From: g_d_pusch_remove_underscores@xnet.com   
      
   wbogen@visteon.com (Bill Bogen) writes:   
      
   > Thomas Billings  wrote in message   
   > news:...   
   >> In article ,   
   >>  wbogen@visteon.com (Bill Bogen) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> If not, did anyone ever begin a   
   >>> _manual_ search of the 620,000 high-resolution visible-light   
   >>> Clementine images?   
   >>   
   >> We looked at this, and looked at our local support group, and quailed!   
   >   
   > Why?  Isn't the human eye&brain a wonderful pattern recognition   
   > device?  Maybe I'm being naive here but I'd set up the project this   
   > way:  10 people each sitting in front of a PC for about 2 hours a day.   
   > Display an image.  The person decides whether it is a possible   
   > lavatube and flags it with a keystroke.  Since the vast bulk of   
   > pictures will be rejects, I'd expect an average rate of about 1   
   > sec/image.  We'd be done in 9 days.  Let's triple that and let each   
   > image be seen by 3 people; we'd rank each image by consensus.  Let's   
   > pay each person $10/hr: labor cost = $5,167.  Even adding costs for   
   > software to present the images and record flags, project management,   
   > etc, this still seems pretty cheap.   
   >   
   > Oregon L-5 has some experience in NASA grants, doesn't it?  Would this   
   > be an unreasonable grant proposal?   
      
   Yes --- It's =FAR= too cheap a proposal to ever be accepted by NASA!  :-/   
   You'll need to first raise the project cost by several orders of magnitude,   
   and find some way to distribute the project over several NASA Centers,   
   before it has even a small _chance_ of being approved !!!  :-I   
      
      
   -- Gordon D. Pusch   
      
   perl -e '$_ = "gdpusch\@NO.xnet.SPAM.com\n"; s/NO\.//; s/SPAM\.//; print;'   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)