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| Ron Baalke |
 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:32 am |
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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/events/marsapalooza.html
Not Your Typical "Rock" Tour: Mars Rocks With Marsapalooza!
November 7, 2003
What in the world is Marsapalooza?
Marsapalooza, part of NASA's Mars 2004 ("M2K4") effort to promote the Mars
Exploration Rovers mission and NASA Mars education initiatives, is a tour
during which a team of youthful scientists and engineers (the "M-Team")
will visit five cities across the country to raise public literacy about
the Mars mission, to reach out to students in underserved communities, and
to present themselves as role models to inspire the next generation of
explorers. The tour is the product of a unique partnership involving NASA,
the National Science Foundation, Passport to Knowledge, and several museums,
planetariums, and science centers across the country.
The kickoff event for Marsapalooza will be held on December 2nd in New York
City at the American Museum of Natural History. The tour, the partnership's
take on Lollapalooza, a concept introduced by alternative rock group Jane's
Addiction's front man Perry Farrell as slang for "something or someone
striking or unusual", hopes to capture the spirit of a true rock concert
tour. Marsapalooza will come complete with special lighting, a video, and
its own musical soundtrack, while communicating the message to young
people that science and math are cool.
M-Team members Jim Rice, Deborah Bass, Zoe Learner, Kobie Boykins, Adam
Steltzner, and Shonte Wright, a diverse group of scientists and engineers,
will represent the Mars Exploration Rovers mission team. Marsapalooza will
begin in New York City, proceed to the Naval Observatory in Washington on
December 3, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on December 4, the Denver
Museum of Nature and Science on December 6, and will wrap up at a special,
yet-to-be-announced location in Los Angeles on December 8. The public will
have a chance in each city to meet with the M-Team, and K-12 students will
have the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities and demonstrations
related to the science of the Mars Exploration Rovers mission.
The rovers, named Spirit and Opportunity, will arrive at Mars in January to
examine rocks there with more tools than the much smaller rover of NASA's
1997 Mars Pathfinder mission. One of the messages the M-Team hopes to
convey about the Mars Exploration Rovers mission is how exciting and
extremely challenging it is to land and operate a rover on Mars.
"Making a machine that works perfectly is always a goal, and [to see it]
working on Mars is that extra little tidbit that puts it over the top.
It's the icing on the cake," commented Kobie Boykins, a mechanical engineer
at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and youthful member of the M-Team.
Marsapalooza gives scientists and engineers such as Kobie a chance to show
the world that, both literally - the average temperature on Mars is -63
degrees Celsius! - and figuratively, nothing is "cooler" than contributing
to one of the greatest space exploration missions of all time.
The kickoff event will be Web cast live at http://www.nasa.gov/. Stay
tuned to the NASA Web site in the weeks to come to find out more about
Marsapalooza and NASA's own rock stars: the M-Team! |
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| Peter Harding |
| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 4:14 am |
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In article <booei8$77n$1@nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
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Quote: Marsapalooza [...] to raise public literacy
Really.
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| Bryan Butler |
| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 3:08 pm |
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Name: Bryan Butler
My name is Bryan Butler and I have been working my whole life trying
to find the truth. I have found the connection, the truth.
I have simplified what others could not. I am finding myself
bored and I am no longer challanged.
I gave a presentation in my class and it had to be under 3 minutes,
it went as follows. Though I can explain it better in person.
_____________________Deep thinking with Bryan Butler____________
Title
1.Introduction
For my topic I have chosen a difficult concept to Convey. And that is,
if it would be possible or even conceivable that nothing would be in
the center of the earth.
So for my time with you we are going to do some light deep thinking
and try to think a little out of the box and hopefully no one will get
hurt.
My objective is to make one good point that would support nothing
being in the center of the planet.
I have a short amount of time, and I have racked my brain trying to
find the best way to accomplish my objective here today and I believe
the answer for achieving my objective is to talk about opposites, more
over antonyms.
2.Body
Antonyms are words that are opposite, ladies and gentlemen.
So here is a quick list of other antonyms, Good/Bad, Wrong/Right,
Up/Down, Left/Right, Day/Night, Beginning/End, Forever/Never, Yes/NO,
Open/Close, Forward/Backwards, In/Out, Plus/Minus, Positive and
Negative, and so On and so OFF. (Boy that was a mouthful)
Now when I was younger I found that I had a Mother and Father, and
soon after I had a Brother and Sister, I went outside my house and saw
the day and sure enough sooner or later the night came. I went to
school and I found, Educated and Uneducated, I found Rich and Poor, I
found Smart and Dumb, I found Right and Wrong and I learned about
Kindness and Cruelness, I learned about Mercy and Ruthlessness, I
learned about 1 and 0, about positive and negative, about North and
South, about On and Off. So as my time decreased here on earth I
found my grade levels increased and I learned that I was stacking this
Opposites and Similarities in order to learn. I then realized I should
put the similarities into categories, so I took words like kindness,
Mercy, fairness, and others and grouped them together and found the
name for that category to be Good. I then grouped the words Cruelness,
Ruthlessness and unfairness, and found the name of that category to be
bad. Not surprisingly I found, of Course, each category still had an
opposite. But then I came upon a problem in school. I learned that hot
and cold went into the category Temperature. I learned that queit and
load went into the category sound. I learned about other categories,
such as Color, such as taste and smell, such as Time and Weight. The
problem came when trying to find the opposites of those categories. So
I grouped them together Time, Temperature, Color, taste, smell,
weight, and all other categories that I had ever seen. What do they
all have in Common I then asked my self and the answer was simply,
ENERGY.
3.Conclusion
So the next question I came upon was this, can there be one without
zero, could there be on without off, could there be white without
black.
In a movie there are good guys and bad guys, problems and solutions,
so would it be enjoyable to come up with a movie that had only Good
guys and solutions without problems. How could you have a solution
without first having a problem? How would you know what a good guy was
if there was not a bad guy to compare him too. Well sounds about as
good an Idea as having a computer language with only 1's. If all you
had ever seen was darkness how would you truly know you were in
darkness until you saw the light?
So they say no matter how many times you split a magnet you always
have a positive and a negative, JUST LIKE CATEGORIES. So if opposites
attract like positive and negative, and they don't exist without each
other. Could Energies opposite be the absence of all energy types,
meaning No Time, No smell, No taste, No temperature, and the absence
of all color, making it pure black? The center of your eye is not pure
black but energy black attracting all possible light, not stones or
other energy types though. The center of the earth could be the
absence of all energy, pure black, attracting all possible energy none
excluded and as a result gravity is created.
So if you wouldn't mind I would like to write a few things on the
board.
Truth |Lie
English/ Something + Nothing = Everything |contradiction = Not 1
Math/ 1 + 0 = 1 |contradiction = Not 1
Science/ Energy +Ab-energy = 0 |contradiction = NOT 1
What's the opposite of the Category Everything, How could anyone
find the
truth without the contradiction? The opposites truth and lie are the
final
opposites!!
Zero + one = One, and you can't see the zero anymore.
Something + Nothing = Everything, You still can't see the nothing.
Energy + the Absence of energy = 0, the line representing the 1 making
it possible to see the 0 and the 1 together for the can not exist
without eachother.
Most people when they see this 0 they say it is a Zero but I see a 1
not just a
Zero.
To explain, I took a stick and put it in the dirt and moved it around
in a
circle and I got a blurry one around the zero, like a wheel. The one
made it possible to find the zero!
d. The 0 demonstration.
1. How could you see Zero without the 1? You could not see it (erase
it).
2. How could you know energy without the absence of all energy? (leave
it)
d. Thank you all for listening I wish you all the best in your life |
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