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#26 2005-11-16 16:12:33
- Josh Cryer
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Re: New Mars Podcast
Now I am. And that makes me go "whoa" because, well, yeah. "The competition" whoops our ass without even trying.
And it seems like the last few shows have discussed space commercialization in depth. Interesting.
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.
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#27 2005-11-16 16:15:50
- BWhite
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Re: New Mars Podcast
Now I am. And that makes me go "whoa" because, well, yeah. "The competition" whoops our ass without even trying.
And it seems like the last few shows have discussed space commercialization in depth. Interesting.
He's been around for a while.
Don't be discouraged. There is always room for competition.
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Poetry and drama are niches that show doesn't seem to explore.
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#28 2005-11-16 16:21:55
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Re: New Mars Podcast
I guess i a NewMars podcast would ever arise, it would be totally different anyway. More informal etc.
I mean, more geared to interested people, w/o sounding too professionally-'you will never reach our level'
I'm not saying the space show is like that, but the NM podcast should be more of an invitation to come over here, and join the discussion. Interviews with luninaries in the field is cool, but... well there are only so much pesonalities to go around.
(another flash: RobS, our 'own' planetary scientist, i'd love to hear him talk about the differences between the rovers and viking, for instance...)
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#29 2005-11-18 00:55:18
- Josh Cryer
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Re: New Mars Podcast
So, I love this idea. It's not going to happen this year, though, almost for sure. But next year, starting in Jan, there ought to be a lot of time I can spend working on it.
However if anyone wants to try to start something, by all means. 
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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#30 2005-11-28 22:51:38
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Re: New Mars Podcast
The fellow who did the Radio Mars drama (see other thread) has sent me an e-mail with excerpts as follows:
Oh, you know, I also should tell you, I once proposed an idea to Dr. Robert Zubrin, your society's president (I believe). He sounded interested but I ran out of time to follow up on it and I couldn't do it alone.
The idea is this: Set up a sort of blog website as if it were being presented by astronauts going on a real Mars mission. You run it for the full duration of the mission from inital launch to return, including possibly even finding evidence of microbial life just to add a bit of fun. You can do it partially as text and partially as an 'audio journal' of the journey with various members of the mission team giving reports, exceprts of conversations with Mission Control, etc.
I have all of the abilities to produce such a thing here and I think it could probably get some company or other willing to sponsor it for the publicity so we could probably fund it too... but I'm not a scientist and I wouldn't want to get the science wrong. I think this would have to be as scientifically accurate as we can make it.
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What do you think?
Might this fit into the podcast idea? Mix audio and text. Write dialog as well as e-mail for the mission. Keep it on-line for pod-casting as desired.
Authentic or whimsical or both?
Thoughts?
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#31 2005-11-29 01:51:27
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*very* cool idea!
upside is that you can make a 'script' that lays out what has tohappen and when, and fill
in the blanks as you go.
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