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Comment on The British (Astronauts) Are Coming! by Ian O'Neill

Ian O'Neill — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:55:53 +0000

Also, Rich Tea biscuits for dunking. Cookie-dunking leaves sediment at the bottom. These subtleties are important!

Comment on The British (Astronauts) Are Coming! by Paul Sutherland

Paul Sutherland — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:52:03 +0000

Tea bags? Good God man. Nothing less than Yorkshire leaf tea will do!

Comment on Colonists Beware: Don’t Camp at the Bottom of Martian Hills! by Mike Mongo

Mike Mongo — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:21:25 +0000

Okay, the Warning Falling Rocks sign in the corner of the photo was a LOL touch.

Comment on Could Mars Quakes, Seasonal Temperature Changes or a Chance Meteorite Impact Cause Mars Avalanches? by Colonists Beware: Don’t Camp at the Bottom of Martian Hills! | Astroengine.com

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:38:59 +0000

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Comment on Moon, Venus, Jupiter Conjunction Dazzles California by rosemarie lodewick

rosemarie lodewick — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:12:57 +0000

Fascinating stuff!!

Regarding the Asteroid bagging, I am sure the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) would have an interest?? In thhe meantime, there is stil so much untapped minerals in Africa!? I guess with this powerful asssociation, they might stick to Planet Earth for now? Safer…..lol

Keep up the good work Ian!

Rosemarie, Johannesburg, South Africa

Comment on About by projoseph

projoseph — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:52:18 +0000

Just wanted to say that I was the photographer that contributed the photo for you when we met at Orlando, FL. I still am the photographer for 7×24 so maybe we will run into each other again down the road. Great site. Wish you the best!

Comment on The White House Approves NASA’s ‘James Bond’ Asteroid Bagging Mission by David S. F. Portree

David S. F. Portree — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:55:42 +0000

Meant to say, “Astronauts at an outpost at EML2 could teleoperate rovers ^ sample returners on the moon and gain deep space experience applicable to journeys beyond near-Earth space.” Oops.

Comment on The White House Approves NASA’s ‘James Bond’ Asteroid Bagging Mission by David S. F. Portree

David S. F. Portree — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:50:11 +0000

We haven’t identified an asteroid we can go grab yet. Asteroids we can reach are actually rare. Is there funding somewhere in this budget for finding a target object we can nab? The NASA Small Bodies Advisory Group wasn’t consulted re: the value of this mission, by the way. They’ve proposed an asteroid observatory Sunward of Earth – it could locate millions of asteroids, including (no doubt) numerous candidates for mining, deflection experiments, and exploration. That makes sense. As for EML2 is a piloted destination, we don’t need an asteroid there to make it worthwhile. Astronauts at an outpost at EML2 could teleoperate rovers & sample returners on the moon and provide astronauts with deep space experience. Of course, teleops remove the need to send humans back to the moon; I can see some people objecting to that reality, so maybe that’s partly why we have this pointless hybrid robot/human EML2 asteroid capture thing.

Comment on Is the Universe a Holographic Projection? by Dexter Johnson

Dexter Johnson — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:20:51 +0000

We don’t know that the projection travels at the speed of light. The speed of light may be because of the way the projections manifest themselves.

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