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Intergalactic Speleological Society?

Postby SRPhotographic » Mar 17, 2007 11:01 am

Check this out. Imagine if NASA started looking to hire cavers...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6461201.stm
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Postby Teresa » Mar 17, 2007 11:57 am

Hey! I've already got the patch! When do we sign up?
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Postby Ralph E. Powers » Mar 17, 2007 5:05 pm

I am SO there!
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Postby hewhocaves » Mar 17, 2007 9:12 pm

heh.. I smell a Master's Thesis topic :-D

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Postby Teresa » Mar 17, 2007 10:35 pm

hewhocaves wrote:heh.. I smell a Master's Thesis topic :-D

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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!
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Postby hewhocaves » Mar 18, 2007 12:09 am

i wonder if i still have that 'university of mars' t-shirt....
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Postby Teresa » Mar 18, 2007 9:29 am

My husband suggested Martin O'Hara for a faculty advisor.
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Postby Herman Miller » Mar 18, 2007 2:44 pm

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

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 :)
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Postby Herman Miller » Mar 18, 2007 4:36 pm

lol adleedy, take it with a grain of salt, thats what ill tell nasa
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Postby adleedy » Mar 18, 2007 5:32 pm

ok :grin:
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Postby hewhocaves » Mar 19, 2007 11:30 am

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.

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Postby Teresa » Mar 19, 2007 3:06 pm

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.)
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"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.
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Postby hewhocaves » Mar 19, 2007 5:50 pm

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.
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