I much preferred last night's lecture to Wednesday's. I would have liked a bit more technical data but the hard, non-new age science was most welcome. The occasional bit of humor was fun (I liked the cat and dog pix) and I really liked the way he displayed the visual to IR comparisons. All in all, a good presentation. Patrick p.s. I was surprised by the light turnout. Whereas Wednesday night the hall was filled almost to capacity last night was half to 3/4 at most. Maybe the weather? Or maybe there are just more New Agers out there than us Old Agers. :)
I wanted/intended to go, but had to get about 200 bales of hay stacked and covered at the last minute (my helper didn't show). Sorry I missed it. --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I much preferred last night's lecture to Wednesday's. I would have liked a bit more technical data but the hard, non-new age science was most welcome.
The occasional bit of humor was fun (I liked the cat and dog pix) and I really liked the way he displayed the visual to IR comparisons.
All in all, a good presentation.
Patrick
p.s. I was surprised by the light turnout. Whereas Wednesday night the hall was filled almost to capacity last night was half to 3/4 at most. Maybe the weather? Or maybe there are just more New Agers out there than us Old Agers. :)
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--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I much preferred last night's lecture to Wednesday's. . . . p.s. I was surprised by the light turnout. Whereas Wednesday night the hall was filled almost to capacity last night was half to 3/4 at most. . . .
Friday night, so there were fewer students. Going to a lecture about infrared telescopes probably isn't the best option for a date night. - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Good Friday.. people out of town for Easter break or staying home for religious reasons At 03:58 PM 4/15/2006 -0700, you wrote:
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I much preferred last night's lecture to Wednesday's. . . . p.s. I was surprised by the light turnout. Whereas Wednesday night the hall was filled almost to capacity last night was half to 3/4 at most. . . .
Friday night, so there were fewer students. Going to a lecture about infrared telescopes probably isn't the best option for a date night. - Canopus56
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I much preferred last night's lecture to Wednesday's.
Here's a thank you note that I dropped into the JPL feedback box at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/contact_JPL.cfm -------- This is a thank you note regarding last night's public lecture by a NASA/JPL employee - Spitzer Space Telescope Project Manager Robert K. Wilson on the Spitzer Telescope and infra-red astronomy. This event was held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah and was co-sponsored by the University and the Salt Lake Astronomical Society. I have attended most astronomy public lectures held in Salt Lake City since 2001. This was by far one of the best. You know you have a good lecturer when a project manager is showing you Spitzer discoveries less than a month old and starts discussing what will happen in the next few months. Again, thanks for providing a great public speaker. </s> K. Fisher Salt Lake City, Utah __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
You might want to send a copy of your note to SLAS Prez. Lowell Lyon. He's the one who arranged for the talk and I'm not sure if he reads this list. He's at bolide@sisna.com. Canopus56 wrote:
This is a thank you note regarding last night's public lecture by a NASA/JPL employee - Spitzer Space Telescope Project Manager Robert K. Wilson on the Spitzer Telescope and infra-red astronomy. This event was held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah and was co-sponsored by the University and the Salt Lake Astronomical Society. I have attended most astronomy public lectures held in Salt Lake City since 2001. This was by far one of the best. You know you have a good lecturer when a project manager is showing you Spitzer discoveries less than a month old and starts discussing what will happen in the next few months. Again, thanks for providing a great public speaker.
</s> K. Fisher Salt Lake City, Utah
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