RE: [Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-17 Thread Kittel, Stephen W (ETSA)
> From: Michael Texler > > > ecopoesis > > Is not to be confused with: > > encopresis > I don't know Dr T. Sometimes all these medical terms you know are enough to give anyone the sh!ts. Regards SWK Eskimos are reputed to have (some large number) of words for snow. I am sure Dr T has more

RE: [Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-17 Thread Michael Texler
ecopoesis Is not to be confused with: encopresis Michael T. ;-) ___ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-17 Thread Emilis Prelgauskas
At 11:44 AM 17/02/04 +1000, Mike B wrote in response to my: >>slope soaring 5km high ridges on Mars, >>read Kym Stanley Robinson's 'Mars trilogy'. > >Is that in "Blue Mars"? Yep. In the first half, for Nirgal it precedes his stint in ecopoesis (which is close enough to my own life to strike a cho

Re: [Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 09:59 AM 17/02/04 +1030, you wrote: >At 11:43 AM 16/02/04 +0930, Terry wrote: >>Mars weather watchers haven't seen towering dust >>    devils yet through the rovers' eyes, but they are >measuring >>    intriguing spikes in temperature. > > >For grand descriptions of slope soaring 5km high ridges

Re: [Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-16 Thread Emilis Prelgauskas
At 11:43 AM 16/02/04 +0930, Terry wrote: >Mars weather watchers haven't seen towering dust >    devils yet through the rovers' eyes, but they are measuring >    intriguing spikes in temperature. For grand descriptions of slope soaring 5km high ridges on Mars, read Kym Stanley Robinson's 'Mars tri

Re: [Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:43 AM 16/02/04 +0930, you wrote: > > It's early in the week, but this is probably going to be the most useless >piece of information you'll come across in that period: > > It quotes a reasonably authoritative source: > Mars rover detects warm pockets in atmosphere > >BY CHRIS

[Aus-soaring] Plenty of thermals - in theory anyway....

2004-02-15 Thread Terry Neumann
It's early in the week, but this is probably going to be the most useless piece of information you'll come across in that period: The following excerpt comes from one of the regular contributors of space news to the amateur radio packet radio network.   It quotes a reasonably authoritative