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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Wild About Mars - ...(Planetary Society Event)

*I'm a member of both the Mars Society and the Planetary Society, the latter of which has got a big bash planned for January 3-4 in Pasadena, CA (the target date of Spirit's arrival on Mars being Jan 3):

http://planetary.org/wam/index.html

Get a load of this special guest list...includes Ray Bradbury (!!), Buzz Aldrin, John Rhys-Davies (actor in "Lord of the Rings")...wow:

http://planetary.org/wam/guests.html

This is great. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

clark

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Registered: 2001-09-20

Posts: 6,362

Re: Wild About Mars - ...(Planetary Society Event)

I'm a half hour away from this thing... I might go just to meet Bradbury. Thanks Cindy. 

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Wild About Mars - ...(Planetary Society Event)

*Well, if you do go, please consider "reporting back" what you saw, who you met, got an autograph from, etc.  I'd like to go, but such short notice and work schedule...nope.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)