I have seen this news clip on several websites and have not heard about it here on Utah Astronomy inspite of all the talk we have had about it and the speaker at our SLAS meeting. All things are still subject to change but for now it looks as though this program is fully funded. What are your thoughts? http://techie-buzz.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-gets-funding.html
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I have seen this news clip on several websites and have not heard about it here on Utah Astronomy inspite of all the talk we have had about it and the speaker at our SLAS meeting. All things are still subject to change but for now it looks as though this program is fully funded. What are your thoughts?
http://techie-buzz.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-gets-funding.html
I have to get back to work at the moment, so I'll catch the article later. Thanks for posting it, Steve. My only question is if this means that planetary science took a budget hit?
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week! http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma...
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:54:23 -0700 From: chuck.hards@gmail.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I have seen this news clip on several websites and have not heard about it here on Utah Astronomy inspite of all the talk we have had about it and the speaker at our SLAS meeting. All things are still subject to change but for now it looks as though this program is fully funded. What are your thoughts?
http://techie-buzz.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-gets-funding.html
I have to get back to work at the moment, so I'll catch the article later. Thanks for posting it, Steve.
My only question is if this means that planetary science took a budget hit?
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On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week! http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma...
Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
Wonder if there are any cats on Mars? I know that is reaching, but...... 73, lh On 11/22/2011 2:37 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher<iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week! http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma... Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
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Larry:I received this at 18:00 hours and read it. Then I turned off the computer and cleaned up my desk for the day. Grabbed the bino's and headed out to the back yard for a little cruise around the sky and a nice long soak in the hot tub. While I was sitting there looking at Jupiter so high in the sky at such an early time of day "I got it"!! I can't believe it took me two hours but I got it! I had to come back in the house and fire up the computer and respond to you. Now I'm off for a lil' more R&R before the night is done. "Cats on Mars". Duh!
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:43 -0700 From: larry@kijoda.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Wonder if there are any cats on Mars? I know that is reaching, but...... 73, lh
On 11/22/2011 2:37 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher<iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week! http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma... Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
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Okay... I give, What's the joke? Clearly I am out of more than one loop :) Quoting Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com>:
Larry:I received this at 18:00 hours and read it. Then I turned off the computer and cleaned up my desk for the day. Grabbed the bino's and headed out to the back yard for a little cruise around the sky and a nice long soak in the hot tub. While I was sitting there looking at Jupiter so high in the sky at such an early time of day "I got it"!! I can't believe it took me two hours but I got it! I had to come back in the house and fire up the computer and respond to you. Now I'm off for a lil' more R&R before the night is done. "Cats on Mars". Duh!
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:43 -0700 From: larry@kijoda.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Wonder if there are any cats on Mars? I know that is reaching, but...... 73, lh
On 11/22/2011 2:37 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher<iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma... Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
I can't bring myself to tell you outright but I will tell you that the new rover is named "Curiosity"
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:52:33 -0700 From: bsi@xmission.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Okay... I give, What's the joke? Clearly I am out of more than one loop :)
Quoting Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com>:
Larry:I received this at 18:00 hours and read it. Then I turned off the computer and cleaned up my desk for the day. Grabbed the bino's and headed out to the back yard for a little cruise around the sky and a nice long soak in the hot tub. While I was sitting there looking at Jupiter so high in the sky at such an early time of day "I got it"!! I can't believe it took me two hours but I got it! I had to come back in the house and fire up the computer and respond to you. Now I'm off for a lil' more R&R before the night is done. "Cats on Mars". Duh!
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:43 -0700 From: larry@kijoda.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Wonder if there are any cats on Mars? I know that is reaching, but...... 73, lh
On 11/22/2011 2:37 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher<iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma... Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
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But, curiosity killed the cat, sounds like a bad omen.
I can't bring myself to tell you outright but I will tell you that the new rover is named "Curiosity"
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:52:33 -0700 From: bsi@xmission.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Okay... I give, What's the joke? Clearly I am out of more than one loop :)
Quoting Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com>:
Larry:I received this at 18:00 hours and read it. Then I turned off the computer and cleaned up my desk for the day. Grabbed the bino's and headed out to the back yard for a little cruise around the sky and a nice long soak in the hot tub. While I was sitting there looking at Jupiter so high in the sky at such an early time of day "I got it"!! I can't believe it took me two hours but I got it! I had to come back in the house and fire up the computer and respond to you. Now I'm off for a lil' more R&R before the night is done. "Cats on Mars". Duh!
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:43 -0700 From: larry@kijoda.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Wonder if there are any cats on Mars? I know that is reaching, but...... 73, lh
On 11/22/2011 2:37 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher<iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition
looks good
for this week!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma... Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
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On 11/22/11, Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> wrote:
Okay... I give, What's the joke? Clearly I am out of more than one loop :)
Jo, this is the state we have have descended to because men of approximately my age up to well past Larry's have given up whittling on the front porch in favor of the on-line social experience. Provided we can see the screen. (As an aside, I can't see the screen on my smart phone from hell. I need to wait until I can post from my 24" Acer.) For the record, I got it immediately. I guess that speaks volumes for the apropos placement of myself in the afforementioned demographic. Alas, there are no barbershops of old anymore. And I did chuckle, Larry, good one. ;o) But I think, despite Erik's sense of foreboding, it's not an omen. For it to be, the saying would have to be something like "The cat killed curiosity". I'm also betting that good old American know-how trumps Russian techno-propaganda every time. "Phobos-Grunt" Oh, come on. Just the name alone utterly damned that refurbished hot-water heater. And a Chinese probe on-board? Did Harbor Freight get the contract to build it? Doomed mission, just doomed. (We may get an incredible light show when this bucket re-enters. Stay tuned...) Keep trying, comrades. The more you spend keeping rocket scientists busy on crap hardware for wet-dream, old-world, keeping-up-with-the-Americans Mars missions, the less you have to spend on targeting our missle defense initiatives. If you really wanted Phobos samples, you'd contact JPL. They'd put you in touch with real space contractors.
Steve, I would guess there are very few occasions where one can say "Gotcha" to you. That is one of the few pleasures left in life for me. Often, in reading my posts, what you think I said is not what I am meaning. That is why I actually said I was reaching. Happy Thanksgiving. 73, lh On 11/22/2011 8:34 PM, Steve Fisher wrote:
Larry:I received this at 18:00 hours and read it. Then I turned off the computer and cleaned up my desk for the day. Grabbed the bino's and headed out to the back yard for a little cruise around the sky and a nice long soak in the hot tub. While I was sitting there looking at Jupiter so high in the sky at such an early time of day "I got it"!! I can't believe it took me two hours but I got it! I had to come back in the house and fire up the computer and respond to you. Now I'm off for a lil' more R&R before the night is done. "Cats on Mars". Duh!
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:43 -0700 From: larry@kijoda.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] James Webb
Wonder if there are any cats on Mars? I know that is reaching, but...... 73, lh
On 11/22/2011 2:37 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher<iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't know about the budget overall but planetary expedition looks good for this week! http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/21/nasa-to-launch-mars-rover-dream-ma... Let's hope this one makes it out of earth orbit. Humans are 0-for-1 on Mars probes so-far this November. 1-out-of-2 would at least get us collectively batting .500! ;o)
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On 11/22/11, Steve Fisher <iotacass1@hotmail.com> wrote:
I have seen this news clip on several websites and have not heard about it here on Utah Astronomy inspite of all the talk we have had about it and the speaker at our SLAS meeting. All things are still subject to change but for now it looks as though this program is fully funded. What are your thoughts?
http://techie-buzz.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-gets-funding.html
Well it's not quite the done deal that this piece makes it out to be. Karri Ferron has an informative blog post on the Astronomy web site that breaks down next year's funding in a nutshell. http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/archive/2011/11/21/nasa-budget... Seems just about every program took a hit, and Webb is still subject to cuts and cancellation every year up until it's actually off the launch pad, like any other mission.
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