Spectroscopy Assholes by Name

February 19, 2004

Ok, let's see who we are dealing with in MERgate.

Steve Squyres (Principal Investigator and asshole), Cornell University

http://astro.cornell.edu/people/facs...hp?pers_id=112

Ray Arvidson (Deputy Principal Investigator and asshole), Washington
University, St. Louis

http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/people/arvidson.html

Jim Bell (Pancam Payload Element Lead and nice guy), Cornell University

Johannes Brückner (APXS Principle Investigator and asshole),
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Germany

http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/spacepage

Phil Christensen (Mini-TES Payload Element Lead and asshole), Arizona
State University

Ken Herkenhoff (Microscopic Imager Payload Element Lead and nice guy),
USGS, Flagstaff

Göstar Klingelhöfer (Mössbauer Payload Element Lead and asshole),
Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany

Rudi Rieder (APXS Payload Element Lead and asshole), Max Planck Inst.
für Chemie, Germany

Lest I forget :

Sean O'Keefe (NASA Administrator and asshole, and what about those seven
astronauts?)

George W. Bush (US President and asshole, and what about all these
wars?)

This, we can do something about. It's called and election. I say, fire
their asses.

Look, here's an image of some of the spectroscopy assholes and some nice
guys in their native habitat :

http://athena.cornell.edu/the_mission/scientists.html

Show US some spectroscopy assholes.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

You've got way too much time and way too little grey matter.

February 20, 2004

t_mark wrote:

You've got way too much time and way too little grey matter.

Actually, I specifically took some time off from my usual work just to
spend some time looking at the results from this Mars mission.

I'll have a lot more time on my hands now that I presumably won't be
examining any Mars spectroscopy data any time in the next six months.

As for grey matter, I have enough to allow me to determine that Mars has
a great deal of subsurface ice and surface mud from the orbital imagery,
without the benefit of spectroscopy. That the orbital spectroscopic
analyses have confirmed that conclusion is just icing on the cake. Now
it certainly appears that the rovers have confirmed it too.

Got any other good crackpot Mars geology theories that need refuting?

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net