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Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 [message #50800 is a reply to message #50795]

Tue, 17 October 2006 11:03

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Ben Panter writes:

> As soon as you start talking about putting *anything* into orbit,
> the cost of (even) hardware like this is lost in the noise. In fact, you
> might say that it's one of the most crucial parts of the mission -
> relaying data to a public, even if it is only a small public who get to
> see it in the flesh, to convince them of why they are spending all that
> cash. The science and understanding of our own planet might mean that
> our kids have the opportunity to visit Mars - if we get it wrong here
> then perhaps there won't be an 'us' to make that trip.
>
> That's not to say that I don't think that we should be cancelling all
> Mars trips, or cancelling astronomy missions, it just means that as an
> ordinary scientist I'm glad that it's not taking *all* the cash.

Hi Ben,

As you know, I was being a little facetious. (Or maybe the
feeling I was expressing was envy, I'm not sure.) In any
case, I don't begrudge the NASA folks fancy hardware. Lord
knows the most exciting experience of my life this year
(other than having two state tennis singles champions from our
local high school) was being inside that Gemini dome when
the big telescope was opened up! Talk about a piece of
machinery. *That* feeling was sublime. Like visiting
the Astronomy Library in Edinburgh and seeing that first
edition of the Principia.

> PS: Played conkers the other day. Lost to a seven year old.

I still have my two sitting here on my desk, to remind
me of how expensive it is to live in Munich. :-)

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: Karsten Rodenacker on Thu, 19 October 2006 00:39
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 18 October 2006 07:38
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: Karsten Rodenacker on Wed, 18 October 2006 03:11
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 October 2006 11:03
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: Ben Panter on Tue, 17 October 2006 10:51
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 17 October 2006 08:31
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: K. Bowman on Tue, 17 October 2006 07:29
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 October 2006 06:09
		Re: Issue with 6.3, Mac OS X 10.4, 3 displays, X11 By: Karl Schultz on Thu, 19 October 2006 08:54

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