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Index to our previous shows
Shows from April, 2002
Shows from March, 2002
Shows from February, 2002
Shows from January, 2002
Shows from December, 2001
November 23, 2001 - 'Live on-disc' from LosCon 28
November 19, 2001 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro {Also featuring Alan Hale and Richard Foss}
November 9, 2001 - Ben Bova
Shows from October, 2001
Shows from September, 2001
Shows from August, 2001
Shows from July, 2001
Shows from June, 2001
Shows from May, 2001
Shows from April, 2001
Shows from March, 2001
Shows from February, 2001
Shows from January, 2001
Shows from November - December, 2000
Shows from September - October, 2000
Shows from July - August, 2000
'Live on-disc' from LosCon 28
On Friday - November 23, 2001 - we did the show from LosCon 28 at the Burbank Airport Hilton. Our guests included; Patricia C. Wrede {writer Guest of Honor}, Chris Butler {artist GoH}, Lynn Gold {fan GoH} and Richard Foss, the Program Chair of the convention. If you couldn't get to LosCon, we brought a bit of LosCon to you. And if you're hearing this after Thanksgiving weekend, well it's too late to come down and join the fun at LosCon 28. But it's not to soon to start thinking about next year. Click here for information about LosCon 29, which will be held over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2002.
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Links Relating to our Guests
More information about Patricia C. Wrede and her writing can be found at her Web Site.
Patricia has put a lot of effort into asking the sorts of questions any fantasy author should ask about their writing. You can view her questions here. This web page is a 'must 'view' for anyone writing a fantasy story.
You can learn more about Chris Butler and see some of his paintings by going to his web site. Additional examples of his art can be seen at the Chris Butler Art Gallery and at Novaspace Galleries.
More information about Lynn Gold can be found at her Web Site.
And if you enjoyed this show and would like to know when other interviews are uploaded to the Hour 25 web site, then send an email to me at [email protected] and I will add your name to the free Hour 25 Newsletter mailing list. That way you'll get a brief notice in your email every time a new show gets uploaded to the web.
LosCon and LASFS
Hour 25 did tonight's show from this year's LosCon, at the Burbank Airport Hilton on the day after Thanksgiving. Join us for the rest of the con. We know you'll have a great time. Click here for information about this year's LosCon or here for information about previous LosCons. And for information about LASFS and their weekly meetings, click here.
Science and Space News
For more information about XCOR and their EZ-Rocket, check out their web site or go to the web site for Dick Rutan, the pilot of the EZ-Rocket.
Several other organizations are working on new launch vehicles or rocket planes. Armadillo Aerospace is working on a VTVL test vehicle using hydrogen peroxide vehicle. Bristol Spaceplanes is working on a vehicle for the X-prize as well as several satellite launchers. The Canadian Arrow is another contender for the X-prize. And next week's guest, Mitchell Burnside Clapp, has developed some very exciting ideas about how to do launch vehicles. Some, but not all, of his work can be seen at the Pioneer Rocketplane web site.
Information about the X-prize can be found at their web site.
ISS News
The Florida Today web site has a very interesting report about the causes of the ISS budget problems and their impact on the space program. It makes very interesting reading.
Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions.
Check out the NASA International Space Station web page or the Boeing web page to learn more about this project.
A great source of news about Russian space activities, including their work on the ISS, can be found at the Russian Space Web.
Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link web site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.
You can find out when the ISS - or many other spacecraft - can be seen from your location by going to this NASA web page. Please note; your browser must support Java for this application to work.
For On-Going Updates on Space News
The Space Today web site is a great place to find space news from all over the 'net.
The Spaceflight Now web site carries real time information about current space missions and presents a lot of space and astronomy news. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more?
The NASA Watch web site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended.
Concerning Ways of Responding to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
First, be careful. Vultures have already established scams to bilk people of their money under the guise of helping those harmed by this terrorist attack. Make sure you are giving money to real causes and not scams. That said...
Govenor George Pataki of New York has announced the launch of an official state fund to help the victims of this attack. The New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund was accepting donations three ways: at P.O. Box 5028, Albany, N.Y., 12205; through the state web site or via phone at 1-800-801-8092.
Amazon.com has set up a web page for making donations to the American Red Cross.
Check with your local Red Cross for information about when and where you can donate blood or call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE (1-800-448-3543). It is needed. For more information call 1-800-HELP-NOW (1-800-4357-669). You can also go to the Red Cross web site to find more information. {If that Red Cross site is busy you can find much of its information at this site.
Check with the web sites for America's Second Harvest and the Salvation Army to find more ways you can help.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has an online list of organizations to contact to help the victims and their families.
The FBI has established a toll-free telephone number for anyone with information regarding the incidents on September 11 in New York City and the Washington, D.C.. Please call (866) 483-5137 if you have any information. Click here for an FBI form to use when providing information about these crimes.
MP3Pro Links
To learn more about the new MP3Pro format you can check out this press release from Thomson multimedia and can download an MP3Pro encoder/decoder from their main web site.
You can download an encoder/decoder for MP3Pro audio files at the RCA web site.
You can learn more about the technology behind MP3 files by going to the web site for the Fraunhofer Institute where much of the work behind the MP3 file format originated.
Note: I have not had the chance to try the new MP3Pro encoder/decoder and so I can offer no opinions about how well the software works. But I will be paying close attention to it. Anything that will let us cut the storage requirements for the Hour 25 audio files in half sounds like a good thing to me. I'll let you know more as things get sorted out with this new audio format.
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro {Also Featuring Alan Hale and Richard Foss}
On Monday - November 19, 2001 - our guest was Chelsea Quinn Yarbro who chated with us about her new Saint-Germain novel A Feast in Exile.
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Quinn Yarbro is a hard working author who manages to be not only prolific, but also incredibly good. She puts out three or more novels each year, and throws in a few short stories or other pieces for good measure, but she never sacrifices quality for quantity.
And her stories are not the sorts of things that one just dashes off while day dreaming in your office. That would not be Quinn's way, because her books are known for their historical reality. No, Quinn first does her research - months of it, getting to know the historical eras she writes about and the people who lived there, and then she crafts a story that fits the time and place so well that that is the only historical venue in which that story could be told. She puts a lot of work into the art and craft of her writing, and it shows.
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Cover for A Feast in Exile Copyright © 2001 by Tor Books |
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Quinn's newest book A Feast In Exile continues her long running series of novels about the vampire Saint Germain. In this story we are carried back to 14th century India and Asia where the Mongol hordes of Tamerlane are conquering the civilized world.
Saint Germain, known here as Sanat Ji Mani, must pay dearly to purchase the protection of the ruling Sultan. Faced with the need to protect his friends he must stay behind in the city and finds himself caught between the opposing sides of this conflict. Trapped by the invading Tamerlane he is forced to join their army and march with them - during daylight. Crippled by this he is unable to escape, all the while knowing that he must keep his vampire nature from being discovered. Fighting for his survival and that of his friends he must endure the carnage of this war if he is to regain his freedom.
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Like all of Quinn's books, we recommend this one to you. We think you'll enjoy it.
And also joining us on this show was Richard Foss who chated about LosCon 28, which will be happening Thanksgiving weekend out at the Burbank Airport Hilton. Hour 25 will be out there on Friday doing the show in front of a live audience. Come on out and watch us do the show. We'd love to see you.
And also joining us was astronomer Alan Hale, the co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp. He talked about astronomy and had some very exciting news about a comet that may be - you know how comets can behave - very dramatic when it comes close to the Earth in a few years.
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
More information about Quinn and her writing can be found at her Official Web Site.
You can view a bibliography of Quinn's work here.
Information about Stealth Press's reprints of Quinn's novels can be found here and information about her other books can be found at the web site for TOR Books or at the Hidden Knowledge web site.
You can read an interview with Quinn here.
You can find more information about Quinn at this web page from Hidden Knowledge or at this web site.
And if you enjoyed this show and would like to know when other interviews are uploaded to the Hour 25 web site, then send an email to me at [email protected] and I will add your name to the free Hour 25 Newsletter mailing list. That way you'll get a brief notice in your email every time a new show gets uploaded to the web.
LosCon and LASFS
Hour 25 will be doing its next show from this year's LosCon, out at the Burbank Airport Hilton on the day after Thanksgiving. Join us then or come out for the rest of the 'con that weekend. Click here for information about this year's LosCon or here for information about previous LosCons. And for information about LASFS and their weekly meetings, click here.
Science and Space News
The Alan Hale interview was conducted at the Space Frontier Foundation conference in L.A. during October 2001. Click here to find out more about the work of the Space Frontier Foundation and to learn about their other conferences.
The Leonid Meteor Storm
The Leonids are a swarm of meteors that strike the Earth in the later part of November each year. They were visible - highly so - during the 17th and 18th of this month. The web sites below have information about the Leonids, including pictures and other data from this year's storm.
ISS News
The Florida Today web site has a very interesting report about the causes of the ISS budget problems and their impact on the space program. It makes very interesting reading.
Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions.
Check out the NASA International Space Station web page or the Boeing web page to learn more about this project.
A great source of news about Russian space activities, including their work on the ISS, can be found at the Russian Space Web.
Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link web site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.
You can find out when the ISS - or many other spacecraft - can be seen from your location by going to this NASA web page. Please note; your browser must support Java for this application to work.
For On-Going Updates on Space News
The Space Today web site is a great place to find space news from all over the 'net.
The Spaceflight Now web site carries real time information about current space missions and presents a lot of space and astronomy news. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more?
The NASA Watch web site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended.
Concerning Ways of Responding to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
First, be careful. Vultures have already established scams to bilk people of their money under the guise of helping those harmed by this terrorist attack. Make sure you are giving money to real causes and not scams. That said...
Govenor George Pataki of New York has announced the launch of an official state fund to help the victims of this attack. The New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund was accepting donations three ways: at P.O. Box 5028, Albany, N.Y., 12205; through the state web site or via phone at 1-800-801-8092.
Amazon.com has set up a web page for making donations to the American Red Cross.
Check with your local Red Cross for information about when and where you can donate blood or call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE (1-800-448-3543). It is needed. For more information call 1-800-HELP-NOW (1-800-4357-669). You can also go to the Red Cross web site to find more information. {If that Red Cross site is busy you can find much of its information at this site.
Check with the web sites for America's Second Harvest and the Salvation Army to find more ways you can help.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has an online list of organizations to contact to help the victims and their families.
The FBI has established a toll-free telephone number for anyone with information regarding the incidents on September 11 in New York City and the Washington, D.C.. Please call (866) 483-5137 if you have any information. Click here for an FBI form to use when providing information about these crimes.
MP3Pro Links
To learn more about the new MP3Pro format you can check out this press release from Thomson multimedia and can download an MP3Pro encoder/decoder from their main web site.
You can download an encoder/decoder for MP3Pro audio files at the RCA web site.
You can learn more about the technology behind MP3 files by going to the web site for the Fraunhofer Institute where much of the work behind the MP3 file format originated.
Note: I have not had the chance to try the new MP3Pro encoder/decoder and so I can offer no opinions about how well the software works. But I will be paying close attention to it. Anything that will let us cut the storage requirements for the Hour 25 audio files in half sounds like a good thing to me. I'll let you know more as things get sorted out with this new audio format.
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Dr. Ben Bova
On Friday - November 9, 2001 - our guest was Dr. Ben Bova and we chatted with him about his new books The Precipice and The Story of Light.
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Ben Bova has always been one of my favorite authors. I look forward to each new book he writes with great anticipation. His stories are always soundly rooted in science and filled with speculations about "what if this goes on?" or "if this happens, then what?". But his stories are not just interesting thought experiments, they feature believable people acting in realistic ways and are, at their heart, cracking good stories. His characters live adventures many of us dream of and show us the sort of world we might live in if we but have the courage to follow our convictions . And unlike some authors who try to hide a lack of story in their fiction by using literary tricks, Ben never lets literary experiments get in the way of telling the story.
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But this does not mean that Ben always tells his stories in a simple or linear manner. Rather, he looks at the story he is telling and then writes it in the most interesting and effective way possible. If this means that his novel has to start with something from near the end of the story and then back track from there, well... so be it. Or if the most effective way to tell the story is to mix multiple story lines from different persons and times, then that's what he does. But whatever technique he uses, it is always in support of telling an interesting story.
For anyone who wants to be a writer, I strongly suggest that you read Ben Bova. His non-fiction will fill your mind with story ideas and his fiction will show you how a master plies his trade. Read his stories and think about them not just as stories, but as examples of story telling. Ask yourself; "Why did he do that in just that way and not some other?", "Why did he start the story there?", "What did he do to lay the ground work for that plot development or how did he slip in that bit of technical background without stopping the story?". If you want to become a writer you should read and study the works of Ben Bova. You'll be learning from a master.
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Cover for The Precipice Copyright © 2001 by Tor Books |
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Ben's newest work of fiction, The Precipice, fits neatly into a series of books that he's been writing about the exploration and development of the Solar System. {I'd call this series How the Solar System was Won, but Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick have already used that as a working title for a movie they did more than thirty years ago.} The Precipice tells of a mission to the asteroids and of the problems that had to be overcome before that mission could be flown and the dangers found while venturing into deep space.
Ben even managed to work in one of my favorite characters from his earlier stories, Dan Randolph. We first met him in Ben's 1985 novel Privateers, in which Dan Randolph was an expatriate space entrepreneur who was in conflict with everyone from his own government to the U.N. and especially a Soviet Union that was exercising growing power over the world due to their development of lunar resources. In that story, Dan had to fight to keep space from becoming an exclusive arena for the Soviet Union.
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We encountered Dan Randolph a few years later in Empire Builders, where he now had to face the problems arising from Global Warming and persons trying to use these problems as a rationale for creating a global dictatorship. If not stopped, these people would crush freedom under the guise of averting a global catastrophe. Betrayed by persons within his own company, Dan becomes a hunted man and must turn to a shadowy 'lunar underground' for help in averting Global Warming and in stopping this new dictatorship.
In The Precipice the problems caused by Global Warming have not been solved and now threaten all civilization. The resources to ease this problem exist, but they are out in the asteroid belt. Dan Randolph is put into conflict with a ruthless competitor who will stop at nothing to crush Dan and his company and gain exclusive control of those asteroid resources for his personal benefit. Dan must risk everything on a test flight of a new spacecraft to prove that humanity now has the means to reach the resources needed to avoid the calamity they are facing.
To say that I enjoyed The Precipice a great deal is a major understatement. It was well written and filled with thought provoking speculations. The character developments were true to the characters and added depth to events that had come before. This book ends with the promise of more stories yet to come and for my money, they can't get here too soon.
Most highly recommended.
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And as for Ben's skills at writing entertaining and informative non-fiction, you need look no farther than his new book The Story of Light. Now, I'll have to admit that when I first saw the title of this book it made me wonder just what Ben was going to write about. Would it be an art book, a science book or maybe a history book? Was it going to be a discussion of the wave / particle duality of light? Would it explore the psycho / physiological interactions between humans and light? Would it explore the speed of light and relativity? Would it discuss.... Well, you get the picture.
The easiest way to describe this book would be to say that Ben uses the general topic of "Light" as a jumping point for discussing just about anything that hits his fancy. In a way, this book is like sitting down with Ben and having him chat with you about all sorts of interesting and sometimes obscure topics from an incredibly diverse range of topics, some scientific, some cultural, some artistic, some... well I gave up counting the viewpoints and just gave in and enjoyed the ride.
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I liked this book a great deal because Ben is always an interesting writer and because he showed me topics I was familiar with from new and unexpected perspectives and introduced me to some new subjects I hadn't thought about before. And slipped into this book are some of the best descriptions of how science works that I've found anywhere. If you're an SF writer looking for ideas to build stories upon, this book is a treasure trove. But don't try and put this book into any one category 'cause it just won't fit there. Just open it and be ready for an informal and informative ride through more topics than most bookshelves of books can cover. As with The Precipice, The Story of Light is most highly recommended.
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Ben Bova
More information about Ben Bova and his writings can be found at his Official Web Site.
You can view a bibliography of Ben's work here.
Additional information about Ben's new books can be found at the web sites for TOR Books and Sourcebooks.
If you would like a taste of what will be in the sequel to The Precipice, then check out this sample from The Rock Rats at the Tor books web site.
There are a goodly number of interviews with Ben out on the web. Some are listed below.
Some of Ben's on-line publications are listed below. More can be found at his web site.
This interview with Ben Bova was conducted at the Space Frontier Foundation conference in L.A. during October 2001. Click here to find out more about the work of the Space Frontier Foundation and to learn about their other conferences.
And if you enjoyed this show and would like to know when other interviews are uploaded to the Hour 25 web site, then send an email to me at [email protected] and I will add your name to the free Hour 25 Newsletter mailing list. That way you'll get a brief notice in your email every time a new show gets uploaded to the web.
Science and Space News
A Report on NASA and the ISS
The NASA Watch web site has a very good article discussing the Report issued by the Task Force headed by Tom Young which took NASA to task for its poor management of the International Space Station. You can read the NASA Watch article here or read the entire Task Force Report here. {Caution, the full report is in PDF format and is quite large, 490K. Download times might be a bit long over low speed connections.}
A Mission to Pluto
Information about the science behind a mission to Pluto and reasons for why delaying a Pluto mission means science lost, not science delayed can be found in the interview I did with astronomers Dave Tholen and Bill Bottke last year. Click here to listen to that interview.
The Planetary Society has been working to get the Pluto mission reinstated with a timely mission profile. Click here to learn more about the Planetary Society or here to learn more about their work to save the Pluto mission.
The plutomission.com web site was responsible for getting thousands of people to write to their congresspersons in support of a mission to Pluto. This web site now serves as a focal point for interest and activities associated with this mission.
Scramjet Tests
This web site from the University of Queensland has information about the HyShot project.
More information about the recent successful free-flight test of a scramjet engine can be found at this AEDC web site.
You can view pictures of the X-43A at this web site or view movies of it at this web site. More information about the X-43A can be found in this article provided by the Federation of American Scientists or in this article.
Solar Power Satellites (SPS)
Information about Japanese plans for Solar Power Satellites can be found here or here. This link will take you to a summary report about a Japanese design for a full size Solar Power Satellite. This link will take you to a report describing some early Japanese tests relating to SPS technologies.
Here is a report, in PDF format, that discusses the impact of Solar Power Satellites on Greenhouse gas emissions. It shows that an SPS will put fewer of these gases into the environment than other alternatives for generating electricity and could be a significant means for addressing the problems of Global Warming without requiring reductions in per-capita power consumption.
The Space Frontier Foundation has a special interest in Solar Power Satellites. Go here to see what they have to say about this idea. The ProSpace Organization also has an SPS web page that you might be interested in seeing.
Here is some testimony delivered to Congress in 1997 by John C. Mankins, the Manager for Advanced Concepts Studies at NASA. And here is a NASA description of the SPS concept.
Here is an article about Solar Power Satellites from the University of Wisconsin. This is from a class concerning space resources. Other articles from that class can be found here.
Dr. Seth Potter has a short article about SPSs on the web and Mark Prado has a series of articles discussing various issues relating to the SPS concept.
A brief article by Hour 25 guest Geoffrey Landis concerning the advantages of building an SPS at the Earth-Sun L-2 Lagrange point can be found here. Click here to listen to our interview with Geoff talking about his work at NASA and his science fiction writing.
Solar Power Satellites have long been associated with the ideas of building space colonies along the ideas proposed by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill. His classic book The High Frontier is available from Apogee Books. You can find out more about this book by going to Apogee's web site. Additional information about the work of the late Dr. O'Neill can be found at the web site for the Space Studies Institute.
The Leonid Meteor Storm
The Leonids are a swarm of meteors that strike the Earth in the later part of November each year. They will be visible starting November 17 of this year and peaking on the 18th. For more information about the Leonids and for viewing tips, consult the web sites listed below.
ISS News
The Florida Today web site has a very interesting report about the causes of the ISS budget problems and their impact on the space program. It makes very interesting reading.
Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions.
Check out the NASA International Space Station web page or the Boeing web page to learn more about this project.
A great source of news about Russian space activities, including their work on the ISS, can be found at the Russian Space Web.
Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link web site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.
You can find out when the ISS - or many other spacecraft - can be seen from your location by going to this NASA web page. Please note; your browser must support Java for this application to work.
For On-Going Updates on Space News
The Space Today web site is a great place to find space news from all over the 'net.
The Spaceflight Now web site carries real time information about current space missions and presents a lot of space and astronomy news. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more?
The NASA Watch web site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended.
Concerning Ways of Responding to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
First, be careful. Vultures have already established scams to bilk people of their money under the guise of helping those harmed by this terrorist attack. Make sure you are giving money to real causes and not scams. That said...
Govenor George Pataki of New York has announced the launch of an official state fund to help the victims of this attack. The New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund was accepting donations three ways: at P.O. Box 5028, Albany, N.Y., 12205; through the state web site or via phone at 1-800-801-8092.
Amazon.com has set up a web page for making donations to the American Red Cross.
Check with your local Red Cross for information about when and where you can donate blood or call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE (1-800-448-3543). It is needed. For more information call 1-800-HELP-NOW (1-800-4357-669). You can also go to the Red Cross web site to find more information. {If that Red Cross site is busy you can find much of its information at this site.
Check with the web sites for America's Second Harvest and the Salvation Army to find more ways you can help.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has an online list of organizations to contact to help the victims and their families.
The FBI has established a toll-free telephone number for anyone with information regarding the incidents on September 11 in New York City and the Washington, D.C.. Please call (866) 483-5137 if you have any information. Click here for an FBI form to use when providing information about these crimes.
MP3Pro Links
To learn more about the new MP3Pro format you can check out this press release from Thomson multimedia and can download an MP3Pro encoder/decoder from their main web site.
You can download an encoder/decoder for MP3Pro audio files at the RCA web site.
You can learn more about the technology behind MP3 files by going to the web site for the Fraunhofer Institute where much of the work behind the MP3 file format originated.
Note: I have not had the chance to try the new MP3Pro encoder/decoder and so I can offer no opinions about how well the software works. But I will be paying close attention to it. Anything that will let us cut the storage requirements for the Hour 25 audio files in half sounds like a good thing to me. I'll let you know more as things get sorted out with this new audio format.
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