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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 05:11:12
From: Space Digest maintainer <digests@isu.isunet.edu>
Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu
Subject: Space Digest V15 #020
To: Space Digest Readers
Precedence: bulk
Space Digest Tue, 21 Jul 92 Volume 15 : Issue 020
Today's Topics:
Antimatter (was propulsion questions)
Galileo Update - 07/20/92
McDonald Douglas Irvine CA. -Address Wanted
Need Testers for MS Windows Astronomy Program
Space FestSchrift'92 (long)
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Date: 21 Jul 92 07:24:09 GMT
From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: Antimatter (was propulsion questions)
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <Brp9H4.3GM@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> >Also, security has to be pretty damn tight to keep people
|> >away from this stuff, I suppose, because releasing it makes it go BOOM,
|> >right??
|>
|> Antimatter isn't a very efficient explosive. If you dropped an anti-iron
|> cannonball, it would just sit there and sizzle. (The radiation would make
|> the immediate neighborhood very unhealthy, mind you.)
No. Dropping an anti-iron cannonball -- or, indeed, exposing it to air
-- would vaporize it in short order. The antiiron vapor would then quickly
mix with very hot air, and most of the antimatter would annihilate in
short order.
Paul F. Dietz
dietz@cs.rochester.edu
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 23:09:33 GMT
From: "Kevin W. Plaxco" <kwp@wag.caltech.edu>
Subject: Galileo Update - 07/20/92
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <1992Jul20.193308.16649@news.arc.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
> Tomorrow, the turn to the warming attitude in preparation for the Dual
>Drive Actuator (DDA) pulse is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:57PDT.
>The first of the two Dual Drive Actuator pulses is scheduled at 12:46 PDT for
>approximately a 2 second duration. Tracking is scheduled over DSS-43.
This, I presume, represents an attempt to free the HGA by using the LGA-2
deployment motor to shake the S/C. Presuming this is correct: How many
pulses can be generated in 2 seconds? Is this just a test of the pulse
proceedure, and therefore limited to one stow/deployment cycle? And
why is this being done at the warming attitude since the HGA is less tightly
stuck when cold?
-Kevin
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Date: 21 Jul 92 08:15:12 GMT
From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey <higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov>
Subject: McDonald Douglas Irvine CA. -Address Wanted
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <1992Jul20.211659.29007@mdd.comm.mot.com>, ogden@mdd.comm.mot.com (Allen Ogden) writes:
> I would like to exchange email with a friend working
> at McDonald Douglas
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
This is the company that makes that airliners with the built-in
deep-fryers, right?
Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | "Treat your password like
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | your toothbrush. Don't let
Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | anybody else use it--
Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | and get a new one every
SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | six months." --Cliff Stoll
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:52:52 GMT
From: Nathaniel W Guyton <nat@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject: Need Testers for MS Windows Astronomy Program
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer,sci.astro,sci.space,sci.edu,comp.ibm.pc.misc
In article <1992Jul20.201610.9156@cpqhou.compaq.com> jayb@cpqhou.compaq.com (Jay Brinkmeyer) writes:
>> Add me to the list too, please - my mail bounced as well. How about another
>> address?
>>
>> Jay Brinkmeyer - Compaq Computer Corp. E-mail address:
>> 20555 SH 249 Houston, TX 77070 uunet!cpqhou!jayb
>> (713) 374-2139
>>
Hey guys! come on, think a little bit. How are you gonna beta test something
when you can get email to this place? How are you gonna get the program? FTP
seems to be the only answer, if mail can't get through. And how are you
gonna let them know of your evaluation? Sure can't email them.
--
\----------------- Nat Guyton ---------------------/
\May you discover something about yourself today./
\ (Understanding life is a powerful feeling) /
\---------- nat@owlnet.rice.edu -------------/
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Date: 21 Jul 92 15:44:16 U
From: "Steve Abrams" <steve_abrams@gw.isu92.ac.jp>
Subject: Space FestSchrift'92 (long)
Subject: Time:5:18 AM
OFFICE MEMO Space FestSchrift'92 (long) Date:7/21/92
(The following announcement is being sent on the 23rd anniversary of the 1969
human landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong. Before anyone corrects us, the
Apollo 11 landing was early in the morning on 21 July 1969 in *Japan*, the
current site of the ISU 1992 Summer Session. Please feel free to pass the
information along to any person, newsgroup, digest, listserv, club,
organization, or agency that you deem appropriate)
========FESTSCHRIFT'92(tm): 20 July-20 August 1992========
"The Space Community Tribute to Those Who
Passed and Significant Events of the Past Year"
=======SEND BY E-MAIL: festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp=======
YOU ARE INVITED to participate in an open celebration of the
individuals who died and events which occurred during the
past year - "Festschrift'92". This is a Space Generation-
era borrowing of the German tradition called "festschrift"
(written tributes given in memory of those who died). Based
on a suggestion of International Space University (ISU)
Faculty member James D. Burke, Festschrift'92 tributes will
be compiled during the ISU'92 summer session taking place
right now in Kitakyushu, Japan. If a sufficient number of
responses is received, the tributes will be published on a
Special Edition CD-ROM. The CD-ROM will be produced in
ISO9660 standard format, suitable for CD-ROM drives in
Macintosh, MS-DOS, or UNIX environments.
All participants are invited to submit a short essay,
poem/haiku, song, artwork, or just a few sentences on a
space-related topic of their choice. Submissions may be
made in non-English languages (please include an English
translation). Although we suggest a theme of "Why Space?"
(i.e., a survey of rationales for space exploration and
development), we also encourage people to respond with
thoughts, reminiscences, and/or anecdotes about some of the
space pioneers who've died in the past year, as well as any
thoughts about specific, space-related events in the past
year. The group of people includes, but is not limited to:
Science Fiction author, Isaac Asimov
Space Studies Institute founder and visionary, Dr.
Gerard K. O'Neill
Former NASA Administrator, Dr. Thomas O. Paine
Star Trek producer, Gene Roddenberry
ISU'89 alumnus, Rick Robinson
For those without access to CD-ROM drives, the essays will
also be available via anonymous ftp to host 'isu.isunet.edu'
(192.31.110.15) in directory /pub/festschrift.92 around 15
September 1992. Depending upon the volume of responses, we
reserve the right to only make subsets of the essays
available via ftp (due to storage constraints); we also
reserve the right to edit inappropriate responses.
"Inappropriate" specifically *does not* include essays that
are unfavorable to space exploration and development, but
*does* include essays with obscene or offensive language as
well as essays that are not relevant to space, in general.
Such inappropriate essays will not be included on the CD
ROM, but will be available via anonymous ftp upon request.
Finally, we reserve the right not to produce a CD-ROM if the
level of response is deemed to be insufficient; the ftp
option will still be supported, however.
All participants submitting essays are encouraged, but not
required, to submit biographical and demographic information
about themselves. Such information could include: name, age
range (i.e., 0-10, 11-20, etc.), occupation, geographic
location, educational background, how you learned of
FestSchrift'92, etc. Essays submitted anonymously will be
accepted and included with the other essays.
The project will be completely financed by voluntary
individual or organizational sponsorship. If you would like
to become a sponsor of the Festschrift'92 project, please
see the file 'sponsor.info' in the anonymous ftp directory
above. If you do not have access to ftp services, please
e-mail a request for the file to: steve@uchu.isu92.ac.jp
(Steve Abrams). Sponsors will be acknowledged on the CD-
ROM, as well the planned Bonestell "Mars Globe" exhibit
planned for the ISU Permanent Campus Exhibit (see below).
Sponsors will also receive a copy of the CD-ROM. This is a
trial project and the results will be used to determine its
feasibility for future years. If you feel that celebrating
the lives of visionaries who may (or may not) have
influenced your life or personal philosophy is a worthwhile
endeavor, then we encourage to read the file mentioned
above.
Festschrift'92 is coordinated by ISU Founder Todd B. Hawley,
who heads ISU's Space Humanities Program. Steve Abrams,
Director of Information Systems at ISU, is the
Festschrift'92 Compiler. The Space Generation Foundation of
Washington, DC, is acting as repository of this
International Space Year (ISY) project, until completed
products (Mars Globe and CD Master) are turned over to the
International Space University.
MARS GLOBE EXHIBIT
In addition to the Festschrift CD ROM project, sponsors will
have a unique opportunity to preserve a piece of space
history. As a permanent reminder of the ISU'91
International Mars Mission design project, an original
Chesley Bonestell painting of the planet Mars on an 18"
globe will be purchased from a Bonestell protege, the
astronomical artist and author Ron Miller. This unusual
globe was used as a model for the "flat" paintings of Mars
in Bonestell's famous Collier's series in the early 1950s.
This series has been often cited as having inspired many
people to consider a career in the space field. The globe
is permanent art and "one-of-a-kind," linking the past 40
years of spaceflight to our next 40 years, when Mars shall
become a new outpost for humankind.
So put down your thoughts about Asimov, O'Neill, Paine,
Robinson (ISU'89), Roddenberry, and others, plus events
between 20 July 1991 and 19 July 1992, and SEND THEM IN!!!
Entries will NOT be accepted after 20 August 1992, when the
ISU'92 computer center closes.
===========GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION==============
================FOR PARTICIPANTS IN====================
===================FESTSCHRIFT'92======================
FESTSCHRIFT'92 RATIONALE:
o In Memoriam of Those Who Died Between 20 July 1991 and
19 July 1992
o Collect Personal Thoughts and Reflections on Events of
the Past 12 Months
o A Tribute to ISU'91 Design Project: the International
Mars Mission
o Preserve/Exhibit a Unique Work by Master Space Artist
Chesley Bonestell
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
o ANYONE sending their Festschrift'92 files by e-mail to
the ISU'92 session via festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp
FORMAT:
o Electronic Entries - Personal Statements or Original
Articles of Any Length
o Entries made by 20 August 1992 to:
festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp
LEGAL NOTIFICATIONS:
o Space Generation Foundation and ISU jointly own
copyrights to materials sent to the Festschrift'92
account at ISU'92, and reserve the right to withhold
from publication materials deemed unsuitable to the
spirit of Festschrift'92, or which pose any legal,
copyright or liability risk to SpaceGen or ISU
o This is a not-for-profit, educational project for the
benefit of all
======================Festschrift'92(tm)====================
=====(tm) and (c) copyright 1992 by the Space Generation====
=======Foundation, Inc All rights reserved worldwide.======
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Date: P
From: P
From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: does anyone know???
Message-Id: <1992Jul20.224753.1@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 21 Jul 92 03:47:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: indyvax.1992Jul20.224753.1
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Sender: USENET News System <news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <l6mj1uINN6n0@aludra.usc.edu>, kale@usc.edu (Nitin Kale) writes:
> does anyone know how i can get in touch with Dr. Stephen Hawking ?
> email , ph. no., address ????
>
> thanx (sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for such a question..)
>
> nitin kale
>
No. But if you get ahold of him ask what the heck all that elsewhen stuff
was about.
TFF
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