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[nprev]

Was browsing the USAJobs site today, and noticed that NASA's aggressively soliciting candidates for the 2009 astronaut class:

http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/featured_employer/article.asp

Any takers? (Damned if I'm not tempted...should've been 10 years, 20 pounds, and several thousand cigars ago, though...)

[dvandorn]

I doubt it, Nick. Jason is only interested in active or recently active volcanoes, I do believe -- and the youngest volcanic features on the Moon are on the order of a billion or so years old. (Some may be just younger than that, but not much -- the absolute youngest features may be as little as 800 million years old, but that's not very rigorously constrained.)

There has been volcanic activity on Mars far more recently than on the Moon, and we all know how Jason feels about that red *thing*...

-the other Doug