“They may not have had any medical treatment. We don't know if they've had any medications. Their hygiene might not be optimal. They may be stressed out, ... We're not physicians and cannot diagnose, we can only treat serious things that come up.”
“The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work.”
“It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it down at sign off time and then turning the thing on again in the morning at 6 am, its much easier this way.”
“We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.”
“We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.”
“What was unexpected was the quantity of iron we found in the samples. Perhaps iron triggered the bloom. Was it from Asian dust as many has widely believed, or did it come from somewhere else?”
