Date: Mon, 15 Feb 93 05:18:43 From: Space Digest maintainer 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 Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 06:54:53 GMT From: Michael Parks Swaim Subject: A response from Anonymous Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk,sci.space,sci.astro In article 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 ------------------------------ Date: 15 Feb 93 04:39:07 GMT From: MATT CRAVIT CPS130 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. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Feb 93 13:25:26 GMT From: Del Cotter 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 | ', ,',' ',' | | ',' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 06:09:49 GMT From: "robert.f.casey" 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). ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 16 : Issue 185 ------------------------------