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notmatt ([personal profile] notmatt) wrote2007-03-14 09:15 pm
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LPSC

My talk went much better than I expected and was very well received. I was rather surprised. I was just thrilled to be able to give it at all, since we had quite some thunderstorms today. I was afraid we'd lose power. At least I finished before the HAIL started. One of the later talks in the session was punctuated by thunderclaps. "God does not approve of your crater relaxation model." Francis tried to ask a question of the speaker after that one and she could not hear him despite the fact that he was shouting into a microphone. That's how loud the hail was. No useful sessions in the morning, so I can sleep in. Yay.
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[personal profile] rbandrews 2007-03-15 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Your conference is directly across from the building where I work. If I had known you were here I'd have taken you out for lunch.

[identity profile] jameshroberts.livejournal.com 2007-03-15 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm here through tomorrow. The conference really needs to not be here though. It outgrew the South Shore Harbor about 5 years ago. Which, is the first year it was there, having moved from JSC after 9/11 because "we can't let them dang furriners steal our space program secrets." They wouldn't let non-US citizens into JSC after that, and roughly half the conference is non-US citizens.

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(Anonymous) 2007-03-15 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Do pass any comments about the facility or LPSC. Write it down and e-mail or hand it to someone. Comments heard in passing may not be reaclled after all the work we do.

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[identity profile] jameshroberts.livejournal.com 2007-03-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Will do. Though I'm shocked anyone involved is scanning the blogs for LPSC comments.
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[personal profile] rbandrews 2007-03-15 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
They wouldn't? There are many international people in the ISS program, I didn't realize that they all had to work off-site. Typical politician's fallacy thinking: something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do this.

Call me tomorrow morning at 540-449-8603 if you want to get lunch somewhere. Or if not that's fine also.
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[personal profile] rbandrews 2007-03-16 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I suck. I got your message and then was way too busy to call. I remembered about the time we were sitting down at T-Bone Tom's.

See you at TCon though.