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SPACE Digest                                      Volume 9 : Issue 371

Today's Topics:
	     Book - Knowledge-Based Systems in Astronomy
	     Re: U.S. vs Soviets (was Re: Alien contact)
	       Re: Soviet Mir space station in trouble
	     Re: astrology (or effect of moon on people)
		Re: Success with cold fusion reported
		       Re: SPACE Digest V9 #361
	  Re: Eggs in space (was NSS Hotline Update 3/31/89)
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To: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Book - Knowledge-Based Systems in Astronomy
Cc: space@angband.s1.gov
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 11:51:20 -0700
From: "George R. Cross" <cross@cs2.wsu.edu>

This is a nice collection of papers about KBS in Astronomy. Heck and Murtagh
did a careful and complete job of putting it together in a very readable
form.  Contents follow.

@Book{329,
  title = 	"Knowledge-Based Systems in Astronomy",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin",
  note = 	"ISBN 0--387--51044--3 (USA), ISBN 3--540--51044--3
		 (Europe)"
}

@InBook{329-1,
  author = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  title = 	"Foreword",
  chapter = 	"1",
  pages = 	"1--2",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-2,
  author = 	"G. Miller",
  title = 	"Artificial Intelligence Applications for Hubble Space
		 Telescope Operations",
  chapter = 	"2",
  pages = 	"5--31",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-3,
  author = 	"M. D. Johnston",
  title = 	"Knowledge-Based Telescope Scheduling",
  chapter = 	"3",
  pages = 	"33--49",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-4,
  author = 	"D. Teuber and P. Schuecker and H. Horstmann",
  title = 	"Survey Work with Automated Data Analysis",
  chapter = 	"4",
  pages = 	"53--68",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-5,
  author = 	"G. R. Cross and R. Gupta",
  title = 	"Distributed Point-Pattern Matching",
  chapter = 	"5",
  pages = 	"69--77",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-6,
  author = 	"M. C. Maccarone and R. Buccheri",
  title = 	"Decision Problems in the Search for Periodicities in
		 Gamma-Ray Astronomy",
  chapter = 	"6",
  pages = 	"79--87",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-7,
  author = 	"M. J. Kurtz",
  title = 	"Classification and Knowledge",
  chapter = 	"7",
  pages = 	"91--106",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-8,
  author = 	"R. W. Miller",
  title = 	"WOLF -- A Computer Expert System for Sunspot
		 Classification and Solar Flare Prediction",
  chapter = 	"8",
  pages = 	"107--120",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-9,
  author = 	"M. Thonnat and A. Bijaoui",
  title = 	"Knowledge-Based Classification of Galaxies",
  chapter = 	"9",
  pages = 	"121--159",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-10,
  author = 	"F. Murtagh and A. Heck and R. Rampazzo",
  title = 	"Classification of IUE Spectra: A Rule Based Approach",
  chapter = 	"10",
  pages = 	"161--167",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-11,
  author = 	"V. Di Ges\`u",
  title = 	"Representation of Knowledge Using Fuzzy Set Theory",
  chapter = 	"11",
  pages = 	"171--189",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-12,
  author = 	"A. Accomazzi and G. Bordogna and P. Mussio and A. Rampini",
  title = 	"An Approach to Heuristic Exploitation of Astronomers'
		 Knowledge in Automatic Interpretation of Optical Pictures",
  chapter = 	"12",
  pages = 	"191--212",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-13,
  author = 	"H.-M. Adorf",
  title = 	"Connectionism and Neural Networks",
  chapter = 	"13",
  pages = 	"215--245",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

@InBook{329-14,
  author = 	"R. Albrecht",
  title = 	"Applications of AI in Astronomy: A View Towards the Future",
  chapter = 	"14",
  pages = 	"247--258",
  publisher = 	"Springer--Verlag",
  year = 	"1989",
  editor = 	"A. Heck and F. Murtagh",
  volume = 	"329",
  series = 	"Lecture Notes in Physics",
  address = 	"Berlin"
}

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Date: 13 Apr 89 20:09:00 GMT
From: mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: U.S. vs Soviets (was Re: Alien contact)

In article <7904@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
>What wondrous capabilities is New Mir expected to have that Freedom won't?

Turn it around:  what wondrous capabilities is Freedom expected to have
that Mir doesn't?  Yes, it will be bigger... but Skylab was bigger yet
(yes, last I heard Freedom's internal volume will be less than that of
Skylab), and Novy Mir will probably take the record, given the size of
launch vehicle its designers have available.

>>As for "no development problems", note
>>that the Hubble telescope had a lot of difficulties because it had two
>>"prime" contractors, with NASA trying to do the coordination between them.
>>The space station has *four*.
>
> As to the contractors, there is a difference 
>between two contractors working on one object and four (admittedly, this is 
>three too many) working on several separate objects.  If they can just keep
>the connectors standard, this might not be too much of a problem.

I'm sure NASA thought the same for the Hubble telescope.  It *didn't work*.
Somebody needs to be in charge, and NASA is not competent to do it.

>> [past glories of US planetary missions]
>... What do the Soviets have in the pipeline in this class?

What does the US have in the pipeline in this class?  Mars Observer is
deliberately a rather unambitious mission.  Cassini and friends can't
really be said to be in the pipeline yet -- they've been trying to get
in for years.
-- 
Welcome to Mars!  Your         |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
passport and visa, comrade?    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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Date: 12 Apr 89 23:21:00 GMT
From: pur-phy!tippy!fireman@ee.ecn.purdue.edu
Subject: Re: Soviet Mir space station in trouble


USA Today reported that they just didn't need to keep it manned now.

  Rob Dale
   tippy!fireman@newton.physics.purdue.edu

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Date: 14 Apr 89 01:15:37 GMT
From: arc!ken@apple.com  (Ken Stuart)
Subject: Re: astrology (or effect of moon on people)


	There has actually been a scientific proof of astrology by
   someone named Gauquelin.  He correlated certain objectively
   definable qualities as well as certain professions versus natal
   positions of the planets, and found correlations far beyond chance,
   statistically.  Many sceptics have tried to find holes in the
   research, to no avail.  Natually, the media (as well as textbook
   writers) only believe what they would like to believe, so this has
   never received any publicity - even though it is built on far more
   evidence than the theory that if you eat chlorestorol and saturated
   fats you will have a greater chance of getting heart disease.  Such
   people would find their world views disturbed by the possiblity of
   things like astrology being real.  [Most people believe in the
   existence of atomic bombs, even though they've never seen an atomic
   bomb or reactor, nor have the faintest idea how they work.]

	An odd study was done by someone named Nelson, who was trying to
   find ways to predict periods of short wave radio interference.  He
   accidentally found an over 90% correlation that the positions of
   the planets affect the level of interference.  An episode was
   mentioned where there was heavy interference that suddenly
   dissipated at the exact moment when a trine was achieved between
   two planets.

	Please bear in mind that astrology bears no more relationship
   to 'Your Horoscope' columns in the daily newspaper than Dostoevsky
   does to the tabloids.

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Date: 13 Apr 89 13:20:57 GMT
From: att!homxb!homxc!gfv@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (G.VALVO)
Subject: Re: Success with cold fusion reported

From article <596@geovision.UUCP>, by pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin):
> 
> Wait a minute here!  Aren't we forgetting something? If people are going
> to put fusion reactors in their back yards, what the heck is the power
> company going to need to buy you power for?  Sure, the law in some
> states requires the utility to buy back power, but who are they going to
> sell it to?

How about industries or large apartment complexes who don't want to
spend the money for a large scale dedicated reactor?  Also, these things
would surely require some skill and training to operate and maintain.
The fusion reaction itself is only the first step to electric power.
How would the electricty be generated, boilers?  steam turbines?  direct
conversion?  These are all non-trivial operations.  I don't think I
want everyone in my neighborhood operating a thermonuclear device in
their back yard.


					Greg

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Date:         Wed, 12 Apr 89 15:21:44 CDT
From: "Karl G. Hursey" <E305A2%TAMVM1.BITNET@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SPACE Digest V9 #361


>Date: 10 Apr 89 12:35:30 GMT
>From: uflorida!haven!aplcen!aplcomm!aplvax.jhuapl.edu!jwm@g.ms.uky.edu
> Meritt)
>Subject: Power vs Energy
> ... stuff deleted
>(as a btw, I heard on the radio this morning that the University of Tex
>duplicated the University of Utah's "fusion in a jar"!)
Uhmmmm, I haven't heard that UT did it but some folks here at Texas A&M
have reported a (at least partial) replication.
(Well, it matters in Texas!  :-)
                        -Karl (E305A2@TAMVM1)

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Date: 12 Apr 89 21:05:36 GMT
From: hpda!hpcuhb!hp-ses!hpcc01!hpwrce!howeird@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Howard Stateman)
Subject: Re: Eggs in space (was NSS Hotline Update 3/31/89)

>/ hpwrce:sci.space / pipes@nssdcs (David Pipes ) /  7:11 am  Apr  6, 1989 /
     >The original poster wondered why we should do them at all.  I just
>pointed out that there are things which we don't know which could be
>useful in the future.
>| EMail: pipes@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov        David Pipes      |

I phrased my posting poorly, it looks like. I was not trying to question
the wisdom of doing such an experiment. I was questioning the wisdom of
doing an experiment without a control group (or three). The space news
postings are usually very complete, and the omission of any mention of
a comparison of the spaceflight results to those of a control group
caused me to assume there was no control group. 

Thanks to all of you who filled me in with the control group info. 
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