Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Mon, 1 Jul 91 03:42:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 03:42:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #759 SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 759 Today's Topics: Caribbean Eclipse Cruise, 1973. (pt. 12 of 14) Re: MAJOR SOLAR FLARE ALERT - 11 JUNE Please Don't Go! Re: Mars "face" Pigs might fly!!! Was Re: Access to Space Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription requests, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Jun 91 17:52:30 GMT From: csn!scicom!wats@handies.ucar.edu (Bruce Watson) Subject: Caribbean Eclipse Cruise, 1973. (pt. 12 of 14) MONDAY, 2ND JULY, 1973. At Sea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CARIBBEAN ECLIPSE CRUISE ____ // | _ // | |> \ ___//___| ________,--------/-^\, \_________( (|__|__|---===^^^/__|__|__|__|__|__|\ (\_ \______/++++++++/ cunard ooo o ooo ooo ooo ooo .. .. .. . \___________|___ \..... ......................................................... / \ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: "" / \____________________________________________________________________/ CUNARD ADVENTURER --------------------------------------------------------------- MEAL TIMES Breakfast 7.00 a.m. 8.15 a.m. Lunch Noon 1.30 p.m. Dinner 6.30 p.m. 8.30 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S EVENTS 6.30 a.m. Birding session with Jim Thomas on the ship's fantail. This is your last morning to scan the ship's wake at some distance from land. 6.45 a.m. MUSIC IN THE AIR: A popular program of spirited melodies. 7.00-8.00 a.m. Early Bird Special - Coffee served on deck for early risers. POOL SIDE 9.30 a.m. POOL BAR OPENS 9.30-10.30 a.m. TOUR TALK - Cruise Director, Brian Price, will discuss what to see and what to do in St. Thomas, transportation to the top of the mountain that night, and shipping in Charlotte Amalie during the day. At the request of many passengers he will also tell some "tales of the islands" we have visited during our voyage: MAYFLOWER ROOM 10.45-11.45 a.m. Class Periods. 10.45-11.34 a.m. PLANETARY PROBES - Ronald Oines Near future investigation systems: Jupiter Fly-bys, Viking, Pioneer, Venus-Mercury 1978. MAYFLOWER ROOM LIFE ON OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIPS - Peter Vogt In order for students to see and excellent color film made aboard an oceanographic expedition, this class will be extended to noon. CINEMA ASTRO-PHOTOGRAPHY - Bill Swann & Dick Madigan This will be a preparation session for those planning to participate in the night trip at St. Thomas to Etelman Observatory. CASINO DRAWING/ART - Kerry O'Quinn This final session will include figure drawing from the model as well as a start on decorations for the musical revue. The class will last until noon. POOL BAR 11.45 a.m. LUNCHTIME COCKTAIL HOUR in the SKY ROOM and POOL BAR 11.45 a.m. MUSIC IN THE AIR: Part one of a programme featuring the romantic operetta music of the great Hungarian composer Emmerich Kalman. 2.45-5.00 p.m. Class Periods. 2.45-3.45 p.m. THE WILD WINDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE GIANT PLANET JUPITER - Norman Macdonald MAYFLOWER ROOM 2.45-3.45 p.m. CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SKY - PART IV - Von Del Chamberlain CINEMA CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND OTHER RIDDLES - Peter Vogt CASINO 4.00-5.00 p.m. THE SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION PROJECT - Ronald Oines The activities and services of this group, with focus on what is provided for the teaching profession. MAYFLOWER ROOM NEW FRONTIERS IN ASTRONOMY - George Abell This session will include a lengthy period covering any questions on astronomy. CASINO ASTRONOMY THROUGH SCIENCE-FICTION - Von Del Chamberlain The conclusion in this program. CINEMA PRECOMPUTING TIME OF MERIDIAN PASSAGE OF THE SUN - Frances Wright Use of Circle Position and finding time and longitude from the moon. SKY ROOM 5.15-6.15 p.m. MODERN EXPLORATION - Walter Shirra A special lecture on man's search into new frontiers. The last decade in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs. MAYFLOWER ROOM Today's schedule is the final presentation of classes in our Science at Sea program. 5.30 p.m. COCKTAIL RENDEZVOUS in the SKY ROOM and POOL BAR. 6.15 p.m. MUSIC IN THE AIR: Part two of Emmerich Kalman selections. **************************************************************** ******CINEMA ****** "THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" and "BENEATH THE SEAS OF CEYLON" 6.30 p.m., 8.45 p.m. and 11.00 p.m. (The short subject will be introduced by Arthur C Clarke, its producer and co-director. The Short will begin at 8.00 and 10.00 p.m. The 11.00 p.m. presentation will be the feature only.) ********************************** NO SMOKING PLEASE --------------------------------------------------------------- 8.00-9.00 p.m. SKY INTERPRETATION Von Del Chamberlain's last open-air session COMPASS DECK NOTICE = Deck lights in this area will be extinguished for SKY INTERPRETATION sessions. Passengers are warned to be cautious on stairways. **************************************************************** 9.00 p.m. SPORTSMAN 329 CASINO Opens for your gaming pleasure. (Persons under 18 years not admitted) **************************************************************** 9.30 p.m. DANCING to the sound of the AL WYNN BAND with JACKIE LYNN followed by REPRISE SHOWTIME SCOTT MCKAY EL PAYO SHEILA WHITE MANNY WILLIAMS HEATHMORE **************************************************************** 11.00 p.m. IN THE SKY ROOM Dance away the night with MISTY **************************************************************** MIDNIGHT - Buffet will be served in the Restaurant. [I did not want to miss the PLANETARY PROBES class. The Apollo lunar program was still a fresh memory. Skylab was going on. The future promised bigger and better. But it would be 8 years before Americans were back in space. Meanwhile, the focus would be the automated exploration of the solar system. That year Pioneer 10 and 11 flew by Jupiter; the next year Mariner 10 would map Mercury (What would it look like? The Moon!); in 1976 the two Vikings would land on Mars (Was there life? No!); and in 1977 the Voyagers would be launched on their "Grand Tours" of the outer solar system. We were sailing between the islands of Guadeloupe and Montserrat on the way to St. Thomas. (The track of totality of the eclipse of 1998 February 26, Thursday, passes here over the islands of Antigua, Montserrat and Guadeloupe.) Dr. Wright seemed to be very nervous. She was worried that the ship was sailing much too close to some of smaller islands and said so. A small group stood on the BOAT DECK on the starboard side as we came back into the Caribbean sea. After five days of nothing but open ocean, land held us fascinated. We steamed quite close to the tiny island of Redonda. Dr. Williams, the geologist explained to us: "This uninhabited rock was an ancient volcanic plug whose volcano had eroded away." We could see that it had split; one half sliding into the sea. Arthur Clarke was in this group. The late afternoon sun shown through cumulus cloud with shafts of sunlight. Clarke said something like, "It looks almost biblical". I was disappointed that such a voluminous author could not come up with something more imaginative. For the second time during the voyage, and should have known better, I spoke up: "Those are called crepuscular rays." I expected Dr. Clarke to agree and perhaps give a physical explanation of their occurrence. He look back at me and said, "Huh?". Maybe he didn't hear me. I repeated and he answered, "Oh". Though it is too much to expect anyone to be poetic and/or knowledgeable all the time, I thought that this fact to be well within this prodigious author's storehouse of trivia. Maybe it is now. I missed Wally Schirra's MODERN EXPLORATION lecture. I don't remember why. I'd been waiting the entire voyage to hear it. Others told me it was very good. He delivered it with his uniquely humorously style. I passed Dr. Wright in a passageway. The competition from the other classes was too great and I had skipped the last few of hers. But she remembered me. I explained that I was interested, primarily, in the use of the sextant since that was the one thing that learning navigation inland I could not do and that I got to do it earlier. She told me that if I needed anything or had any questions to write her at Harvard. Repeatedly, in the years following, I found that while engineers kept their proprietary knowledge pretty much to themselves, scientists are willing to share readily what they know.] -- | | One hundred thousand people is the optimum | | wats@scicom | population for a world in which the work will be | | | done by robots. -- Arthur C. Clarke | ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jun 91 11:03:01 GMT From: eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!hrc63!mrcu!paj@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Paul Johnson) Subject: Re: MAJOR SOLAR FLARE ALERT - 11 JUNE First, thanks to the people who have been posting these alerts. Second, what is the best stratagy for seeing the aurora? How long would a display last? Do I have to spend the entire night sitting in a field miles from any towns waiting for a 15 minute display, or is there a more comfortable way of doing things? I realise of course that there is no such thing as a `typical' display here (Southern England) because the events that generate them are so rare, but some guidance would be appreciated. Email me and I will summarise to the net. BTW, I looked early this morning at around 1am BST. The northern sky was a bit lighter than the rest, but that was it. Thanks in advance, Paul. -- Paul Johnson | Isn't modern education wonderful: one size fits all! -------------^------------------v-------------------------v------------------- GEC-Marconi Research is not | Telex: 995016 GECRES G | Tel: +44 245 73331 responsible for my opinions. | Inet: paj@gec-mrc.co.uk | Fax: +44 245 75244 ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jun 91 20:28:09 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!rex!rouge!pc.usl.edu!dlbres10@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Fraering Philip) Subject: Please Don't Go! The title says it all. Any of the NASA employees out there posting, whether or not it is self-serving propaganda or not, please continue reading and posting. Please ignore the more inflammatory people on this list. They don't speak for everyone. Everyone who agrees with me, please follow-up, and maybe, just maybe, the inflammatory name-callers will be drowned out. I don't think NASA is perfect, but I do think it can be part of the solution. Thank you for your support. Phil Fraering "Life. Don't talk to me about _ _." dlbres10@pc.usl.edu life Quote, but not format, from _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jun 91 13:57:05 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew@uunet.uu.net (Giving C News a *HUG*) Subject: Re: Mars "face" loren@tristan.llnl.gov (Loren Petrich) writes: > I've seen a copy of the Mars Face that was made available as a > GIF. It looks remarkably like the face of a macaque monkey. More to the point, the processed version which has had some of the shadows reduced looks like a picture of a macaque monkey with acute goitre and with the handle of a coffee mug glued to its left cheek. > I guess I'm not too impressed by it. Me neither. It looks a lot more impressive un-processed, which tells you a lot. mathew ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jun 91 15:14:39 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!oxuniv!clements@uunet.uu.net Subject: Pigs might fly!!! Was Re: Access to Space In article <31516@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes: > > > And the Soviet Union. China and Japan are also working on manned > space programs. Great Britain is considering launching manned vehicles > from the back of a Soviet transport craft. But hey, they're all just > copying the U.S., so we can dismiss their efforts as pork-barreling > and groupiness, too. > -- > Matthew DeLuca No No No!!!! Great Britain *DOES NOT* have a space program. We have a sad rump of scientists and engineers interested in space and astronomy who come up with good, workable ideas, only to have them cruelly slaughtered by the idiotic shot-termism of our government. This is not just party politics since the labour party presided over the demise of the independent British launcher Black Prince etc. The scheme for the HOTOL derived launcher using the Soviet transport plane is purely due to the visionaries in British Aerospace, a private company, and is almost certain never to get any money from any government agency in the UK. When the Space Science Board of the SERC can't even fund small research programmes (they haven't awarded a research grant for *a whole YEAR now*) there's no way HOTOL or anything like it will be funded. HOTOL and its derivatives really do need private investment to get them going. In the US this might happen (cf Pegasus) but there's lesss than zero chance here, and the French and Germans would stop any ESA money going that way. Sorry, but the UK science/space/astronomy community is *very* badly off!! Dave I'll do the .sig later. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V13 #759 *******************