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Jerry Durand | 1 Mar 1999 20:41

Roton

So, how was the rollout?  When I click on the VIEW button I get a message
that either my processor isn't powerful enough or my net connection isn't
wide enough to view anything.

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Jerry Durand
Durand Interstellar, Inc.
Los Gatos, California  USA
tel:  +1 408 356-3886
fax:  +1 408 356-4659
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Ben Franchuk (Woodelf | 1 Mar 1999 21:01

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they are rolling it in now. it was mostly speaches but quit good.
ben.
33k modem and p150 works here.

Ian Kluft | 2 Mar 1999 05:37

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>From: "Ben Franchuk (Woodelf)" <<a href="mailto:bfranchuk <at> jetnet.ab.ca">bfranchuk <at> jetnet.ab.ca</a>>
>they are rolling it in now. it was mostly speaches but quit good.
>ben.
>33k modem and p150 works here.

I'm back in San Jose.  It was windy there but everyone was determined to
see this.  The speeches were good, as Ben said.  But seeing the vehicle
was the whole point of the trip and it was great.

It took Sam, Tony and I a little over 5 hours to get back to San Jose.
--

-- 
Ian Kluft  KO6YQ PP-ASEL  <a
href="http://www.kluft.com/~ikluft/">http://www.kluft.com/~ikluft/</a>   sbay.org coordinator
<a href="mailto:ikluft <at> thunder.sbay.org">ikluft <at> thunder.sbay.org</a> (home)  <a
href="mailto:ikluft <at> cisco.com">ikluft <at> cisco.com</a> (work)           San Jose, CA

Jay Reynolds Freeman | 2 Mar 1999 06:10

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I looked at some of the images on their web site, and you know -- it looks
a lot like a LavaLamp...

Anne Bennedsen | 2 Mar 1999 06:34

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I'm willing to write up a report on the rollout if enough people want me
to. ("Enough people" is a magic number determined by: number of requests,
times aggregate level of enthusiasm displayed in the requests, minus how I
feel tomorrow. You may send such requests to me personally rather than
annoying the list with them.)

Please be aware that if I do write such a report it will encompass my
personal impressions of the event with very little technical information. I
was not taking notes during the proceedings as I do at meetings.

I hope other people will write up their impressions as well, however briefly.

Anne Bennedsen
ERPS Scribe and All Around Opinionated Person
<a href="mailto:abenn <at> usa.net">abenn <at> usa.net</a>

Daniel Spector | 2 Mar 1999 07:48

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I, for one, would enjoy seeing your comments, but then I've been a fan of
your writing for awhile now.

Daniel Spector
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
  -Les Brown

At 09:34 PM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>
>I'm willing to write up a report on the rollout if enough people want me
>to. ("Enough people" is a magic number determined by: number of requests,
>times aggregate level of enthusiasm displayed in the requests, minus how I
>feel tomorrow. You may send such requests to me personally rather than
>annoying the list with them.)
>
>Please be aware that if I do write such a report it will encompass my
>personal impressions of the event with very little technical information. I
>was not taking notes during the proceedings as I do at meetings.
>
>I hope other people will write up their impressions as well, however briefly.
>
>Anne Bennedsen
>ERPS Scribe and All Around Opinionated Person
<a href="mailto:>abenn <at> usa.net">>abenn <at> usa.net</a>
>
>
>

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Randall Clague | 2 Mar 1999 08:41

Re: Roton

On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 21:10:15 -0800 (PST), Jay Reynolds Freeman,
stirring in his sleep, mumbled:

>I looked at some of the images on their web site, and you know -- it looks
>a lot like a LavaLamp...

Rick Tumlinson called it "something that looks like a traffic cone
with helicopter blades."  And got away with it...

-R

--
"This is Randall; he does interfaces.  That means he gets
machines to talk to one another when they don't want to."
<a href="mailto:rclague <at> pacbell.net">rclague <at> pacbell.net</a>

Randall Clague | 2 Mar 1999 08:41

Re: Roton

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:34:48 -0800, Anne Bennedsen, stirring in her
sleep, mumbled:

>Please be aware that if I do write such a report it will encompass my
>personal impressions of the event with very little technical information. I
>was not taking notes during the proceedings as I do at meetings.
>
>I hope other people will write up their impressions as well, however briefly.

On the way back, I was trying to figure out how to explain to my non
space nut friends what this meant to me.  I can only talk about my
feelings:

I told Gary Hudson last night that this was the second time I've had
tears in my eyes looking at a vehicle.  The first time was watching
DC-X hover.  Roton is beautiful!  It's here, it's real, you can knock
on the gear, you can sit in the cockpit and work the controls...

Rick Tumlinson MC'd the rollout, and he reiterated several times, "The
revolution is here."  Well, yeah, it is.  And that's great!  But
that's not what I felt.  What I felt was, "The Dream is Alive!"  We're
going to make it.  We're going to win the race against poverty, and
hopelessness, and overpopulation, and resource depletion - because
space holds the solutions to all thoise problems and more, and this
vehicle and others like it are going to take us there.

In my mind's eye, it's last night, and I'm looking up at the floodlit
ATV (with an N number!), and seeing the future it represents.  And I
feel a combination of joy and relief as it hits me - this is real!
It's not just viewgraphs any more!  It's right here in front of me.

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Larry | 2 Mar 1999 07:49

AP Roton Report

Hi All-

I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm interested in hearing what list members
think of the "Mainstream" press coverage. (Good, Bad, Other?)

I saw the AP story at:
<a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/science/story.html?s=v/ap/19990302/sc/rotary_rocket_2.html">http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/science/story.html?s=v/ap/19990302/sc/rotary_rocket_2.html</a>

In reading and watching how they've covered Linux, until very recently,
I wonder if they really get it? ("It" being the future.)

-Larry

evrom | 2 Mar 1999 09:11

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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:34:48 -0800, you wrote:

>
>
>
>I'm willing to write up a report on the rollout if enough people want me
>to. ("Enough people" is a magic number determined by: number of requests,
>times aggregate level of enthusiasm displayed in the requests, minus how I

I double dog dare you.

EVRom

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