Or, you can run mutt/alpine on your local machine, talking IMAP to your mail server (just like Thunderbird or another GUI mail client would).

I'm installing KDE version 1066 tonight. It comes with William the Konqueror.

You can solve the last 2 problems by working with csv (comma-separated-values) files. Just about any spreadsheet app (Excel, OpenOffice, Gnumeric) can edit them, and you can even edit them in a text editor if need be. As text, they'll diff easily, so you can merge, etc. in your VC of choice.

It's Constellation that was defunded (with the Ares I and Ares V rockets). A replacement rocket (the Space Launch System) was funded instead.

Have you tried Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting)?

And Venus will be a paradise planet according to them, because CO2 couldn't possible cause it to be hotter than Mercury. :-)

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705355601/Homeland-Security-Secretary-Michael-Chertoff-benefiting-from-scanner-sales.html

Hope your plane doesn't crash from all those flying Christians getting sucked into the jet engines.

I think you mean Alvin Greene.

And it's still what I think about wrasslin on a Sci-FI channel. They don't mix.

You're right... It certainly is fiction, but nothing to do with science.

I suppose given some windows and some pantless astronauts it could be. :-)

You do realize that despite the resemblance, this thing is not actually a Space Station. It's a space vehicle designed for interplanetary travel.

ATK's Rockets that are used for shuttle launches are called "Reusable Solid Rocket Motors"

Kind of an oxymoron there considering they are lost into the ocean and gone forever - reusable?

See this page for pictures of NASA ships doing the impossible: towing recovered solid rocket boosters back to Kennedy Space Center.

What a bunch of losers! NASA is spending my tax dollars on crap that relies on M$ Silverlight.

There was no money in the internet either until the 1990s. I guess building it before then was a waste of time and money.

And who was developing the Internet until the 1990's? The government. Specifically, DARPA and NSF. And a bunch of universities, probably funded by government grants.