[meteorite-list] Fwd: Postponement of the 8th International Mars Conference to 2014

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:14:27 -0500
Message-ID: <6EAAC460-8212-4DF0-A18F-1C84DCC65B82_at_meteoriteguy.com>

What does the GOP say about NASA funding? If I recall, the control congress, this the purse strings this NASA's budget.
Again, do you need a refresher in us government?
Last time I checked the Tea Party controls congress and Tea Party wants to cut spending to the bone (now being done under sequester). Nasa and everyone else is on the chopping block.
Any questions?
Mike

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On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> Man Adam sounds like you need to go back to school too!! This administration is really supporting NASA and science!! ( sarcasm off)
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> Stuart McDaniel
> .....(mobile)......
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> On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:52, Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> An example of our wonderful ineffective government serving its citizenship. This is the worst "leadership" I have ever witnessed. They should take the money fleeced from the public to write worthless new BLM laws and to pay for the "Affordable Healthcare Act?" and apply it to science. At least we will get some kind of a return in technology. Science and education are two areas that should be funded and not adding government jobs to oversee worthless programs.
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>> Manned space flight will something that our grand children will only be able to dream about because the current administration spent all of their money and probably several generations that will follow. Future generations will have the outrageous burden of paying for the current administrations out of control spending.
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>> At least a drunken sailor blows his own money while in port, not the over-taxed taxpayers' funds. Of course they could print more money forcing us into hyperinflation. Wait a minute, this is already happening.
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>> Best Regards my fellow comrades,
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>> Adam
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu>
>> To: meteoritelist meteoritelist <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:28 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Postponement of the 8th International Mars Conference to 2014
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>> As the "Sequestration" starts to propagate...
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>> Carl Agee
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Pulliam, Joyce N (6050) <joyce.n.pulliam at jpl.nasa.gov>
>> Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:40 AM
>> Subject: Postponement of the 8th International Mars Conference to 2014
>> To:
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>> Postponement of the 8th International Mars Conference to 2014
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>> ________________________________
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>> The impacts of sequestration on the Federal budget have led to new travel
>> policies that severely constrain the participation of NASA center employees,
>> including JPL, and other government employees (e.g., the U. S. Geological
>> Survey) in scientific conferences, including the planned 8th International
>> Mars Conference set for July 15-19 on the Caltech campus. The current
>> fiscal environment is sufficiently restrictive that we, the organizers of
>> the conference, have decided to delay the meeting for one year, holding it
>> instead in June/July of 2014. We sought advice from the MEPAG Executive
>> Committee, which unanimously concurred with our decision.
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>>
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>> We were preparing for a general mailing last Monday when NASA Headquarters
>> asked us to hold off and consider whether the conference could be hosted
>> electronically. This was a reasonable request, given recent success for
>> several meetings held via electronic media. However, after consideration,
>> we felt that this would not work for the 8th International Conference on
>> Mars. This series of Mars conferences have at opportune times provided
>> comprehensive looks at our state of knowledge regarding Mars. They are, by
>> design (e.g., broad participation, no parallel sessions, and yes a captive
>> audience in an academic setting) meant to foster cross-disciplinary
>> discussion, integration and innovation.
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>>
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>> Although it was our strong preference to hold the conference this year, the
>> meeting in 2014 will include even more results from Mars, including
>> Curiosity?s further exploration of Gale Crater, as the rover will then be
>> well into the second year of its primary science mission. We have no doubt
>> that Mars will remain in the news in the coming year, given the ongoing
>> orbital and surface exploration of the planet, and there could be several
>> focused workshops or conferences in that time; each needs to decide if an
>> electronic forum is appropriate. In the meantime, we will work with NASA
>> over the coming year to obtain its approval for extensive participation by
>> its researchers, which is vital to the overall success of a conference that
>> is of the scale of its predecessors. We look forward to a full conference
>> in June/July 2014 and hope to see you there.
>>
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>>
>> Dan McCleese / Dave Beaty / Rich Zurek
>>
>> 8th International Mars Conference conveners
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