Comments on: What’s Hiding in Old Data? http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5120 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Maurice Garoutte http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5120&cpage=1#comment-13326 Maurice Garoutte Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:06:37 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5120#comment-13326 Compared to teasing human behavior patterns out of a chaotic scene with peoples, cars, birds, and moving shadows it should not be hard to detect differences between images of the orderly patterns in the sky. But such a robotic perception project would be more likely to get funded if it had a little more fear factor. The proposal should talk about “killer asteroids” more than exoplanets. Compared to teasing human behavior patterns out of a chaotic scene with peoples, cars, birds, and moving shadows it should not be hard to detect differences between images of the orderly patterns in the sky.

But such a robotic perception project would be more likely to get funded if it had a little more fear factor. The proposal should talk about “killer asteroids” more than exoplanets.

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