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[elakdawalla]

I just wanted to know if any other UMSFers are going to be in lovely Clear Lake, Texas for LPSC. I'll be there all week, Monday through the middle of Friday. While I don't think there'll be enough of us to generate our own party, perhaps we can plan to all attend one of the various social gatherings and meet up and raise a glass to Doug.

I'm not sure when or where the parties are yet, but they'll be late because they've really packed the schedule following the sessions this year. Here's what's happening in the evenings:
Sunday 5 pm: Registration/Reception
Monday 5 pm: We get to watch the NASA HQ sacrificial lamb get stoned to death by the meeting attendees, i.e. "NASA Headquarters briefing," followed by the "Student/Scientist Reception" from 6 to 8 (free food, I think)
Tuesday 5:30 pm: Special session on the Phoenix landing site, followed by poster session at 7 pm
Wednesday 5:30 pm: Special meeting on "Return to the moon," followed by Cocktail Hour and Buffet Dinner from 6 to 9:30
Thrsday 5:30 pm: Special session on Planetary cartography (Phil??) followed by poster session at 7 pm

So it'll be busy but we've got to have some fun. I'd just like to see a show of hands of who else may be there, then we can talk here after we start arriving in Houston and we figure out when and where the various parties are, and where we should raise the UMSF flag. Well, I don't have a flag, but at least I have a T-shirt.

--Emily

[Phil Stooke]

Most unfortunately I will not be there this year. But I do hope to go next year. LPSC has always been a highlight of my year. It's 20 years since my first one. Phil

[volcanopele]

I'll be there. There was a great party last year at this barn out in the middle of nowhere. Bob P. knows what I am talking about. Wonder if there will be a similar one this year. I remember another party last year at a bar down the street from the Conference center, but it wasn't as good. Felt like a sardine...

We could organize a UMSF lunch, maybe on Tuesday. We sorta had one last year at this bar on Nasa road 1. I know CosmicRocker was there (I think...). My memory of last year's LPSC is rather vague unfortunately.

[edstrick]

Unfortunately, I've not made an LPSC since about 88 or 89, due to employment and due to increasing elder-care loads.

They used to have a regular chili-cookoff with different departments from instututions and universities coming up with evil brews.

They never did have anybody serve Chili-con-Alien, which was served at a St. Louis SF club party I (perhaps fortunately) missed. The alien was chopped squid. Overcooked. Like rubber bands with suckers.

But the *idea* is perfect!

[elakdawalla]

Unfortunately, I've not made an LPSC since about 88 or 89, due to employment and due to increasing elder-care loads.

They used to have a regular chili-cookoff with different departments from instututions and universities coming up with evil brews.

The chili cook-off was replaced a couple of years back by the banquet. But not before my pals from Brown came in with their long-awaited entry of "New England Clam Chili." Mmmmm.

--Emily

[CosmicRocker]

I will be there for at least some of the festivities, but I too have employment and elder-care issues to deal with. So, I'll probably only be able to drive out for some of the days. Hopefully, I can make it to wherever it is that the flag is raised, whenever that may be.

Coincidentally, tonight I was about to resurrect an old topic in Opportunity, where we first mentioned this conference, but then thought to check to see if someone else had already done so elsewhere. This is a better place for it, but the chit-chat channel does not get the traffic many of the other areas of this forum do. It wouldn't hurt to drop some hints elsewhere in the forum, with the hope of attracting others. I'll revive that topic there and point people back to this topic.

This should really be a terrific conference. I think it will actually be unbelievably interesting with the diversity of missions that are supposed to be reporting back. Early registration has closed, but anyone can shell out the $90 ($65, student) at the door. Don't tell anyone, but you might be able to just walk in and partake without registering if you don't make a lot of noise. Although I registered for previous events, no one ever asked to see my ticket. But if you have the money to spare, I wouldn't deny it to a wonderful organization such as the LPSI.

I'm hoping to meet some of you, and perhaps share the latest gossip about Home Plate, Hayabusa, Stardust, Deep Impact, etc.

[volcanopele]

I would like to organize something with all the UMSF LPSC participants. Perhaps for lunch on Tuesday at Double Dave's Pizzaworks?

http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=Typ&tu...r:regT:20:fbT:0

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

I would like to organize something with all the UMSF LPSC participants. Perhaps for lunch on Tuesday at Double Dave's Pizzaworks?

Only if you're treating

[Phil Stooke]

"The chili cook-off was replaced a couple of years back by the banquet. But not before my pals from Brown came in with their long-awaited entry of "New England Clam Chili." Mmmmm.

--Emily"

Maybe that's why it was cancelled...

Phil

[elakdawalla]

I would like to organize something with all the UMSF LPSC participants. Perhaps for lunch on Tuesday at Double Dave's Pizzaworks?

http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=Typ&tu...r:regT:20:fbT:0

Count me in. I'll have a car so can offer rides.

--Emily

[CosmicRocker]

I will try to make it on Tuesday, but I am limited on the number of days I can take off next week. I really have to make the Wednesday prime time shows.

I thought I'd add a quick note in case there are folks coming in from out of town who may not have been able to see the Roving Mars Imax in their towns. Not that the LPSC will leave you with a lot of free time, but the Imax in Houston (at the Houston Museum of Natural Science) will be running it. http://www.hmns.org/see_do/imax.asp?r=1

[djellison]

I might mention this during the next Pancam update - as I'm hoping to get one done before then

Doug

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Count me in. I'll have a car so can offer rides.

Scene: Interior of Delta House
[Simultaneously, while looking at each other]
Otter/Boon: "Road trip!"

[volcanopele]

Scene: Interior of Delta House
[Simultaneously, while looking at each other]
Otter/Boon: "Road trip!"

I just talked to Bob P., and he said he'd try to come. Be forewarned that I just got a very drastic help so my recent photo in the Tucson Citizen may not help.

I'll meet all who are going tomorrow after the morning sessions at one of the tables outside the lobby doors (the "lunch area")

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Be forewarned that I just got a very drastic help so my recent photo in the Tucson Citizen may not help.

OK, I'll bite. What is "a very drastic help"?