DrScheme in Space
This was initially written for my regular column in the
Brown Computer Science departmental magazine, conduit!,
for the
Fall 2003
issue. I think it’s far too much fun to leave hidden in such an obscure place.
The prose is unchanged since then (so some of the classification information
may well be incorrect); only the marginal notes are new.
The sender’s name was in all-upper-case, and the subject
line read, “Not exactly...”.
Spam.
But I’m glad I opened it anyway. “This is not exactly your
normal query...”, the message
body began. It was from an upstanding citizen at the NASA