Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 32766 Received: from beak.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 ; Tue, 9 Jan 90 13:58:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 8 Jan 90 20:23:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Mon, 8 Jan 90 20:23:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #393 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 393 Today's Topics: Call for Submission of Articles Re: Antigravity Re: Photographer of the decade Re: Launching AUSSAT on Chinese rockets Re: Antigravity found? Re: Antigravity NASA Headline News for 01/02/90 (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Jan 90 01:24:00 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!udenva!isis!scicom!paranet!f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Michael.Corbin@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Corbin) Subject: Call for Submission of Articles CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES ParaNet, through its new magazine, ODDYSEY: A JOURNEY INTO THE CONTINUUM, is now accepting articles for its bi-monthly publication, first issue due in February 1990. ParaNet has been publishing a newsletter, Oddysey, which forms the basis for this new magazine with a new look. Now you have a chance to speak your mind. All writers, professional and amateur, are encouraged to submit their articles under the following guidelines: * Payment: All articles selected for publication will be paid $.01 per word and 3 free issues of the magazine. Payment is made within thirty days of publication. This scale will go up as our magazine sales increase. * Maximum word count not to exceed 4,000 words. Longer articles will be reviewed and excerpted as necessary. Most articles with the maximum word count are generally used as a Feature article. * All material submitted, whether published or not, is not returned to the author and becomes the sole property of ParaNet. This includes artwork and photographs. Payment to the author gives ParaNet all rights to first and exclusive publication. * Biographies must be submitted with the article. A photograph of the author is also preferred, but not mandatory. The biographies must contain the name, address, telepone number and age of the author together with a background of your interests. * Who can submit? Anyone. We are interested in providing a well-balanced viewpoint to man's greatest mystery. Skeptics and believers alike are invited to participate. All submissions should be responsible and well-thought out. * What the magazine is: Oddysey: A Journey Into The Continuum is a news magazine of interest to many different backgrounds and disciplines. It is an extension of ParaNet Information Service, an international news and investigative organization covering the paranormal. ParaNet provides up-to-the-minute international news to the computer public via its extensive network of computer systems. Our main interest is the UFO phenomena and other related aspects. The following categories are being solicited: UFO -- All articles should be interesting and contemporary. They can be anything from the latest in the political arena to highly controversial cases. All ranges of the phenomena will be considered. All submissions must be accompanied with notes and reference material for verification purposes by Oddysey. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY -- All articles should provide useful information on the "cutting edge" of science and technology. Not necessarily theme oriented to UFOs, however some connection should be apparent. Examples are propulsion, space and astronomy, Theoretical physics, etc. All submissions must be accompanied with notes and reference material for verification purposes by Oddysey. FICTION -- All articles should be oriented to fiction dealing with a futuristic theme and should be related to the overall slant of our publication. PARANORMAL -- All articles should be paranormal oriented. Examples are Fortean research, ghost research, para-psychology, etc. Non-UFO related material. This material should be represented in a responsible fashion with verifiable information. Notes must be supplied with the submission with verifiable references. INTERVIEWS -- Anyone who is involved in the scientific community or other organizations which are doing something of general interest who wish to get exposure to the public with their research or findings are invited to submit their names together with a brief description of their activities. Interviews will be conducted by Oddysey and will be taped for editorial purposes. Anyone selected for a feature interview will not be paid and ParaNet shall have sole rights to the interview and contents and future rights for later use. ARTWORK & PHOTOGRAPHS -- We are looking for interesting photographs and artwork to use in the publication. All submissions will be negotiated with the person supplying the material but will not exceed $20.00. This, too, will go up as sales increase. We are interested also in acquiring the talents of an artist for future use with the magazine. * Submissions are accepted in the following manner: ELECTRONIC -- Submissions can be electronically received. There are three ways that this can happen. They can be transmitted via Fidonet to ParaNet Alpha at 1:104/422. They can be transmitted via UUCP at mcorbin@alphacdc.com. They can be directly uploaded to ParaNet Alpha by phoning 303-232-6115 at the 300/1200/2400/9600 Baud rates up to 23-hours per day. In this case, simply upload them to any library and leave the sysop a message upon logoff telling the name of the article. All submissions must be in straight ASCII text with a line not wider than 75 characters. No high bits or control codes can be in the files. Any material submitted not meeting these guidelines will be not be considered and destroyed. MAIL -- Submissions can be sent via Postal mail to the following address: ParaNet Information Service Attn: Michael Corbin P.O. Box 928 Wheatridge, CO 80034-0928 All articles must be double-spaced on a single side. Again, be sure that they contain a biography and necessary information as to who you are and how to contact you. Final comments: Oddysey has enjoyed a fairly wide readership in the past. It is currently distributed throughout the United States and various European countries. It is read by many scientific/research people such as Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Dr. Richard Haines, and by noted authors in the field including Budd Hopkins and others. It has gained tremendous popularity and will continue to do so. Anyone wishing to get subscription information can contact Michael Corbin at 303-232-8303 or electronically at the addresses listed above. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to enjoying a successful form of media and one which serious attention is definitely necessary. These guidelines are subject to change without notice. All changes will, of course, be posted as necessary. -- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jan 90 20:52:18 GMT From: voder!dtg.nsc.com!andrew@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head ) Subject: Re: Antigravity In article <1990Jan3.191454.22878@agate.berkeley.edu>, daveray@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray) writes: > > I thought that when things go fast, close to the speed of light, > their mass in our space-time-frame gets heavier, not lighter. correct > Is it relavistic effects that make the gyroscopes get lighter? not even close. at 12000 rpm, a small gyro is many orders down from c at its periphery to explain the massive effect in this manner. -- ........................................................................... Andrew Palfreyman a wet bird never flies at night time sucks andrew@dtg.nsc.com there are always two sides to a broken window ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jan 90 20:47:31 GMT From: concertina!fiddler@sun.com (Steve Hix) Subject: Re: Photographer of the decade In article <1990Jan1.213436.16129@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, tdrinkar@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Terrell Drinkard) writes: > > erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp) writes: > dakramer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Anthony Kramer) writes: > >>The editors of the magazine 'American Photo' nominated Voyager 2 as > >>the photographer of the decade, although they leave the final award > >Voyager, my eye! Ansel Adams gets MY vote. > > Not to be overly picky, but Adams' most famous pictures were taken > during his 1916 trip to Yosemite, not during the 1980s; ?????! Adams' career was at its peak during the '30s and '40s. He was one of the founding members of f64, an influential group of realist pictorial photographers, such as Edward Weston and Imogene Cunningham, who were reacting to the soft-focus, hyperromantic approach of earlier photographers such as Steiglitz. (Who *was* active before the '20s.) Ansel was probably still practicing his piano in preparation for a career as a concert pianist in 1916, though. ------------ "...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." Plato, _Phaedrus_ 275d ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jan 90 07:03:33 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo!gnb@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gregory N. Bond) Subject: Re: Launching AUSSAT on Chinese rockets Enough already! Stick the politics in talk.politics.im-right-and-youre-wrong. Or whatever. The >space< relevance of this is that, without the cheap launch of Long March, the AUSSAT would probably never be launched - it is marginally economic at best. Not to mention the shortage of launch slots. And Bush's ban meant that the very expensive hardware was going to sit around unused. This is expensive. Who was going to pay for it? Les Patterson's old pal, the Australian Taxpayer. Through no fault or decision of our own. (In reality, AUSSAT is losing buckets of dough on the underutilised existing satellite. Why launch a new one??) Greg. -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jan 90 19:05:49 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!mucs!mario%r3.cs.man.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net Subject: Re: Antigravity found? In <8912211418.AA18585@decwrl.dec.com> klaes@wrksys.dec.com writes: > The current issue of PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (Volume 63, #25; > December 18, 1989) contains a description of an experiment which, if > confirmed, is stunning in its implications - in a word antigravity. ... > Basically, they take small, high-speed gyroscopes and weigh them > in a vacuum on a laboratory scale. They find a definite reduction of > weight when they are rotated rightward, but none when they are rotated > leftward. This reminds me of the claims of Prof. Eric Laithwaite some years ago. In a memorable BBC TV broadcast of the Royal Society's Christmas Lectures sometime in the the early 70s (I was about 10 years old at the time, I think) he asserted that the behaviour of gyroscopes could not be properly described by existing physics, and that something really fundamentally odd was going on. (This is from memory, when I was young and innocent :-), perhaps others with better recall could post more detail.) Laithwaite had a track record for genuine innovation (he invented the linear induction motor, I believe, and was a full Prof [of elec. eng. I believe] at one of the London colleges [Imperial?]), so was taken seriously I think. Some years later I remember him appearing on the BBC's "Parkinson" chat show. He was still convinced that something revolutionary was waiting to be discovered, and said that he booked a package on a future Shuttle to prove whether the effect was genuine (this was several, maybe 6 or 7, years before the first shuttle launch). Clearly, it must have been some sort of effect influenced by gravity (or possibly friction). Does anybody out there (presumably older than me :-)) remember this, or what became of Laithwaite's claims (or even the man himself; he was a very good presenter of science)? Did he fly a package on the Shuttle? Were his claims disproved, was he ignored, or did he just change his mind? Mario Wolczko ______ Dept. of Computer Science Internet: mario@cs.man.ac.uk /~ ~\ The University USENET: mcvax!ukc!man.cs!mario ( __ ) Manchester M13 9PL JANET: mario@uk.ac.man.cs `-': :`-' U.K. Tel: +44-61-275 6146 (FAX: 6280) ____; ;_____________the mushroom project___________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jan 90 04:06:57 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!mmm@uunet.uu.net (Mark Robert Thorson) Subject: Re: Antigravity Jeez Louise! Am I the only one to put two and two together: 1) Japanese buy backup Mir space station. They don't buy the optional booster rocket. 2) Japanese reveal discovery of antigravity. By this time next year, it'll be JAPAN which will be the leaders in space! Anyone too obtuse to see that probably believes JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald! ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jan 90 18:55:02 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 01/02/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 2, 1990 Audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, January 2.... Workers at Kennedy Space Center returned to the launch pad today following the long weekend and began preparing the space shuttle Columbia for flight next week. The STS-32 mission is scheduled for lift off at 8:06 A.M., Eastern time, Monday, January 8. Mission managers are reviewing what needs to be completed before beginning the count on Saturday. With the launch set for Monday the 8th...a series of briefings on the mission is currently scheduled for Sunday starting at 9:00 A.M., Eastern...beginning with a launch countdown status and culminating with a pre-launch press conference at 3:00 P.M. The tenth attempt to launch a commercial Titan 3 rocket from Cape Canaveral was successful sunday evening. At 7:07 P.M., Eastern time, the Martin-Marietta booster carrying two communications satellites lifted off in a spectacular after-dark light show. Hours later both the British Defense Ministry Skynet and the Japanese JCSAT-2 were kicked into geosynchronous orbits. Check out of the satellites and permanent positioning of the spacecraft is currently underway. A French remote sensing satellite...the Spot 2...is being prepared for launch on January 10 at the French-owned Ariane launch facility at Kourou, French Guiana. Six subsatellites will also be placed into orbit by the booster...an Ariane 40. The rocket will place the spot 2 into a sun-synchronous polar orbit. The three-axis spin-stabilized Spot 2 was developed by the French space agency...CNES. Aerospace Daily reports the Spot 2 will provide black and white earth surface images with 10 meter resolution and multispectral-color images with 20 meter resolution. Aerospace Daily also reports that a score of Brazilian scientists and technicians are in China this week for a two-month joint project to begin design of a remote sensing satellite that will be used by both nations. * * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Thursday, January 4.... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. 1:00 P.M. Report to NASA employees by Administrator Truly Saturday, January 6.... 9:00 A.M. Launch countdown status report Sunday, January 7..... 9:00 A.M. Launch countdown status report 11:00 A.M. SYNCOM briefing 12:00 P.M. Circadian rhythym science briefing 1:00 P.M. Commercial payloads briefing 2:00 P.M. Long Duration Exposure Facility briefing 3:00 P.M. Pre-launch news conference All events and times are subject to change without notice. ------------------------------------------------------------- These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12 noon, Eastern time. ------------------------------------------------------------- A service of the Internal Communications Branch (LPC), NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #393 *******************