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	<title>Quantum Rocketry</title>
	<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog</link>
	<description>quantum mechanic and rocket scientist extraordinaire</description>
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		<title>re: Questions on NASA&#8217;s Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This *almost* made me register for Twitter, just to respond. But I am still resisting the &#8220;service that nobody knew they wanted!&#8221; I hope a pingback goes through&#8230;if not, I bet I can rely on a retweet from @aerognome.  
Here are my answers:
1) Should Constellation be saved?
No; at least, not without a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/03/re-questions-on-nasas-future/</link>
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		<title>revenge of space combat physics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My blog had been trucking along with a reliable readership of perhaps a dozen people, when, suddenly, after a slightly stream-of-consciousness post about the physics of space combat, Gizmodo asked to reprint the material from my blog. It was never my intention to get so much attention &#8211; but apparently that article turned into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/03/revenge-of-space-combat-physics/</link>
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		<title>Fixed an error in an LRO image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy posted a few days ago about caved-in lava tubes on the Moon. This isn&#8217;t really new news, but it&#8217;s still pretty darned cool news. He posted some images of the cave. However, I found a major, glaring error in the LROC image data.
I fixed it.
Seriously, though&#8230;those sites are perfect premade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/03/fixed-an-error-in-an-lro-image/</link>
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		<title>Planetary scientists have all the fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I am not at my blogging best when I just write, &#8220;hey, look at these spectacular images!&#8221; But&#8230;look at these spectacular images!
An image-of-the-day gadget on my iGoogle home page showed me this picture, which I subsequently spent about a half hour trying to locate at a primary-source web site. It is wicked cool.
Click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/planetary-scientists-have-all-the-fun/</link>
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		<title>Solving the CxP-cancellation image problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very encouraged to read that Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) expressed some thoughts on the new NASA budget this past week that agrees pretty well with my own view. I&#8217;ve generally been worried about the Senators and Representatives from Florida, Alabama, and Texas; since I am very much a proponent of the new NASA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/solving-the-cxp-cancellation-image-problem/</link>
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		<title>More Cupola!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, here we go! Click these things!
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		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/more-cupola/</link>
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		<title>Our biggest spaceship now has an Observation Deck!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just so cool.

&#8220;Mike, if you&#8217;re CapCommin&#8217; and you&#8217;re lookin&#8217; for folks and you can&#8217;t find &#8216;em&#8230;they&#8217;re probably in here.&#8221;

That was a radio call from the STS-130 crew to Mission Control in Houston from early on Wednesday, after all seven windows in the ISS Cupola were opened for the very first time. I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/our-biggest-spaceship-now-has-an-observation-deck/</link>
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		<title>terrifying influences on school boards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am reluctant to bump &#8220;Conference&#8221; down on my front page with this can of worms, especially now that my readership has been on the up-and-up, but hey, it&#8217;s my blog&#8230;.
Yesterday I made the mistake of trolling around the New York Times web site for a few minutes between a lunch meeting and getting back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/terrifying-influences-on-school-boards/</link>
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		<title>Fiction: Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story continues the Cathedral Galaxy sequence beginning with &#8220;Between Wrecks.&#8221; A young researcher, scrambling for results, presents a controversial theory. This story describes some of the working of the Cathedral Galaxy.  (No, I don&#8217;t really think all conferences are like this. Though some of the themes ought to be familiar to grad students everywhere&#8230;)
/ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/conference/</link>
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		<title>this was good, I must write it down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
One medium onion, chopped
One green pepper, ditto
2-3 big carrots, or 6-8 baby carrots, also ditto
3-4 slices of ham, cut into 1 cm square pieces
Pasta (I used half a box of rotini)

Cook the onions, peppers, and carrots in a pan over medium heat until the onions start to turn translucent. Throw in the ham and let that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josephshoer.com/blog/2010/02/this-was-good-i-must-write-it-down/</link>
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