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Space Safety On The Space Show

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I’ll be talking to David Livingston this afternoon at 2 PM PDT about my space safety project, which seems to be turning into a small book, that I hope to publish this month.

[Update mid-afternoon]

I’ll be on in ten minutes or so.

[Bumped]

[Early evening update]

Well, that was in interesting discussion. It went on for a couple hours. The most important thing to me was that David brought up one of the very best case studies for my thesis — the Hubble decision. I’m going to incorporate it into the book (yes, I’ve decided to just call it a book). This is partly just a reminder for me to do so…

[Evening update]

It’s probably worth repeating this video from the space teddy bears. Or dogs. Or whatever.

7 thoughts on “Space Safety On The Space Show”

  1. Regarding the Hubble repair mission, assembling a second Hubble from the backup mirrors and replacement parts for the first Hubble shouldn’t have cost significanty more that the single repair mission (the majority of parts already existed), given that a fresh HST would’ve greatly extended the life of the program.

    You could also balance the odds of losing a Shuttle crew repairing the Hubble to the odds of a half-dozen HST astronomers throwing themselves out of high-rise windows if the Hubble died. 😀

  2. My question about ebooks was basically: make it a Kindle ebook.. charge 99c for it. People will buy it. You can also make it a freely available pdf if you want.. there’s no restrictions and yes, people with still pay 99c for the Kindle version because it looks better on the device.

    1. Trent, it’s a PITA to do an ebook, but I’m not ruling it out. I just have to be convinced that there would be sufficient market for it to make it worthwhile.

  3. Seems to me there’s a market for copy-editors, “jacket” designers, blurbers, etc. Would such service providers content themselves with a contingency share of the 99 cent sales? I suppose so. Look at the “beta-readers” who do the work cleaning up fan-fic, all for the sake of an acknowledgment at the preface.

    2. I don’t like seeing typos as I read; I’ve fixed some OCR artifacts in one of the books I downloaded, I wish I could fix them in some others. Maybe there’d be a way to wikify this–I’d want the immediate feedback of being able to edit my own copy, but the option of sending the corrections back to a central site to be evaluated and integrated.

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