Re: NASA Reinstates the Dawn Mission

[maru dubshinki]

On 3/27/06, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> March 27, 2006
>
> Erica Hupp/Dean Acosta
> Headquarters, Washington
> (202) 358-1237/1400
>
> RELEASE: 06-108
>
> NASA REINSTATES THE DAWN MISSION
>
> NASA senior management announced a decision Monday to reinstate the
> Dawn mission, a robotic exploration of two major asteroids. Dawn had
> been canceled because of technical problems and cost overruns.
>
> The mission, named because it was designed to study objects dating
> from the dawn of the solar system, would travel to Vesta and Ceres,
> two of the largest asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and
> Jupiter. Dawn will use an electric ion propulsion system and orbit
> multiple objects.
>
> The mission originally was approved in December 2001 and was set for
> launch in June 2006. Technical problems and other difficulties
> delayed the projected launch date to July 2007 and pushed the cost
> from its original estimate of $373 million to $446 million. The
> decision to cancel Dawn was made March 2, 2006, after about $257
> million already had been spent. An additional expenditure of about
> $14 million would have been required to terminate the project.
> ...

I look forward to seeing the results we'll get from the Robots of Dawn.

~M. Maru
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Fwd: NASA Reinstates the Dawn Mission

[Ronn!Blankenship]

March 27, 2006

Erica Hupp/Dean Acosta
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-1237/1400

RELEASE: 06-108

NASA REINSTATES THE DAWN MISSION

NASA senior management announced a decision Monday to reinstate the
Dawn mission, a robotic exploration of two major asteroids. Dawn had
been canceled because of technical problems and cost overruns.

The mission, named because it was designed to study objects dating
from the dawn of the solar system, would travel to Vesta and Ceres,
two of the largest asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and
Jupiter. Dawn will use an electric ion propulsion system and orbit
multiple objects.

The mission originally was approved in December 2001 and was set for
launch in June 2006. Technical problems and other difficulties
delayed the projected launch date to July 2007 and pushed the cost
from its original estimate of $373 million to $446 million. The
decision to cancel Dawn was made March 2, 2006, after about $257
million already had been spent. An additional expenditure of about
$14 million would have been required to terminate the project.

The reinstatement resulted from a review process that is part of new
management procedures established by NASA Administrator Michael
Griffin. The process is intended to help ensure open debate and
thorough evaluation of major decisions regarding space exploration
and agency operations.

"We revisited a number of technical and financial challenges and the
work being done to address them," said NASA Associate Administrator
Rex Geveden, who chaired the review panel. "Our review determined the
project team has made substantive progress on many of this mission's
technical issues, and, in the end, we have confidence the mission
will succeed."

The Dawn decision document will be available on the Web at:

http://www.nasa.gov/formedia


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Re: Brin: New Wingnut Meme: "Cultural Terrorism"

[Dave Land]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 10:24 AM, The Fool wrote:


Fascism is on the March:

<>

"This is more than a spiritual war," Luce said. "It's a culture war."
Military metaphors abound in Luce's descriptions of the struggle. He
tells young people of how "an enemy has launched a brutal attack on
them." At a pre-Battle Cry rally Friday afternoon on the steps of City
Hall, Luce told his mostly teenage audience that "terrorists of a
different kind" -- -- were targeting them and that they were  
"caught in

the middle of the battle."


A woman at our church (Bay Area, Methodist: about as far from the  
wingnut

extreme as you can get outside of a UCC congregation) told me that her
daughter's friend -- an otherwise reasonable girl -- was caught up in
this "Teen Mania" thing.

Dave "evidently a 'virtue terrorist'" Land

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Brin: Vote-Stealing-Machine Makers Using New Tactics to Prevent Transparency

[The Fool]

<>

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Freedom & Democracy were S last millenium.
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Brin: New Wingnut Meme: "Cultural Terrorism"

[The Fool]

Fascism is on the March:

<>

"This is more than a spiritual war," Luce said. "It's a culture war." 
Military metaphors abound in Luce's descriptions of the struggle. He
tells young people of how "an enemy has launched a brutal attack on
them." At a pre-Battle Cry rally Friday afternoon on the steps of City
Hall, Luce told his mostly teenage audience that "terrorists of a
different kind" -- -- were targeting them and that they were "caught in
the middle of the battle." 


--
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary,
in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether
hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the
very definition of tyranny."
-- James Madison
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Re: hardware suckz

[Dave Land]

On Mar 26, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:


Ronn!Blankenship wrote:

At 01:50 AM Thursday 3/23/2006, Dave Land wrote:

On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:


Being pretty much in 1-1 correspondence with machine language, it
also offers you the opportunity to get into places you probably
shouldn't be and mess things up royally, even (in fact, usually)
unintentionally . . .



Bottom line: this thread is misnamed. Software suckz.

I thought of changing it, but you know the power of tradition . . .


And the demand for backward compatibility


Yes. At work recently, I was on a project where the goal was humorously
described as "change how it works, but don't change any of the files."

Because, you see, people already know what was in the files.

Dave

The Ex-Files Maru
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Religious affiliations of superheroes

[Nick Arnett]

I know I've lost a lot of sleep wondering about this.  If you've lain awake
at night wondering if Superman is a Methodist or Jimmy Olsen is Lutheran,
here are the answers.

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html

--
Nick Arnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Messages: 408-904-7198
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Re: Charlie's Partnership

[Ray Ludenia]

On 27/03/2006, at 11:37 AM, Jo Anne wrote:


Charlie Bell Wrote:

our Partner Application Visa
in before I have to leave...


Jeez, Charlie, did you think I was gonna let that one go?  I thought 
you

weren't a couple.  Did I miss something? (Not that *that* would be
unusual...)


Charlie is a couple??? Of what, may I ask?

Regards, Ray.

PS Charlie: Best of luck with the application. Having been a referee 
for someone, I understand the paperwork involved.


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