Current Discussion

2002-10-22 Thread Gail Leatherwood
John, your idea sounds great. Wish I had a few bucks to contribute, but at least I can stand on the sidelines and cheer. It struck me that one of the most frustrating aspects of this kind of exploration is the apparent lack of interest on the part of those who should be doing the important wo

Europa-related public talks

2002-10-22 Thread John Sheff
I just heard about this and it may be of interest to any Europans in the Boston area:   NASA and Boston’s Museum of Science are hosting a series of public talks in the “Astrobiology Guest Speaker Series” on Friday evenings beginning at 6pm. Two of the upcoming talks may be of particular i

Re: Icepick

2002-10-22 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 10/22/2002 6:05:50 AM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I signed up to receive e-mail that pertained to the Icepick project. So far, all I have received are messages about dismantling Mars using nano technology and a couple of other unrelated E-mails. I'm really

Re: Icepick

2002-10-22 Thread LARRY KLAES
Bruce Moomaw wrote:   Give me a few more hours, and I'll track down a very informative list ofWebsites for you on these subjects.  But we ourselves really haven't beenable to come up with many ideas that NASA's more skilled engineers haven't.(Indeed, we spent a lot of our time during our active per

Re: Icepick

2002-10-22 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
Scott wrote: > Who are the key players? > How can I get involved? By leaning on NASA to do some out-of-the-box thinking. I wrote a long letter on Sunday to the NEO search folks and the NEXT folks (who are proposing the Earth-moon L1 station) suggesting that they combine their interests. Leavin

Re: Icepick

2002-10-22 Thread Gail Leatherwood
Thanks, Bruce. This recap is quite helpful, especially since there has been so little going on with the Icepick project itself. Scott, thanks for asking and bringing this up. I think it's good to keep the discussion group alive, even if we stray from the Europa topic. This way we'll be active

Re: Icepick

2002-10-22 Thread Bruce Moomaw
- Original Message - From: "Christlieb, Scott F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:01 AM Subject: Icepick > > I signed up to receive e-mail that pertained to the Icepick project. So far, > all I have received are messages about dismantling Ma

Icepick

2002-10-22 Thread Christlieb, Scott F.
I signed up to receive e-mail that pertained to the Icepick project. So far, all I have received are messages about dismantling Mars using nano technology and a couple of other unrelated E-mails. I'm really interested in the Icepick project and would like to know much more. I'm not a scientist an