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[imran]

Jason,

Are you really shutting down this site? I must say I'm really sad to hear this. (((
It was one of my favorite sites and I relied on it for up-to-date news on Titan and the Cassini Mission. I just want to commend you for your great work and hope you keep providing us with your valuable insights here. Keep up the good work Jason!

[djellison]

I think it's very very sad that what ever happened, happened - and we've all lost out because of it. No one was trying to steal any scientific thunder - we just wanted to share the adventure. In the MER world, our efforts are praised and enjoyed by team members. It seems things change once you go beyond the asteroid belt

I'm not sure if it will do any good, or if it's worthwhile - but I'm going to email a few people to say that Jasons efforts were appreciated, enjoyed, of great benefit to the project as a whole, and the demise of his blog is a very sad and unfortunate thing. No one is trying to steal any scientific thunder - we're just trying to share in this amazing adventure, a billion miles from home.

So - avoiding a rant, just expressing sadness, I'm emailing

Project Manager (Bob Mitchell) - Robert.T.Mitchell@jpl.nasa.gov
Project Scientist (Dennis Matson) - Dennis.L.Matson@jpl.nasa.gov
Deputy Scientist (Linda Spilker) - Linda.J.Spilker@jpl.nasa.gov
and
Public Information Officer (Carolina Martinez) - Carolina.Carnalla-Martinez@jpl.nasa.gov

Those email addresses might be wrong, alternatives are...
rmitchel@mail.jpl.nasa.gov , dlmatson@mail.jpl.nasa.gov , lspilker@mail.jpl.nasa.gov , carnalla@mail.jpl.nasa.gov

If nothing else, Jason deserves praise for his brilliant work that did nothing but give credit to what is an amazing mission - and if anything can be done to find out what caused what I consider to be a tragic mistake for the mission's outreach efforts -all the better.

You are a credit to the whole mission Jason, and for that, you deserve praise and congratulations.


Doug

[odave]

I'm not sure if it will do any good, or if it's worthwhile - but I'm going to email a few people to say that Jasons efforts were appreciated, enjoyed, of great benefit to the project as a whole

I think this is the best kind action we can take - make sure those higer up the food chain understand how talented he is both at his job *and* public outreach. I wouldn't want him to be tagged as a "troublemaker" and his career (or his attitude) damaged by this incident, whatever it was. Let's cover our brother's back.

I would make sure to keep the content of the message positive and respectful, as ranting from the Internet can be so easily dismissed.

I am considering a veiled threat, however - something along the lines of "You guys get a lot of money from the government, right? I pay taxes. I also vote."

Just kidding......kind of...

[tedstryk]

I think this is the best kind action we can take - make sure those higer up the food chain understand how talented he is both at his job *and* public outreach.  I wouldn't want him to be tagged as a "troublemaker" and his career (or his attitude) damaged by this incident, whatever it was.  Let's cover our brother's back.

I would make sure to keep the content of the message positive and respectful, as ranting from the Internet can be so easily dismissed.

I am considering a veiled threat, however - something along the lines of "You guys get a lot of money from the government, right?  I pay taxes.  I also vote."

Just kidding......kind of... 

I think that this might have the opposite effect - if we send a bunch of complaints with regard to this, he might be seen as a problem, or even as being behind it. Much as I would like to help, I don't want to end up doing him more harm than good.