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It is the same as dropping millions of bath3d:hermograph devices 

 that tell us about temperature and the thermoclime and lots of 

 other things, every day. 



Having that one satellite for five day-years will give us the same 

 data as if we dropped millions of those every day. That's important. 



It is the same as having fleets of ships sailing the oceans of the 

 world and reporting every day wave heights every 20 kilometers. 

 We have to focus where we want to look. 



All this data, already decided before we do it, all this data is 

 going to be unclassified and go to the public. 



Mr. Taylor. My question, then, and Mr. Chairman, this will be 

 my last question, how do you get that information to the public, 

 Admiral? 



I know where to buy a surplus Navy anchor. Where does an av- 

 erage businessman who's looking for an opportunity in the next 

 century go to get that information? 



Admiral BOORDA. I don't have the answer. Paul, can you help? 



Admxiral Gaffney. I'll try. 



Admiral BoORDA. Before you do that, let me just make a couple 

 of offers here, though, because I'm not going to get another chance, 

 I don't think. 



In Congi-essman Taylor's district, we build those ships I talked 

 about, those survey ships. This summer, two of them will be fin- 

 ished and deployed overseas. They won't be back. We don't make 

 any progress in our work by having them back and forth from the 

 United States. So they stay over there and we change out the 

 crews, civilian crews. 



I will make that information available to the chairmen of all 

 three subcommittees and there is no reason for people not to go 

 down there and get on those ships and go to sea and see what they 

 can do and report it back to their constituents and to the Congress. 



Mr. Taylor. Admiral, you might remind them that Mardi Gras 

 is less than a month away. 



Admiral BoORDA. No, sir, we don't do that in the Navy. 



[Laughter.] 



Mr. Taylor. The opening of shrimp season in May. 



[Laughter.] 



Admiral BooRDA. I have two other things I want to mention. 



We have an ice camp this year in the Arctic. Admiral Watkins 

 knows a lot about that. He and I went there together in the April/ 

 May timefi'ame. 



Anybody that would like to go on this panel with me I will take. 

 And we'll go up to the Arctic. That is a scientific expedition. Next 

 year we'll do it again in something called the Spinaker Program in 

 the spring. 



We have to take cameras that really don't have too much oil in 

 them because it freezes. But we can do that on a weekend, believe 

 it or not. So we leave on a Friday night, go to the North Pole, and 

 be back in time to go to work Monday. 



Mr. Weldon. Admiral, if you will give us descriptions of each of 

 those, well get them to all the members and see if we can get some 

 member interest in one or more of those activities because they're 

 excellent suggestions. (See Appendix II, page 195 for information 

 supplied by Admiral Boorda.) 



