Re: Where do we stand? (was Re: SETI like tass project)

["Dirk Terrell" <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:19:31 -0600, Tom Droege wrote:

>So you can put me on the rack and you will not pull out a set of directions 
>for jobs to do.  

We're not at that point yet. :-) Thank you for that explanation of your
motivation with TASS. I see your line of reasoning.

>
>The Mark IVs if they are used at all will probably be used on projects not 
>quite in my line.  
>
>I note that you are just such an individual from your own words below:
>
>>I have developed my own pipeline that is optimized (i.e. built rather
>>inflexibly <g>) for the kind of observing I do which is light curves of

Well, for better or worse, I tend to look at it this way: I'm willing
to do something that doesn't immediately interest me as long as it
leads in some way to my getting something I want. I don't really care
to, for example, mine data looking for variables. But doing so could
give me a list of new eclipsing systems and hopefully good enough data
on them to see if they are interesting and worth further study which is
of interest to me. Another example is developing a pipeline to get us
the time,position,magnitude triplets. I'm not interested in that, per
se, but if it helps lead to that list of eclipsing systems in the end,
I'm ready to jump in. To be honest, I think the idea of a long-term
monitoring project is even more important than the eclisping stuff and
I'm willing to contribute to that. What I don't want to do is waste
time duplicating something that someone else is working on, hence my
desire to know who was working on what and what needed to be done.

Dirk