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W. Patrick McCray
Personal blog · patrickmccray.comhistoryscience
W. Patrick McCray's personal blog at patrickmccray.com covers history and science. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
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The article quotes Prof. Troian as saying, "JPL acted honorably throughout. They did the right thing and filed the right report. That part of the system worked well. ... My complaint is strictly with Caltech." There's tension between the openness that a research university (Caltech) needs, and the secure handling of information that a lab doing some classified research (JPL) requires. This tension exploded in 1952,…
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on “Caltech professor claims Israeli spy infiltrated JPL”Submitted Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013) as a story · 74 points
HN discussionThe blog post [1] that links to the PDF gives some context to Sagan's talk. [1] http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/04/30/cherry-trees-to-mars...
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on “A Cherry Tree to Mars [pdf]”Submitted A Cherry Tree to Mars [pdf] as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted “God Help American Science”: Engineering Theatre and Spectacle (2016) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observing the Astronomical Sublime as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fifty Years of Immersive Art (2020) as a story · 1 points
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