[PS] reviewing the program guide

[Rachel Silber]

Please go ahead and make the change to the preferred text.  I'm sorry I
didn't get to it while we were discussing it.

Rachel


On 12/31/06, The Marvelous MERV <marvmerv at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Tom Murphy
> The Marvelous MERV
>
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