From: mkennedy@shentel.net (Marilyn Kennedy)
Subject: Upcoming Mars COnference
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 19:46:34 -0400
Errors-to: mail-mgr@quest.arc.nasa.gov Today my students and I hooked up to the "Ask a Scientist " videoconference. What a difference our ISDN lines made. No more 14.4 modem for me!! We could hear their voices loud and clear and the images were reat! I hooked up the TV to the computer so all 21 faces were not scruntched around the computer screen. Anyway, I thought it was funny that I didn't see Roger , Chris or some of the others in our group!! I was waiting for you all to join the conference !Butit was not until tonight (when I was writing a "thank you to Patricia" that I realized the message did not come through our discuss-group but through global school. So I have sent you all a copy and look at the date for October 15 ..check out that conference. And we hope to CU there!!! Marilyn Wall here in the Shenandoah Valley, with remenants of Josephine raining through ******************** Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:54:12 -0500 To: cu-seeme-schools@gsn.org, video@polar.rice.edu From: reiff@alfven.rice.edu (Patricia Reiff) Subject: Upcoming "Ask the Scientist" Videoconferences Cc: hmns@space.rice.edu Dear Friends: We are starting up our "Ask the Scientist" CuSeeMe videoconferences for the fall season with an exciting Martian start! Reflector: 128.42.249.172 (if it isn't working, try 198.64.198.250) October 8, 1996: 10-10:30 am CDT: "Weather You Like it or Not" Join meteorologist Chuck Roessler from the National Weather Service and Patricia Reiff of Rice University to discuss weather on earth, in space, and on the planets. See our web pages for online activities and hotlinks to earth weather and space weather resources. (Houstonians can watch the broadcast on KUHT Channel 8). October 15, 1996: 12 - 1 pm CDT: "Possibilities of Life on Mars" Dr. David McKay, Division Assistant for Exploration and Technology at Johnson Space Center, will discuss their amazing discoveries from the Martian meteorite ALH84001. Dr. McKay will explain why they think the meteorite is actually from Mars, and the evidence in the meteorite that is most easily explained by the presence of bacteria in Mars long ago. October 22, 1996: 12 - 1 pm CDT: "Fire and Life - the Sun-Earth Connection" (was carried live from Goddard Space Flight Center on April 11 - part of the "Teaching From Space" program) Dr. Patricia Reiff will be online for our Cu-SeeMe visitors to answer questions on the Sun and Space Weather November 5, 1996: 10-10:30 am CDT: "Dinosaurs - Attack and Defend" Join Christopher R. Cunningham, curator of paleontology to learn about dinosaur survival strategies 65-235 million years ago. As always, use the "talk" (or "chat") window to ask questions - the speaker's comments will be summarized there for folks with low-bandwidth connections. (If "talk" doesn't show up on your menu bar, download "Cu-SeeMe Talk" from Cornell). (Please check out your equipment beforehand by linking to one of these reflectors; let us know by the talk window or by email to connect@space.rice.edu if you have difficulty hearing). For the present schedule (changing frequently!) link to http://space.rice.edu/hmns/dlt/videosched.html for more information about Cu-SeeMe and ways you can test your connection, see http://space.rice.edu/hmns/dlt/video.html Part of the "Public Connection" (funded by NASA's Digital Library Technology Program). For more information about our program and its many hot links, see http://space.rice.edu/ "CU Soon!" ....Patricia Reiff, Rice University