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Well speaking of big bangs well not quite the same it now appears that a supernova may be to blame for Human advancment 3 million years ago. All from a layer of iron-60 isotope or chemical variant of iron that is rare on Earth. It has a decay rate or half-life of about 1.5 million years and the measured layer can be dated to about 2.8 million years ago

Ancient Star Dust May Point to Human Origins-Study
http://www.reuters.com/newsArt....6634433

I believe the newer alloy tank is made by Lockheed martin Michoud facility ( http://www.lmco.com/michoud/et/description.htm ) . So unless Boeing has the same metal alloy technology I do not think Lockheed would be willing to share that little secret.

NASA Chief: Public Approval, Independent Safety Group Key for Shuttle Return to Flight

Like in dah....

And then you get NASA trying to put a PR spin on everything these days.

NASA Selects PR Newswire as News Distribution Service

I read some where that there has been work done on creating a recharging process rather than opening a person back up just to change the batteries I though it was something to do with pace makers.

So lets turn back the hands of time to when the world was a super continent and move it forward the millions of years. This will tell us where the species originated or at least from the cradle of Africa which route it would have used. Also the modern version that remains in Africa would probably be a distant cousin in the pygmy race.

GCNRevenger you are right about the standard versions of them (atlas v, delta IV) but neither will lift the real weight that we have been talking about in the 40 to 100 ton range.
Only the versions that we have been dreaming of can. Such as when you add the SRM's that you mentioned to the delta IV.

Both have expressed why a sea colony will not be done but when you look at the reasons for a moon or mars colony all I see from some are those same exact reasons for why we will not. I look at why we as a nation decided to expand beyound the missisippi west ward and why those people did so. It was not about science and cost was not in the picture either. It was about land, riches and of freedom of ownership a chance for a new beginning and so much more.
These are the same reason we will use to do any colonies in my mind even here within earths oceans or on our journeys to the stars setting bases as we go.

Between chads, missing votes by mail and the early voting electronic machine with no means to verify actual votes cast why have them vote at all. Just flip a coin heads Bush wins tails Kerry does and be done with the possibility of it ending up in court again.

Sealed envelope sound real military in thinking.

How surveyor landed on the moon will be the same when we finally get to go back.

That has got to be the best up close look at the lunar buggy. I do not remember such views when I watched the Nasa broadcasts so long ago.

Well if you thought the big bang was a bang how about a wandering star...Rebel Stars Cross Paths with Sun

Wow we now have super highways for the stars to travel from galaxy by way of gravitational (density) waves from the galatic center of the milky way. There is also to be a close call as it were a star named Gliese 710, found by Hipparcos and reported in 1999, will pass within 1 light-year of the Sun. But do not fret it will only be a mere 1.4 million years from now.

And I thought Nasa was slow... with the CEV design and such for the space exploration vision.

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yup I see it now...
Still makes you wonder though about what we really know about gravity, time and the internal driving force that makes up the fabric of space.

I agree with you Bill, that we should use what we have rather than designing alabarat vehicles for space. A merging of designs would get use there quickly in addition to finishing existing work as well would be nice if cost are kept to a minimum.

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Well it does appear that what I had mentioned seems to be an acurate picture of things.

SpaceDev a California company aims to resurrect a scrapped NASA project and use the technology to build a spaceship that could carry tourists into space by 2008.

http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/s … 7DREAM.htm

Paving the way for pioneers Ming Zhang's cosmic radiation research takes first step in missions to Mars, moon base

With more than $1 million in NASA funding, Zhang is researching cosmic and energetic solar radiation, seeking how the two space weather components affect human beings, both as space travelers and as the end-user of satellite technology.