RE: Tis quiet....

Large sized washers you get from the hardware store work well.

With regards to NEAR, this came earlier from the Pirates webgame which
is
running.

> Mark Kochte wrote:
>>  I saw Noam at the pre-press conference and he said that
>> he had in the 24 hours BEFORE orbital insertion gotten a 
>> sufficiently large download of data that he could easily spend 
>> 24 hours/day, 7 days/week  for the next solid *year* 
>> analyzing it all - and this does NOT count the stuff they've 
>> been getting since going into orbit!
>> 
>To be fair, that one data set is ~45% of the best stuff we'll get (for
my
>particular instrument, that is) all mission, the next 45% to get taken
>~october.
>	Noam

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay [SMTP:kaladorn@home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:20 PM
> To:	GZG List
> Subject:	Tis quiet....
> 
> Quiet night tonight. Too quiet, some might say. ;)
> 
> So I ask this question: I've got an FSE motor biker for SG2 and a
> war-pig (KV cavalry?). I'm usually mounting figures on a Canadian
penny
> (after all, its only worth 0.66 of a real penny). However, this plan
is
> kiboshed for these figures. They're both about 1" to an 1-1/4 " long
and
> the bike is about 3/8" to 1/2" wide and the war pig more like 5/8
to3/4"
> wide. So.... what to use for base material? Brass sheet? Expensive.
> Styrene sheet - can't find any right now. Balsa? I could get a small
> piece for these. Hardboard? (The thin cousin of pressboard)
> 
> 
> BTW, anyone ask Noam how NEAR is doing, oh so far away? I've seen it
in
> the news. Anyone know if his piece of kit aboard it is working? :)
> 
> Tom