Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 7 18:09:51 CDT 2012
I wish I had been there... No one, in the last 30 years has ever read a book to me, let alone Startide Rising. ;-) (Always the Designated reader.) We hope you celebrated Yuri Gagarin day, last night and continue support the philosophy that our solar system should become our backyard. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 2:03 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Yuri Gagarin's night party is coming up. Startide Rising is one of our family favorites. Steven's read it aloud to me and to the kids at least 3 times in the past 7 or 8 years... On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > Scientist now believe the planets around stars are the norm and not the > exception. This is a perfect opportunity for all you Warp and Worm Hole > specialists. If you are building a Hyper Drive, in your basement, keep > working. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1204/ > > This is a perfect opportunity for all you Warp and Worm Hole specialists. > If you are building a Hyper Drive, in your basement, keep working. > http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1204/ > > April 12 next week will mark the 51st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's trip > around the world in a spaceship. All are welcome to the world space party > on > April 12th: > http://yurisnight.net/ > > David Brin (The writer of such books as Startide Rising, a world leading > scientist) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (leading NASA scientist and supporter) > encourages all of us to support of the space programs...will the Chinese be > the first to go back to the moon and on to Mars and further? He believes > that the US has lost it way and now needs to turn things around. > http://davidbrin.blogspot.ca/2012/04/celebrating-space-solar-tornadoes.html > http://discovermagazine.com/2012/apr/14-back-to-the-final-frontier > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com