Long Journey to Liftoff
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People:
William Borucki
Overall Sentiment: 0.0548445
Relevance: 0.940521
| Sentiment | Quote |
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| -0.118768 | Borucki calls "the big problems." |
| 0 | "I wanted to be exploring space," he says. ... |
| -0.2297 | "People pooh-poohed the idea," he says. ... |
| -0.14037 | "People pooh-poohed the idea," he says. "They said that there was no technique for making these kinds of observations." |
| 0.0863348 | "I wanted to spend my time answering big questions and doing something I felt was important," he explains. ... |
| 0.0235783 | "I wanted to spend my time answering big questions and doing something I felt was important," he explains. "Finding extrasolar planets was a huge problem to figure out, and solving huge problems can have huge payoffs." |
| 0 | "It was a foregone conclusion that proposals to find exoplanets would just be thrown away," he says. ... |
| 0 | "It was a foregone conclusion that proposals to find exoplanets would just be thrown away," he says. "People thought that there was no way it could be done; no one had ever done automated photometry before." |
| 0 | "Kepler is a stepping stone," says Borucki. |
| 0.0713584 | "Kepler is a stepping stone," says Borucki. "Depending on the prevalence of Earth-like planets, successor missions might be able to analyze a planet’s composition and atmosphere, and eventually we might make the decision to send a probe to a promising exoplanet." |
| Sentiment Stats: | - Number of Quotes: 10
- Aggregate Sentiment: -0.3075665
- Mean: -0.03075665
- Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689
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Kepler
Overall Sentiment: 0.111702
Relevance: 0.640578
| Sentiment | Quote |
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| 0.158327 | he has some advice for others chasing the answers to their own dreams: "Be patient, persistent, and spend your time doing something worthwhile," ... |
| Sentiment Stats: | - Number of Quotes: 1
- Aggregate Sentiment: 0.158327
- Mean: 0.158327
- Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Disambiguation: Academic | Astronomer | OperaCharacter | ScientistReferences: Delavan
Overall Sentiment: 0.102778
Relevance: 0.250613
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City: Kepler
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.399253
StateOrCounty: California
Overall Sentiment: 0.438892
Relevance: 0.328715
Disambiguation: Location | PoliticalDistrict | AdministrativeDivision | Appellation | GovernmentalJurisdiction | USState | WineRegionReferences: Organization: Kepler mission
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.849728
Organization: NASA
Overall Sentiment: -0.150347
Relevance: 0.513892
Disambiguation: Company | GovernmentAgency | AirportOperator | AwardPresentingOrganization | SoftwareDeveloper | SpaceAgency | SpacecraftManufacturerReferences: Company: Ames
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.326164
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