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00:00.000  B-mention JW, TT, BM SBAU coming in
00:17.602  B-Quorum SBAU soon
00:25.021  B-yesterday was armistice day, veterans day, JW-WWI war to end all wars. B-but led to WWII, Vimar Republic.  TT-Oumuamua light sail?  JW-not sure of shape if needle or pancake, only 2 dimensions.  B-Hawaii telescope? JW-14K ft high.  JW-maybe pocket of CO2 popping off.  CMcP w/ Pat Bday.
04:55.161  Donny TT-view to ocean from Victoria down SB st.
05:29.346  Donny traffic, pool playing nuns
06:49.501  B-Walter Cronkite voice, raise it high, then you drop.
07:16.558  KZSB voices SBAU
07:21.359  Earth & Sky mass of the Milky Way may be 1.6T solar masses [does this include dark matter?].
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09:21.518  TT-volunteering planetarium, Javier teaches SBCC astronomy, Sean Kelly star party, Mezas helping always.

11:29.678  music: "it was a calm & cloudless night...1609 Galileo.." B-did he see crescent moon? JW-he made drawings of all the moon phases.  Intros TT, food, TT-depends on members.  December meeting Tessa will do a talk.  Javier not at meetings?  TT-works late  on Thursdays, so burned out by Friday.  B-lost Adrian Lopez, at JPL.  B-book an astronaut? Buzz light yr based on Buzz Aldrin? must be a toy.  JW-JPL, Ames RC provide speakers. B-still test rockets at JPL?  JW-no, but used to up against the mtns, moved testing to White Sands. JW-ph msg fr TT.  B-Mercury probe.  JW-another lander to Mars TT-Insight Mission.  B- 58 types of topography on Mars.  B- 188 members.  B-ArtH missed on Saturday. B-Holiday dinner Flightline.  B-What is up?  JW-what would you like to know?  B-probes?  TT-Juno, Insight, Mercury [BepeColumbo?], Parker mission around Sun. Look at Corona. JW-protons, electrons from Sun.  TT-solar wind.  JW-flags on moon are bleached white.  B-moon like asphalt?  JW-little color on moon if photo saturated. green--TT-must be trees on moon?  B-backside of moon not the same as front. JW-Russian named craters on back. TT-why Russian? JW-they were 1st to see backside.  Bacara non-public outreach mentioned. music: Gato Europa.

22:14.260  music: "it has been a long road gettin from here to there..." B-what is this? TT-got to have faith not going to be hit by an asteroid traveling thru the universe.  Star Trek Enterprise show.  B-William Shatner on Dr. Oz, 85 yrs old.  Cosmic rays, blocked by atmosphere.  B-carbon dioxide.  JW-we know how to heat up planets. magnet in front of Mars.  B-someone pushing Nasa to do Mars mission.  Elon Musk. Tesla orbits Sun. B-it is painted red? JW-it will decompose. BFR.  spacesuits.  JW-takes research to make long lasting materials.  SPRR tested yellow in Wyoming best paint.  Nasa has rule that nothing can go into space without being in space before, catch-22.  B-critics said landing on moon, improvising items? Nasa wanted to minimize mechanisms to avoid failures.  New Horizons needed to tip to pan camera on Pluto mission.  Brilliant risk management program.  TT-James Webb defects.  JW-build up and test at each level.  unfolding heat shields tore, but passed at earlier time.  cause 2yr delay to 2021 launch.  B-position of JW telescope 1M from earth.  JW-keep out of Earth heat signature. Lagrangian L2? point gravity of Sun/Earth balance. Solar orbit.  sensor cooled by liquid He. music: Gato B Europa.

37:56.039  music: "as a spaceship flies, thru the endless...black hole" B-acient Greek on stars, people names on probes?  TT-Juno mission, JW-Hubble, Keck [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Myron_Keck#Philanthropy founded:Superior Oil Co], Hale 200" telescope conceived by him.  B-Sagan, Tyson names?  JW-landing site on Mars is the Sagan site.  Need to be dead.  TT-Curiosity landing was complicated.  B-why not use landing balloons? JW-too heavy.  B-Russians got landing on Venus, US did not.  TT-ballooning around Venus? JW-Venus might have been liveable  initially.  B-carbon dioxide.  TT-33% increase on earth last 100 years. JW-may be last generation on earth to be able to reverse problem.  JW-US govt has known about global warming since Kennedy.  Military is planning for that future no matter the politics.  B-Maine lobsters diminishing, moving N.  music: kazoo.

45:31.654 music: "long road getting from here to there"  B-ph# mighty 1290.  Future of mankind...what is coming up?  TT-school science nights.  Westmont why refractor better than reflector?  JW-contrast better,  not diffraction limited.  B-Mt. Wilson big  telescopes etc, warm room off the side, but Westmont no? JW-Westmont does have room below, and JW runs scope at home from inside the house.   Hale telescope had photo plate that required manually moving for fine control.  B-small telescopes cannot compete with Hubble.  music: "once i had enuf of a mass, i became a star of gas..."

53:10.760  music: GatoB Europa.  B-lost in space, danger will robinson.  JW-First Man movie was good, chick flick switching w/ guy flick.  B-did not like Ryan Gosling to be Neil Armstrong.  Val Kilmer looked like Jim Morrison.  TT-telescope workshop...takes 40hrs... JW-if no "go-backs".  B-how does grinding work?  JW-top disk hollows out due to more gravity on its center, D/3 stroke, center over center.  hogging out is chordal stroke.  Then pitch lap w/ cerium oxide polish.  B-thot u did lenses the size of manhole covers?  JW-up to 18".  TT- do not buy from Costco, get 8" dob from Amazon  B-sbau.org
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