Comes with an adapter to download CF & SM media onto it. It's rather sweet and let's you preview the images on the device and as a bonus stores your mp3's (Pimsleur language tapes for learning local languages as you travel) and ripped dvd's (for those long plane & train rides).
Make sure you have all the adapters so you can recharge it via local outlets & voltages.
Traveling the world as a geek does rule. As geeks our major problem is we try to generalize our lives to NOT ENOUGH DATA. Travel gives you enormous quantities of data - especially if you blend in with the local travels. You learn so much about the world and when you come home and apply it to your own world - the possibilities are unlimited.
-Jay Thomas
Countries visited in the two years: Saudi Arabia, India (Kerela & Bombay), China (Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen), Japan (Tokyo), Hong Kong, Taiwan (Taipei), Macao, Mexico & Canada
Plans for the next year: Japan (next month!), Spain, Thailand, among other places!
Well, I went the opposite way - I went from living alone paying all my bills alone to living w/ 3 room mates. Unfortunately I also moved from Illinois to San Francisco so my rent doubled even though I have room mates now. But my place is way bigger than my place in college and my room mates are really cool so it works out. Also: my income more than quadrupled which helps just a little bit.;-) (my fun money increased by a factor of 100 as well; my cost of fun increased by approximately a factor of 4 (SF vs. IL) so I'm having roughly 25 times more fun.:-))
Anyways, to the original poster:
a) Read a Random Walk down Wall Street suggested by another poster. It is the best book on finance out there.
b) The key to finance is to match the duration on your income with your obligations. You'll understand what that means after reading a). But the point is you need to have money available when you need it. So: separate money by duration - or when it is available. The simple way to do this is to separate your short, medium & long term obligations.
short term: (this month) money to pay rent, credit cards & car payment.
medium term: (next couple months) put aside a couple months worth of expenditures so that when you are jobless in the next couple years you won't burn your credit too badly.
long term: Retirement is important. So is buying a house. So is having kids some day. They really do pay us pretty decent money these days to be an engineer so you should be thinking about how you can retire in ten years or at least not have to work. (which allows you to only do jobs you like)
conclusions: most people know nothing about finance or personal finance and get screwed when they lose their job or are forced into a job doing something they don't want to do. And money does not buy happiness but it certainly helps a whole lot.
The answer is and always has been rsync. Having many copies of stuff around is both cheap & improves reliability - just rsync from time to time over ssh to keep your files up to date. crontab it & don't worry about your operating system.
That's a beautiful line and there is a lot of truth in it. In general the universe does not seem hospitable for intelligent life. Planetary scale stability required for the evolution of intelligent life seems to not be there. There doesn't seem to be anyone else out there - otherwise a) they would be here already b) we would notice their handiwork everywhere.
So where does that leave us? We have got to get out of here! If we don't - in a million years there will be no humans, if we do, in a million years humans will be everywhere. It will probably take us far longer to get out than the willy eyed futurists predict but it doesn't really matter because we have to think in terms of geological time. When time scales go to thousands and tens of thousands of years the probability of a civilization destroying event go to unity. If we don't, it might be another 5 billion years until something like us arises elsewhere.
And god damn, there is nothing more human than having impossible dreams.
Go to radio shack, buy an IR lead, stick it on your serial port between DTR & ground. Use Lirc http://www.lirc.org/ and download the ir remote database. Use rc to send remote commands.
Well, I have the unique perspective of a geek who just spent a bunch of time in China. It's an interesting place; plenty of contrasts, the bicycle rickshaw with a load of LCD displays outside Tsinghua university was one of them. The funny thing is the cities are capitalist and growing at a considerable rate. The countryside, where the bulk of the population is, is neither. And to move between the countryside and the city you need a visa. That sounds like a stable situation to me.
Already many of the cities have a comparable standard of living to the US; except it's very different. I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Shenzhen and enjoyed a view of Hong Kong from my towering hotel room; the city was beautiful. 20 years ago 6000 people lived in a fishing village there. They made it a special economic zone and now 6 million people live there. Not a bad demonstration of the power of capitalism.
I talked to some girls who worked at a nearby coffee shop. They were basically indentured servitudes for the coffee shop. They lived in a company dorm and the company gave them food. The company was, oddly enough, based out of Taiwan.
So that was a little strange.
The lack of a free press made people's view of america interesting; basically they had no idea of what life was like in the US and asked a lot of silly questions. But, they did have access to US movies, through the form of street markets or random guys on street corners who ask you if you want a DVD or VCD. So many people had seen US movies and were curious whether movies such as American Pie truely represented life in America.
Conclusions? China is still a third world country with some parts approaching second world quality of living. It'll be a while before they give us a run for the money. Smart, ambitious people in China still want to come to the US.
Myself I believe in the theory of benign neglect. Let your kids run amock, just give them the moral foundation so that they won't go too far. And for god's sake, bruise some recklessness into them!
I like this, plus you give a ring that gives you secret powers. (opps, let that cat out of the bag)
I am an Engineer, in my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations.
Since the Stone Age, human progress has been spurred by the engineering genius. Engineers have made usable Nature's vast resources of material and energy for Humanity's [Mankind's] benefit. Engineers have vitalized and turned to practical use the principles of science and the means of technology. Were it not for this heritage of accumulated experience, my efforts would be feeble.
As an Engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and the dignity of my profession, conscious always that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of Earth's precious wealth.
As an Engineer[, in humility and with the need for Divine guidance,] I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good. In the performance of duty and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost.
The person is accepting a 50% pay cut because he can't get anything better on the market. If IT labor were unionized we would be payed about the same as other unionized positions; which, though it's not bad, is significantly less than I'm used to because 100% of the time I have been able to negotiate my salary better than anyone else.
Unions may have made sense in certain industries or in certain centuries but I doubt it. Most of the time they tend to reduce the output of labor and increase costs which in any long run reduces corporate competitive power and leads to less salary growth, less jobs, and less money.
Instead of an IT work stoppage, my advise would be to quit and find another job. As someone who recently finished a job hunt I can definitely say jobs are out there. They aren't quite as easy to get as they were last year but they still are plentiful and they still pay pretty nicely.
Take all of the above with a grain of salt because I am a capitalist pig.
My favorite space shooter was escape velocity on the macintosh. It really did rule; it combined space shooter aspects with trading. And the price of goods varied from planet to planet and the price of fuel varied and you went from world to world trying to keep your head above the water as your debts mounted and you tried to do the every profitable three-way trade and yet arm yourselves and not get in the middle of the war between the rebels and the empire. There were pirates, you could do missions for the military. You could buy carrier ships. You could become a pirate.
There were some AMAZING add ons for the game to. I remember one that added the Star Wars book universe including the death star.
If anyone ever managed to make a network version of that game...
MJPEG based recording of Buz & Matrox Zoran chipsets.
Automatic transcoding to divx 4 at 90 mb/half hour show.
Shows are automatically recorded from guide data downloaded by xmltv and shoved in to a SQL database.
There is also a full featured divx movie player frontend.
Of course this is all controlled by LIRC. I've basically been putting these pieces together for a while and it seems to work very well at this point. Soon I will no longer be touching the tivo.
Some screen shots.
The TV viewer. http://ssm0.aae.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2/pic.jp g
The Movie Viewer http://ssm0.aae.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2/pic2.jp g
The space shuttle budget for 2001 was 3.28 billion dollars. Divide that by the scheduled 7 flights and you get 468 million per flight. Even if you could cram people in without seats or life support, you are talking about ~2 million a person. Unfortunately actually cargo capability of the space shuttle is significantly less because of mass and balance constraints for abort. And people need seats and life support.
The cost of a Soyuz flight is on the order of 6 million. The cost of a Proton flight with similair cargo capabilities to the shuttle is on the order of 10 million. (of course, you can't buy it at that price. However, you can buy them for something on the order of $2000/lb) The nice thing about a Soyuz is you can probably find 3 people who are willing to pay millions of dollars to go into space while it would be much more difficult to find hundreds of people to do the same. In '99 the budget for the Russian space program was $99 million, of which 50-70% was funded.
The side note to all of this is the foreign currency reserve situation in Russia. The Russian government prints money and lives with the inflationary consequences. However, undertakings of technical complexity such as the space program require significant outlays of dollars. Tito's flight probably provides all of the foreign currency reserves to operate the Russian space program this year.
Ultimately, however, unique markets such as space tourism will demand unique vehicles. The theory, in some circles, is the elasticity of space tourism will pay for the development of such vehicles. The few people you launch for $20million a pop will finance the development of vehicles to launch thousands for $100k a pop and millions for $10k a pop. Of course only time will tell.
The long term importance of this is that citizen exploration of space has to take place before citizen space settlement. As government has shown no willingness (or reason, or responsibility for the involved risks) for space settlement, this is the most important context of space tourism.
I have more than 5 years of mail, instantly accessible, either via web browser, grep'ing the mail files or IMAP mail program. All of it is full text searchable even though the outgoing link from my mail server is only 128kps (@#@!#@! @HOME!)
Easy to back up, easy to restore. Easy to convert between format, Cyrus rules. Plus it's fast & works great w/ GUI mail programs.
People see pine open my 3500 msg inbox & ask me why I don't delete messages. The reason is simple, it takes about 2 seconds to open that mailbox.:-)
My archive mailboxes tend to be much larger.
With the rpms available on redhat's powertools CD's it's also pretty trivial to install, just rpm, then reconfigure sendmail & you are set to go. (Though sometimes you need to play w/ cyrus's authentication library a little)
Both FAME & MP1E can digitize of a bttv board in realtime for mpeg1. Since mp1e outputs to standard output, you could use something like netcat to stream it to the net. FAME has some net streaming options. I also think the 1.8beta version of MP1E also has some network streaming options.
I also saw a program valled VCR on Freshmeat that claims to do realtime divx;-) encoding which you could also use for streaming purposes.
Sigma designs also has some hardware/software products to do mpeg streaming over a network.
It's not going to happen as the inclination of Mir is different from ISS. Inclination changes are among the most "expensive" in terms of delta-V operations. However, FINDS's MET project would have used atmospheric drag to change the inclination of Mir gradually change the orbit of Mir using an electromagnetic tether.
Actually the Russians wanted to have ISS at the same inclination but for political reasons a "compromise" inclination was chosen that is sub-optimal for everyone involved. Even as late as the launch of the first Russian module they were pushing to switch the inclination. If they did that, the stations could at least serve as lifeboats to each other and some modules and/or equipment could be moved over. Remember, much of Mir dates to 1995 when the "American" modules were launched. (Read Dragonfly if you have a chance, it's a great book, I'm surprised someone hasn't submitted a review yet)
Of course, Mir would need a substancial capital infusion if it were to return to operational status. That was the whole point of MirCorp, not to use a dying station, but to re-fit it & open it for commercial operations. Hopefully their latest plans will go smoother.
Sounds like they are building a free-floater that will co-orbit & can dock w/ ISS so it can use the same re-supply mechanisms as ISS but yet be completely independent so you don't have to fill out 7 kg of paperwork before you can dock w/ it.
It also seems as if Titov has approval to go on ISS in April. We'll see how it all works out though. Should be interesting.
The 2000 Edition of the High Frontier is out. It looks great & is 50% new content. You can buy it directly from Space Studies at:
http://www.ssi.org/high-frontier.html
It comes with a CD-Rom w/ hours of MPEGs of Gerry & others.
Make sure you check out the websites for SSI (http://www.ssi.org), the Foundation (http://www.space-frontier.org), prospace (http://prospace.org) & FINDS (http://www.finds-space.org) for what the dream of the High Frontier has become in the last 10-20 years.
The High Frontier vision is that of space settlement, finding ways to pay so you can stay in space.
-Jay Thomas
PS: You might want to check out my project at:
http://www.finds-space.org/thomasneurauter.html
Or check out my home page at:
http://www.jay.cx (http://24.181.128.90 for broken DNS)
Slashdot Mirror
Make sure you have all the adapters so you can recharge it via local outlets & voltages.
Traveling the world as a geek does rule. As geeks our major problem is we try to generalize our lives to NOT ENOUGH DATA. Travel gives you enormous quantities of data - especially if you blend in with the local travels. You learn so much about the world and when you come home and apply it to your own world - the possibilities are unlimited.
-Jay Thomas
Countries visited in the two years: Saudi Arabia, India (Kerela & Bombay), China (Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen), Japan (Tokyo), Hong Kong, Taiwan (Taipei), Macao, Mexico & Canada
Plans for the next year: Japan (next month!), Spain, Thailand, among other places!
http://www.jthomas2.com
jthomas2@uiuc.edu
Well, I went the opposite way - I went from living alone paying all my bills alone to living w/ 3 room mates. Unfortunately I also moved from Illinois to San Francisco so my rent doubled even though I have room mates now. But my place is way bigger than my place in college and my room mates are really cool so it works out. Also: my income more than quadrupled which helps just a little bit. ;-) (my fun money increased by a factor of 100 as well; my cost of fun increased by approximately a factor of 4 (SF vs. IL) so I'm having roughly 25 times more fun. :-))
Anyways, to the original poster:
a) Read a Random Walk down Wall Street suggested by another poster. It is the best book on finance out there.
b) The key to finance is to match the duration on your income with your obligations. You'll understand what that means after reading a). But the point is you need to have money available when you need it. So: separate money by duration - or when it is available. The simple way to do this is to separate your short, medium & long term obligations.
short term: (this month) money to pay rent, credit cards & car payment.
medium term: (next couple months) put aside a couple months worth of expenditures so that when you are jobless in the next couple years you won't burn your credit too badly.
long term: Retirement is important. So is buying a house. So is having kids some day. They really do pay us pretty decent money these days to be an engineer so you should be thinking about how you can retire in ten years or at least not have to work. (which allows you to only do jobs you like)
conclusions: most people know nothing about finance or personal finance and get screwed when they lose their job or are forced into a job doing something they don't want to do. And money does not buy happiness but it certainly helps a whole lot.
The answer is and always has been rsync. Having many copies of stuff around is both cheap & improves reliability - just rsync from time to time over ssh to keep your files up to date. crontab it & don't worry about your operating system.
-Jay
That's a beautiful line and there is a lot of truth in it. In general the universe does not seem hospitable for intelligent life. Planetary scale stability required for the evolution of intelligent life seems to not be there. There doesn't seem to be anyone else out there - otherwise a) they would be here already b) we would notice their handiwork everywhere.
So where does that leave us? We have got to get out of here! If we don't - in a million years there will be no humans, if we do, in a million years humans will be everywhere. It will probably take us far longer to get out than the willy eyed futurists predict but it doesn't really matter because we have to think in terms of geological time. When time scales go to thousands and tens of thousands of years the probability of a civilization destroying event go to unity. If we don't, it might be another 5 billion years until something like us arises elsewhere.
And god damn, there is nothing more human than having impossible dreams.
-Jay
Go to radio shack, buy an IR lead, stick it on your serial port between DTR & ground. Use Lirc http://www.lirc.org/ and download the ir remote database. Use rc to send remote commands.
It's actually pretty easy.
-Jay
Well, I have the unique perspective of a geek who just spent a bunch of time in China. It's an interesting place; plenty of contrasts, the bicycle rickshaw with a load of LCD displays outside Tsinghua university was one of them. The funny thing is the cities are capitalist and growing at a considerable rate. The countryside, where the bulk of the population is, is neither. And to move between the countryside and the city you need a visa. That sounds like a stable situation to me.
Already many of the cities have a comparable standard of living to the US; except it's very different. I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Shenzhen and enjoyed a view of Hong Kong from my towering hotel room; the city was beautiful. 20 years ago 6000 people lived in a fishing village there. They made it a special economic zone and now 6 million people live there. Not a bad demonstration of the power of capitalism.
I talked to some girls who worked at a nearby coffee shop. They were basically indentured servitudes for the coffee shop. They lived in a company dorm and the company gave them food. The company was, oddly enough, based out of Taiwan.
So that was a little strange.
The lack of a free press made people's view of america interesting; basically they had no idea of what life was like in the US and asked a lot of silly questions. But, they did have access to US movies, through the form of street markets or random guys on street corners who ask you if you want a DVD or VCD. So many people had seen US movies and were curious whether movies such as American Pie truely represented life in America.
Conclusions? China is still a third world country with some parts approaching second world quality of living. It'll be a while before they give us a run for the money. Smart, ambitious people in China still want to come to the US.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
Except there'a free version of AFS now, OpenAFS.
You're really better off using something like Intermezzo, or Coda.
But that's a lot of work; why not just use the traditional answer of NFS+automount+NIS.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
Sounds good, very reminicent of the National Space Commission report except that had more emphasis on return to the moon versus Lagrange points.
e r.html,
(Of course I know a little bit about Lagrange points,
http://www.finds-space.org/thomasneuraut
We do have some stuff to publish soon.)
Well, as always, I'd like to believe.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
a) System Administrator is not nearly as glamorous a profession as you think it is and is not written with capital letters.
b) If you are reasonably good, it's not hard to get a job but you will not go very far unless you get a college degree some time.
c) IMHO, your money goes up until you hit Phd. Masters seems to be the optimal money for work.
d) College does rule. Drinking, parties, coeds, dorms, keggers, MY GOD that was fun, I can't believe I'm leaving!
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
This is silly, Boundary Conditions are not useful unless you have the right Partial Differential Equation.
-Jay
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
I like this, plus you give a ring that gives you secret powers. (opps, let that cat out of the bag)
I am an Engineer, in my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations.
Since the Stone Age, human progress has been spurred by the engineering genius. Engineers have made usable Nature's vast resources of material and energy for Humanity's [Mankind's] benefit. Engineers have vitalized and turned to practical use the principles of science and the means of technology. Were it not for this heritage of accumulated experience, my efforts would be feeble.
As an Engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and the dignity of my profession, conscious always that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of Earth's precious wealth.
As an Engineer[, in humility and with the need for Divine guidance,] I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good. In the performance of duty and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
Unions may have made sense in certain industries or in certain centuries but I doubt it. Most of the time they tend to reduce the output of labor and increase costs which in any long run reduces corporate competitive power and leads to less salary growth, less jobs, and less money.
Instead of an IT work stoppage, my advise would be to quit and find another job. As someone who recently finished a job hunt I can definitely say jobs are out there. They aren't quite as easy to get as they were last year but they still are plentiful and they still pay pretty nicely.
Take all of the above with a grain of salt because I am a capitalist pig.
-Jay Thomas http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
My favorite space shooter was escape velocity on the macintosh. It really did rule; it combined space shooter aspects with trading. And the price of goods varied from planet to planet and the price of fuel varied and you went from world to world trying to keep your head above the water as your debts mounted and you tried to do the every profitable three-way trade and yet arm yourselves and not get in the middle of the war between the rebels and the empire. There were pirates, you could do missions for the military. You could buy carrier ships. You could become a pirate.
There were some AMAZING add ons for the game to. I remember one that added the Star Wars book universe including the death star.
If anyone ever managed to make a network version of that game...
-Jay
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
Yes. It does.
Your point?
I can email you some code if you are interested in collaborating. Otherwise you can't get it yet but some time this summer I'll do a public release.
-Jay
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I have a linux based PVR.
Some features:
MJPEG based recording of Buz & Matrox Zoran chipsets.
Automatic transcoding to divx 4 at 90 mb/half hour show.
Shows are automatically recorded from guide data downloaded by xmltv and shoved in to a SQL database.
There is also a full featured divx movie player frontend.
Of course this is all controlled by LIRC. I've basically been putting these pieces together for a while and it seems to work very well at this point. Soon I will no longer be touching the tivo.
Some screen shots.
The TV viewer.
http://ssm0.aae.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2/pic.j
The Movie Viewer
http://ssm0.aae.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2/pic2.j
The space shuttle budget for 2001 was 3.28 billion dollars. Divide that by the scheduled 7 flights and you get 468 million per flight. Even if you could cram people in without seats or life support, you are talking about ~2 million a person. Unfortunately actually cargo capability of the space shuttle is significantly less because of mass and balance constraints for abort. And people need seats and life support.
The cost of a Soyuz flight is on the order of 6 million. The cost of a Proton flight with similair cargo capabilities to the shuttle is on the order of 10 million. (of course, you can't buy it at that price. However, you can buy them for something on the order of $2000/lb) The nice thing about a Soyuz is you can probably find 3 people who are willing to pay millions of dollars to go into space while it would be much more difficult to find hundreds of people to do the same. In '99 the budget for the Russian space program was $99 million, of which 50-70% was funded.The side note to all of this is the foreign currency reserve situation in Russia. The Russian government prints money and lives with the inflationary consequences. However, undertakings of technical complexity such as the space program require significant outlays of dollars. Tito's flight probably provides all of the foreign currency reserves to operate the Russian space program this year.
Ultimately, however, unique markets such as space tourism will demand unique vehicles. The theory, in some circles, is the elasticity of space tourism will pay for the development of such vehicles. The few people you launch for $20million a pop will finance the development of vehicles to launch thousands for $100k a pop and millions for $10k a pop. Of course only time will tell.
The long term importance of this is that citizen exploration of space has to take place before citizen space settlement. As government has shown no willingness (or reason, or responsibility for the involved risks) for space settlement, this is the most important context of space tourism.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.jay.cxI have more than 5 years of mail, instantly accessible, either via web browser, grep'ing the mail files or IMAP mail program. All of it is full text searchable even though the outgoing link from my mail server is only 128kps (@#@!#@! @HOME!)
:-)
Easy to back up, easy to restore. Easy to convert between format, Cyrus rules. Plus it's fast & works great w/ GUI mail programs.
People see pine open my 3500 msg inbox & ask me why I don't delete messages. The reason is simple, it takes about 2 seconds to open that mailbox.
My archive mailboxes tend to be much larger.
With the rpms available on redhat's powertools CD's it's also pretty trivial to install, just rpm, then reconfigure sendmail & you are set to go. (Though sometimes you need to play w/ cyrus's authentication library a little)
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
Both FAME & MP1E can digitize of a bttv board in realtime for mpeg1. Since mp1e outputs to standard output, you could use something like netcat to stream it to the net. FAME has some net streaming options. I also think the 1.8beta version of MP1E also has some network streaming options.
I also saw a program valled VCR on Freshmeat that claims to do realtime divx;-) encoding which you could also use for streaming purposes.
Sigma designs also has some hardware/software products to do mpeg streaming over a network.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.jay.cx
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
Actually the Russians wanted to have ISS at the same inclination but for political reasons a "compromise" inclination was chosen that is sub-optimal for everyone involved. Even as late as the launch of the first Russian module they were pushing to switch the inclination. If they did that, the stations could at least serve as lifeboats to each other and some modules and/or equipment could be moved over. Remember, much of Mir dates to 1995 when the "American" modules were launched. (Read Dragonfly if you have a chance, it's a great book, I'm surprised someone hasn't submitted a review yet)
Of course, Mir would need a substancial capital infusion if it were to return to operational status. That was the whole point of MirCorp, not to use a dying station, but to re-fit it & open it for commercial operations. Hopefully their latest plans will go smoother.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
There is a link here.
Sounds like they are building a free-floater that will co-orbit & can dock w/ ISS so it can use the same re-supply mechanisms as ISS but yet be completely independent so you don't have to fill out 7 kg of paperwork before you can dock w/ it.
It also seems as if Titov has approval to go on ISS in April. We'll see how it all works out though. Should be interesting.
-Jay Thomas
http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2
The 2000 Edition of the High Frontier is out. It looks great & is 50% new content. You can buy it directly from Space Studies at:
http://www.ssi.org/high-frontier.html
It comes with a CD-Rom w/ hours of MPEGs of Gerry & others.
Make sure you check out the websites for SSI (http://www.ssi.org), the Foundation (http://www.space-frontier.org), prospace (http://prospace.org) & FINDS (http://www.finds-space.org) for what the dream of the High Frontier has become in the last 10-20 years.
The High Frontier vision is that of space settlement, finding ways to pay so you can stay in space.
-Jay Thomas
PS: You might want to check out my project at:
http://www.finds-space.org/thomasneurauter.html
Or check out my home page at:
http://www.jay.cx (http://24.181.128.90 for broken DNS)
Sigh, and the voyagers could at least send us back color photos.