Comments on: NASA makes a WISE choice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/ 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. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:51:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: CR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22214 CR Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:43:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22214 Dr. 'Tiger' Ninestein says "Expect the unexpected!" Dr. ‘Tiger’ Ninestein says “Expect the unexpected!”

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22215 Gary Ansorge Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:04:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22215 If aliens in space colonies were nibbling away at our Oort cloud, would their colonies give off a faint IR trace? GAry 7 If aliens in space colonies were nibbling away at our Oort cloud, would their colonies give off a faint IR trace?

GAry 7

]]> By: Joshua http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22216 Joshua Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:08:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22216 Don't you mean Nibiru, Kyle? To steal a bit of Slashdot/Engadget schtick: I, for one, welcome our infrared, Nibiru/Nemesis/Planet X-detecting overlord! Don’t you mean Nibiru, Kyle?

To steal a bit of Slashdot/Engadget schtick: I, for one, welcome our infrared, Nibiru/Nemesis/Planet X-detecting overlord!

]]> By: Jack Hagerty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22217 Jack Hagerty Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:45:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22217 Only $300 million? That sounds pretty bargain basement to me. Is that the entire program (hardware development, launch fees and operation)? One good booster launch is about that much. - Jack Only $300 million? That sounds pretty bargain basement to me.

Is that the entire program (hardware development, launch fees and operation)? One good booster launch is about that much.

- Jack

]]> By: Kyle_Carm http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22219 Kyle_Carm Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:06:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22219 Ooooo, nearby brown dwarf....sounds like a Nemesis hunt to me. ;-) Ooooo, nearby brown dwarf….sounds like a Nemesis hunt to me. ;-)

]]> By: Berkeley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22218 Berkeley Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:54:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/17/nasa-makes-a-wise-choice/#comment-22218 If you expect to find them, then they can't be *unexpected* objects, can they? If you expect to find them, then they can’t be *unexpected* objects, can they?

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