Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 05:05:00 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V16 #288 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Mon, 8 Mar 93 Volume 16 : Issue 288 Today's Topics: a shining wit (3 msgs) Followons to Venus and Jupiter Galileo Earth-Moon Animation Hardware on the Moon (remember?) Magellan Venus Globe Animation Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 21:19:52 GMT From: 8 February 1993 Subject: a shining wit Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk,sci.space rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) says, in part: This is ludicrous. If you do not have the courage of your own convictions, and are not willing to back those convictions up by using your own name, why should anyone pay the slightest attention to you? (I certainly won't) Either you have the guts to back up what you say, or you don't; and if you don't, then you should probably just be quiet. ======= Right. So -- Anne Frank should have kept her kvetching trap shut, right, right, Mr. Kulawiec? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind system, any replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi. *IMPORTANT server security update*, mail to update@anon.penet.fi for details. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 22:04:22 GMT From: David Sternlight Subject: a shining wit Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk,sci.space In article <1993Mar7.213341.29565@fuug.fi> an8785@anon.penet.fi writes: > >rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) says, in part: > > >This is ludicrous. If you do not have the courage of your own convictions, >and are not willing to back those convictions up by using your own name, >why should anyone pay the slightest attention to you? (I certainly won't) >Either you have the guts to back up what you say, or you don't; and if you >don't, then you should probably just be quiet. > >======= > >Right. So -- Anne Frank should have kept her kvetching trap shut, right, >right, Mr. Kulawiec? I take great offense at the (fill in nasty characterization here) comparison of an anonymous post of (fill in objections to post here) material with Anne Frank under danger of death from the Nazis. Anyone who would make such a comparison is a (fill in...no, I'll say it) a moral defective. David -- David Sternlight Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of our information, errors and omissions excepted. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 23:03:39 GMT From: INNES MATTHEW Subject: a shining wit Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk,sci.space In article <1993Mar7.213341.29565@fuug.fi> an8785@anon.penet.fi writes: >rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) says, in part: > > >This is ludicrous. If you do not have the courage of your own convictions, >and are not willing to back those convictions up by using your own name, >why should anyone pay the slightest attention to you? (I certainly won't) >Either you have the guts to back up what you say, or you don't; and if you >don't, then you should probably just be quiet. > >======= > >Right. So -- Anne Frank should have kept her kvetching trap shut, right, >right, Mr. Kulawiec? Anne Frank did keep "her kvetching trap shut"; her diary was published posthumously. Not that there is any point of comparison between Anne Frank and some rumor-spreading weenie on the Net. Idiot. -- Matt Innes ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 1993 15:51:22 -0500 From: Pat Subject: Followons to Venus and Jupiter Newsgroups: sci.space In article <7MAR199309015618@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes: >In article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes... >>In article <6MAR199305120172@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes: >>>The Grand Plan for exploring the solar system is a simple four step process: >>> >>> 1. Flyby >>> 2. Orbiter >>> 3. Unmanned Landing >>> 4. Manned Landing > I would argue that step 5, is permanent presence. And then if So, NASA should maintain an orientation to an effective manned space program. Planetary science really should be an NAS/NSF domain, NASA should be an engineering test/ build program. Flyby is important for first look, but orbiters/landers are needed for in-situ science. Somehow even if we get cheap/fast propulsion I can't imagine manned missions to Uranus. Until we make some real big breakthroughs, we are stuck here in Earth/Moon/ Mars/ ASteroid space. I can't see much point in manned missions to Mercury, venus, jupiter. et al. Not unless we have a big space faring economy. The romans built a massive empire on square rigged sail. The mongols built their empire without boats (llok what happened when they tried water). But the British built a massive empire based on mercantilism and Lateen sails. We right now a land based society trying to explore with primitive row-boats. What we need is better boats and reasons to go to sea. Mandarin china built enormous fleets and burned them because their society had no reason to go to sea. Look where they ended up. We should look at exploring the outer planets because they are there, but they should be funded as on-going projects. NMT 2 billion/year DDTE, OM and AR&D. let the space science community then prioritize on orbiting telescopes (HST/SIRTF) against Orbiters (Magellan/Cassini) and Landers (Cassinni, MESUR, CRAF) Meanwhile we should be looking at building the infra-structure for going to space to amke money. I believe we should be there because we can be there, but we can't break the bank trying to fly to the stars. We need to fund about 4-6 Billion a year on manned space, but on practical manned space. DDTE for a space station. AR&D on life support and work suits. O&M for lunar bases and industrial facilities. Mission planning and support for ASteroid exploitation. Permanent Mars Science station. advanced propulsion. Right Now NASA gets about 14 billion/year. 4 billion goes to shuttle. 2 goes to SSF. 3 billion goes to planetary and space science. About 1 goes to Aero. The remainig 4 goes to OH, G&A,..... Right now, we could transfer funds out of manned space ops and into the technologies that give us a win down the road, or we can stay stuck at where we are. Funding levels are adequate, they are merely mis-directed. perhaps teh re-review of SSF will provide for a change in direction. pat ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 1993 21:02 UT From: Ron Baalke Subject: Galileo Earth-Moon Animation Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary ============================== GALILEO EARTH-MOON ANIMATION March 7, 1993 ============================== The Galileo Earth-Moon Conjunction animation is now available in additional formats at the Ames Space Archives. The animation was formed from 46 images taken by Galileo spaecraft shortly after its Earth flyby on December 16, 1992. The new formats are FLC and Quicktime. The Quicktime version only needs 1MB of RAM to run. The animation is available using anonymous ftp to: ftp: ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3) user: anonymous cd: pub/SPACE/ANIMATION files: emconj.flc - Earth-Moon animation in FLC format emconj.txt - Caption file (see below) Earth_Moon_qt.hqx - Earth-Moon animation, Quicktime format (Binhexed) Earth_Moon_qt.cpt - Earth_Moon animation, Quicktime format (MacBinary) Software to run the FLC version is also available at Ames. Play79 is used for the IBM PC, and a special version of the xanim program was created to run the animation which runs under X-Windows on Unix. ftp: ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3) user: anonymous cd: pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE files: play79.zip - IBM PC xanim.Z - Unix xanim.readme - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- emconj.txt Emconj.flc is in Autodesk Animator .fli format for MSDOS PCs and the X windowing system. The file can be viewed using the play79 program for MSDOS (available in the pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE directory on ames.arc.nasa.gov) or the freely available xanim package for X. This is part of a time-lapse sequence taken by the Galileo spacecraft on December 16, 1992, eight days after its flyby of the Earth/Moon system en route to Jupiter. The full color sequence utilized the 0.968, 0.727 and violet filters; this reduced, black-and-white version was made with the 0.968 micron filter so that both vegetated and unvegetated land masses appear bright in contrast to the oceans. The 46 frames span 15 hours of motion by the Earth, Moon and spacecraft as viewed from the perspective of Galileo, with South at the top. Visible are the Pacific basin, Australia, Southeast Asia, India, and finally Arabia and the horn of Africa. A remarkable feature of this sequence is the specular reflection or sun glint from the sea surface. Depending on the roughness of the water the extent of specular reflection varies rapidly, expanding over rough seas and contracting to a point over still oceanic pools such as near the west coast of Australia. Source: Paul Geissler, Larry Kendall, and Michael Nolan, University of Arizona, with thanks to M.J.S. Belton and the Galileo Imaging Team. ___ _____ ___ /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | It's kind of fun to do /___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | the impossible. |_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | Walt Disney ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 17:45:13 +0200 From: Fivos Tzavelakos Subject: Hardware on the Moon (remember?) On Fri, 19 Feb 1993 Henry Spencer wrote: > ... Starting with Apollo 12 they crashed the LM ascent stages > deliberately, soon after the astronauts departed, to give the seismometers > a thump of a known size to listen for. Starting (I think) with Apollo 13, > they also crashed the Saturn V third stages for even bigger thumps. This I realy had not heard before. I thought that so far moon littering was confined to the immediate surroundings of the landing sites (Apollo, Luna etc). Just how many man made objects are up there by now? Naturaly I'm talking about Soviet-made ones too. ___ ___ | Reality is defined by the questions we put to it. | |__Fivos Tzavelakos ftza@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr___| ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 1993 21:44 UT From: Ron Baalke Subject: Magellan Venus Globe Animation Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary ================================ MAGELLAN VENUS GLOBE ANIMATION March 7, 1993 ================================ The Magellan Venus Globe animation is now available in additional formats at the Ames Space Archives. The animation consists of 72 frames derived from the Magellan CD-ROMs. A QuickTime version of the animation has been created. For those who have monochrome (black and white) Macintoshes like the Mac Plus, SE, Classic, and so forth, a dithered version was created. It is a PICS "stack" and works with the "PICS Player" module of After Dark. The animation is available using anonymous ftp to: ftp: ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3) user: anonymous cd: pub/SPACE/ANIMATION files: venus_qt.hqx - Venus Globe Animation in QuickTime format (Binhex) venus_qt.cpt - Venus Globe Animation in QuickTime format (MacBinary) venus_bw.hqx - Venus Globe Animation, Monochrome (Binhex) venus_bw.cpt - Venus Globe Animation, Monochrome (MacBinary) ___ _____ ___ /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | It's kind of fun to do /___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | the impossible. |_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | Walt Disney ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 16 : Issue 288 ------------------------------