Penelope Boston Quotes

With adequate funding, we think we could do this in six or seven years. - Penelope Boston

We'll be looking at Earth from the outside, looking at how we study our own planet. - Penelope Boston

These guys need to keep in communication with each other. So they could set up a node-to-node communications system a lot like a cellular [phone] network. Everybody will know where everybody else is. - Penelope Boston

The way communal insects behave with respect to each other produces very elaborate, complex behavior of the total, but the actual rules that any individual uses to relate to its fellows can be very simple. The critical thing is how does the swarm behave? Can we direct the individuals enough that the overall motion of the entire swarm is in the direction we want to proceed? - Penelope Boston

The scope of the course is really enormously broad, from the earliest conditions that can lead to life, to higher-level questions about finding intelligent life. - Penelope Boston

The instruments to study the surface would be different that if you were aiming at a lava tube. They have to be big enough to carry the kind of fuel cell that can power their systems, but not be too small that they get wedged into everything. - Penelope Boston

The individual units are very cute and very adorable. But the function of them as an ensemble is where the real strategy lies. - Penelope Boston

The best thing about these places is that large -- as in macroscopic -- buried fossilized material is usually weathering out of the outcrops. One can see them laying about and follow the fragments to the source. For microscopic fossils, of course, no clear obvious clues are usually present. The exception is large scale microbial mats like those that made stromatolites and algal travertiles and tufa. - Penelope Boston

That kind of a no-doubt-about-it pond with minimal shallow excavation could be a goldmine of microfossil material! I'd want to sample its beautiful rims ... and do a small core down through the middle somewhere. - Penelope Boston

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