Space Summer School: Day 1 of "Geophysics of the Terrestrial Planets"

[nanila]

Comments

[cosmiccircus]

Hopefully you'll see a cat by Schrödinger's grave!

[alice_mccoy]

Exactly what I was gonna say :)

My other comment was a question. Who are the students? Where do they come from?

[nanila]

The students are from lots of places! About half are from Austria or Germany, but the rest are from Scandinavia, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, etc. Some are doing their first degree at universities, other their PhDs, and a few are even a little bit older than that. About half are engineers and half are scientists.

[nanila]

No cats, only bees. People seem very fond of dogs here, but I have yet to see a cat. The grave is only a few steps from the front of the hotel, though, so I shall keep watch.

[tyrell]

>>I shall at some point make a little trip to his grave, so that I can collapse the wave function of my knowledge of its existence through observation of it myself.

You're great :D

[nanila]

I found it! Wave function collapsed. Photographic evidence in next post.

[pax_athena]

Oooh, this sounds amazing! All of it :) I hope teaching the school will be as good an experience as participating in it is (I may have mentioned this, but I think I know people who attended in the past).

[nanila]

Thus far I'm holding myself back because they're still in very early stages of mission selection and finding the balance of leadership in their teams. I know I will be most useful later on (when they've got mission objectives and are trying to meet them with realistic technology) so I'm mostly sitting back and watching. It's quite difficult not to butt in - all these lectures are giving me fabulous ideas although I know that's not my job here!

[mysterysquid]

That is an awesome quote.

[nanila]

It is. I will be stealing it shamelessly in future.