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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
Dear Everybody--Nova (PBS) normally airs on Tuesday evenings
and will do so again, Tuesday, January 6th. It will be the same excellent program that aired tonight (Sunday) but promises to include in its last five minutes the latest images (in color) from Gusev Crater (what is believed to have once been a terminal lake basin) on Mars. These rovers are like remote geologists on wheels... It's the best we can do right now as they extend some of our senses down to the planet's surface! Excellent Resources http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landing...opsites/final/ http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html For those with high speed Internet http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram The second Mars Explorer Rovers - Opportunity Lands: January 25, 2004 about 4:05 pm UTC http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landing...opsites/final/ Cassini arrives at Saturn this Summer! http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm "Seeing In The Dark" by Timothy Ferris Pages 286-287 Perhaps the key to dying well--or living well--is to have laid in a stock of worthy memories. To that end, when darkness is falling for good, it is well to have in mind, in addition to memories of human love and loss and of the natural splendors of this world--of birdsong at dawn, the roaring spray of the surf, the sweet smell of the air in the eye of a hurricane, the workings of bees in the throats of wildflowers--a few memories of the other worlds as well. If you have seen plasma arches rising off the edge of the Sun, yellow dust storms raging on Mars, angry red Io emerging from the shadow of Jupiter, the golden rings of Saturn, the green dot of Uranus, and the blue dot of Neptune, the glittering star fields of Sagittarius and the delicate tendrils connecting interacting galaxies, have watched auroras and meteors writing silent signatures in the sky--if, in short, you have seen not only this world but something of the other worlds, too--well, you have lived. So, while life is in us, and we are in it, let's keep our eyes open. |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
Sam Wormley wrote: Dear Everybody--Nova (PBS) normally airs on Tuesday evenings and will do so again, Tuesday, January 6th. It will be the same excellent program that aired tonight (Sunday) but promises to include in its last five minutes the latest images (in color) from Gusev Crater (what is believed to have once been a terminal lake basin) on Mars. These rovers are like remote geologists on wheels... It's the best we can do right now as they extend some of our senses down to the planet's surface! And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! And how much new technology is spinning off of that effort? Wouldn't it be nice if our space effort actually paid for itself? Bob Kolker |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
Sam Wormley wrote: Dear Everybody--Nova (PBS) normally airs on Tuesday evenings and will do so again, Tuesday, January 6th. It will be the same excellent program that aired tonight (Sunday) but promises to include in its last five minutes the latest images (in color) from Gusev Crater (what is believed to have once been a terminal lake basin) on Mars. These rovers are like remote geologists on wheels... It's the best we can do right now as they extend some of our senses down to the planet's surface! And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! And how much new technology is spinning off of that effort? Wouldn't it be nice if our space effort actually paid for itself? Bob Kolker |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
Sam Wormley wrote: Dear Everybody--Nova (PBS) normally airs on Tuesday evenings and will do so again, Tuesday, January 6th. It will be the same excellent program that aired tonight (Sunday) but promises to include in its last five minutes the latest images (in color) from Gusev Crater (what is believed to have once been a terminal lake basin) on Mars. These rovers are like remote geologists on wheels... It's the best we can do right now as they extend some of our senses down to the planet's surface! And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! And how much new technology is spinning off of that effort? Wouldn't it be nice if our space effort actually paid for itself? Bob Kolker |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:34:58 GMT, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! And how much new technology is spinning off of that effort? Wouldn't it be nice if our space effort actually paid for itself? Luddite thinking at its finest. Whatever happened to the quest for knowledge - not for profit, but just to _know_ something new? I'm one taxpayer that is very happy with this expenditure of public funds. Wayne Hoffman 33° 49" 17' N 117° 56" 41' W "Don't Look Down" http://home.pacbell.net/w6wlr/ |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:34:58 GMT, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! And how much new technology is spinning off of that effort? Wouldn't it be nice if our space effort actually paid for itself? Luddite thinking at its finest. Whatever happened to the quest for knowledge - not for profit, but just to _know_ something new? I'm one taxpayer that is very happy with this expenditure of public funds. Wayne Hoffman 33° 49" 17' N 117° 56" 41' W "Don't Look Down" http://home.pacbell.net/w6wlr/ |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:34:58 GMT, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! And how much new technology is spinning off of that effort? Wouldn't it be nice if our space effort actually paid for itself? Luddite thinking at its finest. Whatever happened to the quest for knowledge - not for profit, but just to _know_ something new? I'm one taxpayer that is very happy with this expenditure of public funds. Wayne Hoffman 33° 49" 17' N 117° 56" 41' W "Don't Look Down" http://home.pacbell.net/w6wlr/ |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:34:58 GMT, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! Wow, ignorance AND rude sarcasm. Two for one. Paul Below Battle Point Astronomical Association Bainbridge Island, WA, USA http://bainbridgeisland.org/ritchieobs/ |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:34:58 GMT, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! Wow, ignorance AND rude sarcasm. Two for one. Paul Below Battle Point Astronomical Association Bainbridge Island, WA, USA http://bainbridgeisland.org/ritchieobs/ |
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Nova (PBS) Tuesday - EXCELLENT Program
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:34:58 GMT, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: And they only cost $400,000,000 apiece. What a bargain! Wow, ignorance AND rude sarcasm. Two for one. Paul Below Battle Point Astronomical Association Bainbridge Island, WA, USA http://bainbridgeisland.org/ritchieobs/ |
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