Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:54:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: smurfen@ludd.luth.se (Ola Persson) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wradar! Message-ID: <199702101124.VAA24980@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970210120027.11926D-100000@brother.ludd.luth.se> from Ola Persson at "Feb 10, 97 12:06:49 pm"
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Ola Persson stands accused of saying: > > Well, that was at least my impression :) I was in the main building, the > rocket assembly area, launch area and countdown control center and > satellite navigation control center. It is noyt very impressive to look at > if you ask me, but it was pretty cool still... Fun to know that we > actually have a space program here in Sweden allthough it is not very big. It's small enough that it's still fun for the people that are involved, which is a major criterion from my POV 8) > Was this in the main building ? There is a building a couple of miles away > that is ran by ESA.. I was never there. In the room where they navigated > the Tele-X satellite they had some cool 'puters, I never had a chance to > check them out real close. IIRC they were/are Vaxstation 4000's running VMS; in the anteroom to the Tele-X control room was (when I was there) one of the old 11/750's that they used when they were setting it up 8) I never went to the ESA building either, and I hardly ever saw much of it; the road to/from Esrange was too much fun. (Funny how everyone complained about my driving but never wanted to do it themselves...) > Well, my university has a campus in Kiruna too. Kiruna is the closest city > to Esrange. If you have been there you can agree with that it is in the > middle of nowhere. Anyway, we went to Kiruna for a party so we visited > Esrange at the same time ;) It's definitely the middle of nowhere 8) But coming from a country where most of the place is "the middle of nowhere" that's perhaps less of a shock to me. Ah, I understand; you would have done the bus-tour thing. > Also, if you have been to Esrange, I will kill you for not tellning me so > we could have met :) *smile* Cripes, I was there for three weeks and made lots of noise about it both beforehand and afterwards around june last year 8) You were probably off on a fishing holiday like everyone else that was supposed to be helping us! There'll be a few of our people there around April or so, but it's not looking like I'll get to go again this time. Drat. > /Ola -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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