Production Journal: December 8, 1994
The geology and astronomy portions of the program are fairly consistent from day to day,
barring some unforeseen event or discovery (we can hope). But the biology section has been
fated from the start to be harder to structure and produce. One of the variables is the turnover
in scientific staff; the first week we will have Ken Kaneshiro and the second week Rosie
Gillespie, with Cheryl Tarr as the consistent element. Ken and Rosie deal with different
organisms, although with related theories and approaches. Still, how we have a spider expert
discuss flies, or if we do, is still a nagging question in this writer's mind. Cheryl's specialty is
DNA analysis (we assume she will not be called to testify in some court proceeding during the
program). The problem is that she works in a lab, not in the field, at least primarily. So we
need to set up a lab for her, and we can't add another location. So her lab has to be out in the
lava field with the other biologists. Such is the force of this logic that we actually are trying to
figure out how to accomplish such an outrageous goal. My thinking is that we treat it like a
cooking show, with pieces of the work already done. She will perform certain steps, then show
us the end point of that step, set it aside, and perform another step on a separate sample, and
so on. The argonauts should also be involved. We will figure it out.
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Feldman
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Todd Carlo Viola,
JASON Foundation for Education
(todd@jason.org)