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| July 28, 2002, 6:30pm at Studio 106. |
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| In attendance: Jonathan Butler, John and Carol Stone, Tim Sommer, Dave
Rankin and Gerry Williams. |
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| COMIC-CON FAN TABLE |
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| Comic-Con is supposed to send us information regarding our fan table,
but we have not received anything to date. I did find out that it is an 8-foot table
against the back wall in Section D of the convention center main hall. I wont be able to
know any more until we show up on Wednesday night to set up. There are electrical outlets
every 20 feet against the wall. WeÕll need to bring UL-approved power cords (the Fire
Marshals are very strict) and a surge suppressor so we can run our PowerPoint presentations
from a monitor on top of the table in a loop from a computer placed under the table beneath
the skirting. |
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| We discussed the layout of the backdrop of the table. The left panel
(2-feet wide) will be dedicated to Mars itself, with recent images regarding the surface and
underground water details. The middle section (4-feet wide) will show The Mars Society's
projects: Mars Analog Research Stations (FMARS, MDRS and EuroMARS), Pressurized Rover
projects, Mars Balloon, and the TransLife project, and information on the Mars Direct
approach. The left panel (2-feet wide) will display the San Diego Chapter's information,
including our Outreach and Education tasks (like the ÒStars in the ParkÓ and Sci-Fi
Conventions), our monthly meetings, our Mars Movie Night events, and our involvement with
MDRS. Naturally we'll post our Comic-Con panel schedule prominently. The panels, by the
way, are 4-feet in height from the top of the table. | |
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| We've decided to design this table to be mostly unattended during the
Con, but also allow any of our members to "man" it for a more hands-on public outreach.
We'll set up an informal crew rotation list for table coverage. |
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| Flyers and new TMS-SD business cards will be available for taking, and
we'll have some other tabletop displays available for when the booth is manned. |
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| "MARS ANALOG RESEARCH STATIONS (MARS)" PANEL |
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| When: Friday, August 2, 2002 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm in Room 7B. The
TMS-SD crew is to meet outside the room 30 minutes before the scheduled panel start time to
coordinate and expedite the event. We found that we'll be the second event of the day in
this room, so we'll have to coordinate the set-up and strike carefully. |
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| Our guests will be our own chapter's members, in the following order:
Dave Rankin will moderate the panel and make introductions after a 5-minute PowerPoint
presentation that introduces The Mars Society and our San Diego Chapter. Gerry Williams
will start with a short film of MDRS and what's going on there. Jonathan Butler will talk
about designing a biology experiment to be performed at the Hab. Shannon Rupert-Robles will
talk about her time at the Hab. Dave Rankin, John Stone and Jonathan Butler will discuss
MDRS Mission Support. We'll then open the panel up for questions from the floor. And we'll
have a PowerPoint presentation available for explaining the construction of the Hab in case
the audience wants to know. There will be a standard TMS-SD slide on the screen with our
website when we're not projecting anything else. Tim Sommer will be providing audio-visual
support, and Rich Loesch will be videotaping the panel for us again this year. | |
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| Naturally, we'll shamelessly plug our Sunday panel event before we let anyone leave
the room. |
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| "MARS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PANEL |
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| When: Sunday, August 4, 2002 at 11:00am to 12:30pm in Room 7B. The
TMS-SD crew is to meet outside the room 30 minutes before the scheduled panel start time to
coordinate and expedite the event. We found that we'll be the second event of the day in
this room again, so we'll have to coordinate the set-up and strike carefully. |
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| Our confirmed Guests are: LARRY NIVEN, author of "Rainbow
Mars" and "Ringworld" (among others); futurist JOHN CARTER MCKNIGHT who
pens "The Spacefaring Web"; from Malin Space Science Systems, Mars Orbital Camera
project scientist DR. MICHAEL CAPLINGER; SpaceDev's founder JAMES W. BENSON;
and "Climbing Olympus" and Star Trek/Star Wars writer KEVIN J. ANDERSON. Dave will
moderate the panel. Gerry will be providing audio-visual support, and Rich Loesch will be
videotaping the panel for us again. |
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| The structure of the panel will be Dave Rankin moderating the panel and
making introductions after a 5-minute PowerPoint presentation that introduces The Mars
Society and our San Diego Chapter. Each guest will have 5-10 minutes to talk. John Carter
McKnight will lead off, followed by Kevin Anderson, Larry Niven, Mike Caplinger, and finally
Jim Benson. Dave will ask some questions to get the panel discussion going, and we'll end
with audience questions. | |
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| GENERAL NOTES |
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| Dave will be coordinating through e-mail a set of Quick Reference Notes
that our chapter's panelists can refer to when questions are asked from the audience.
References such as physical characteristics of Mars (distance, size, temperature, air
pressure, gravity, etc.); Hab construction costs and operational budgets; Mars Direct and
Semi-Direct statistics; other Mars Society projects; and why we should colonize Mars instead
of the Moon Ð things along this line. Please e-mail Dave your favorite and most frequently
asked questions. |
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| Gerry, Dave and Tim (and presumably Shannon) will all have cell phones
available during the Con for any coordination and last-minute decision-making. Their
numbers will be distributed prior to the Con. |
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| If anyone else has any comments regarding these meeting notes, please
send them to Gerry Williams for posting to our website. |
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| As usual, for the latest information and event scheduling, check out
our website at: |
| http://chapters.marssociety.org/sandiego/
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| NOTE: Since our next Monthly meeting is normally scheduled for
the Monday immediately after the Mars Society Convention, it was decided that we'd push it
forward a couple of days to Thursday, August 15th at 7:00pm so that we might get our members
who went back in town for a report on the goings-on in Boulder. |
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