Who Would You Like To Hear?

In article ,
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I was thinking about the various talks that I have attended over the years.
And then I got to thinking about the talks I would like to hear and started
putting together a list with some friends.

1. Neil Armstrong

Those are nearly all A-list names. All good choices, but also good would
be more of the "down in the trenches" people. (Sy Leibergot is the only
one on this list.) I've had a chance to talk to a small number of these
people (e.g., Dan Brevik) and found they had a somewhat different view
of the world than the guys on top. Note how the posts by Kim and Jorge
are so well respected around here.
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The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier

rk wrote in
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Kevin Willoughby wrote:

Those are nearly all A-list names. All good choices, but also good
would be more of the "down in the trenches" people. (Sy Leibergot is
the only one on this list.) I've had a chance to talk to a small
number of these people (e.g., Dan Brevik) and found they had a
somewhat different view of the world than the guys on top. Note how
the posts by Kim and Jorge are so well respected around here.

Now, if I read what you wrote correctly and peer between the lines
(and this is in line with my prior thinking from around 2000 or so so
perhaps a bias), are you proposing that JRF present "Historical Survey
of Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking?"

But... JimO has more historical perspective on the subject, and is a better
public speaker to boot...

:-)

(I'd be happy to help him update his charts...)

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In article ,
says...
Now, if I read what you wrote correctly and peer between the lines (and this
is in line with my prior thinking from around 2000 or so so perhaps a bias),
are you proposing that JRF present "Historical Survey of Rendezvous, Proximity
Operations, and Docking?"

Yes, I'd pay to hear that lecture.


Also, and you might be interested in this one, the rumor mill reports that
there will be a "trenches" talk on the history of fault tolerance and error
correction in spacecraft electronics and a detailed treatment of the
synchronization issues between the redundant set of GPC's and the backup
computer for STS-1, which is a very interesting story.

I read that paper back when it was first published. I reread it a couple
of years ago. I found it interesting not just as a bit of space history,
but professionally. (Every couple of years, I have to try to convince
people that getting high availability through redundancy sounds simple
but is quite difficult.)
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier

rk wrote:

Sounds interesting to me.

Heh, found a picture of him speaking a few years back:

http://klabs.org/images/mapld02/pane...res_panel.html

http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/panel/panel.htm



What...no Stetson?! ;-)

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