Quotes taken verbatum from the mouths of folks in public at the 15th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, held in Canberra Australia, October 2006 (Courtesy of Mark Davis)

• Its the oldest music in human culture
• Look -- they are little glass socker balls
• The well known spareness causes it
• Just append a few days
• "Success" led to a more theory-inclined career
• SLR is now the meterological basis for all global environmental change
• MANY GOOD RETURNS!
• Modern technology has not captured all of us yet
• We reserve the right not to accept color
• There... we are going to invite changes to the schedule throughout the week
• Parking is pay for play
• You will not need beanies, gloves or ski boots -- but sweater or jacket is wise
• Smart Casual -- no thongs on parliment grounds -- the on your feet kind
• I spoke quickly -- that's one of my problems
• I will show only this view in this case
• The best orbits come from the best data sets
• I did this mainly for FUN
• It worked out like that -- I didn't fudge it
• You can read it in a book by a "Certain" GB -- the title I think is called "Celestial Mechanics"
• I couldn't find any coordinates, but I didn't ask for them either
• The printed version is now superceeded by the handout, but it is still only approximate
• "For the convience of computer use" -- Kaula 1966
• Avoid the cost blowouts
• The Bias .... I mean Inconsistency
• All the way back to the very beginning -- I mean 1980
• The ILRS needs to do some more archeology
• Surface geomorphological visioelastic structure
• Mac users --- I think they are making a statement -- again
• Spacetime is like molasses is around the Earth
• Sugar Free is not for weight control
• Station Disclousre Screening
• We can do something for our beauty before going to the library
• I followed the rules except where I needed to make the changes
• There are "Messages in the data"
• We need to get exact and judicious representations
• Tommorow has been rearranged again
• This plot is a bit more negative than I intended it to be
• I'm not going to offer any particular explaination for this data
• We purchase art by how it fills the space
• This notebook PC works every morning
• Look at the flatness.. there's nothing exciting!
• Oh dear how do I go back?
• They've got favorable scatter and unmeasurable ultrastable drifting
• This is the picture I have to show most of the time
• We must reproduce these results with real data
• I'm not allowed to be speaking for the VLBI analysts
• Theyre is much more leeway to put things into sponges
• It's automatic -- we press buttons and don't do anything anymore
• We'll have to go into deeper detail on Saturday
• I cheated a little bit
• Are you lonesome at night?
• Tarot cards and crystal balls don't seem to be working well
• People at the prediction centers do it several times a day
• Automation is the key ingerdient
• You're the only one there and you have to do it by yourself
• I stopped myself in mid sentence
• We don't want to learn in silo's
• Its a requirement of the space people
• It takes just one photon to see thru the trees
• Politically not ready for space to use KHz on a mission
• We need more failure rate data
• Not lugggable, its portable
• If you want to ask me questions -- don't
• We've got lots of niceities to add back in
• This is just a toy someone knocked up
• If we would have ordered it, it whould have brought world piece
• The visionaries of NASA management did it
• Excellent transmission -- its a hole
• Every single photon is precious
• Thanks to lending a few photos for this excercise
• You get Big Fat Normal Points -- and free of charge you get spin parameters and atmospheric seeing
• There is no design philosphy -- just make them and they work
• We've gotten lazy
• Make it completely unambigous
• The biases coincide with the vacation of the laser physisist
• I'm pretty much pessimistic that the two colors can be used to understand the troposphere
• The flat target whatnot response
• When you have two companies building your laser there are always complications
• Its pretty busy in the oscillator
• Do the explanation on the YES part of it will work @ geosynchronous (TLRS-4 at 20 degrees)
• Time is needed for money
• No -- that crater is really a cliff
• Management shows up and the laser goes down
• Get me another plate of them lamb 'cicles
• Reignite the sparks at NASA
• This works best to relatively short distances -- like to the Moon
• It wasn't the optimal solution -- it was the fastest solution we could do
• For some sport you should try the uncoorperative ones
• He said that and no one heard me say it and I'll then move on
• Most of you have seen this slide a painful number of times
• Include everything into one eye readable ASCII format
• Analysts will be shielded until a critical mass is reached
• The time rate of change of the constant is what?
• Go to a big telescope -- its a cleaver trick
• APOLLO's secret weapon is aperture and the quest to squelch the systematics
• We went 8 minutes without touching anything
• Over half of the data is 8 photons or more!
• Thanks to the creative use of statistics
• Telecommunication and telemeasurement can work together
• Make the font louder
• It makes the complication a little more interesting
• I apologize for all the slides of yours that I've hacked
• Starting out at 10,000 feet never hurts your link budget
• This is one of the ugliest primary mirrors I've seen in a long time
• Here he is using the optical hammer
• For uncooperative targets you can never have too much power
• I've run out of things to blame on the ground
• I wish you all the budgets to build more systems in the future
• I will never say what I don't know
• Mathematically rigourously estimatable
• Reality is physics-derived vs. mathematically-derived
• I need to upgrade the portable beam director
• I'm all for borrowing someone else's code
• Only 15 acronyms in this one slide
• I can easily speak for myself
• He doesn't do the work himself -- he's got a least one postdoc
• I apologize for the lack of late night activities
• I was very fortunate to have a boss who sheilded the analysts
• Don't know where, don't know when, but undeniable see you again
• Training new operator to search will be hard after full implentation of the new CPFs
• Your whirly is going backward
• I'll do a departure from protocol
• No nanna, you're from Austria