- Today the House held a hearing on the status and future of exoplanet science. There's a PDF describing the hearing linked at the bottom of this page. Unfortunately I only got the stream to work about 20 minutes in, so the intro stuff is missing, but the stream should be archived so go check that out if you want the full show.
- Q: how is the current budget affecting exoplanet research? #house #policy ccc @peterdedmonds @jeff_foust
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332503056845504513
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:31:21 - Ulvestadt: in a constrained environment, research $ to investigators suffer to maintain facilities #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332503563316105216
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:33:21 - As in: it's great to build facilities, but it's getting increasingly difficult to fund people to actually do science on those facilities.
- Ulvestad: if we don't fund US scientists, international collaborators will do that science, not us.
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332503739690795008
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:34:03 - Edwards asks about upgrades to HST - will we get bang for $ in long run out of JWST if it's not serviceable? #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332504037587054592
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:35:14 - Grunsfeld: JWST needs to be cold - planned for 5 yrs, should get 11 yrs out. #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332504227412856832
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:36:00 - Grunsfeld: we maximize science by having complementary assets operating at same time (eg ALMA, JWST, maybe HST) #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332504395407298560
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:36:40 - Grunsfeld also said here that it was his dream for HST to have some overlap with these facilities.
- Bucshon: ppl who dep on discretionary $ will cont to feel pinch. #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332504709929783296
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:37:55 - Bucshon had a bunch more commentary above about how only the Republicans can save our budgets.
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332504973327876099
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:38:57- Grunsfeld: we all have experience of looking at night sky - science inspires us to have vision, to look to the future #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332505283140132864
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:40:11 - Bucshon: are we also looking for non-carbon based life forms? #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332505435477254145
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:40:48 - Doyle: some ppl in exobio define life as "anything that stores information" - but you have to start w what you know #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332505620450275328
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:41:32 - Lipinski: have you figured out what you're doing w the NRO telescopes yet? #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332505832711393280
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:42:22 - Grunsfeld: not yet. focused on building JWST, then we can think about next missions #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332505964022493184
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:42:54 - Lipinski: what in the way of assets would help w exoplanet research? #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332506131983396866
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:43:34 - Ulvestad: we understand how our assets work together, coordinate to maximize efficiency of funding #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332506266289184768
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:44:06 - Ulvestad: not clear we need a lot of help if we keep talking to each other #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332506352754761730
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:44:26 - Except for extremely limited grant funding, presumably.
- Grunsfeld: coordination is necessary bc we are budget limited #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332506460401594371
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:44:52 - Doyle: SETI institute is a non-profit & there are other small institutions; there r millions participating thru citi sci #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332506699678228480
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:45:49 - Didn't get a name check, but he's referring to planethunters.org!
- Smith: are there other missions we should consider for exoplanet science? or just the ones scoped now? #house #exoplanets
http://twitter.com/shaka_lulu/status/332506839835095043
— Lucianne Walkowicz (@shaka_lulu)Thu, May 09 2013 14:46:22
