[PS] reviewing the program guide

[The Marvelous MERV]

At Sunday, 31-12-06 06:15 PM, Rachel Silber wrote:
><http://2007.arisia.org/PubDocs>http://2007.arisia.org/PubDocs
>
>Skip posted up a link where we can see the text for the program guide.
>
>Please take a look through it.  If you see issues such as: bad grammar, 
>typos, confusing descriptions, two panel descriptions that are too similar 
>to each other, badge names that should be real names or real names that 
>should be badge names,  missing descriptions, or the like,
>
>please reply-all to this mail
>and let us know if you are fixing the problem or just letting us know.

"SC-213-204 Long-Duration Spacecraft Workshop Interplanetary travel takes 
months if not years. Keeping people alive and healthy for long periods in 
microgravity requires knowledge of human physiology, plant biology, 
mechanical engineering, and even solar physics. This workshop will cover 
the material required for design of a sample mission. The Marvelous MERV "

The above text is live now, and not what is correct.  I have not yet heard 
from folks regarding my last email regarding this.  As I'm not technically 
programming staff (tho' I help out when and where I can), and I feel 
twitchy just altering things without approval, I again submit the 
following:  could someone either make the change, or authorize me to make 
the change in Zambia?

>Rachel:  Here's what I'd put in as a current blurb for the audience 
>participation panel.  With someone's approval, I can enter it into 
>Zambia.  First paragraph is for publication, second paragraph for internal 
>use (in case someone else wants to do this another time, or we share our 
>panel ideas with other cons).
>
>Lemme know?  Thanks --
>
>
>>How will human beings survive the transit from Earth to Mars and 
>>beyond?  The simple necessities of life offer space and mass 
>>constrictions that have to be accounted for onboard the closed 
>>environment of a long distance spacecraft.  What equipment or technology 
>>could we adapt and load if we were to launch today -- or will we need 
>>something entirely new?  This presentation will involve the audience, and 
>>be short on answers -- but big on raising all the right questions.
>>
>>What do we need to keep people alive and healthy in space?  How practical 
>>are our air, food and water recycling techniques?  Do we need to simulate 
>>gravity, or can humans cope in low or no gravity? Can we make radiation 
>>shielding light enough?  Breathable air, potable water, eatable food, 
>>waste recycling, gravity, sunlight, radiation shielding - all of these 
>>space and mass constrictions will exist and need to be accounted for. How 
>>would we implement these now, and can they be adapted to long-term 
>>spaceflight - or will we need something entirely new?




Merv

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