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[jay]

JPL trip, yesterday... alarm didn't go off, so I was woken by the limo driver at 5:30am. I threw on my clothes and fled... leaving my cellphone, but I didn't really need it. The project reviews were fine, I poked holes in two ill-thought-out efforts. And I was invited to put in a proposal to work with one of the participants on drilling automation and controls.

Today... telecon with Pascal. Budgetary things, nagging about my paper, but updated Ar-testing that shows that Haughton Crater is actually almost twice as old as we'd thought before. And we might put a telescope there to search over the winter for extrasolar planets, and be useful in a total solar eclipse there in early August 2006. And the company that makes IMAX films ("Everest", etc) is coming up next summer....

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[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Questions from one of your favorite high school drop-outs:

1) what is Ar-testing?
2) are extrasolar planets ones that orbit a different star?
3) IMAX Devon Island? I think I might get to see more than the inside of a tent, eh?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Eh? What, five degrees and you were an HS dropout?

1) Argon testing -- looking at potassium-40 decay into argon -- either measured directly, or bombarded with neutrons to generate argon and the ratio measured. (K-Ar and Ar-Ar methods)

2)Yep... this wide-field telescope would be sensitive to minute changes in the intensity of starlight, effectively looking for stellar eclipses.

3) I daresay you would... it is actually very rugged and beautiful, if barren.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

B.A., J.D., M.Div., M.A. That is only four. Though I have the coursework for a master's in history or medieval and renaissance studies.

um, yes...I went to high school for two years (technically 9th grade and 11th grade), and then left to go to college full-time (I'd been going part time for three years at that point), and never got the diploma.

So apparently I have two fewer academic credentials than you thought...I hope you're not disappointed.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

oh, pshaw. A GED wouldn't prove anything, after the others...

At any rate, that simply means we're tied in pieces of collegiate paper (S.B., two separate M.S.'s and a Ph.D.)... that and $3.25 gets a mocha at the local cafe...

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Vicky and I used to joke about collecting the whole set between us, though she's a freak with a B.A. in Physics (or was it Natural Sciences?), though the degrees she had that I don't are MSE, MPA, and MS. We used to joke about wallpapering a bathroom with them. Fortunately, I don't even want a mocha-- given all the accumulated student loans. Grin.