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Intergalactic Speleological Society?

PostPosted: Mar 17, 2007 11:01 am
by SRPhotographic
Check this out. Imagine if NASA started looking to hire cavers...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6461201.stm

PostPosted: Mar 17, 2007 11:57 am
by Teresa
Hey! I've already got the patch! When do we sign up?

PostPosted: Mar 17, 2007 5:05 pm
by Ralph E. Powers
I am SO there!

PostPosted: Mar 17, 2007 9:12 pm
by hewhocaves
heh.. I smell a Master's Thesis topic :-D

john

PostPosted: Mar 17, 2007 10:35 pm
by Teresa
hewhocaves wrote:heh.. I smell a Master's Thesis topic :-D

john



And where are you going to get a faculty member from Martian University to do your advisement/pass on your thesis defense?

Ummm. Scratch that. Here K-9! Here boy!

PostPosted: Mar 18, 2007 12:09 am
by hewhocaves
i wonder if i still have that 'university of mars' t-shirt....

PostPosted: Mar 18, 2007 9:29 am
by Teresa
My husband suggested Martin O'Hara for a faculty advisor.

PostPosted: Mar 18, 2007 2:44 pm
by Herman Miller
hmm, alreay work for the government and doubt theres many others better qualified then myself :P

PostPosted: Mar 18, 2007 2:49 pm
by adleedy
bremen66 wrote:hmm, alreay work for the government and doubt theres many others better qualified then myself :P


Remarks like that make me question ones ability :)

PostPosted: Mar 18, 2007 4:36 pm
by Herman Miller
lol adleedy, take it with a grain of salt, thats what ill tell nasa

PostPosted: Mar 18, 2007 5:32 pm
by adleedy
ok :grin:

PostPosted: Mar 19, 2007 11:30 am
by hewhocaves
Teresa wrote:My husband suggested Martin O'Hara for a faculty advisor.


who?

i just 'ran it up the flagpople' to my advisor and while we agreed it would be very cool and the field research would be choice, vulcanospeleology is not what i've been gearing everything towards.

admittedly, the principle is fairly straightforward. modify the existing rules for lava tube creation on the earth to account for martian changes in gravity, atmosphere and mineral content, identify the question marks and extrapolate from the new rules where you might find additional lava tubes.

Then, with Odessey, either thumb back through existing data or *suggest* NASA point their cameras at a specific place to verify your hypothesis. Modify, rinse, repeat.

however, it looks like i may be doing something in the Elk River instead.

john

PostPosted: Mar 19, 2007 3:06 pm
by Teresa
hewhocaves wrote:
Teresa wrote:My husband suggested Martin O'Hara for a faculty advisor.


who?



Oh, if I have to explain it, you're too young (you lucky person.)
:doh:


"Uncle Martin" played by Ray Walston in the TV sitcom "My Favorite Martian".

He kept his broken spaceship in the garage of his journalist nephew (played by Bill Bixby) and kept trying to fix it with 1960s earth technology.

PostPosted: Mar 19, 2007 5:50 pm
by hewhocaves
Teresa wrote:
Oh, if I have to explain it, you're too young (you lucky person.)
:doh:


"Uncle Martin" played by Ray Walston in the TV sitcom "My Favorite Martian".

He kept his broken spaceship in the garage of his journalist nephew (played by Bill Bixby) and kept trying to fix it with 1960s earth technology.


so THATS what made Bill Bixby so young he turned into the Hulk.. interesting.
yes.. its a little before my time and it was never popular enough to be a seventies rerun. Sad.