Cassini

[particleswarm]

Congratulations to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Cassini spacecraft team for a successful orbital insertion at Saturn.

Danni, best of luck on your interview today!

Comments

[2bev]

Leo,

Is this you? If not, are you a pal of Leo's at Drexel? If not, you're either a lure, or my karma has wiggled again.

Bev

[particleswarm]

That's a negative on both counts, though I did go to Drexel for computer science and graduated almost a year ago.

So...I send out a vigorous salutations.

Incidentally, I read your last entry in your journal. About 0200 on the west coast, you would've seen Sagittarius setting in the south-west. At about the location of the "spout" of Sagittarius, is the approximate location of Sagittarius A* (a compact radio object generally believed to be the center of the Milky Way). You were looking generally inward through the dust lanes choking the galactic center.

--Andrew

[2bev]

I figgered I was looking somewhat inward (since we're on the edge of our arm), but I'm uncertain of how the 'milkiness' changes as we look in different directions along the galactic plane

[particleswarm]

Odd thing, this is all. I work for Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Laboratories in Cherry Hill, NJ. Our funding is mostly DARPA as well. Presently I'm pushing for a nascent bit of work on evolvable antenna arrays. I've been tasked with applying evolution often in my job as that (and biomimetics) is my area of research interest. I'd be particularly fascinated with applying MEMS as a substrate for evolvable hardware.

I love Mozart. There's something about Mozart that allows one to program fluidly; especially Serenade 10. Now, for when I want the truly bizarre, there's Ligeti.

I can assure you, this has all been a fantastic (and pleasant) co-incidence.

--Andrew