Steve McDaniel Presentatation

About the Event

Guest Speaker - Dr. Steve McDaniel (confirmed)
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2002
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm CDT
Dr McDaniel is a local Austin attorney with an MSc in Genetics, a Phd in Biochemistry, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr McDaniel is also a huge advocate for the human exploration of Mars. As such, he served as team biologist for the Mars Desert Research Station which is a project of The Mars Society. Dr McDaniel told me: "You might be very interested to hear, in view of the purpose of The Robot Group, that Rotation 6 is a split mission. Three crewmembers are accomplished musicians, and will be interacting telemetrically with several recording studios to test the feasibility of composing, creating, and broadcasting music simulated in the Martian environment. A number of different musical groups including Devo will be involved on a remote basis."

The event was a big hit with members in this standing room only event.

Dr McDaniel in front of the unofficial flag of Mars colored red, green and blue.

Standing Room Only Crowd

More Spectators

In addition to video and large maps of Mars, Dr McDaniel also brought 2 Mars globes that were passed around.

Aside from his scientific and legal talents, Dr McDaniel is an accomplished musician.

Playing an instrumental piece composed aboard the Mars Desert Research Station

Performing a song composed jointly with the station crew and remote musicians.

Dr McDaniel plays samples of music that he and the simulated Mars crew composed while serving aboard the Mars Desert Research Station.

Clip 1 (1.3 MB mpg)

Clip 2 (3.7 MB mpg)

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