Redfish presentation at SFI yesterday

[Trainor Bradley]

Have you spoken with Bruce Willis?

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:48 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Redfish presentation at SFI yesterday


Less slow news day, I think, than (for once) public servants doing a
fine and thoughtful job.  It was a riveting presentation, and I was very
pleased to think my own fire department is in the lead of such planning.


Then I came home to my houseguests, one of whom is a former astronaut
now working on the issues of deflecting asteroids that might hit the
earth.  Many of the same questions--who pays?  Is evacuation a sensible
tool (presuming that we can't get that tractor into space to nudge the
asteroid out of collision orbit)?  And who pays for any of those
alternatives?




On Aug 19, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:


        Must be a slow news day.  The story made the front page of the
        Albuquerque Journal North  today, too.  Congratulations.

        -- rec --

"These days, from time to time, the public libraries launch an effort to
get children together with books, and signs bloom on their walls saying

Read to Succeed!  This seems singularly wrong-headed, since few
seven-year-olds care about their future job categories, or at least no
seven year old you'd want to know.  The signs ought to say Books: The
Way Out."


Barbara Holland


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[Douglas Roberts-2]

Sadly, he didn't make it back.

On 8/21/06, Trainor Bradley <trainor_bradley at bah.com> wrote:

>
>  Have you spoken with Bruce Willis?
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Pamela McCorduck
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:48 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Redfish presentation at SFI yesterday
>
> Less slow news day, I think, than (for once) public servants doing a fine
> and thoughtful job.  It was a riveting presentation, and I was very pleased
> to think my own fire department is in the lead of such planning.
> Then I came home to my houseguests, one of whom is a former astronaut now
> working on the issues of deflecting asteroids that might hit the earth.
> Many of the same questions--who pays?  Is evacuation a sensible tool
> (presuming that we can't get that tractor into space to nudge the asteroid
> out of collision orbit)?  And who pays for any of those alternatives?
>
>
>
>
>  On Aug 19, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>
>  Must be a slow news day.  The story made the front page of the
> Albuquerque Journal North  today, too.  Congratulations.
>
> -- rec --
>
> "These days, from time to time, the public libraries
> launch an effort to get children together with books, and signs bloom on
> their
> walls saying
> Read to Succeed!  This seems singularly
> wrong-headed, since few seven-year-olds care about their future job
> categories,
> or at least no seven year old you'd want to know.  The signs ought to say
> Books: The Way Out."
>
> Barbara Holland
>
>
>
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