Book meme

[astra_nomer]

I've been tagged by remcat!

Here are the meme rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people & post a comment here once you post it to your blog, so I can come see.

My book:

Accordingly, members of the TOPSSWG argued that an open competition should be held to determine who would win the right to develop Keck interferometry with NASA's support. However, the TOPSSWG was told that NASA Headquarters had already given JPL the "programmatic responsibility" for the TOPS program. JPL badly needed this promising program and the technical jobs that would come along with it; unlike the case at other NASA centers, JPL scientists are not civil servants, and their job security is dependent on a steady flow of federal contracts.

TOPSSWG = Toward Other Planetary Systems Science Working Group
JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TOPS = Toward Other Planetary Systems

I'm supposed to tag 5 people:
unclenomer
rms10
astrogeek
mama_pipa
luvrhino
Feel free to ignore or pass on whether you've been tagged or not.

Comments

[remcat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, interesting!

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

From "Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World." Edited by Joseph E. Aldy & Robert N. Stavins.

"Another partnership of seventeen countries, several industries, and NGOs aims to promote renewable energy and efficiency. The United States is entering into a number of bilateral and regional agreements on climate change with Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, the EU, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and South Africa. And finally, the United States initiated in July 2005 the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate that include Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan."

Wow, after reading that you'd think that the US is actually doing something about climate change!