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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars probe set for risky landing: May 25, 5:48pm 6 reviews science, space, nasa, united-states, mars
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7411113.stm; Hooray! We did it!

Mars Lander Headed for &7 Minutes of Terror& Sunday: May 23, 12:57pm 1 review science, space, nasa, phoenix, university-of-arizona
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080523-mars-lander.html; Let's hope the Galactic Ghoul doens't get this one, too.

Giant space vegetables &could feed the world& - Telegraph: May 12, 11:11am 1 review agriculture, cooking, space, hoax, horticulture
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1949129/Giant-space-vegetables-andlsqu...; This smells like a hoax to me, but what if it were real? That would make the US departure from the Space Taxi service seem damn, dumb. and from the peanut gallery, a cry went up -- at first slowly, but then with increasing urgency and volume, "Bigelow, we need you...we need civilian space flight...."

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan to scrap space weapon rules: May 10, 10:00am 2 reviews military, japan, space, star-wars, military-in-space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7392544.stm; Not only is this alarming on its own, but Japan isn't exactly allowed to have a military on Earth. So they want to put their military in space? The militirization of space must be stopped!

NASA - Moondust and Duct Tape: Apr 24, 2:35pm 4 reviews photography, science, space, 1960s, nasa
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/21apr_ducttape.htm?list39638; Look at the first picture in this article. Doesn't the cold and lack of atmosphere makes it look like a studio out there but, more so? I wonder how they exposed that. I'd assume with a wide aperature, but who knows when there's quite literally no atmosphere -- just dust that takes 6x as long to settle and travels 6x as far. How to account for an atmosphere like that? Those Kodak folks must have done their job very well. Those would be fun variables to account for in your project. No wonder so many people wanted to work for NASA. Just think -- thousands of talented vets in good paying jobs that utilized the military investment in their training and education (a reasonable amount of time since the GI Bill. The 1960s had to be the time to start a space programme. I wonder if Kennedy thought of it that way -- that he was uniquely suited with that particulur combination of generational archetypes to accomplish such an engineering feat. Is this photo the outcome of a massive government comitting itself to an artform that someone made up out of science, in the guise of documentation? Regardless, I love it. I just thought I out to share that with someone. Oh, and the duct tape article is a hoot. My first thought was that the cold would keep the duct tape from working, but I guess it just gets hard and takes time and moisture to become really brittle. The dust can be tamed with static and molded with microwave. I'm actually very keen on the whole moonbase thing, though I know it's just going to be military and mining for a long time -- sort of like Alaska, but more so. How do you get to be the moon photographer? I'll bet I went to the wrong damn school. ;) Earth space has its challenges, too.

Plans for doomsday ark on the moon - Telegraph: Apr 20, 12:03am 2 reviews space, moon, doomsday, esa, seed-bank
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/10/sciark110.xml; Is it just me, or is there absolutely no way this is good news for the rest of us who are doomed to be stuck on this rock for the duration of our motal lives? Neither NASA or ESA has ever done anything that didn't have a military angle. The former was spawned from the US Navy, after all. If they don't have money to fix the briges and roads, I hardly think they would spend billions every year on "exploration." It'd be nice, but the powers that be have never been accused of being nice. As for the motivations of the EU, I don't know. Just another distrust of the US to not blow up the freakin' world, I suspect. That makes me like it even less.

Kepler Mission: Dec 1, 2007 12:28am 3 reviews space-exploration, space, nasa, space-science, orbital
http://kepler.nasa.gov/; I heard Dr. Kaku taking about this project on Art Bell tonight. He thought that in conjunction with the new Allen Array we now had a far better chance of finding ET signals for real.