Press Conference for Victoria Crater? |
Press Conference for Victoria Crater? |
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 Jul 31 2006, 11:29 PM
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We haven't had a press briefing or conference in months... anyone else think Opportunities eventual (hopefully) arrival and exporation at Victoria Crater deserves one? If oppy makes it ok, it would, in my opinion at least, make it one of the greatest achievements in the history of planetary exploration and certainly deserves some public/press recognition. Doug, maybe you could ask if the rover team are planning anything?
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Aug 3 2006, 04:39 AM
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QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 1 2006, 10:04 AM)  Google Trends will graph "interest" in a query of your choice. I ran a few based on Mars and the MERs, and all of them showed one major spike at the time they landed and almost nothing since then. In terms of whatever it is measuring, the landing seems to have solidly trumped everything since then. Yeah, I called up some of those up a while back and came to pretty much the same conculsion.QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 1 2006, 03:17 PM) Bingo - so no big wavey press conf. is going to change anything The empirical data convinces me that despite the technical successes of their difficult missions, NASA's PR department hasn't learned to take the ball and run with it. The public interest is there at the beginning, but they are clueless when it comes to sustaining the wonder.
Doug -------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Aug 4 2006, 06:57 AM
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QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Aug 3 2006, 05:39 AM) The public interest is there at the beginning, but they are clueless when it comes to sustaining the wonder. What would you have them do? They did very regular press confs, on a daily and almost daily basis for most of the primary mission...but public interest had dropped to near zero by that point anyway. Doug |
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Aug 4 2006, 12:57 PM
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Aug 4 2006, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE (ups @ Aug 4 2006, 01:57 PM) ^ Simply put I would want the team to put together some spectacular images of the crater and have a press conference to discuss them -- I believe that is all we are getting at. We will probably get that - that's the baseline..we had it on getting to Husband Hill for instance....I asked what MORE would you have them do. Doug |
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Aug 4 2006, 09:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 8-January 05 From: Austin | Texas Member No.: 138 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 4 2006, 01:04 PM) I asked what MORE would you have them do. Doug Well, Nasa could hire an ad agency to put out some clever jingle sung by super star rapper 50 Cent...  Hey ya'll don't be a Hater, we're almost to Victoria Crater... 
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Aug 4 2006, 09:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
QUOTE (ups @ Aug 4 2006, 04:47 PM) Well, Nasa could hire an ad agency to put out some clever jingle sung by super star rapper 50 Cent... Personally, I would go for a combination news conference/lingerie fashion show. They could call it.... Revealing Victoria's Secrets. I think that could work, don't you?  Brian |
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Sunspot Press Conference for Victoria Crater? Jul 31 2006, 11:29 PM
ups The MER team needs a big splash to ignite the publ... Aug 1 2006, 02:39 AM
BrianL QUOTE (ups @ Jul 31 2006, 09:39 PM) The M... Aug 1 2006, 03:59 AM stevesliva QUOTE (BrianL @ Jul 31 2006, 11:59 PM) Th... Aug 1 2006, 04:49 AM
BrianL QUOTE (stevesliva @ Jul 31 2006, 11:49 PM... Aug 1 2006, 01:32 PM diane QUOTE (BrianL @ Aug 1 2006, 09:32 AM) On ... Aug 1 2006, 01:45 PM Nirgal QUOTE (diane @ Aug 1 2006, 03:45 PM) The ... Aug 1 2006, 02:13 PM JRehling Google Trends will graph "interest" in a... Aug 1 2006, 03:04 PM dvandorn QUOTE (diane @ Aug 1 2006, 08:45 AM) The ... Aug 1 2006, 09:23 PM stevesliva QUOTE (BrianL @ Aug 1 2006, 09:32 AM) On ... Aug 1 2006, 04:11 PM ups QUOTE (BrianL @ Aug 1 2006, 03:59 AM) Tho... Aug 2 2006, 02:14 AM Sunspot QUOTE (ups @ Aug 1 2006, 03:39 AM) The ME... Aug 1 2006, 08:44 AM paxdan Victoria is really going to be the Glaze on the Ch... Aug 1 2006, 11:17 AM djellison I imagine the same story as happened for Husband h... Aug 1 2006, 11:34 AM djellison Overlayed a few typical search phrases ( MER, Mars... Aug 1 2006, 03:44 PM alan I think search volume may be a poor measure of int... Aug 1 2006, 07:25 PM djellison QUOTE (alan @ Aug 1 2006, 08:25 PM) Most ... Aug 1 2006, 08:17 PM diane QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 1 2006, 04:17 PM) ... Aug 1 2006, 08:42 PM djellison Oh - I agree - there should ( and probably will be... Aug 1 2006, 08:55 PM climber Let's try something new. May be if they paint ... Aug 1 2006, 09:08 PM john_s I like it! Aug 4 2006, 10:24 PM JRehling There's a multi-level filter process here, and... Aug 5 2006, 12:03 AM stevesliva QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 4 2006, 08:03 PM) F... Aug 6 2006, 12:32 AM dvandorn QUOTE (BrianL @ Aug 4 2006, 04:54 PM) Per... Aug 7 2006, 03:43 PM ups QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 7 2006, 03:43 PM) W... Aug 7 2006, 07:05 PM BrianL QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 7 2006, 10:43 AM) W... Aug 8 2006, 03:51 AM Jeff7 QUOTE (ups @ Aug 4 2006, 08:57 AM) ^
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... Aug 4 2006, 01:48 PM hendric QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Aug 4 2006, 08:48 AM) The ... Aug 4 2006, 02:48 PM atomoid Having also fretted over the lack of interest on t... Aug 3 2006, 11:54 PM gpurcell There's an IMAX movie of this mission! Th... Aug 4 2006, 01:21 PM Joffan I would love to see Volume 2 of Steve Squyres... Aug 4 2006, 02:34 PM edstrick "Victoria's Secrets... "....
Heh...... Aug 6 2006, 06:42 AM Malmer I think that this forum is 100 times better at por... Aug 6 2006, 11:50 AM djellison Malmar - all the things you mention cost money. ... Aug 6 2006, 12:25 PM Malmer QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 6 2006, 02:25 PM) ... Aug 8 2006, 11:08 AM CosmicRocker QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 4 2006, 01:57 AM) ... Aug 7 2006, 01:25 AM JRehling QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Aug 6 2006, 06:25 P... Aug 7 2006, 01:58 AM ups I think some of Nasa's PR problems might be tr... Aug 7 2006, 02:29 AM gpurcell If I were a PI proposing a mission now, I would ca... Aug 7 2006, 01:35 PM |
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