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 Apr 4 2006, 06:58 AM
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What happened to the Cornell page with Steve Squyres's updates?
 I'm forwarded to a ballet Website.     http://athena.cornell.edu/ |
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Apr 4 2006, 07:04 AM
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 The Insider Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
No, SS hasn't taken on another opportunity (no pun intended)...
It seems to be a mixup of the DNS records. The other athena1 server is still there and functioning: http://athena1.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ |
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Apr 4 2006, 07:10 AM
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That's priceless - I love it
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Apr 4 2006, 10:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1869 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
That sounds like the classic case of the early CD pressing that was supposed to be (and was labled, packaged and shipped as) "Lawrence Welk" (music for the geriatric set), but actually was "The Sex Pistols". I understand it's quite collectible now... like miss-struck coins.
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Apr 4 2006, 10:39 AM
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Only problem is that they still play Feb 5th performance everyday...
As long as they keep going with Cinderela, it's OK for me. I'll hate to see "Swan's lake", rigth now. 
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Apr 4 2006, 03:00 PM
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Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13229 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Steve is aware and will sort of when he get's a chance, and he's v.v.v.busy at the moment, but will try and get an update done as soon as he can.
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Apr 4 2006, 04:16 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1259 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Perhaps with NASA's science budget woes, the team is looking for funding possibilities with the NEA?
 Of course, this has been attempted before with the famous Murder in the Cathedral production by Buzz Aldrin's Mercury Players, which unfortunately ended with an abort in the third act. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Apr 4 2006, 04:30 PM
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Unfortunately Spirit can't pirouette like she used to, though it is nice to see Oppy doing Grand Jetés once more.
-------------------- --O'Dave
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Apr 6 2006, 03:39 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
MARS EXPLORERS - SPIRIT AND OPPORTUNITY (The Science Show, 1/04/06)
When NASA launched the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity in 2005, their designers expected them to last for 90 days - they are still going 792 days - and counting. Dr Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science instruments on the rovers, attributes their longevity to good hardware and good luck. Dr Squyres speaks about future missions to Mars and other prospective NASA projects. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1604852.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 26 2006, 11:07 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2149 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Is there any special reason for the absence of words there or the work
just won't permit you to have time to update it? 'Just the workload. It's summertime, when people on the team take their family vacations. For those of us who are not on vacation, that means many extra hours of flight operations each week to keep the rovers busy. Add to that the many papers that we're trying to get written, and it just doesn't leave much time for anything else. Having said that, I realize that there are many people who would like to see me do a better job of providing updates. If I'm able to find the time, I promise I will. Cheers, SS' -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 26 2006, 05:47 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Jun 26 2006, 12:07 PM)  I realize that there are many people who would like to see me do a better job of providing updates. If I'm able to find the time, I promise I will. Personally, I'm just grateful that he takes time to write ANYTHING at ANY time. After all the guy has done, and with everything else he has on his plate, surely we can't expect him to write a pseudo-blog too? -------------------- |
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Jun 26 2006, 05:50 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Jun 26 2006, 01:07 AM) Cheers, SS Thanks, Ustrax, for the latest from the Steverino Hotline. Glad you're keeping him on his toes.  Of course the last update was mid-winter, so I don't know if summer vacation is the whole story. Always glad to know papers are in the pipeline. Maybe you should have asked him when and where we'll see the paper on Home Plate. (I'm not suggesting you email him right back!  ) I'd rather see the paper than the update, if it's an either/or situation.
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Jun 26 2006, 06:16 PM
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I think that publications like Squyres updates are very interesting for science popularizing. They are not a science paper, they may be even speculative (not tested hypothesis) but they are in a style which makes them much more available for the general public. So it is important to continue them.
In general scientists don't publish themselves for the general public, or only into specialized science reviews (for popularizing, but they require that the reader is interested in them). So we can only encourage Squyres to continue, and all other scientists to take example. |
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Jun 28 2006, 04:30 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2149 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 26 2006, 06:47 PM) Personally, I'm just grateful that he takes time to write ANYTHING at ANY time. After all the guy has done, and with everything else he has on his plate, surely we can't expect him to write a pseudo-blog too? Yes Stu...I replied Mr. Squyres something like that... ...updates are not an obligation for you, you do them because you care about people who care about the mission and we are thankful for that. I believe that the MER mission (and Cassini also), and you, personally, have marked a new ground in space exploration by providing a constant flow of information for the public. That's priceless. And it is a way of sowing seeds into the future.' -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 28 2006, 07:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Well said, Ustrax.
Maybe you're not crazy after all!
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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