jason sends this article along -- it's by one of a group of mit students doing experiments in zero gravity and using a plane to do it. -- barry . . . . . . . ....
barry
barry@...
Nov 8, 1999 10:39 pm
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one useless piece of trivia for you: all of the weightless scenes in Apollo 13 were filmed on said comet... 30 seconds at a time... ...
Patrick Lafferty
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Nov 9, 1999 1:06 am
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hey - a quickie article on a strange "suicide note" from the Jupiter probe that may suggest the planet's mysterious origins. ...
barry
barry@...
Nov 23, 1999 7:32 am
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hey all -- check out this article by Robert Zurin, in Explorezone, advocating the colonization of Mars. His idea is that there is no longer a frontier on...
barry
barry@...
Nov 30, 1999 6:51 am
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Ironic! I just finished reading Robert Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars" about 6 hours ago! The last chapter is entitled "The significance of the Martian...
JasonY@...
Nov 30, 1999 4:24 pm
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As I read the article, I couldn't help thinking that this is written from the unique perspective of an explorer, one who goes "because it's there." However,...
gbrakr@...
Nov 30, 1999 5:04 pm
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... What's interesting about this quote is that it was written in 1950: two generations have been born since then, and we still find ourselves in a vibrant...
barry
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Dec 1, 1999 3:36 pm
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In a message dated 12/2/99 8:15:06 AM, inpeople@egroups.com writes: << Would you go? >> I would be the first to sign up! One of the questions I like to ask ...
JasonY@...
Dec 2, 1999 4:40 pm
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hey - here's an article on the adbusters website: a nice meditation on our 'decadent' society. It has all the deficits of the alternative press, but hits on...
barry
barry@...
Dec 3, 1999 4:10 pm
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This weekend I saw Princess Mononoke, the anime movie, and was thrilled. It's the movie that Disney is afraid to make: no cute sidekicks, no self-referential...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 6, 1999 5:19 pm
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This is going to be a short comment, and my first on the list. The article made sense, for the most part, except for the comment "...the deceleration of the...
Aaron Murray
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Dec 7, 1999 2:08 am
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The following is from NewsScan Daily. It's interesting to me, not only because I can totally relate to the example, having taken some philosophy courses in...
gbrakr@...
Dec 13, 1999 8:40 pm
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... first of all, who exactly *was* the "general reader" in Socrates's day? There was nothing general about reading, which was confined to about 1% of the...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 15, 1999 6:47 pm
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That's a good point -- it is a flaw. And this last part is especially ... What I got most out of the original piece had to do with the use of jargon in many...
gbrakr@...
Dec 16, 1999 4:16 pm
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check out this article in the Motley Fool -- a great site that Glenn Walters turned me on to: it's a smart and insightful investment website. ...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 28, 1999 7:58 am
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Perhaps if I had not seen a person -- my grandmother -- dead in a coffin for the first time this afternoon, I would share in the infectious and gleeful praise...
angela doss
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Jan 3, 2000 6:12 am
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hey -- you've got to check out this article in Salon! It just gets more ridiculous as it goes. It really could, without changing a word, go into the Onion...
barry
barry@...
Jan 9, 2000 6:25 am
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an interesting dialogue between two noted doctors on the subject of John Rocker's getting a psychological assessment in response to his racist remarks. ...
barry
barry@...
Jan 13, 2000 9:05 am
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barry <barr-@...> wrote: i tend to think that they both retreat to ... I think you're right, Barry. And the main aspect of the case is that Rocker is...
gbrakr@...
Jan 13, 2000 7:41 pm
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Hi, guys! I was in Atlanta for 757/767 training when the Rocker thing happened. What a cesspool of political correctness. Sending Rocker for a psych eval is...
speedbrake@...
Feb 24, 2000 6:17 pm
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I guess it's no surprise that I read voraciously -- even in my busiest days of music or grad work I've kept up with outside reading. It's food to my mind. ...
barry brake
barry@...
Feb 29, 2000 12:59 am
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Barry, Sounds interesting. I am reading two books now. The first is "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire," recommended by Dad. It is written by the pastor of the Brooklyn...
gbrakr@...
Feb 29, 2000 7:55 pm
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Hi, guys (and gals?)-- As some of you know, I usually read several books at once. I'm not sure how this started--perhaps flying for Delta has me in so manys...
Paul Brake
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Mar 1, 2000 4:15 am
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Greetings... Well, in case you didn't catch it, the correct statement of Fermat's Theorum is that for the equation x to the nth + y to the nth = z to the nth,...
Paul Brake
Speedbrake@...
Mar 1, 2000 2:36 pm
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Currently I am plowing through C.G. Jung's Archetypes and the Collective Unconcious. Interesting to say the least. Aaron...
Aaron
amurray@...
Mar 4, 2000 5:41 pm
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I know we've moved on beyond the Rocker thing, but thought you might be interested in the following from NewsScan Daily: WORTH THINKING ABOUT: WHAT DOES IT...
gbrakr@...
Mar 5, 2000 9:46 pm
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This last Christmas, I was in Hannah's (9yrs., 4th grade) elementary school and noticed that the theme of all the posters and drawings about Christmas done by...
Paul Brake
Speedbrake@...
Mar 15, 2000 5:27 am
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That's very interesting, and illustrates what I think is one of the core problems in the area of religion and schools: misinterpreting an individual's right of...
gbrakr@...
Mar 15, 2000 3:45 pm
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hey all -- (hope you don't mind, jason, but I thought this might be of interest to the gang....) Jason Young writes a response to my article in the current...
barry brake
barry@...
Apr 11, 2000 3:35 am
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Since my two children are about to change schools, moving probably from great schools to at best mediocre ones, this essay in the current Newsweek caught my...
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