Bragging rights
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FAQSELF
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 13:50
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Dang it. So I did a nice little research project, and got an interview with a press lady at my university. I leave for a conference, return and it's gotten a bit out of hand. Here's the story: spaceref and in German in Czech and in Spanish Yes, the sites contain my full name, but there's no reason to hide it now. Damn. I guess I'm bragging, but frankly I'm mostly just terrified. -------------------- A few cats short of a kitten pot pie... Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. Check out a great source for information on Avernum 2, Nethergate, and Subterra: Zeviz's page. Finally, there's my Geneforge FAQ, Geneforge 2 FAQ, and Geneforge 3 FAQ. Posts: 2831 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 13:56
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Neat. Between the story and the photo, I can't help but think of you as a Bond villain now. :P -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 14:04
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 16:15
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Why terrified? -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon Polaris = joy. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Master
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 16:53
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Wow, another astronomy lover! So am I, so...cool. So, I suppose you're not going to tell us which person in the article was you. ;) -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 17:28
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Well, ben, there are only a limited number of people in that article, and really only one of them is quoted extensively by the reporter. Anyway, Schrodinger, that sounds pretty awesome. Congrats and good luck with future groundbreaking experiments! I think astrobiology is pretty cool. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 22:54
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Beautiful. Also, I was glad to see that the page in Spanish was actually translated from the ground up. This is so excellent!!! Are you excited about the "Super Earth"? -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 23:00
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The irony is that one of the topics for Environmental science that we are currently looking at something quite similar to this. A very nice picture as well. -------------------- "He's mine, go get your own human plaything!" Bernard Black (Black Books) Also look at my sitehere This is also a good site Posts: 650 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, August 26 2004 23:27
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Congrats! Great work! -------------------- Instant Human-Just add liberal doses of Coffee. Posts: 87 | Registered: Sunday, March 10 2002 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Friday, August 27 2004 00:26
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Congratulation, I bet you must feel very acomplished now. :) BTW,why terrified? -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 30 | Registered: Thursday, July 22 2004 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, August 27 2004 01:13
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Congratulations! And it's not like most of us didn't know your full name anyway ... -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, August 27 2004 01:46
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Congratulations, Schro. I have to side with Alec on this one :) . Posts: 2862 | Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, August 27 2004 01:52
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S'pretty cool. I actually managed to understand the majority of it without being bored. Very interesting. Media exposure is nothing to be frightened of. Nice picture even though Alec has a point about it. -------------------- Aut Tace Aut Loquere Meliora Silencio Posts: 1487 | Registered: Sunday, February 10 2002 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, August 27 2004 02:49
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^ :) ^ Cheers Schrodinger! No reason to be terrified - you'll soon get accustomed to medias. (Once they got you, they'll always come back for astrobiological matters ^_^). Enjoy it! It's at least beneficial for career ... -------------------- ^ö^ vegetarians are sexy. Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, August 27 2004 04:05
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Congratulations! And keep up the good work. :) BTW, the press lady was pretty? :D -------------------- Visit the Blades of Avernum Center and the Beta Testing Center -------------- "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." Colossians 2:6-9 Posts: 483 | Registered: Tuesday, June 29 2004 07:00 |
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FAQSELF
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written Friday, August 27 2004 08:07
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Hi all, thanks for the support. I guess the reason I feel worried is that I haven't had the work fully peer-reviewed yet. We've submitted our work to a peer-reviewed journal, and it's in the works, but not yet done. I think we've covered all the bases in our research as far as making it reproducible and applicable to the early Earth, but you never really know. One of the sites should have my unshaven picture on it (I think Alec found it) and I agree with villainous appearance. However, I was wearing shorts and sandals that day, I just put the lab coat on to look professional. Given that fact, is it any less sinister :) ? The super-Earth is kind of exciting, provided they it's not just a Neptune-like body. Neptune is ~17 Earth masses, about what they suggest for the super-Earth. The best thing going for it is that it's close in to the sun, so a rocky planet may be more conceivable than a gas giant at this range. -------------------- A few cats short of a kitten pot pie... Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. Check out a great source for information on Avernum 2, Nethergate, and Subterra: Zeviz's page. Finally, there's my Geneforge FAQ, Geneforge 2 FAQ, and Geneforge 3 FAQ. Posts: 2831 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, August 27 2004 08:23
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Go Dingy! May you be constantly quoted and misquoted by people who want to sound as knowledgeable as you, abused by journalists who don't want science to interfere with their articles, and followed by adoring hordes of phosphorus fans. —Alorael, who is glad to know that there are still clothes of some kind under the labcoat. Shorts and sandals work. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Friday, August 27 2004 15:13
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Villains are all about business-casual nowadays, so sure. :) I can picture it now: generating biologically useful phosphorous using only a kiddy pool, and a bucket of iron meteorites, and then using it for nefarious purposes! What nefarious purposes you could put phosphorous to I have absolutely no idea; perhaps giving rise to the biological processes of a race of proto-microbes that will, in two billion years, gain sapience and destroy the world! Bwa ha ha! A slower plan than the usual silliness -- slamming the moon into the Earth, causing a second ice age, stuff like that -- but slow and steady wins the race, as they say. This is excellent stuff, Schro. For those of you upon whom the significance is lost: this basically means that early in the Earth's history, we got struck by an iron meteorite which hit an area of freshwater -- not at all difficult, being as how we have and had a lot of saltwater and were probably encounting many more meteorites back then -- and the result was a tremendous release of phosphorous, a chemical which is crucial in biomolecules, which are the building blocks of early life. This solves a large number of problems with the answers to how question of how life started. It also gives an interesting conditional which helps narrow down the search for terrestrial life: a Jupiter-like body which draws the stuff that forms meteorites inwards. The Kuiper belt isn't there by accident, basically. So how did the speaking on the 24th go? [ Friday, August 27, 2004 15:17: Message edited by: Custer Hearts You ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |