From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 7:26 PM To: John Brockman Subject: Re: check in, please - Edge London dinner im always willing to support anything you think is fun =/div> On Sat, Sep=30, 2017 at 3:09 PM, John Brockman JE=. wrot=: --What's up? Did you (and your island) get thr=ugh Maria OK? In town this weekend <tel > , off to London Monday.=br> --KM and I are in London next week. Come to the Edge dinner, T=ursday night (10/5). Date: Thursday, October 5th Ti=e: 7:00 pm Place: The Red Fort, 77 Dean Street, Soho, W1D 3SH <https://maps.go=gle.com/?q=77+Dean+Street,+Soho,+W1D+3SH&entry=gmail&source.=> , = Map: bit=ly/2x658Hu <http://bit.ly/2x658Hu> RSVP: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> =80 My older brother Philip, the rocket scientist, died a few weeks ago a=ter living with prostrate cancer for 25 years. That night, I went on Googl= and found out, for the first time, about his career, which began as a mem=er of first hired group of physicists at NASA in 1958 (to work on Project =ercury alongside Alan Shepard and John Glenn) and his work as one of the l=gendary "MAD scientists of MPD" in using plasma physics to=provide the rocket thrust to achieve reliable orbit; and culminated as the=technical head of the amazingly successful NASA/FAA effort to improve pass=nger aircraft safety. Who knew? We never had a conversation about it and w= did stay in touch over the years. See the piece I wrote and the obit in t=e local NASA paper below. "Philip Pushes =he Button" (my piece) https://www.edge.org/philip-=ushes-the-button <https://www.edge.org/phrlip-pushes-the-button> "NASA Langley =80 s she "mad scientist' dies" (Daily Press, Ham=ton, VA) https://www.edge.org/news-update- on-philip-p=shes-the-button <https://www.edge.org/news-update-on-philip-pushes-the-=utton> —Anyone I should see in Lon=on?? My Al project is taking off. I believe it will be the only useful boo= as no one in the project is