12/6/19: The just-published article, plus statuses

• The space race article. Let's read the comments and discuss.
• VB thesis status.
• MH thesis status. We decided that the published papers therein would best be contained as appendices, and references to them should give both the standard citation and a note that they are also in the appendices, as in (Authorlastname 2019, reprinted in Appendix C herein). It is not necessary to send the slides ahead of the defense per official rules but the committee would like him to do it anyway. 
• Paper based on VB thesis? RS would need the raw data, but first, we need to strategize on the message of the paper. The plan is to get the message settled and know what data we need from VB and get the data from him before he leaves on Dec. 26 since he won't be back until late January. DB will initiate an email thread on the paper and its message soon to get the process started. RS would like to target WMSCI for the paper. RS requests the latest final copy of the thesis which VB will send.
• We did not read an discuss any of the paper we have been going through. (Up to first paragraph of section 3 of Funk and Magee.)

Another paragraph from Funk and Magee: