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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ Doug the Glogger
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 2 2006, 05:02 PM
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000709/ as a glogger.
Posted by: dvandorn Oct 2 2006, 05:11 PM
And an excellent glog! Keep it up, Doug!
-the other Doug
Posted by: lyford Oct 2 2006, 06:29 PM
It's a little early for http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26071 in the Northern Hemisphere, dont' you think? 
Great entry Doug, though I selfishly worry if our quiet little corner here at UMSF will be overrun by the blogging masses now.
Posted by: djellison Oct 2 2006, 06:41 PM
Second one is sent in to Jen ( first half of the heads of agencies plenary ) but she's going to wait for that first one to settle before putting up the second.
Tonight - I hope to write up the rest of that first session, plus what I went to this afternoon ( Mars Comms stuff + ESA Delta DOR ranging )
But first...FOOOOOOD - I'm bloody starving - didn't have time to stop all day
Doug
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 2 2006, 06:46 PM
I recommend the tapas bar at http://www.emilianobodega.com/.
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 2 2006, 07:30 PM
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000710/ is now up.
Posted by: Nix Oct 2 2006, 08:05 PM
Very nice. Keep up the good work chief...
Nico
edit: great in-situ pan!
Posted by: ElkGroveDan Oct 2 2006, 08:25 PM
Oh I thought it said CLOGGER!
Posted by: RNeuhaus Oct 2 2006, 09:38 PM
Doug, I am very glad that you are starting to participate como un periodista de prensa acreditada. Si, esto por su puesto totalmente!. Also I am very glad to know that you mentioned in a phrase that I was very overhelm glad that the USMF community members have transcribed the audios.
Congratulations for your new blog!
Rodolfo
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 2 2006, 10:57 PM
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000711/.
Posted by: ustrax Oct 3 2006, 10:49 AM
Great reading Doug!
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 3 2006, 04:04 PM
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000712/. For the four IACs I attended in the past, the engineering and technical sessions for interplanetary probes were the most informative. Indeed, as Doug alluded to yesterday, the plenary session for the space agency heads is, for the most part, nothing more than talking heads.
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 3 2006, 06:51 PM
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000713/.
Posted by: Bjorn Jonsson Oct 3 2006, 11:48 PM
Very good so far. I particularly liked this one from the 'glog':
"...there are enough lunatics like myself who enjoy nothing more than a new PDS data release and a night of image processing."
Nice knowing I'm not the only one whose idea of fun includes having 200,000+ PDS images on my computer 
. I suspect there isn't a huge number of people in the world like this although there are lots of them here at UMSF.
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 4 2006, 12:09 AM
. I suspect there isn't a huge number of people in the world like this although there are lots of them here at UMSF.Yes, UMSF is like a http://www.bettyfordcenter.org for PDS-a-holics and Exploratorium Addicts.
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 5 2006, 02:07 AM
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000715/'s Doug's MRO entry, with a nice CRISM scoop as well.
Posted by: Tom Tamlyn Oct 5 2006, 12:15 PM
From Doug's glog installment on http://planetary.org/blog/article/00000714/:
>Schwelm explained that when you do this "copy" of a spacecraft design, you have to do it rapidly without
>a gap. It's been a year since they finished working on VEX and thus the heritage is essentially lost --
>the teams have changed and it would not be as cost effective to do the same thing again ....
Now that's interesting. The topic of how much money can be saved by reusing spacecraft design comes up all the time, but I had not realized that the deadline was so short. It increases my admiration for ESA's ability to put together support for the two Express missions.
TTT
Posted by: djellison Oct 5 2006, 12:30 PM
Interesting things got a bit thin on the ground today - so you'll have to make do with a Whale and OSETI....I hope some of you find it interesting, and if nothing else, it's a bit of a laugh.
Doug
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 6 2006, 09:05 PM
Check out Doug's final entries (http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000719/ and http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000718/).
Nice work, Doug!
Posted by: RNeuhaus Oct 6 2006, 11:41 PM
Doug, I have enjoyed reading your blogs. Congratulations for your superb reports!
Rodolfo
Posted by: djellison Oct 7 2006, 06:46 AM
It was great fun - not sure if every post was for everyone, but that's the same with conference sessions
Doug
Posted by: Stu Oct 7 2006, 09:15 AM
Welcome back from the front, Doug! Very enjoyable and informative reports, very different to others and all the better for it.
I fear you've left a very sad and lonely Whaley behind tho, depressed after his 15mins of fame... 
Posted by: djellison Oct 12 2006, 09:20 PM
a quick 6 x 2
Doug
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Posted by: climber Oct 12 2006, 09:34 PM
Thanks Doug,
I truly enjoyed your way of reporting : humour, informative and personal. What else can we ask for? Well, yes, pictures. Must be inspiring to be in a Congres related to Space in such a place.
Posted by: monty python Oct 13 2006, 04:49 AM
Doug
Doug, that building complex is gorgeous. If I ever win the lottery I'll build a copy and donate it to UMSF!
Brian
Posted by: ustrax Oct 13 2006, 08:48 AM
Brian
Looks like Calatrava's work...
Posted by: tuvas Oct 19 2006, 02:37 AM
You don't know how funny that is to me as a HiRISE person... Before I joined the HiRISE team, I think it was about MOI time, a local paper actually published MRO as the Mars Renaissance Orbiter. Several of the team members came dressed up as if it were the Renaissance over the next week, as I've heard... Craziness...
Also, Doug, where did you get the MCS picture of MRO? And how did you know about our plans to take pictures of Victoria Crater before it was done? I'm quite curious...
Posted by: djellison Oct 19 2006, 07:35 AM
The MCS image was from Jim Graf's paper presented at the conference and I asked him if I could reproduce it.
As for Vic crater.....meh...just guessing. (Actually - I honestly guessed that they would try and get it before conjunction a couple of months back ). Yes - Phoenix targetting is important, but I would consider planning traverses for a current spacecraft to be more so and thus I was always fairly sure that Vic would be in that transition phase. When Jim suggested that Friday's conference should be interesting, I put 1+1 together and made 3.
Doug
Posted by: tuvas Oct 19 2006, 01:47 PM
As for Vic crater.....meh...just guessing. (Actually - I honestly guessed that they would try and get it before conjunction a couple of months back ). Yes - Phoenix targetting is important, but I would consider planning traverses for a current spacecraft to be more so and thus I was always fairly sure that Vic would be in that transition phase. When Jim suggested that Friday's conference should be interesting, I put 1+1 together and made 3.
Doug
Very impressive. Originally Transition imaging was only going to be 1 day, so... That would have barely left time for anything...
Posted by: climber Oct 19 2006, 02:42 PM
Thanks tuvas
BTW (I can read anaglyph but tell me which one is left eye)
Posted by: elakdawalla Oct 19 2006, 05:09 PM
I've been sitting on that image for..umm...about four months now...sorry...I hope to have more on that image posted on the http://planetary.org/mcs before long. It's the first thing on my list of things to do when I'm officially back on duty beginning Monday. I just didn't manage to get the text okayed and posting organized before I left.
--Emily
Posted by: ustrax Oct 19 2006, 07:55 PM
--Emily
It is so good to read back Emily!
How are you dealing with your new life?
How is your baby dealing with a whole new world ahead?
Best wishes to the three of you.
Rui.
Posted by: climber Oct 19 2006, 08:02 PM
How are you dealing with your new life?
How is your baby dealing with a whole new world ahead?
Best wishes to the three of you.
Rui.
when I'm officially back on duty beginning Monday
Ah ah, good to hear superior conjunction is nearly over
Posted by: elakdawalla Oct 20 2006, 09:40 PM
Thanks everyone -- I've missed you too! Anahita is beginning to think that it's not so bad being alive. She'll be keeping me company while I work. I've passed along your wishes to her.
--Emily
Posted by: Nix Oct 20 2006, 09:50 PM
--Emily
I know what you mean!Nice to see you back in here indeed Emily, all the best at getting back to work!
Nico
Posted by: AlexBlackwell Oct 20 2006, 10:00 PM
I'll bet her first words will be "Mom, why do most of the tributaries of martian ancient valley networks have alcove-like terminations?"
Posted by: djellison Jan 15 2007, 01:24 PM
Just a wierd follow up. The McLaren F1 team have taken over almost the entire complex where the conference was last October...
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/190214/0/circuito/alonso/valencia/
to unveil their new F1 car later today - and they're going to drive two of last years cars around the roads nearby - including straight under the windows of the hotel we stayed at
Doug
Posted by: nprev Jan 15 2007, 02:10 PM
That happens to downtown Long Beach, CA every April. Almost bought a condo there in 2005...then I had a sudden moment of sanity (US$512,000 for 1200 sq ft???) 
, plus dealing with a week-plus of hordes of racing fans every year...
Posted by: djellison Jan 15 2007, 02:12 PM
Ahh - you see what you do then is rent your place out for the week and earn back two months mortgage payments in 5 days
It's what happens in Monaco - hardly any locals stay for the f1 weekend...they take their holidays then and get the hell out
Posted by: nprev Jan 15 2007, 03:56 PM
...yeah, I thought of that, but the soon-to-be-ex wasn't keen on the idea. Oh, well; at least I don't have to sell it & split the proceeds (or debts...market's turning south here) now!
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