Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 05:11:12 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V15 #020 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Tue, 21 Jul 92 Volume 15 : Issue 020 Today's Topics: Antimatter (was propulsion questions) Galileo Update - 07/20/92 McDonald Douglas Irvine CA. -Address Wanted Need Testers for MS Windows Astronomy Program Space FestSchrift'92 (long) Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu". Please do **NOT** send (un)subscription requests to that address! Instead, send a message 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: 21 Jul 92 07:24:09 GMT From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu Subject: Antimatter (was propulsion questions) Newsgroups: sci.space In article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: |> >Also, security has to be pretty damn tight to keep people |> >away from this stuff, I suppose, because releasing it makes it go BOOM, |> >right?? |> |> Antimatter isn't a very efficient explosive. If you dropped an anti-iron |> cannonball, it would just sit there and sizzle. (The radiation would make |> the immediate neighborhood very unhealthy, mind you.) No. Dropping an anti-iron cannonball -- or, indeed, exposing it to air -- would vaporize it in short order. The antiiron vapor would then quickly mix with very hot air, and most of the antimatter would annihilate in short order. Paul F. Dietz dietz@cs.rochester.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 23:09:33 GMT From: "Kevin W. Plaxco" Subject: Galileo Update - 07/20/92 Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Jul20.193308.16649@news.arc.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov writes: > Tomorrow, the turn to the warming attitude in preparation for the Dual >Drive Actuator (DDA) pulse is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:57PDT. >The first of the two Dual Drive Actuator pulses is scheduled at 12:46 PDT for >approximately a 2 second duration. Tracking is scheduled over DSS-43. This, I presume, represents an attempt to free the HGA by using the LGA-2 deployment motor to shake the S/C. Presuming this is correct: How many pulses can be generated in 2 seconds? Is this just a test of the pulse proceedure, and therefore limited to one stow/deployment cycle? And why is this being done at the warming attitude since the HGA is less tightly stuck when cold? -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jul 92 08:15:12 GMT From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Subject: McDonald Douglas Irvine CA. -Address Wanted Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Jul20.211659.29007@mdd.comm.mot.com>, ogden@mdd.comm.mot.com (Allen Ogden) writes: > I would like to exchange email with a friend working > at McDonald Douglas ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ This is the company that makes that airliners with the built-in deep-fryers, right? Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | "Treat your password like Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | your toothbrush. Don't let Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | anybody else use it-- Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | and get a new one every SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | six months." --Cliff Stoll ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:52:52 GMT From: Nathaniel W Guyton Subject: Need Testers for MS Windows Astronomy Program Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer,sci.astro,sci.space,sci.edu,comp.ibm.pc.misc In article <1992Jul20.201610.9156@cpqhou.compaq.com> jayb@cpqhou.compaq.com (Jay Brinkmeyer) writes: >> Add me to the list too, please - my mail bounced as well. How about another >> address? >> >> Jay Brinkmeyer - Compaq Computer Corp. E-mail address: >> 20555 SH 249 Houston, TX 77070 uunet!cpqhou!jayb >> (713) 374-2139 >> Hey guys! come on, think a little bit. How are you gonna beta test something when you can get email to this place? How are you gonna get the program? FTP seems to be the only answer, if mail can't get through. And how are you gonna let them know of your evaluation? Sure can't email them. -- \----------------- Nat Guyton ---------------------/ \May you discover something about yourself today./ \ (Understanding life is a powerful feeling) / \---------- nat@owlnet.rice.edu -------------/ ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jul 92 15:44:16 U From: "Steve Abrams" Subject: Space FestSchrift'92 (long) Subject: Time:5:18 AM OFFICE MEMO Space FestSchrift'92 (long) Date:7/21/92 (The following announcement is being sent on the 23rd anniversary of the 1969 human landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong. Before anyone corrects us, the Apollo 11 landing was early in the morning on 21 July 1969 in *Japan*, the current site of the ISU 1992 Summer Session. Please feel free to pass the information along to any person, newsgroup, digest, listserv, club, organization, or agency that you deem appropriate) ========FESTSCHRIFT'92(tm): 20 July-20 August 1992======== "The Space Community Tribute to Those Who Passed and Significant Events of the Past Year" =======SEND BY E-MAIL: festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp======= YOU ARE INVITED to participate in an open celebration of the individuals who died and events which occurred during the past year - "Festschrift'92". This is a Space Generation- era borrowing of the German tradition called "festschrift" (written tributes given in memory of those who died). Based on a suggestion of International Space University (ISU) Faculty member James D. Burke, Festschrift'92 tributes will be compiled during the ISU'92 summer session taking place right now in Kitakyushu, Japan. If a sufficient number of responses is received, the tributes will be published on a Special Edition CD-ROM. The CD-ROM will be produced in ISO9660 standard format, suitable for CD-ROM drives in Macintosh, MS-DOS, or UNIX environments. All participants are invited to submit a short essay, poem/haiku, song, artwork, or just a few sentences on a space-related topic of their choice. Submissions may be made in non-English languages (please include an English translation). Although we suggest a theme of "Why Space?" (i.e., a survey of rationales for space exploration and development), we also encourage people to respond with thoughts, reminiscences, and/or anecdotes about some of the space pioneers who've died in the past year, as well as any thoughts about specific, space-related events in the past year. The group of people includes, but is not limited to: Science Fiction author, Isaac Asimov Space Studies Institute founder and visionary, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill Former NASA Administrator, Dr. Thomas O. Paine Star Trek producer, Gene Roddenberry ISU'89 alumnus, Rick Robinson For those without access to CD-ROM drives, the essays will also be available via anonymous ftp to host 'isu.isunet.edu' (192.31.110.15) in directory /pub/festschrift.92 around 15 September 1992. Depending upon the volume of responses, we reserve the right to only make subsets of the essays available via ftp (due to storage constraints); we also reserve the right to edit inappropriate responses. "Inappropriate" specifically *does not* include essays that are unfavorable to space exploration and development, but *does* include essays with obscene or offensive language as well as essays that are not relevant to space, in general. Such inappropriate essays will not be included on the CD ROM, but will be available via anonymous ftp upon request. Finally, we reserve the right not to produce a CD-ROM if the level of response is deemed to be insufficient; the ftp option will still be supported, however. All participants submitting essays are encouraged, but not required, to submit biographical and demographic information about themselves. Such information could include: name, age range (i.e., 0-10, 11-20, etc.), occupation, geographic location, educational background, how you learned of FestSchrift'92, etc. Essays submitted anonymously will be accepted and included with the other essays. The project will be completely financed by voluntary individual or organizational sponsorship. If you would like to become a sponsor of the Festschrift'92 project, please see the file 'sponsor.info' in the anonymous ftp directory above. If you do not have access to ftp services, please e-mail a request for the file to: steve@uchu.isu92.ac.jp (Steve Abrams). Sponsors will be acknowledged on the CD- ROM, as well the planned Bonestell "Mars Globe" exhibit planned for the ISU Permanent Campus Exhibit (see below). Sponsors will also receive a copy of the CD-ROM. This is a trial project and the results will be used to determine its feasibility for future years. If you feel that celebrating the lives of visionaries who may (or may not) have influenced your life or personal philosophy is a worthwhile endeavor, then we encourage to read the file mentioned above. Festschrift'92 is coordinated by ISU Founder Todd B. Hawley, who heads ISU's Space Humanities Program. Steve Abrams, Director of Information Systems at ISU, is the Festschrift'92 Compiler. The Space Generation Foundation of Washington, DC, is acting as repository of this International Space Year (ISY) project, until completed products (Mars Globe and CD Master) are turned over to the International Space University. MARS GLOBE EXHIBIT In addition to the Festschrift CD ROM project, sponsors will have a unique opportunity to preserve a piece of space history. As a permanent reminder of the ISU'91 International Mars Mission design project, an original Chesley Bonestell painting of the planet Mars on an 18" globe will be purchased from a Bonestell protege, the astronomical artist and author Ron Miller. This unusual globe was used as a model for the "flat" paintings of Mars in Bonestell's famous Collier's series in the early 1950s. This series has been often cited as having inspired many people to consider a career in the space field. The globe is permanent art and "one-of-a-kind," linking the past 40 years of spaceflight to our next 40 years, when Mars shall become a new outpost for humankind. So put down your thoughts about Asimov, O'Neill, Paine, Robinson (ISU'89), Roddenberry, and others, plus events between 20 July 1991 and 19 July 1992, and SEND THEM IN!!! Entries will NOT be accepted after 20 August 1992, when the ISU'92 computer center closes. ===========GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION============== ================FOR PARTICIPANTS IN==================== ===================FESTSCHRIFT'92====================== FESTSCHRIFT'92 RATIONALE: o In Memoriam of Those Who Died Between 20 July 1991 and 19 July 1992 o Collect Personal Thoughts and Reflections on Events of the Past 12 Months o A Tribute to ISU'91 Design Project: the International Mars Mission o Preserve/Exhibit a Unique Work by Master Space Artist Chesley Bonestell WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? o ANYONE sending their Festschrift'92 files by e-mail to the ISU'92 session via festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp FORMAT: o Electronic Entries - Personal Statements or Original Articles of Any Length o Entries made by 20 August 1992 to: festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp LEGAL NOTIFICATIONS: o Space Generation Foundation and ISU jointly own copyrights to materials sent to the Festschrift'92 account at ISU'92, and reserve the right to withhold from publication materials deemed unsuitable to the spirit of Festschrift'92, or which pose any legal, copyright or liability risk to SpaceGen or ISU o This is a not-for-profit, educational project for the benefit of all ======================Festschrift'92(tm)==================== =====(tm) and (c) copyright 1992 by the Space Generation==== =======Foundation, Inc All rights reserved worldwide.====== ------------------------------ Date: P From: P From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: does anyone know??? Message-Id: <1992Jul20.224753.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> Date: 21 Jul 92 03:47:53 GMT Article-I.D.: indyvax.1992Jul20.224753.1 References: Sender: USENET News System Organization: Indiana University Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: indyvax.iupui.edu Source-Info: Sender is really news@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU Source-Info: Sender is really isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU In article , kale@usc.edu (Nitin Kale) writes: > does anyone know how i can get in touch with Dr. Stephen Hawking ? > email , ph. no., address ???? > > thanx (sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for such a question..) > > nitin kale > No. But if you get ahold of him ask what the heck all that elsewhen stuff was about. TFF ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 15 : Issue 020 ------------------------------