Re: NASA Goes Deep

2007-02-28 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:08 PM Tuesday 2/27/2007, Doug wrote: Dan wrote: Well, IMHO, the manned space program is a waste of resources. I'd guess that the bang for the buck of this program is somewhere between 1% and 10% of that for spending on science. How do you think the general public would rank Apollo

RE: NASA Goes Deep

2007-02-28 Thread Horn, John
On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship Too bad that at least nine out of ten people you ask will have no idea what happened on that date . . .and that includes people who were alive and old enough to be in school then. Spoil sport! OK. I was 3 1/2. I don't remember the exact date but could

Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-02-28 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of