http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/ ISS Transit Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:03:07 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/250 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/250 hi Tom, actually i'd never heard of switchgrass until i read the SciAm article ... it IS insane to be converting high-grade food stuffs into fuel for cars, Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:53:39 GMT Tom Teters http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/249 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/249 ... .......................... GRASSoline.....I LIKE it!!! Good name! Hey, have you ever looked into the conversion ratio for switchgrass - to - ethanol? it's Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:51:26 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/248 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/248 hi all, i'm about 60 pages into my first (and probably last!) novel, which i'm experimentally putting online (in Microsoft Word format) at ... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:05:17 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/247 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/247 in a couple days, i expect i'll put a Microsoft Word version of this in the Files section here, but in any case, if you get bored over the long 4th of July Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:13:26 GMT Thomas Fly http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/246 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/246 Thomas Fly saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Most complete Earth map published ** The most complete terrain map, Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:41:07 GMT Tom Teters http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/245 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/245 The shuttles up? Where is it, I don't see it, Tom.......... Oh well, I'll be out at Roland's Astro Corral N 40 40' 59.7" W 104 23' 48.9" Elevation 5048 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:51:13 GMT Tom Wagner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/244 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/244 Try looking at the ISS-Shuttle with your peripheral vision. It gets even brighter, almost dazzling. If a person were to spot it unexpectedly, in the peripheral Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:36:47 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/243 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/243 yep, 13 people is a record! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=most+people+in+space+at+one+time&aq=f&oq=&aqi= This is a pretty interesting article: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:21:56 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/242 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/242 Hi all, Endeavour is set to launch tomorrow (13 June) at 7:17 EDT (11:17 UTC). The purpose of the 16-day mission is to complete construction of the Japan Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:47:21 GMT bradtwr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/241 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/241 Yes, it does look a little off center, but it is so much better than any of my previous observations attempts that we were very enthused. I imagine both Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:48:59 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/240 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/240 Very nice, Brad! ... it looks like the pass may have been just a little off-center - probably not enough to have been evident to the unaided eye, however. In Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:24:03 GMT bradtwr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/239 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/239 We visually observed a few beautiful ISS passes last week, thanks to the CalSky email alerts. One of them mentioned a close encounter with Venus, so I fired up Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:31:19 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/238 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/238 i wonder if a water dump would show up on a photo ... Tom ... Subject: ISS-STS Stack Day 325 Orbital Elements File - Post STS Water Dump From: "Weaver, Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:02:48 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/237 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/237 there is some amazing video of the spacewalk currently in progress on NASA TV - also available on the web at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ Tom Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:55:26 GMT tfly@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/236 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iss-transit/message/236 passing this on ... see related: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html ... Subject: ISS-STS Stack