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Once upon a time, not so long ago, I came across a website that provided "Bigfoot Facts" for kids. The site didn't say from where these facts were derived but they were commonly circulated in various books and all over the web.
Here are some typical "facts":
- Bigfoot has been spotted all over the world, often in wooded and mountainous areas.
- Bigfoot is an omnivore, eating plants, nuts, berries, fish, deer, and other animals.
- Bigfoot is shy. He just likes to be around others of his own kind but not around people.
- Since Bigfoot doesn't want to be noticed or photographed, he is hard to spot and difficult to capture on film.
- He is curious, aware of people, and can stealthily avoid them.
- Bigfoots talk to each other by making loud howls across long distances or by wood knocking.
- Bigfoot throws rocks at people to scare them away. He isn't mean, just territorial.
How do they know these things? I asked the site owner. My comment got rejected and my question was never answered. Did I cross a line? I just wanted a reference. Apparently, that was too much to ask.
Self-styled Bigfoot researchers make claims that suggest they know more about Bigfoot than Bigfoot might know about himself. They can tell me what Bigfoot likes and doesn't like, where he sleeps at night, how he avoids detection, and how he communicates. They tell the public that Bigfoot makes those sounds they hear at night. They find locations where a Bigfoot passed through or slept or built a shelter. These researchers even know about Bigfoots' "culture"—what they do with their dead relatives, how they can fool humans. But apparently they don't know enough to catch one.
Fact? You Keep Using that Word But I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means
Perhaps there is confusion over what exactly is meant by "fact." That word doesn't have a hard and fast definition, but rather one that is based on how the statement is verified—from universal on the left end to personal verification on the right. A scientific fact is at the extreme left end. It is incontrovertible, verifiable to anyone who wants to check it. Facts are the building blocks of theories that describe how nature works.
A more everyday usage of the term "fact" is in the middle: a statement that can be confirmed to the point where the consensus will be that it is true, it really occurred, or it is certainly the case. That infers that there was some process undertaken to establish some basis for what is stated. We accept a lot of things as facts not because we have personally verified them but because others probably have and/or because it is reasonable to accept those facts as true.
On the extreme right side is a fact based on personal verification. "Fact" is used as a label for a statement that a person very much wants to believe or believes to be true. It's a fact in that person's mind because he or she has accepted it completely: "I know this is true. I've seen it." You probably won't be able to sway that person's belief with any counter facts of your own. Religious facts are in this category.
Squatchy Facts from the Bigfoot Experts
Matt Moneymaker (of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization [BFRO] and Finding Bigfoot TV show) and I once got into a comical yet revealing Twitter exchange regarding his statement of facts. The exchange began when he posted these statements (that I interpreted as a matters-of-fact on his part):
MattMoneymaker1: Only 2 threats to human safety: Some throw rocks & some vehicle collisions with deer at night are caused by bigfoots November 17, 2011
In response to another user, he continued:
MattMoneymaker1: … IN SOME PLACES they spook deer to run into traffic at night, then pick up the roadkill afterward. Makes hunting easier. November 17, 2011
Here I go again:
DoubtfulNews: How do you know? December 3, 2011
MattMoneymaker1: @DoubtfulNews You will come understand how I know, albeit gradually. December 3, 2011
Ah, so the truth will be revealed to me. Revelation is a way of knowing different than science. It's one I don't use too much since it's historically unreliable. But cryptozoologists (who study Bigfoot and other mystery creatures) and paranormalists seem to like it. It provides great flexibility in "knowing."
Here are more claims from Matt on Twitter:
What do you mean "we" can't find their droppings? Do you look for them? BFRO members have found BF droppings many times. February 17, 2012
…Squatch todlers swing through trees like gibbons. Squatches r lk apes in many was. They r vry smart but very…[shy] July 5, 2011
Definitely some squatches in Indiana. Check out damned [sic] rivers near Huntington and Mt. Etna. Look 4 combo of deer and catfish. July 12, 2011
Hey #Rutland #Vermont ppl, u got a family of squatches living n Bird Mt WMA. We heard them knocking in there a few nights ago. Awesome place Apr 17, 2012
Squatches r using powerline cut between Jehova's Witness Hall outside Whitehall & north flank of Bird Mt. That is the route from Adirondacks Apr 17, 2012
Want to catch a Squatch? Here are some curious suggestions I bet you haven't heard before:
MattMoneymaker1: Got a howling BF near your home/cabin at night? Step outside w/ a pumpkin or watermelon during howling. Walk toward sounds, set it on a log. April 10, 2012
MattMoneymaker1: Whistle or sing as you carry the pumpkin or watermelon. Set it on a log somewhere dark and out of view of your home/cabin. Walk back inside. April 10, 2012
And then what happens? Despite looking a bit strange, I'd bet lots of people have tried this on Matt's advice, yet we have no Bigfoot to show for it. Is it a fact that Bigfoot likes singing, squashes, and melons? I'm just bursting with questions about this.
Matt is always churning out such surprisingly specific details about Sasquatch. I refrain from asking each time "How do you know?" I suspect he is already annoyed with me and it's tough to carry on an in-depth conversation in 140 characters or less. Conveniently, someone else asked and Matt tells the public he can prove it.
In a response to the question "How can you say that it is a well-known fact that BigFoot likes to throw rocks when you can't prove he's real?" (July 8, 2011) Matt replies:
MattMoneymaker1: We can prove "they" are real 2 anyone who wants 2 go into 1 of their cribs at night with us. We're not trying to catch one July 8, 2011
Plenty of people take him up on this offer. The BFRO runs sold-out camping expeditions into "squatchy" (Sasquatch-friendly) places. I don't know how many people would say they found proof of Bigfoot on these trips but I haven't seen any proof emerge. I get the impression that if you think Bigfoot is out there, everything is evidence of his presence. And the evidence is, again, of a personal nature.
Maybe all those things they say about Bigfoot are true (even though some are contradictory). But they aren't yet verified facts. We cannot verify Matt's facts because no one has documented conclusively that a Bigfoot/Sasquatch really exists nor has there been produced an actual body or body part for study or incontrovertible photo documentation. Bigfoot researchers have created a natural history of Bigfoot and pass it off to the public looking like a fact when it's really a personal belief kind of fact, derived from personal observations or eyewitness reports.
Entire arrays of cryptids (mystery animals) are classified based on eyewitness descriptions from stories with no other corroborating evidence to support them. Examples of this speculative taxonomy are in so-called Field Guides or Handbooks to *insert any mystery thing here*. Such guides exist for lake monsters and sea serpents, Bigfoot and similar upright hairy man-like things, monsters (werewolves and the like), ghosts, vampires, little people (fairies and such), and all sorts of paranormal beings. They describe a wide range of creatures and their behaviors with (what looks to the reader like) facts. Most people are skeptical enough to view this literature as mostly entertainment but there actually are people that believe anything can exist, even magical creatures of folklore.
It's fine to speculate but when the whole premise of your field relies predominantly on anecdote-fueled interpretations, you are on thin ice making claims that there all these new animals are out there for us to find. Centuries ago, people knew facts about witches and demons, their behaviors, and reality. Historical natural history books had vivid descriptions of monstrous creatures. Here is one for the basilisk:
…he is king of serpents, and they be afraid, and flee when they see him. For he slayeth them with his smell and with his breath: and slayeth also anything that hath life with breath and with sight. In his sight no fowl nor bird passeth harmless, and though he be far from the fowl, yet it is burned and devoured by his mouth.
We never found anything that quite fit that description.
A Purpose Behind Manufacturing Facts
Any fact can be pulled out of the air when you are an expert in a field unconstrained by limits or rules, as is cryptozoology. Coming up with your own facts works well in the media and on TV shows because you can easily sound like you know what you are talking about. Most of the audience doesn't check your facts. These facts are repeated, catch on, and become public knowledge. This type of expert-looking testimony occurs not only on monster hunting shows but also on programming about UFO mysteries and especially on ghost hunting shows. Facts just spring up, fully formed, from imaginative speculation.
I have my own suspicion for why such manufacturing is so common today. It stems from the strong beliefs held by Bigfoot researchers and their need to justify their continued work and intellectual investment in their subject. Researchers get frustrated that not even one of these creatures can be found to unquestionably show the public they are real. They have to deliver to the public something to keep Bigfoot alive in their minds. The quest to find Bigfoot has gone on for so long that all the stories and hypotheses have woven themselves into an imagined biological sketch of Bigfoot. Researchers fit the debatable evidence they find into that framework and use it as inspiration to sustain and enhance belief about Bigfoot-like creatures.
Science isn't such a house of cards. It's built upon concepts we've already established to be true. Thinking that something ought to be one way is very different from something actually being that way. This important distinction is lost on wishful mystery hunters. Wishful thinking prevents them from seeking real world explanations for things like creature sightings, hauntings, and UFOs.
I often see comments that such TV shows are so silly, they should be labeled as comedy, that no one could believe they reflect reality. Skeptics often take a hard line against even the possibility of cryptids and see those handbooks and guides as fun entertainment. But consider this: many people around the world have formed paranormal investigation teams in response to ghost hunting shows on TV and people all around the U.S. have formed Bigfoot search groups. Do not underestimate the public buy-in to these activities. The more popular the topic becomes, the easier it is for people to accept.
Sure, Finding Bigfoot is clearly not a scientific expedition; it's a TV show. Matt Moneymaker's BFRO, however, labels itself "The only scientific research organization exploring the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery." Matt himself is considered an authority (Note: he is trained in law, not science). Is this what people see as "scientific" enough to emulate? Indeed they do. And they buy those "facts" they are sold.
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I'll make a confession. While I no doubt owned Matchbox and Hot Wheels toys as a kid, I wasn't that into 'em. I loved cars of course, and seeing how we managed to spend so much time in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach when I was young, I could wander the streets with my car geek friend David while our folks finished brunch and look at actual slant-nose 935s, Lambo Jalpas, Ferrari Mondials, Avantis and what ever else the merchants of bad taste deemed necessary that week. We did see an Aston Martin Lagonda parked in front of Nate & Als one Sunday, which was and continues to be one of the happiest moments of my life. What I am trying to say is that I am totally the wrong guy to be asking this question. So, I will let commenter Seth L,
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Friday, January 20, 2012
2012 S.O.F.A Manana
Tomorrow, Saturday the 21st trail runners will rejoice on the lower Rogue River Trail south of Graves Creek for the annual Southern Oregon Fat A$$. Now it is customary that this event be detailed as a 50k trail run but the beauty of the RRT is that anyone can run the out and back as far as their heart or rather feet and legs desire.
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The plan is to leave Graves creek about 9AM on Saturday, January 21st and run out-n-
back for a total of about 50k. Remember, out-n-back means you can cut
it short or make it long. Invite anyone you think might want to join us. I hope to see you there!
This is a self-supported run so carry what you'll need. We cross countless streams, but partake at your own risk. Do I need to mention rain and poison oak?
The SOFA started out as a way to celebrate birthdays, but anymore, it's a way to spend time on a beautiful trail with great people.
From the north, take the Wolf Creek exit #76 to the Graves Creek
trailhead. I think it's about 9 more miles.
From the South, take the Merlin exit #61 and do the same. You'll go
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Can't wait to see all of you out there, rain or shine!
Here's our post from '10.
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New York, May 6, 2011 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has agreed to terms with forward Roman Horak. Horak, 19, skated in 64 games with the Chilliwack Bruins of the Western Hockey League (WHL) this season, registering 26 goals and 52 assists for 78 points, along with 60 penalty minutes. He established career-highs in goals, assists, points, and power play goals (19). Horak tied for 12th in the WHL with 15 power play assists, and led all Chilliwack skaters with a 1.22 points per game average. He also tied for first on the Bruins in assists and shorthanded goals (two), ranked second in goals and points, and third in power play goals. Horak posted a career-high, 11-game scoring streak from October 16 vs. Vancouver to November 12 vs. Red Deer, tallying 14 points (six goals, eight assists) over the span. He recorded a career-high, 19 multi-point performances, including four straight multi-point efforts to begin the season from September 25 at Kamloops to October 9 vs. Seattle (five goals, six assists during the stretch). In addition, Horak tallied one goal and two assists in five playoff contests.
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It's not always easy to keep perspective. Like when the 410 lb. orca whale purchasing $30-worth of Burger King for himself double-checks with the cashier that the soda he was served is Diet. But we here at Razzball know how difficult maintaining perspective can be, especially when you're drunk and trying to sketch moving objects. So from now until the start of the season, we're bringing you the 2010 Fantasy Team Previews, which will focus on each NBA team in hopes of painting a clearer fantasy picture. Who's starting over whom? Who might surprise you and who might make you want to hurl yourself off a bridge in a few months. Enjoy! Next up – The Boston Celtics.
Gained – Delonte West, Luke Harangody, Semih Erden, a pair of Irish O'Neals
Lost – Scalabrine! 'Sheed! Tony Allen! (Okay, that last one didn't really warrant a yell)
Probable position depth –
PG – Rajon Rondo, Delonte West, Von Wafer
SG – Ray Allen, Nate Robinson, Avery Bradley
SF – Paul Pierce, Marquis Daniels
PF – Kevin Garnett, Glen Davis, Luke Harangody
C – Shaquille O'Neal, Jermaine O'Neal, Kendrick Perkins, Semih Erden
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My old college roommate (my roommate was actually college-age, it just happened a few years back) had depression issues for which his doctor prescribed him two pills. But those pills had side effects that required another pill to alleviate. But that alleviation pill made him dizzy, so – boom – two more pills. In the end, he took a cocktail of about nine pills and I'm pretty sure he just had mild autism all along. The pills just confused the issue. What does that have to do with the center position of the Boston Celtics? Don't make me spell it out.
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3. What's left in Ray's tank?
Oh, I'd say there's about a quarter Allen left … You see what I did there? Allen sounds like gallon. Gallon. Tank. … Nothing? Fine. Last season marked the death rattle of Allen's career (15.2 PER, lowest since his rookie season; 20.2 USG%, the lowest of his career). You can have him at the 65th pick and I'd be shocked to find him getting taken in the top 100 in 2011. But hey, it's been fun, Jesus.
Fantasy Disappointment in '10 – Ray Allen. Yahoo! lists his ADP at 61. ESPN lists him at 66. And if you believe he should be drafted anywhere near that, I'd like to offer you some Florida swampland that's about to skyrocket in value.
Biggest Fantasy Contributor in '10 – Rajon Rondo. Last year's meme was that the Celtics were no longer the Big 3's squad. Some memes last a long time. Don't look back, Boston. A new day is breakin.' It took too long just to realize.
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UFO Update
Posted by dandare on December 30, 2007
Hello and welcome to the last Update of 2007…. hope you all had a great christmas and i wish you all a happy new 2008.
So what's been going on, in the last week…. from the ufo front.
There is a new magazine coming out called "Alien Worlds", and it will be on sale in febuary 2008 (thats in the UK…not sure about elsewhere). At the online website (see above link), there is also a wealth of information (including a forum).
At thecomet.net (dated 27th december 2007), "Andrew's started so he'll finish" . Andrew (11 years old), was in a tv quiz called junior mastermind (BBC), and his chosen subject was the Roswell incident…..
From icwales.co.uk "UFOs are seen as a joke but it's almost a certainty they exist" (posted 29th december,2007). It mentions that :
"Echo reporter LAURA WRIGHT delves into South Wales' very own X Files…
SIGHTINGS of unidentified flying objects have soared in the last month, with at least two a week seen by airline pilots in South Wales ". Later on it adds
"And only four days ago, on the night of Christmas Day, a couple saw spherical orange lights in the sky above their home in the capital" (extracts from the article).
Again in Wales, in the dailypost.co.uk (posted 29th december 2007) "Berwyn UFO puzzle to be solved at last". The article is interesting due to this statement :
"Although the MoD would not confirm categorically the incident – widely dubbed the "Welsh Roswell" – would be in the documents, it said a large amount of material would be released. An MoD spokeswoman said: "There is no date set but it will be published next year. "It is going to take time because there are a lot of handwritten documents." (extract from article).
At CBC News "Couple films mystery dark spiral " (posted 28th december,2007); they say
"I mean I didn't think it was a UFO or anything but to me I thought something was in trouble, but it was going so slow. I mean it was at least a half an hour from the time we first spotted it till it went out of sight." (extract from article).
At satellite -CATV News "UFO hits NASA satellite in space" (posted 27th december,2007). "An unknown object apparently collided with a satellite with NASA Langley Research Center connections in November, sending several broken pieces flying into orbit" (extract from article.
At the daily news.lk "Extraterrestrial life" is worth a quick read (not sure when written, but within the last week), it is the second post down.
Website of the week:
Also of interest:
"UFO casebook" (icWales-posted 29th december,2007)
"Why shouldn't there be something else out there " (ic Wales again- 29th december,2007).
Until 2008……… Update wishes you all a happy new year……….


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Two bar openings in two days.
Must be early in the offseason.
Couldn't let this one pass, though. Not with the World Series starting tonight.
I know some of you are cringing when you hear "World Series," lamenting about what might have been. Well, don't. The Orioles had a season that exceeded everyone's expectations. Be thankful that they went as far as they did.
And don't let their early exit stop you from watching this October Classic. I know I'm biased, but the World Series will always be my favorite Reality TV Series.
This year is a fairly compelling one. The Detroit Tigers are star-studded; the San Francisco Giants are fate-tempters. Should be more drama than Jersey Shore, right (and nearly as awful hairdos/facial hair thanks to the Giants)?
There are not many options for Orioles' fans looking for connections in this one. Aubrey Huff, one of my favorite players to cover over the years, is still with the Giants, though he has been reduced to a pinch-hitter.
And Detroit Tigers outfielder Quintin Berry is the best childhood friend of Orioles center fielder Adam Jones.
That's about it. So you can choose with your mind and not your slightly broken heart here.
Let's make this a Prediction Wednesday. Give me your pick for the World Series champion, number of games that are needed and your World Series MVP.
I am taking the Tigers in 6 games. And since Miguel Cabrera and/or Prince Fielder are too obvious, I am going with Detroit shortstop Jhonny Peralta as my MVP.
Don't take this one to the bank, though. I'm the one who, in March, had the Orioles losing 96 games in 2012 and the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds in this World Series.
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Interview: Yuri Gidzenko
International Space Station Expedition 1 Crew Interviews with
Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko.
Yuri, before we talk about the details of your mission, I'd like
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why is it that you wanted to become a cosmonaut? What steps have
there been along the way in your career that have led you to where
you are today?
OK. When
I was a child, my dream was to be a pilot. Maybe not a civil pilot,
but a military pilot because my father was a military man, and
maybe he advised me to be a military man, too. And, when I was
maybe twelve, eleven-years-old, I decided to be a military pilot.
And when I graduated from high school I entered a military pilot
school, and after that, I flew as a military pilot in the Soviet
Union Air Force. And after that, some manager from Gagarin Training
Space Center suggest me to pass technical medical exam to be a
cosmonaut, and I agreed. And after that I was selected in the
cosmonaut team. In general, my steps.
it was more a matter of them coming to you and saying, would you
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be a person who flew in space?
When they
suggested me to be a cosmonaut or to try to pass exams to be a
cosmonaut, I agreed. But my first dream was to be a pilot. I thought
about cosmonauts, about space, about, orbit, long-duration, station,
but I knew that it's very difficult to pass exams because only
one person from one hundred managed to be cosmonauts because very
difficult to pass a lot of exams. That's why I thought about it
in my dream. But, when I manage to pass it, I was very glad, and
right now I'm very glad.
a military pilot, and as the son of a military pilot, were you
familiar with Gagarin and the other military pilots who were the
early cosmonauts?
I know Yuri
Gagarin as the first cosmonaut from our history, from our book.
I didn't know him personally. But I know Alexei Leonov, Boris
Volynov, our cosmonauts from the first cosmonaut team. And in
my opinion, they are really cosmonauts: They were like pioneers
in space, and they showed us, showed me, the way in space, too.
It's not only Russian cosmonauts, they show American astronauts,
too. They showed us the way into space.
the last couple of years since you've been training for the Expedition
1 crew's mission, you've had the opportunity to travel, not only
to Houston, but around the world in preparing for the mission.
Has that been a part of this whole process that you've enjoyed?
First years,
I like it very much because it was opportunity for me to meet
different people; very interesting, very smart, people. And right
now, I like it, too. But sometimes, when I have a lot of business
trip per year, my family is not very glad about it, especially
my wife, because, I have to pay my attention to my sons. But she
recognizes my life, that's my training, and she agrees with my
life, with my trips and so on. And, my present trip I'm in Houston
right now, I take my wife and my younger son with me in Houston
because they are missing for me, and I am missing for them, too,
and right now they are with me. And like last year, like previous
years and like now, I am very glad to meet with different people
and to participate in a very important things about my training,
about, space, about design of new modules and so on.
the course of traveling to these many places, to the many countries
that are partners in the International Space Station, have you
seen that the engineers and the managers in all of these different
places how they're beginning to work together better, how the
partnership is coming together?
Yes, I saw
it, and I see it now. I remember when we get together: I mean
Shep, Sergei and I, when we, got together and began our training,
we had a lot of meetings with American managers, with American
designers and engineers and with Russian specialists from Energia.
And I remember that was some misunderstanding with American and
Russian specialist about their view on different situation, about
their view on our training, and so on. And I think, first like
Shep and Sergei and I, we didn't have the same view on different
situation, but after three years doing training, we learned to
understand each other and it help us.
are now some few months ahead of your much-anticipated launch
as the first crew to the International Space Station, first space
station to be put into orbit by a number of different countries.
Do you sense an important symbolism to finally putting a permanent
crew on board this new outpost?
Maybe in
Russian, you see symbolism, the permanent crew on will finally…so
that all the desires, the wishes, the striving of our people who've
worked space, so that, at long last the ISS will take shape as
the first crew will finally begin to do some work to prepare everything
for the future crews. I do agree that this is, indeed, a symbol
that we see our in first flight. We think about this less, though;
we think about how best to implement our space program.
talk about some specifics. You are the Soyuz Commander on this
mission; What happens for the three of you during a two-day trip
from Baikonur to the station? At whatever point you do launch,
that's how you're going to get there. Describe what happens during
that two-day trip in the Soyuz spacecraft.
OK, previously
it took only one day from taking off 'til docking between the
Soyuz vehicle and the space station. After that, our specialist,
our scientist, decided to [in]crease this period of time to two
days. It's maybe more comfortable for crew and more convenient
for ground people to calculate our orbit and to calculate inputs
- in Russian - so that we can dock. Then for two days, we are
going to alter the orbit so that we gradually approach the station.
And, after two days, in orbit 32, we'll begin the process of docking.
We'll still have a distance approach, then we approach the station,
then we have the docking itself. As a rule this is all done automatically,
on an automated mode; the flight engineer, the commander and the
astronauts or cosmonauts who are monitoring the process, and if
something does occur with the automatic docking, well then the
crew gets involved and does it manually. Specifically I have two
levers that would allow me to control the vehicle to do the approach
and docking manually. Then following the docking we check the
seal, equalizing pressure between the transport vehicle and the
ISS. We open hatches. Then we start working on the station.
like the smile on your face when you said, "We get to open
the hatches." What will be the first thing that you'll do
when you go on board the station?
I think we
will install our TV camera for our first TV report from space
to ground. I think, yes.
be arriving at a station where people have been before, but they've
never been there to stay before. What are the activities that
you and your crewmates, will have to do, say, in the very first
day that you are there, in order to begin to establish the ISS
as a space station that can be home to humans?
As I had
mentioned at the outset, we will set up the TV camera so that
we can send down the first images to the ground, that's what I
think. And then, we, I believe, would start setting up how we're
going to live on…and to determine which cabins we're going
to sleep in. And maybe we would want to fix breakfast, figure
out where we're going to do that, what kind of food we're going
to be eating, and then figure out how we're going to operate with
the bathroom, to at least get it going. These are the first things
we'll have to set up to begin living there, as if we would be
living on the ground. And then we would start to check out, install
the vital systems like the electronic system, which gives us the
Elektron system, which gives us air, the Vozdukh system which
treats the atmosphere for toxics, and we would do this would take
a few days, maybe even a few weeks. And then we're going to also
install the treadmills so we can start working out because the
doctors don't let us stay in space for a long time without working
out; they're worried that our muscles might atrophy and so on.
So, we're going to be quite heavily involved in things.
location where you are going to be doing this work is far from
an ordinary place. But in preparing to spend a period of months
in space, rather than just a period of days, makes us think that
you will probably develop a kind of regular schedule of what you
will do as compared to space shuttle crews who are on shorter
missions. Do you have a sense now of what your daily schedule
will be like as you and your crewmates settle in on board the
new space station?
I could imagine
that kind of schedule. It won't differ all that much from the
one that was used on Mir when I flew for a half year as the crew
commander. I think, in general, it'll be pretty much the same
thing. Naturally, it will differ in terms of details in that we're
going to be more involved in checking out systems, assembling
them, testing them, testing various systems, and will be less
involved, probably, in scientific experiments. That's going to
be one difference from the Mir. In general, I think, we'll get
up at 8 a.m., according to the schedule, we'll have breakfast,
we will get ready to do our work. Then say, from 9 to 12, we'll
work somewhere in the Zarya module, maybe in the Node or in the
Service Module. And then right before lunch, we'll have time for
a workout -- we should have a workout -- a good training for an
hour, and then lunch, then work again. Then a second hour of working
out before dinner, then we have dinner, and then again work and
getting ready for the next day; a brief rest, then sleep. That's
how the nominal operations will work. In fact, though, of course,
most of our time will go to work…probably take up much of
our free, personal time, too, because we can't be certain that
everything is going to be, work nominally, everything will be
fine, that there won't be any failures or anything like that.
So we are planning to have to work quite a bit and we're only
too ready for that.
you anticipate that you will have a workweek that will compare
to the ground controllers, or will you be working every day? Do
you get any time off?
Of course
we're going to have days off to be monitored by our U.S. and Russian
medical support people. They're going to be very clear in terms
of following how we're working and how much free time we have.
What I'm saying is, in actual fact, we may not be able to maintain
that because different situations could emerge, and in terms of
the ground personnel, it'll be a bit easier for them because each
system -- each piece of equipment, hardware -- is the responsibility
of several people who can replace each other so they might have
more time available for rest and everything else. And too, I think
they are really going to be really busy, too, like me, like we
are. They're going to be doing everything they can so that we
can meet our program as it should be met.
first Expedition crew to go to the station in some ways can be
thought of as, what Americans would call a shakedown cruise -
we're up there to make sure that things are going to be working.
How well do you expect things to work on this station? Are you
going to have to spend a lot of time fixing things?
No, I think
that on balance, everything will operate nominally; everything
will pretty much work well. Still, it's difficult to imagine for
us and the specialists who develop the systems what specifics
might come up in terms of operations. These are, if, there are
many new systems here that have been, indeed, tested on the ground
that haven't been tested in microgravity, so we do expect that
there will be some difficulties. I'm certain that there's not
going to be any serious major failures, but there might be some
minor problems, failures, that will take place that will require
taking care of. Maybe not…systems won't break down but they
might just not be operating according to standards, they may have
to be addressed on the ground, too. So there probably will be
some problems that do come up in terms of communications between
the station and the ground. Most likely, problems will come up
with software, hardware, computer hardware, so we will have these
problems - you can't get around it. For the first several increments,
until we've worked everything out, shaken down everything, we
will have that. When you have a new car that's produced, the designers
test it, do the shakedown first. Pretty much the same thing here
is waiting for us.
during your months onboard the station you are going to get to
respond to whatever difficulties may crop up. That will keep you
busy, but still you're going to be away from home for a long time.
You have done that before on the Mir space station. From your
experience, what are the most important things that are needed
to keep a person happy and healthy while being on a long-duration
space mission?
The main
thing is for the work to bring you satisfaction. So when you're
working you need to understand that this is of some use…I
mean, it's worthwhile. Not only the part where they're doing scientific
experiments or repairing a system; the main thing is for you to
realize that this is all of use, will be of use for future crews,
and that down the pike this will all be actually implemented.
Obviously for long-term flight, you need to find time, definitely,
for R and R, for rest, to get away from all of this. It could
be just looking out the window, reading a bit, talking, chatting
with each other on totally different subjects - you need to be
able to work and you need to be able to rest, definitely. And
you need to continually realize that people are waiting for you
down on the ground; you are waiting to see them again, too…because
separation always ends eventually with the next time you get together
with people on the ground.
the time that you're going be onboard, you will have a lot of
different things to do, and on the day that we are talking now,
the exact flight plan has not been set out. But at this point,
are there any plans for space walks by the station crewmembers,
and do you get to make a space walk?
It's difficult
to say at this juncture. Initially they'd planned two space walks:
One, myself and Sergei; then Sergei and Shep are going to do a
space walk; and then they're going to have two for myself and
Sergei they had planned for a while; then they left one space
walk. And right now I, I really couldn't tell you how many EVAs
are going to be because the plans have been changing. Our managers
are continually adjusting things. We're getting ready, we're training
for space walks, we do have training sessions in Space City, in
the Hydrolab there, Neutral Buoyancy Lab here at NASA. So we are
getting ready, we're training. I would simply like to say that,
of course walking in space is a very difficult form of activity.
For us, though, it's kind of within the norm, it's the usual kind
of operations that we do. In terms of complexity it's something
akin to docking with the shuttle or with a cargo vehicle…so
we're training for that.
your time onboard, you are scheduled to have several visits from
space shuttle crews who will be bringing new pieces to the station.
Can you tell us -- and again, understanding that the precise timeline
and order is not set -- what some of the significant tasks are
that are going to be conducted in terms of continued assembly
of the station during the time that you will be onboard?
First of
all, we're going to be eagerly anticipating this because you're
flying for a couple of months in space. You'll have been there,
you'll be seeing real people who have come out to visit you in
space so you can work together so that's kind of one of the main
points. Indeed, they will bring new hardware to be installed,
and will bring us food, water, clothing, 'cause we all have single
use clothing, you use it for a couple days, two or three days,
going for workouts and stuff and then you discard it. So each
shuttle will bring something that will require it to be installed,
and then you have to test it, check it out, check out the new
system. I don't want to get into technical details right now because
it's difficult to say anything specific on them at this stage.
Emotional terms, purely, we will be looking forward to our compatriots
from Earth who will bring us things from our people who are dear
to us, maybe might bring us some packages. That's going to be
very nice, to get together with them.
the times that the space shuttles are docked to the station, shuttle
crewmembers will, in some cases, will be performing space walks
to continue with the assembly tasks and the assembly of the portions
of the station that they are bringing. Can you describe what you
and your station crewmates, Sergei and Shep, will be doing while
the shuttle crewmembers are doing space walks outside the station?
Like the
shuttle crew, our crew will be carrying out specific functions
during a space walk. During a space walk, the station and the
shuttle will have a specific attitude, and it's difficult right
now to say who'll be maintaining that attitude, the station or
the shuttle. Depending on that, you would have the crew, station
crew tasks and the shuttle crew tasks, for maintaining attitude.
If it's to be a space walk for installing some cables, once they're
connected then inside we'll have to monitor to check that it's
all been performed, are we getting the signal, are we getting
electricity, etc. How to maintain contact with the ground, who'll
also will be monitoring operations, and then as much as we can
we'll try to take a video, do a video film, that's how we can
have the mater, some material to look at in terms of how the operations
were performed.
hatches between the shuttle and the station, as I understand,
will be closed for much of the time that shuttles are docked to
the station. Can you tell us why that will be, and how you think
you'll feel about having visitors who are so close but yet out
of reach?
I don't think
they're going to be closed all the time; probably most of the
time they'll be closed but that's being worked right now, that
issue. And I don't have a hundred percent certainty how often
they're going to be closed and how much of the time they're going
to be open. That's a decision that was made based on safety concerns
both in the U.S. and Russia and there is some reason to that,
some sense to that, there might be some off-nominal situations
that emerge, you might lose pressure or something, so that would
be one reason for that. I do think, though, that, like when the
shuttle flew up to the Mir station, we spent an entire day working
together where we had the hatches completely open, then for the
night the crews returned to their shuttle and the station, then
we closed the hatches for safety reasons. The next morning they
re-equalized pressure between the Mir station, the shuttle, and
we opened hatches and work continued. I think that's pretty much
how it's going to be while the station and the shuttle are docked.
I don't think we're going to have to be getting into when the
shuttle is docked up with the station, after they've flown up
from the Earth; I think we'll see each other most of the time,
we'll be together.
current plans also call for there to be some number of Progress
cargo ships that will dock to the ISS during your time on board.
Would you discuss for us a bit about how you and your crewmates
manage Progress ships in terms of the arriving cargo and the departing
garbage, or how much time is taken up with loading or unloading
these ships. And do these ships and all their new supplies contribute
to making the station become more cluttered?
The Progress
vehicles will be essential for us because they'll be delivering
new hardware. Obviously, problems will occur in terms of cargo
stowage on the station because there's not all that much free
space inside and we already realize that this is an issue. The
stowage people on the ground are all ready and need to work on
how and where we're going to store hardware that's going to be
delivered to the station, because they often tell us that, well,
you figure it out yourselves, where you want to put things, all
of that. Right now there's not all that much space on the station
where we can stow all this. But I think that, when the cargo vehicle
arrives, for about a week we'll be off-loading, maybe even faster
depending on the situation. As we need not only to off-load it,
we need to stow the cargo, then describe it in the software and
the applications, in the inventory management system, so that
the other crews can find it. It's a major, was a major problem
on the Mir station where the crew couldn't find an item and the
Mir station was large so you spent days looking for things. So
you need not only to stow the cargo from a transport vehicle you
need describe it, which takes some time. And then when the cargo
vehicle is emptied we will be stowing onboard the cargo vehicle
our garbage, the foodstuffs we haven't used up, so, other things
that we need to put in to, have taken away as garbage, all that
will be put over on the cargo vehicle. And then once it departs
the station it'll burn up in the atmosphere and nothing will be
left of it.
the what was called the first stage of the International Space
Station program was wrapping up, NASA's Phase 1 program director
suggested that Norm Thagard probably had a harder time in his
increment on board the Mir than the Americans who followed him
simply because he was the first one there and everything was brand
new. What do you foresee as the unique challenges that face you
and your crewmates as the first crew onboard the ISS?
Let me first
of all say about Norman Thagard, that he had the same difficulties,
or rather the other astronauts had the same difficulties he had,
in that he was the first of the U.S. astronauts, he simply was
quite up-front about these issues so that the future astronauts
would be aware of the difficulties involved. He had difficulties
related to the long duration of the flight, it was a Russian station,
different culture, different community, so these were indeed difficulties.
It'll be easier for us because we've become one crew now over
these three years. We know the ground people, specialists, in
Russia and the U.S. who will be supporting us, so it'll be easier
for us in this respect. But the difficulties themselves had to
do with the long-duration flight, in a closed in space, remote
from those you love and your friends, that's the major difficulty,
which leaves an imprint, kind of, on our work, and how we rest,
how we live on board. During our training, though, each of us
has kept in mind the kind of model on how were going to operate
on the station during the flight, so we're, from the very outset,
getting ready for that. We acknowledge, kind of, what awaits us
there, and what we need to do to overcome these difficulties.
and Shep and Sergei are preparing to head to a brand new station
as the human race enters its fifth decade of space flight, and
to start a brand new millennium. What are your thoughts about
the impact of having human beings in space? Tell me why you think
that it's important that we continue to be there.
First, the
station is, of course, a totally new station; still we can compare
it to a certain degree with the previous station, the Mir. Some
of the station, some of the life support systems, are very similar
to what was on Mir, what we have on the ISS. It's another matter
in terms of that we're basically going to be using computers to
do the control of the systems, which is a totally new step in
terms of development of space technology. Now, that the people
are now moving into space, exploring space, have been doing so
for now, are into our fifth decade of this; it's a philosophical
issue. We can spend as much time as you want on this kind of discussion.
Still, our great scientist who stood on the eve of space science,
such people as Tsiolkovsky, in their works, in their books, did
assume that Earth is sort of the cradle for mankind and that sooner
or later man would move into space, to live, to work there. This
is progress - mankind has to develop and will continue to develop
in exploring space. This provides new horizons, new knowledge.
You could even fantasize and say that for the future, man may
have problems of overpopulation, problems with water and food
and maybe we're going to have to develop some, explore some new
planets, or regions in space. That's the far-off future, though.
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Ragu alla Bolognese
One of my all time favorite sauces for pasta is a rich bolognese. Originated in Bologna, Italy the traditional version incorporates beef with pancetta and according to Accademia Italiana della Cucina there is an official recipe that should be followed. My version however kicks it up a bit by mingling beef, veal and pork which to me creates a distinct taste and texture.
One of basic items used is a basic battuto or you may have heard it called sofrito which is a simple combination of onion, carrot and celery, not unlike the French Mirepoix it's used to give a sweet underlying flavor.
As with some of my other recipes this one is great to make a large batch as it freezes well and can be used in a lasagna or as a gravy for pasta such as tagliatelle or rigatoni.
You will need:
Beef Chuck One pound, ground to medium in a food processor, you can purchase pre-ground but I find the texture too smooth.
Pork Shoulder One pound, ground to medium in a food processor, again you can purchase pre-ground.
Veal Shoulder One pound, ground to medium or pre-ground. Alternatively you can use ground turkey
Onion One large sweet or about one cup, such as Walla Walla or Vidalia
Carrot Two large or about one cup
Celery three stalks or about one cup
Garlic Two cloves
Tomato Paste four TBSP
White Wine use a good dry such as Chardonnay, two cups
Whole Milk — Two cups
Dried Oregano — One TBSP
Olive Oil — Two TBSP
Sea Salt/Pepper Two tsp each
Rough chop the onion, carrot and celery, place in a food processor and grind to a fine dice, set aside. In a large bowl place the beef, pork and veal/turkey and mix until well combined. Dice the pancetta to about ⅛" dice, set aside.
Heat a sauté pan large enough to hold all of the protein to medium high add the olive oil. Sauté the meat(s) until most of the pink is gone. Remove the meat from the pan and strain out all of the juice left, set aside. In the same pan add the pancetta and sauté until crisp then add the battuto and sauté until translucent.
If there isn't enough fat left from the pancetta add a little olive oil. Make an opening in the center of the pan and add the crushed garlic, sauté until the garlic is just softened. Stir well to combine, make an opening in the center of the pan and add the tomato paste, sauté until it loosens up a bit and then stir all to combine. Return the meat to the pan, add the oregano and mix well, sauté until warmed through. Spread the meat out into a level layer and add the white wine. Cook through until the wine is dissipated add the milk and cook until most of the milk is gone. If there isn't enough liquid in the sauce you can adjust with some pasta water.
Serve immediately reserving some to cool and freeze for another day. Enjoy!