Project Transcribe, The SS Q'n'A to Text Options

[djellison]

A few people have offered to help transcribe the Steve Q'n'A MP3

http://www.rlproject.com/audio/ss_qna_030905.mp3

So - I've 'chopped' it up into about a dozen virtual sections each somewhere between 3 and 6 mins long, and if volunteers want to pick one, post here and then post the finished text when done and I'll string it all together as a PDF when it's done

Section 01 :: 00.00 to 03.36 :: Intro and Mars '01
Section 02 :: 03.37 to 07.29 :: Endurance and Wopmay
Section 03 :: 07.30 to 10.41 :: Burns Cliff and Leaving Endurance
Section 04 :: 10.42 to 14.33 :: Heading South and Purgatory
Section 05 :: 14.34 to 19.00 :: Gusev and Rock Types
Section 06 :: 19.01 to 24.53 :: DD's and Rover Rocking
Section 07 :: 24.54 to 29.10 :: Ultreya and Leaving Husband Hill
Section 08 :: 29.11 to 33.48 :: MB Decay and Rover Life
Section 09 :: 33.49 to 38.32 :: Sci vs Eng and A parked rover
Section 10 :: 38.33 to 43.00 :: What should you be doing?
Section 11 :: 43.00 to 47.16 :: S1K, New PI, Other Landing sites, Carl
Section 12 :: 47.17 to 50.09 :: Outreach, Book Follow up, Thankyou

Green = Transcription Done

Pick whichever you want, and post here the moment you decide, so we dont end up duplicating If I get some time, I'll take a couple and plough thru them. It would be nice to wrap it all into a little PDF article with pictures etc - like an extract from a pretend UMSF Journal or some such publication - and if I'm fortunate enough to do something like this again, I could do it the same way

Thanks in advance to everyone who grabs a number out the hat.

Doug

[Ames]

BEGIN PART 7 (24.54)

Doug: Now There’s has been an online phenomenon almost, spurred by Ustrax about this dark region between the summit of Husband Hill and the basin.

Steve: Yeah there’s kind of a dark splotch there.

Doug: For some reason Ustrax has named this thing Ultraya Abyss

Steve: Ultraya..?

Doug: Ultraya Abyss

Steve: Abyss. ABYSS?

Doug: Yeh. The speculations have gone from ‘Good God go there’s gonna be caves!’ to it’s just like a dark set of dunes but like we’ve seen on the side of other parts of the Columbia Hills

Steve: Right

Doug: Is that a name you’ve ever heard?

Steve: Ultre…

Doug: Ultreya

Steve: Ultreya? -- No. I’m Sorry

Doug (laughs): Have you got a name for it yet?

Steve: No. Ah Huh. -- We never named that

Doug: Do you think um ‘cos for some reason there’s people have just picked on the poor patch of dark soil and gone completely to town with it. (Have you) no idea as which route off Huspand Hill yet? obviously…

Steve: We’re still working on it. Um. If you notice the last -- few sols, what we’ve done is we’ve taken taken, what will be, two (I think they’re gonna be even better than summit pan) two spectacular panoramas. One of them is Just logo compressed (so losslessly compressed) blue. What we did is take a logo blue panorama of the entire inner basin and we are doing this little shuffle step where we move to the left and do the whole thing again with logo blue plus colour. So we get long baseline – stereo, should be a spectacular terrain map, and then we will have colour on top of that and that image will form, that pair of images will form our fundamental planning tool for the descent.
Here’s what we’re doing right now - ok, I have asked the team to do several things, while I’m gone, while I’m over here. Come up with a prioritised list of science activities to conduct in the summit region, OK make it as long as you want, I don’t care, make a nice long prioritised one OK. And then -- pick a set of potential science targets between where we are now and Home Plate. OK just about everybody agrees that Home Plate is a very enticing target; I think we wanna go there. But lets pick some candidate targets along the way. Then when I get back we are gonna do two things; One is we are gonna sit down with the rover planners, the guys who actually plan the rovers route, with our list of potential science targets along the way and were gonna assess the traversability – what’s too steep, what’s not too steep, what’s too rugged, what’s not too rugged, and try to plan out a tentative path, OK, just as we had a tentative path from Eagle to Endurance, um, that will be safe traversable and intersect some of the high priority science targets between where we are on Home Plate. Um, don’t know exactly where it’s gonna go it’s probably gonna sort of start off by going to the East a bit and then turn South.

Doug: There almost seems kind of a ridgeline like a curling exit out of a multi-storey car park going all the way around.

Steve: Exactly! Yeh! and that, that’s just to my eye initial, to my eye initially looks like a potentially good path. Have to talk to some of the rover planners if they’re thinking in a similar way but that’s all to be determined

Then the other thing we are gonna do is we’re gonna look at that prioritised list of tasks for the summit campaign. And we’re gonna say OK, this one’ll probably take three sols and this one’ll take six sols and this’ll take two sols and what we’ll do is we will select a date by which we are gonna leave the summit

Doug: Like select a day to leave Eagle and…

Steve: Exactly, Exactly, Exactly it’s precisely what I did at Eagle crater, Ok we had pretty much nailed the water story at eagle crater by about Sol 42 or 43. The team had this LONG list of things that they wanted to do at eagle crater. I said fine guys OK you can do whatever you want but at sol 60 we are heading over the lip and off to Endurance OK and you figure out what you wanna do for the rest of that time but sol 60 we’re out of here, and what that does, is it forces you to prioritise, it forces you to get efficient with, with how you use this resource. So we’re gonna do the same thing for leaving the summit of, uh, of, uh, Husband Hill. Haven’t decided what the date is yet, I wanna see what the list looks like.

END PART 7 (29.03)