There's a consortium of brain scientists called the Nancy Pritzker Depression Research Network that consists of brain scientists at Stanford, at the Mental Health Research Institute here at Michigan and at the Cornell Medical Center. They've been given money by the Pritzker Foundation on the express condition that they spend it together. They can't just take the money and divvy it up into thirds and, you know, be on with it. They have to do projects that are unified. That particular stipulation by Jay Pritzker has driven them to think about how they might collaborate.
Technology is one way they realize that collaboration.
In parallel with the introduction of enabling technology, their eyes open to new ways of working together. It took the meteorology community 30 years to develop a predictive capability that could lead to TV weather forecasting at about 80 percent predictability. The space physics community wants to do the same job with a much more complicated system, including not just neutral air motions, but plasmas, photochemistry, particle physics and incredibly complicated topology of the near Earth space environment in two years, at a time when our commercial investment in space is going up a factor of five. As Tom said, there's nearly a trillion dollars invested in satellites. Astronauts, preparing the space station, going on EVA, are exposed to penetrating radiation.