 70's just
as we were getting moving in the Space Program!

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/ci-2sb121905.php
Contact: Dr. Richard Carlson
Graphics can be viewed at link, above.
Washington DC-- Earth's future was determined at birth. Using refined

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2005/470.html
Mars Region Probably Less Watery In Past Than Thought, Says Study
University of Colorado at Boulder News Release
December 21, 2005

-> Report of a possible landing/crash site for Beagle 2 - how far are the
-> Mars Rovers from this site? Is there a map anywhere showing their
-> relative positions?
It's thousands of kilometres from both rovers. There isn't the

hypothetically, if incoming and outgoing radiation balanced at every
point on earth, would there still be air circulation? What do you think?

Saw this on the Unmannedspaceflight.com site:
P12A-04
TI: First Low-Iron Materials on Mars and Possibility of a Major
Montmorillonite Component.

Here's a little idea that's been in my head for a while. I wonder if
I'm the first to come up with it (unlikely) or if it already has a
name, or is just completely unworkable. I thought I'd run it past this
group to see if it's original, and if it's possible. If it turns out to

HubbleSite - Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 2005.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/34/image/k
cf.:
From: rgregorycl...@yahoo.com (Robert Clark)

                     Radioactive Dating NOT RELIABLE
              Radioactive dating techniques are routinely used to
         determine the ages of fossils, dinosaur bones, ancient

I'm unclear on the rationale for space tourism (at least in the near to mid
term).  When you're in orbit, all you are looking at is a window, aka a display
surface. In fact, you will probably not even be looking at a window in the
sense of a transparent body at all, but a pixelated ...

->           already!) that every 13,000 years our Solar System
->           passes through an extremely energetic area of space
->           (sometimes called the "Photon Belt"; look it up on the
->           Internet, including http://www.paoweb.com/glossary.htm ).

Does Pluto's orbit, crossing as it does that of Uranus, leave open the
possibility that some outermost objects may have been captured from
other passing solar systems?