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

[odave]

Looks like at this time 1 through 7 and 9 have been spoken for and/or done.

Just in case someone's doing 8, I'll skip to the end and do... 12

[odave]

And here's #12. I'll do another one tomorrow evening EST if there's any left

BEGIN Part 12 (47:17)
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Doug: In terms of public outreach, the raw images going online,

Steve: Yeah.

Doug: The [slurred...47:21-47:23]. It's like e-mail has redefined kind of a standard almost. The raw images, it's like, it's like a soap opera.

Steve: Yeah. Yeah. Well that was exactly what we wanted to do!

Doug: Do you think the pressure is now on, I mean, 'cause, six months after you have Cassini arrive, and the raw images start goin' on there. Do you think that the pressure's now on that perhaps missions have to kind of be more open?

Steve: You know if one of the things that we did with this mission was to establish expectations that other projects will in the future choose to meet, then I think that's a good thing. There was no requirement from NASA or anybody that we put our images online in real time. That was a decision that my team made. We decided very early on that this mission, being the adventure that it is, it's different from many other missions. You know, its not like you have a flyby, and then two and a half weeks later there's another flyby. This is a daily process of discovery and exploration. And it just had such potential as something that like you said, a soap opera, this adventure that people could share, that we realized very early on that there was enormous potential with puttin' the images out in real time. And you know, I mean if, you're in the U.K., I'm in Ithaca New York, if, as long as the scripts are running well and we're updating quickly (and it's often we don't but we try our best). You know, if you're awake and I'm asleep you can see pictures...

Doug: Before you do.

Steve: ...from Mars before I do, and I think that's great! And I hope that other projects in the future will do the same thing.

Doug: And...I've read the book, Nic has read the book. And it's...I don't need to plug it because I think anyone who listens to this is going buy the damn thing anyway. I think they'll end up buying it three times. Do you think you would ever spend the time to do a followup?

Steve: I've talked to my publisher about that. At one point the idea was, when it came out in paperback I'd add a chapter or two. But they like to have the paperback come out about a year after the hardcover, and if so...

Doug: That's not...

Steve: ...if we're going to put it out in paperback next summer, they'd need to have the final few chapters, you know, a couple months from now and the mission's not going to be done. I don't want to update the book continuously...

Doug: No...

Steve: If I'm gonna finish it up, I'm wanna finish it. So, I think probably what will happen, most likely scenario, is adding one or two or a few chapters after the, in an edition that comes out after the mission is well and truly over.

Doug: Kind of like a "post-script" almost.

Steve: Yeah, yeah. When the mission's really done. They will die someday. They are not immortal <laughs> I'm convinced of this.

Doug: <laughs> Steve, thank you very much indeed!

Steve: Aw, glad to do it.

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End Part 12 (50:09)