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Posted on 04/30/2003 1:46:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Amazing...
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posted on
04/30/2003 1:48:30 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
To: cmsgop
yea, unreal. amazing the lived.
To: Sub-Driver
Not ready for humor on this one yet.....Bump for a few more months.
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posted on
04/30/2003 1:57:04 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(Peace, love, and understanding.....$10 bucks a hit in America.)
To: Sub-Driver
Well, at least we know that NASA was doing important, nationally-critical research that it was worth risking human lives for.
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:05:33 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(NEO-COMmunistS should be identified as such.)
To: Sub-Driver
The damn democrats are everywhere!
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:08:02 PM PDT
by
onyx
To: Beelzebubba
Would you have that we have explored the space wimpy way?
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:10:12 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: Thud
Life manages!
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:14:50 PM PDT
by
Dark Wing
To: leadpenny
Ping!
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:17:31 PM PDT
by
Springman
To: Sub-Driver
How did those worms manage to survive without so much as a broken bone?
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:18:44 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: Springman
Thanks, I just saw this before you pinged me.
To: Sub-Driver
The worms, known as Clinton. elegans...It's tough to kill worms...I used to try and drown them many years ago...and the fish laughed at me.
FMCDH
To: jwalsh07
they are spineless...hmm maybe that's why Democrats are also around
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:25:58 PM PDT
by
arielb
To: KevinDavis
"Would you have that we have explored the space wimpy way?"
Billions of dollars, and tragic deaths, do not seem justifiable costs for pushing out the frontiers of our "worm knowledge."
And NASA too conveniently uses such "science" as justification for itself.
The only truly non-wimpy way to explore space is via free market efforts. Funding bread and circuses by coerced payment (from taxpayers) is the truly "wimpy" way to explore space.
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:28:13 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(NEO-COMmunistS should be identified as such.)
To: Sub-Driver
The meek shall inherit the earth?
To: Beelzebubba
"Well, at least we know that NASA was doing important, nationally-critical research that it was worth risking human lives for."
All the shuttle flights carry various experiments and work closely with the people who have developed these experiments. A highschool in Syracuse, New York provided an ant farm on Columbia's last flight. The kids worked closely with the astronauts for at least two years, kept in touch with them while in space and received the final experiment results just before the Columbia broke apart. The kids believed that the ants would become dormant, but were extremely surprised to learn that the ants in fact, increased their activity while in space. I'm sure the kids learned something through the experiments, not to mention the close relationships they had formed with the astronauts performing the experiments for them.
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:36:51 PM PDT
by
mass55th
To: mass55th; Beelzebubba
While it may seem insignificant, this change in hive activity in a relatively well understood insect species is important all by itself. It generates a mystery as to whether it is an absence of gravitational cues simply forcing the ants to think that their environment was constantly pushing them on, or possibly it is a more subtle change in brain chemistry in the critters. If it is the latter, finding a direct opposite chemical interaction might produce permanent dormancy with less or non toxic methods than are used now. This could be extended to other insect species as well.
While not a justification for space-based research in itself, it would be a boon to our existence down here.
That all said, I understand, Bb, how you feel: NASA doesn't need to have a stranglehold on this sort of thing, and actually should facilitate (at most) the methods to get up there to do the research.
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posted on
04/30/2003 2:47:53 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(It's not nice to fool Mr. Rumsfeld!)
To: leadpenny
You're welcome, have a good one.
To: Beelzebubba
You don't understand science at all. Why click on such a thread? Just to make fun of it, I suppose.
Go cook something on Teflon, and enjoy your ignorance. The worms wouldn't have been lifted merely to provide a humorous sidebar in Parade magazine at the end of the successful mission that almost was.
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posted on
04/30/2003 4:25:46 PM PDT
by
ChemistCat
(My new bumper sticker: MY OTHER DRIVER IS A ROCKET SCIENTIST)
To: Frank_Discussion
Not on exact topic, but we were wondering if anyone has yet concieved in space? Female astronauts I mean......
When my wife has difficulty getting pregnant we just do a little romance and then go fly a few hours in my Cherokee. It's worked twice. We are convinced it's the vibration.
With all the experiments NASA does I can't imagine they have not been studying fertility in space for humans?
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posted on
04/30/2003 4:34:59 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(Peace, love, and understanding.....$10 bucks a hit in America.)
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