Re: earmarks and space pork

2002-09-29 Thread Bruce Moomaw
From the Orlando Sentinel (http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/4171702.htm ): Lawmakers intent on bringing home the bacon increasingly are squandering NASA's scarce resources on pet projects that are often, at best, only marginally related to space exploration and

Re: NASA MOVES FORWARD ON HUMAN MISSIONS TO MOON, MARS AND ASTEROIDS

2002-09-29 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 9/28/2002 5:06:05 PM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert, your enthusiasm is astounding. Where are the off-the-shelf microplate sapphire suits? Sorry, not here yet. We can't even assemble sapphire at the molecular level yet. But we do have a design for an

Re: NASA MOVES FORWARD ON HUMAN MISSIONS TO MOON, MARS AND ASTEROIDS

2002-09-29 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED], commenting on my comments wrote: A vasculoid system is apparently a concept for the creation of billions of nanosized platelets, to cover the internal surfaces of every blood vessel in the human body, and increase the efficiency of blood, by replacing

2002 Lowell Lectures - Is Anybody Out There?

2002-09-29 Thread LARRY KLAES
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/ep/lowell02.html IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?Artist's conception of the Milky Way Galaxy. (David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Have you ever gazed into the night sky and wondered about life beyond the stars? [Beyond the stars? Who wrote that

Deinococcus radiodurans - Go ahead, make their day!

2002-09-29 Thread LARRY KLAES
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020930.html D. rad Bacteria: Candidate Astronauts Credit: Michael Daly (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), DOE Explanation: These bacteria could survive on another planet. In an Earth lab, Deinococcus radiodurans (D. rad) survive extreme