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Giving talks

Back in the early 80s, shortly after the first space shuttle flight and landing, I joined a bunch of space enthusiasts in trying to figure out how to lobby for and promote an expanded space program. Not much happened, and things sobered up real fast after the Columbia disaster. But I remember one fellow, a computer programmer, whose main idea was that we should "give talks." I never gave any, and don’t remember anyone who did. But, 25 or so years later here’s a new forum for just that.