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    Image of strideo strideo
    12/21/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    A boat in a liquid methane sea? All they need to do is bring some oxygen and they'll have all the fuel they'll need!
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    Image of joetato joetato
    12/21/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    Just don't try Drejing the lakes! Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-) (See Titan A.E. for more info)
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    12/20/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    It still amazes me that there's lakes on Titan. And it rains there. IT RAINS.

    As my niece would say, "That just blows mine head off."
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/20/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    How do you say "Yaaarrrr" in Titanian?

    Srsly, this is a neat idea.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/20/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    Sounds like fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun. But it doesn't sound like the kind of place to lie shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice, gold fish shoals nibbling at your toes.
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    Edited by Bill-Lee at 12/20/09 12:11 PM Bill-Lee was starred Bill-Lee was unstarred
    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    12/20/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    As long as they don't name it after Hans Moravec.
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    12/20/09

    In reply to Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
    This has already been covered.

    [io9.com]

    [io9.com]
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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    12/19/09

    In reply to How Close Are We To Colonizing Space?
    We're not even on the map, but I guess we have to start somewhere... The ISS is a start.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    12/19/09

    In reply to How Close Are We To Colonizing Space?
    Not very close.
    It isn't colonization until people are born and grow up there.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/19/09

    In reply to When Stars Orbit Black Holes
    wasn't this image the begining of a TNG episode...?
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    Image of TheFu TheFu
    12/19/09

    In reply to How Close Are We To Colonizing Space?
    Radiation is tough to protect against. LOE provides very significant protection, but as you move further out, that is lost. Being exposed to a solar storm could be life ending and the moon astronauts were lucky.

    Every scale model of satellites and shuttles altitudes never really show the altitudes correctly. Geostationary orbits are 22,500 miles up, but the shuttle and space station are only 144 miles. Earth's diameter is 7900 miles. LEO, low Earth orbit, really is low.

    I've seen no reasonable effective design to protect humans in space over the durations required beyond burying ourselves below ground and placing radiation warning satellites around the Sun so when it happens, we can run like chip monks and get underground FAST.

    We take our magnetosphere for granted. [history.nasa.gov]
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/18/09

    In reply to Did Someone Hitch A Ride On This Massive Fiery Meteor?
    I saw a fireball in the sky over Vermont when I was in college, so it must have been 1997 or so. My god, the thing was huge. It looked larger than this to my eye, and it was less of a "streak" and more a ball trailing a tail of sparks. it was totally amazing.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    12/19/09

    @lostarchitect: Did it make a noise?

    I've never heard one, but people have reported atmosphere skimming bolides as making a sound like tearing canvas (but with loads of subsonics) and that there's no speed-of-sound time delay between visual event and sound event, which suggests that the sound produced at ground level is from some sort of induced electromagnetic effect as the bolide goes through the Earth's magnetic field's lines of force ...

    ... very, very, weird.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/19/09

    @SJ_Edwards: No, no noise. But it was so large that it seemed close, however I didn't see any impact. Against the dark Vermont sky it was an intense sight.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12/18/09

    In reply to Did Someone Hitch A Ride On This Massive Fiery Meteor?
    Could the above photo be connected to the sudden appearance of Ugg boot advertisers infesting this post? Seems awful convenient that both showed up at around the same time... Invasion of the Bootyspammers anyone?
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    Edited by schrodingers-katana at 12/18/09 6:37 PM schrodingers-katana was starred schrodingers-katana was unstarred
    Image of silverdee silverdee
    12/20/09

    @schrodingers-katana: "Bootyspamming", sounds dirty... I like it.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12/20/09

    @silverdee: You have no idea. Those aliens are the biggest fetishists in the galaxy. Doesn't bode well for us...
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    Image of silverdee silverdee
    12/20/09

    @schrodingers-katana: Wow. I didn't know Bode Miller had his own verb!
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12/20/09

    @silverdee: That's because the government doesn't WANT you to know! They're evil and such and so forth....
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch! RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!
    12/18/09

    In reply to Did Someone Hitch A Ride On This Massive Fiery Meteor?
    Just glancing at the picture without reading anything my first thought was: "if this was astronaut pee, I wonder what this new one is going to be?".

    I am both relieved and a little disappointed.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12/18/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Heh, astronaut pee and relieved in the same post...
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    Image of UberJumper UberJumper
    12/18/09

    In reply to A Map Of The Cathedral Galaxy, Including Ancient Alien Artifacts
    I see Joseph was inspired by Homeworld! But his is not quite as cool as Norseworld's take on the Homeworld Galaxy.
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    Image of UberJumper UberJumper
    12/18/09

    @UberJumper: Whoops... forgot to link to the thread... [forums.relicnews.com]
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