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T O P I C R E V I E WVoskhodDr Mike Griffin, head of NASA will be giving a free lecture at the Royal Society in London on 1st December. Not sure if I can make it due to work though....heres the link; http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=5557&month=12,2006 All the best, Ollie gliderpilotukThanks Ollie.It's 10 mins from my office but I'll be up in Leicester for the STS-121 lecture.Paul BramleyNarahtThanks for the heads-up. I think that I'll be trying to make this one...PhilipI guess the lecture will be videotaped and put online afterwards ... like most lectures at the Royal Society ?NarahtI was there last night. It was a good audience--probably over 200 people, although there were some empty seats. There would probably have been a lot more people there if they had known that Stephen Hawking would be in the audience! I believe that Colin Pillinger was there too.The talk was pretty good, if unexceptional. I felt that there was a bit too much playing to the Anglo-American "special relationship," references to Winston Churchill, and all the rest of it. Griffin said that he hoped English would become the lingua franca of the solar system.For once, I have to agree with Keith Cowing of NASA Watch, who commented that the emphasis on the English-speaking world and on Western civilization was more than a little odd: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/12/the_true_face_o.html#more There were only twenty minutes for questions, which was disappointed because I'm sure there were a lot of other people who would have liked to ask questions. Still, there were some good ones, and Griffin's answers were both interesting and extremely sensible. I came away feeling a great deal of confidence in him as a NASA administrator, if a bit bemused by his old-fashioned historiography.
All the best, Ollie
Paul Bramley
The talk was pretty good, if unexceptional. I felt that there was a bit too much playing to the Anglo-American "special relationship," references to Winston Churchill, and all the rest of it. Griffin said that he hoped English would become the lingua franca of the solar system.
For once, I have to agree with Keith Cowing of NASA Watch, who commented that the emphasis on the English-speaking world and on Western civilization was more than a little odd: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/12/the_true_face_o.html#more
There were only twenty minutes for questions, which was disappointed because I'm sure there were a lot of other people who would have liked to ask questions. Still, there were some good ones, and Griffin's answers were both interesting and extremely sensible. I came away feeling a great deal of confidence in him as a NASA administrator, if a bit bemused by his old-fashioned historiography.
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