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Bye Bye Mister Griffin director of NASA
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"NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said goodbye Friday to the space agency's employees, thanking them for their hard work during his four years on the job and urging them to support his successor." [link] Maybe they could appoint a woman for NASA admin... Anyway, the agency is for al...
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would NASA be targeted for cuts under Obama?
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I'm kinda worried but my guess is NASA in the short term will be drastically reduced. Even missions in the pipeline for development will suffer like the MSL Mars nuke rover. Maybe in last two years of an Obama Admin will NASA see some budget increases. I bet NASA gets a total overhaul from top to bottom ce...
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Accelerator driven Photo-fission of Uranium
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Interesting concept converting generic Uranium to get short life tracer isotope moly99. Don't need to transport weapons grade Uranium and the cost of security. Wonder what the cost are to build a facility compared to the old Chalk river reactor method for medical isotope production. triumf
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Feedback please on my draft Jump Star Science book based on Orion
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Dear Crew After many years of work my first draft version of my planned book for publication is ready. Called "Jump Star Science" it is based on some of the ideas behind Project Orion but critial of others. Anyhow, if you have time to read it some general feedback would be great. There are sti...
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Small Asteroid Entry Tonight
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Here is a newsworthy little tidibit" a small asteroid (2m or about 6 feet) is supposed to enter Earth;s atmosphere...visible over parts of Eastern Africa. It's supposed to be energetic enough to release about 1 kiloton equivalent energy...here's the link: http://www.space.com/sciencea...
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