Pursuant to item 4.5.1.1 in the matrix I posted on Sat 31 Mar, see http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0403016.htm. “Anyone, anywhere with access to a personal...
Jay Manifold
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Apr 3, 2001 12:14 pm
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... Not sure how that would work. SETI-at-Home - as far as I understand it - takes chunks of data and sends it to computers on the internet to process, ...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 3, 2001 11:06 pm
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On Tue 27 Mar, Robert Clements wrote: “… the project [‘a smash & grab sample return’] appears to be doable in the teens of US$m … but that amount...
Jay Manifold
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Apr 3, 2001 11:53 pm
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On Tue 27 Mar, Robert Clements wrote: “There are two ways of approaching the problem; & from my perspective, both paths need to be followed simultaneously...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 4, 2001 1:42 am
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There's very little good market research on taxpayers & space; so one is forced to do media monitoring to get some idea what the taxpayers' intermediaries...
Clements, Robert
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Apr 4, 2001 11:33 am
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On Wed 28 Mar, Consty wrote: “I would say that scientists do need to present their material to the public in a more focussed way, but it has to be done in...
Jay Manifold
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Apr 4, 2001 11:58 am
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... You forgot the most important question: does the customer even want it at all? Or even more significantly: is this being done specifically for the benefit ...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 4, 2001 1:46 pm
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... Um. Well, someone from the Beeb (BBC) came up to Lancaster and was very enthusiastic about the whole project, but he was very interested in science anyway....
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 4, 2001 1:49 pm
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... Excellent point....just because we're "smart" doesn't mean we can't be excited about the work we do. Too often I see scientists just telling the facts...
Nicolle Zellner
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Apr 4, 2001 3:00 pm
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Consty – I was all set to ask you if you had time to drop by this event … http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0404016.htm … until a look at MapQuest informed...
Jay Manifold
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Apr 4, 2001 3:12 pm
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... Yeah, it's a bit out of the way ;-). That might be a short hop down the road by American standards, but it's considerably more hassle (and expense) to...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 4, 2001 4:14 pm
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I figure people on this list might be interested in this, given it seems to be the way the publically funded agency is seeing the future of space exploration. ...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 4, 2001 5:58 pm
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Wow. That's a plan that I'd love to implement. It's deliberate, progressive, emminently reasonable...and fueled by a spirit of manifest destiny that I think...
Elizabeth_Fuller@...
Apr 4, 2001 11:30 pm
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... I sure was really impressed by it - there's a lot of forward thinking in there, viable long term goals etc. What got me was that they even threw in an...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 5, 2001 1:12 am
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On Thu 29 Mar, Consty wrote: “The only possible problem I can see is the dissemination of data from privately-funded ventures into space. Currently all the...
Jay Manifold
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Apr 5, 2001 1:12 am
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On Wed 4 Apr, Consty wrote: “You forgot the most important question: does the customer even want it at all? Or even more significantly: is this being done...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:13 am
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At 20:10 04/04/2001 -0500, you wrote: re: Data distribution ... I hadn't thought of it like that, but I guess that's the right sort of idea - since the...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 5, 2001 11:25 am
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Here’s a text version – exactly 72 columns wide – of the spreadsheet I posted to the file area the other day. As noted earlier, I am soliciting feedback...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:28 am
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I can comment a bit on talking to the press...I worked on Galileo data in grad school, and helped prepare local (and national) press releases for various...
Cynthia Phillips
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Apr 6, 2001 6:55 pm
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... Not seen any TV coverage, though I have a couple of newspaper articles. One amusingly had a photo of a 'storm of asteroids', which only had one rock it in...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 7, 2001 6:41 pm
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Just a word of thanks to: Consty for brainstorming possible uses for distributed computing, describing what it's like to be annoyed by data embargoes, and...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 7, 2001 10:30 pm
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This is a lengthy commentary on the statement by Dr Wesley T Huntress, Jr of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, given to the...
Jay Manifold
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Apr 7, 2001 10:32 pm
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A few random comments from me about Jay's response to Wes' statement... ... Depends how you define 'good' really. If you think that getting mankind off this...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 8, 2001 1:50 am
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Talking to my colleagues in the office the other day, I realised that planetary science has always been in the unenviable position - along with most fields of...
Constantine Thomas
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Apr 8, 2001 1:50 am
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Consty has captured, with some precision, the attraction which I suspect most people involved in astronomy, whether as amateurs or professionals, feel toward...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 9, 2001 12:04 pm
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“O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!” – Robert Burns On Sat 7 Apr, Consty wrote: “It seems to me that parts of the US...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 12, 2001 2:42 am
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From Jim Oberg, by way of Mike Duke; thanks to both! Jim adds: another excellent debunking site is www.badastronomy.com ...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 12, 2001 11:58 am
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... From: dondavis@... [mailto:dondavis@...] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:01 AM Subject: SCoPE-L submission (spelling corrected) On memes,...
Jay Manifold
jmanifold@...
Apr 17, 2001 11:53 am
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"He told me he remembered with great clarity finally losing his indecision on Interstate 80, not far from Cheyenne, Wyoming, as the flatlands gave way to the...
Jay Manifold
jay_manifold@...
Apr 21, 2001 2:17 am
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Science News April 14, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 15 p 231 “Biomedicine, defense to sidestep budget ax” “President Bush’s first budget request would boost...
