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Here is the open thread for this weekend.

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Here is the open thread for this weekend.

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Here is the open thread for this weekend.

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• If you have been having problems with accessing Japan News Junkie, you were not alone. We think we have identified the problem as having something to do with the JavaScript employed by our counter. We have eliminated the code, so access should go more smoothly.

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Here’s something to ponder, especially if you are looking for a job.

WASHINGTON — NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the development of exploration, scientific and commercial capabilities on the moon over the next 25 years.

NASA plans to establish science stations on the lunar surface beginning as early as 2013, followed by the return of humans to the moon and establishment of the first lunar outpost in 2020. Communications, networking and navigation capabilities required to support these efforts will be provided by NASA, other national space agencies, private industry or some combination thereof.

The services for which NASA seeks information in this RFI are communications, networking, and position, navigation and timing. The information requested is for planning purposes only as this RFI is one step of a larger study that will culminate in a final NASA report addressing strategies for the commercial co-development of lunar communications and navigation.

Communication and navigation services may include, but are not limited to, terrestrial network services, terrestrial ground stations, Earth-orbiting capabilities, lunar orbiting capabilities, and lunar surface capabilities. They may be complete “turn-key” services, subsystems or components; partial solutions such as applications for specific functions; or other capabilities believed to be necessary to meet a portion of anticipated needs.

Responses should be submitted to Barbara Adde, NASA Headquarters, Mail Suite 7L70, 300 E. St., SW, Washington, D.C. 20546-0001, by 4 p.m. EDT on Sept. 15, 2008.

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A bit late, but here is the Open Thread for this week.

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Thanks to Arden for the reminder.

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Here is the Open Thread for this week.

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Here is the Open Thread for this week.

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Something to ponder. . .

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Some food for thought.

• Remember when “the science was in” on the upcoming heterosexual AIDS epidemic 25 years ago? It now seems that it has somehow magically “disappeared.”
• Some are claiming we have “less than a decade to get it right” before civilization as we know it is doomed. How long have we been hearing that?

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