Re: [FRIAM] Redfish presentation at SFI yesterday

[Trainor Bradley]

Have you spoken with Bruce Willis? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Redfish presentation at SFI yesterday Less slow news day, I think, than (for once) public servants doing a fine and thoughtful job.  It was a riveting presentation, and I was very pleased to think my own fire department is in the lead of such planning.   Then I came home to my houseguests, one of whom is a former astronaut now working on the issues of deflecting asteroids that might hit the earth.  Many of the same questions--who pays?  Is evacuation a sensible tool (presuming that we can't get that tractor into space to nudge the asteroid out of collision orbit)?  And who pays for any of those alternatives? On Aug 19, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: Must be a slow news day.  The story made the front page of the Albuquerque Journal North  today, too.  Congratulations. -- rec -- "These days, from time to time, the public libraries launch an effort to get children together with books, and signs bloom on their walls saying  Read to Succeed!  This seems singularly wrong-headed, since few seven-year-olds care about their future job categories, or at least no seven year old you'd want to know.  The signs ought to say Books: The Way Out." Barbara Holland

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