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	<title>Comments on: Some NASA updates</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: SFwriter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12878</link>
		<dc:creator>SFwriter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Life&#039;s a beach...then you dive...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life&#8217;s a beach&#8230;then you dive&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: TheGalaxyTrio</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12879</link>
		<dc:creator>TheGalaxyTrio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s true!

Just look at these SHOCKING before andd after pictures of the Anatonauk Glacier!

Before: http://tinyurl.com/mhlog

After: http://tinyurl.com/rsdjd

It&#039;s the End TImes, I tell you! the End Times!! :o</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s true!</p>
<p>Just look at these SHOCKING before andd after pictures of the Anatonauk Glacier!</p>
<p>Before: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mhlog" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/mhlog</a></p>
<p>After: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/rsdjd" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/rsdjd</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s the End TImes, I tell you! the End Times!! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Irishman</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12880</link>
		<dc:creator>Irishman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, but it&#039;s good* pork barrel economics.

*Good, as in it&#039;s my pet project. ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, but it&#8217;s good* pork barrel economics.</p>
<p>*Good, as in it&#8217;s my pet project. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12881</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to mention that my guess turned out right:  this Culberson guy represents the Seventh District, which is a chunk of -- surprise, surprise -- Houston, Texas.  Four to one says this is pork barrel economics at work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to mention that my guess turned out right:  this Culberson guy represents the Seventh District, which is a chunk of &#8212; surprise, surprise &#8212; Houston, Texas.  Four to one says this is pork barrel economics at work.</p>
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		<title>By: TR</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12883</link>
		<dc:creator>TR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I live at abut 25 ft. ASL - Beach party at my place in 2010?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live at abut 25 ft. ASL &#8211; Beach party at my place in 2010?</p>
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		<title>By: Kaptain K</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12882</link>
		<dc:creator>Kaptain K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm...
Where are we going?
Why are we in a handbasket?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm&#8230;<br />
Where are we going?<br />
Why are we in a handbasket?</p>
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		<title>By: Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12884</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s also worth noting that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.culberson.house.gov/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rep. Culberson&lt;/a&gt; is a Republican from Texas described as an &quot;up-and-coming House conservative&quot;.  Sorta reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.ncseweb.org/wp/?p=98#more-98&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the judge&lt;/a&gt; who declared, &quot;this is manifestly not an activist Court&quot;, a moment before calling the Dover school board&#039;s adoption of ID &quot;breathtaking inanity&quot;.

The left/right axis in the United States just doesn&#039;t mean what it used to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that <a href="http://www.culberson.house.gov/" rel="nofollow">Rep. Culberson</a> is a Republican from Texas described as an &#8220;up-and-coming House conservative&#8221;.  Sorta reminds me of <a href="http://www2.ncseweb.org/wp/?p=98#more-98" rel="nofollow">the judge</a> who declared, &#8220;this is manifestly not an activist Court&#8221;, a moment before calling the Dover school board&#8217;s adoption of ID &#8220;breathtaking inanity&#8221;.</p>
<p>The left/right axis in the United States just doesn&#8217;t mean what it used to.</p>
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		<title>By: Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12885</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From Rep. John Culberson&#039;s letter:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Thank them for their strong support over the years for investing in the NSF and NASA, and ask them to move at least $1 billion, or up to $3 billion, more dollars into NASA by taking the money from the $15 billion that Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has recommended be spent on federal programs that OMB admits are officially classified as &quot;wasteful,&quot; &quot;obsolete&quot; or &quot;duplicative.&quot; As an alternative or additional source of funds, you should ask them to move $1 billion from the 2007 Budget request for Homeland Security and into NASA because Homeland Security has a surplus of at least $6.8 billion sitting in the U.S. Treasury that was intended for first responders but has not been spent in over three years. In other words, make Homeland Security spend $1 billion of their unspent surplus before we give them another $1 billion, and use that $1 billion now where it is needed most for the nation&#039;s security in the future -- for scientific research and planetary exploration that NASA is now canceling.&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yikes.  Just. . . wow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Rep. John Culberson&#8217;s letter:</p>
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<i>Thank them for their strong support over the years for investing in the NSF and NASA, and ask them to move at least $1 billion, or up to $3 billion, more dollars into NASA by taking the money from the $15 billion that Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has recommended be spent on federal programs that OMB admits are officially classified as &#8220;wasteful,&#8221; &#8220;obsolete&#8221; or &#8220;duplicative.&#8221; As an alternative or additional source of funds, you should ask them to move $1 billion from the 2007 Budget request for Homeland Security and into NASA because Homeland Security has a surplus of at least $6.8 billion sitting in the U.S. Treasury that was intended for first responders but has not been spent in over three years. In other words, make Homeland Security spend $1 billion of their unspent surplus before we give them another $1 billion, and use that $1 billion now where it is needed most for the nation&#8217;s security in the future &#8212; for scientific research and planetary exploration that NASA is now canceling.</i>
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<p>Yikes.  Just. . . wow.</p>
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		<title>By: Amara</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12886</link>
		<dc:creator>Amara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This part on the Dawn news report gets me:

&quot;NASA headquarters declined to say what the new evidence was and refused to make Geveden available for an interview. JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor said the center had no comment pending the review.&quot;

Mama Mia! There is _no new evidence_. There wasn&#039;t logical reasons in the first place for the cancellation! The review is March 23. We hope it will be well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This part on the Dawn news report gets me:</p>
<p>&#8220;NASA headquarters declined to say what the new evidence was and refused to make Geveden available for an interview. JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor said the center had no comment pending the review.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mama Mia! There is _no new evidence_. There wasn&#8217;t logical reasons in the first place for the cancellation! The review is March 23. We hope it will be well.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Ingram</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12887</link>
		<dc:creator>Eric Ingram</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 05:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And one of Spirit&#039;s wheels has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/missions/mer/mer-20060317.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stopped working&lt;/a&gt; (found thanks to Slashdot)! :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And one of Spirit&#8217;s wheels has <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/missions/mer/mer-20060317.html" rel="nofollow">stopped working</a> (found thanks to Slashdot)! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Greetings from around the corne
The Infinity Society (which admits it probably is guilty of some bad science) claims to have an answer to countering the dangerous level
of scientific ignorance and unscientific thinking/methodology. Its answer is
part of a broader effort at promoting philosophical thinking an deep philosophical ideas. The melting of the polar ice sheets is beyond alarming, and the corruption of governments and institutions worldwide is
a very serious threat to all humanity and the biosphere as a whole. We hope our organization will get the attention and publicity will can ill affor to
pay for and which we dare claim to deserve. www.infinitysociety.org ... because mass (social) phenomena effect is little understood and even less so taught at major institutions of higher learning.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from around the corne<br />
The Infinity Society (which admits it probably is guilty of some bad science) claims to have an answer to countering the dangerous level<br />
of scientific ignorance and unscientific thinking/methodology. Its answer is<br />
part of a broader effort at promoting philosophical thinking an deep philosophical ideas. The melting of the polar ice sheets is beyond alarming, and the corruption of governments and institutions worldwide is<br />
a very serious threat to all humanity and the biosphere as a whole. We hope our organization will get the attention and publicity will can ill affor to<br />
pay for and which we dare claim to deserve. <a href="http://www.infinitysociety.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.infinitysociety.org</a> &#8230; because mass (social) phenomena effect is little understood and even less so taught at major institutions of higher learning.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Siefert</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/03/18/some-nasa-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12888</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Siefert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s probably not a good thing that the polar ice sheets are melting. We&#039;d better stop monitoring them or at least not publish the data.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s probably not a good thing that the polar ice sheets are melting. We&#8217;d better stop monitoring them or at least not publish the data&#8230;..</p>
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