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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: SPACE Digest V5 #90
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 13:40:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 13:40:22 1985
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> Professional???????????
> 
> Eugine(sp?) at ames is the only one who shows a truly
> professionsal outlook in these groups, net.columba and net.space.
> 
> Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel
> Interactive Systems, 7th floor, 441 Stuart st, Boston, MA 02116; 617-247-1155

permit me to crawl out my cave while our systems people get cft 1.14 installed.

professional? me? consider me in the usenix jargon: an "un-official."
why would anybody take space seriously?  it's no better reality, but i must
confess working on space projects: so far seasat, voyager, hcmm, landsat
was childhood ambition. [what to do rocky horror groupies use as their
ending quote?]  don't take space too seriously [within limits].   don't
take me to seriously: i have not worked on shuttle or other manned
projects, nor on the space station.  the postings by phil and adam to
net.columbia as well as numerous others are as good as having other nasa
centers on the net [better in some ways].  fortunately
for me, my management approves my scanning the usenet.  they have been
impressed by posting of net.jobs, requests for device drivers on
net.wanted, and so forth.

now i am out of direct space work and into supercomputing.  i lunch with
space station and pioneer project people, but yearn for deep space work.
nuclear winter research is important, too.  regarding the news group,
i think ron's letter and subsequent follow on have sparked new thinking.
last week's quality: postings on extraterrestial intelligence and
space construction are quite impressive.

although space digest is archived on the arpanet, what the news group
needs the most is some sort of long-term collective memory.  i've suggested
this to net.astro with meager response.  we need summary collections of
past discussions to prevent going in circles and rediscovering the "wheel."
something like mark horton's introduction to reading network news is in
order.  it's that simple.  the problem is the disk space and access.
anybody want to experiment with optical storage?

time to crawl back to the cray and "non" debug the new compiler.

suffering diarrhea of the mouth.
--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene
  emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA