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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 93 05:18:43
From: Space Digest maintainer <digests@isu.isunet.edu>
Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu
Subject: Space Digest V16 #185
To: Space Digest Readers
Precedence: bulk
Space Digest Mon, 15 Feb 93 Volume 16 : Issue 185
Today's Topics:
A response from Anonymous
David Sternlight and wasted bandwidth
Ice composites for space applications?
some biosphere scientist advisors resign
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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 06:54:53 GMT
From: Michael Parks Swaim <swaim@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject: A response from Anonymous
Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk,sci.space,sci.astro
In article <C2H3vH.I00@ddsw1.mcs.com> barnhart@ddsw1.mcs.com (Mr. Aaron Barnhart) writes:
> *And* it needs net citizens who do not boldly
>go where they are not allowed -- that prohibition being in the form of
>a password or similar wall of separation, not a dumb notice that says,
>"Don't peek."
Call me stupid, but I think that a plainly visible notice that says
"Don't peek" should be enough. (No, I don't think that the SRI notice was
plainly visible.)
--
Mike Swaim | "101 Dalmations? Yeah I saw that."
swaim@owlnet.rice.edu | "You Did! REALLY? The same film?
Disclamer: I lie | Let's stop driving! We must get out and jump
up and down and up and down and dance around and around!" Matt and Delerium
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Date: 15 Feb 93 04:39:07 GMT
From: MATT CRAVIT CPS130 <cravitm@clvax1.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: David Sternlight and wasted bandwidth
Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk,sci.space,sci.astro
In article <1993Feb14.220538.26497@netcom.com>, mandel@netcom.com (Tom Mandel) writes...
>In article <1993Feb14.010454.24710@fuug.fi> an8785@anon.penet.fi (8 February 1993) writes:
>>Need I say more?
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>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.
>
>Yes, you need say a great deal more, starting with your name and electronic
>address. I cannot speak for others but I regard anonymous postings in
>a serious discussion as pretty much worthless. I may disagree with
>Sternlight's views, but views that hide behind the veil of anon
>are hardly worth the trouble of reading.
While I agree that it is improper in such a forum to reply using ONLY an anon
ID, I used to have to use ANON for posting to Usenet because my old e-mail
account did not allow Usenet access for security reasons. So, IMHO, anon
postings can be forgiven in such circumstances PROVIDED the poster identifies
their REAL name and address in the message.
Just my $0.37 worth (adjusted for inflation)
/Matthew Cravit
MSU has enough PR people, they don't need me speaking for them too.
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Date: 14 Feb 93 13:25:26 GMT
From: Del Cotter <mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk>
Subject: Ice composites for space applications?
Newsgroups: sci.space
higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>All the essential facts have been posted in this thread, but if you
>want to read a bit more about Pykrete and this adventure, look at
>*Engineers' Dreams* by Willy Ley.
Thanks.
>It's a wonderful book, and though
>it isn't concerned with space, you will enjoy it if you are the sort
>of goofball who reads and posts to this group...
Er, thanks... I think. What I would be very interested in is any work
that has been done on xxx/ice composites where xxx is any material that
might reasonably be obtained in space.
--
',' ' ',',' | | ',' ' ',','
', ,',' | Del Cotter mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk | ', ,','
',' | | ','
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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 06:09:49 GMT
From: "robert.f.casey" <wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com>
Subject: some biosphere scientist advisors resign
Newsgroups: sci.space
Just heard on the radio (WMXV, New York) that, according to Newsday,
that some scientific advisors to the Biosphere project have resigned.
Over some possibly poor scientific quality of the biosphere experiment,
maybe caused by introducing extra oxygen to the system. The report also
hinted that maybe other supplies were also slipped in too.
The above is probably somewhat garbled (you know how the journalism
majors tend to mangle science related stories).
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End of Space Digest Volume 16 : Issue 185
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