From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 13:34:10 MST
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.wa.com> Mon, 14 Feb 2000:
>Well, Amara, I've got a picture of you sitting at your desk (from
>the Proceedings of the '88 Interstellar Dust conference) and I'd
>say from the looks of things we can safely say that you and Spike
>probably belong to the same stellar class.
Nothing like having a 12 year old picture come back and hit you ...
(I look rather different now, but that's OK)
Yes, I already told Spike that if he's a nerd, then I'm a nerd-ess.
(however, girl scientists are just naturally cute, so it's a little
bit harder for girl scientists to be as nerdy as boy scientists)
And for the record.. that old picture of me at my desk at NASA-Ames
was posed. I put a dewar of liquid nitrogen behind my old Mac, to
the right, which I had hoped would give off a "smoke-like" effect behind
the computer. However, to my huge disappointment, it didn't show up in
the photograph. All of the rest of the "mess" around my desk, I created
artificially too, to try to show the "frantic activity" that was necessary
to produce the book. (I did all of the typesetting of the book, and alot
of the editing. I basically lived and breathed that book for about
a year. Our IAU Symposium 135, Interstellar Dust book was one of
the very first Kluwer Academic Press Symposium books to be all
in LaTeX, before Kluwer had LaTeX macros to give to people, and so
another fellow and I wrote all of the LaTeX book macros)
It's a great book, actually. I like it, even better now than 12
years ago. At the time I worked on it, I thought that the topic
of interstellar dust was a really boring topic. I never would
have thought that 12 years later, I would be earning my PhD
in the interplanetary dust field...
Dust drives the Universe, you know...:-)
Amara
P.S. I'll pass for the moment on the "Easy ways to orbit" topic. I've
spent the last several days with ESA Earth spacecraft debris folks, learning
about all of the ways that particles can DE-Orbit, and my brain is full.
P.P.S. I'm in the middle of (TeX) typesetting _another_ dust book- this
time with my advisor as one of the editors, the topic is interplanetary
dust, and the book will be published by University of Arizona Press.
It will be the "definitive interplanetary dust text book". (that's the idea,
anyway...) Look for it later this year in your favorite scientific/astronomy
bookstore.
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"If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into
you." - -Nietzsche
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