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Oct. 8th, 2004 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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....
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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Date: 2004-10-08 09:13 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2004-10-08 09:53 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-10-08 10:05 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-10-08 10:35 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2004-10-08 10:43 pm (UTC)