More Comments to Remember the Workshop By
(Captured by Mark Davis/HTSI)

Serious:

• Use the science data to manage the planet
• Push the envelope of technology
• There is no shortage of innovations
• Demonstrate the utility in the measurements and then go off and do the end-to-end science
• Leverage resources for the general good
• Inspire the next generation of explorers
• SLR is ubiquitous for space missions and applications

Lessons learned:

• Young scientists should travel
• Retirement is not an excuse to not attend the workshops

New definitions and phrases:

• Delicate instrument = one that withstands 13G's
• Spare light = non-green light
• Orbiteer's
• The predictions are often spot on!
• Every shot’s a coconut!
• Rarely relevant, but cool!

Just plain funny:

• Today everything seems to be observable to some degree; just the error bars are a bit large
• LAGEOS-2: the better resolver of most things geodetic
• The universal constant value this week changed to...
• It’s off the shelf, but they only build it upon request
• Its really incredibly small if you believe the sqrt(n) law
• The plotter elves changed the colors
• We were punished by Van
• Where do you go on R&R from Tahiti?
• How do you treat all these photons at one time (from the moon)?
• It's very expensive, but ours fell off the back of a truck
• Why bother with finesse when brute force will do
• By the light of the green splattered moon
• Microwaves: they just aren't used much anymore
• Do you have any questions on the equations you did not see?
• We wanted performance under actual simulated satellite tracks
• LAGEOS: 'plaguing' the earth for 8 million years
• Use the free format lines "within the restrictions"
• There is zero time allotted for this next paper
• Yet another transportable system that requires many, many tons of concrete
• Automation has a psychological effect
• Start up the system and then go to sleep
• Automation: close the dome - hopefully fast enough
• Nobody wants to tell you how it works
• I knew it, the nightmare will be over

You had to be there:

• Bump and grind activities in west Texas
• One of those famous evening meetings
• Some dubious cases and obvious signatures
• Do you have to wonder who the first question is going to be from?
• We met the budget AND the performance goals
• Without a PC, it’s just a piece of metal
• Weed out the systematic errors
• Go out searching for the gravity anomalies
• Altimetry is useless without the orbit
• Try to understand the goings-on on the inside of the moon
• This should be duck soup
• Thanks for all the GEODYN software problems
• If you rely on the orbit you will never see the millimeters
• Every line of sight you see should be measured
• Shorter is always good
• It's fairly decent for what we need
• Parasites can eat up your laser quite quickly
• Tell the operators to calm down
• The individual crewmembers have independent habits
• Don't sit there and wonder what your software is doing
• Out of context - and not what we thought we would ever hear from an analyst
• The one good thing about SLR is there is not much data
• Luckily, all the stations are in the northern hemisphere

Others:

• The ILRS CB is the "Complaint and Nagging Department"
• Our primary function is to increase the bars on Van's charts
• The sign of hope in France is green

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