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| Date,
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| January 24, 2006 |
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January 24, 2006: CBSNews
video of
a pre-game press roundtable discussion about Dan, led by Jeff
Probst, with Mara Reinstein (US Weekly), Paul Adler (TV Guide
channel), Shawna Malcom (TV Guide), Dalton Ross (EW), Jarett
Wieselman (In Touch). Transcript:
 Jeff Probst: Dan Barry, astronaut.
Group: Awesome, blast off! I think hands down, our
favorite of the group.
Dan (pre-game interview): I'm Dan Barry, from South Hadley,
Massachusetts. I recently retired from NASA as an astronaut,
in April. And um, now I'm building robots.
Dalton Ross: I think we all really liked him the most. I do
worry about him when he gets out there though, because he's
looking at this as like an experiment, very observational.
He builds these robots, unless he's like building
a robot assassin that's gonna go out and kill everyone else,
I don't know if he's gonna make it to the end.
Paul Adler: Yeah, I think the same thing.
I think he's like playing the game in his head a lot.
When he gets out there and gets right in the challenges, I
don't know how he's gonna do. But, warm heart, I mean uh, so
well-intentioned, he does see this as a life experiment more
than anything else. I think he's, um, a great person, I'm not
quite sure how that translates into a great player.
Shawna Malcom: Although he was able to explain the robotics
to me, like in layman's terms. You know, like he has the ability
to communicate and not be too scientific, I think.
Jarett Wieselman: He definitely can take something that's very
complex, and break it down and make it really simple, which
I think will help.
Dalton Ross: He also should be able to handle the elements
though. He's been, I mean training for an astronaut is about
as brutal as it gets, so, you know, I think he'll be able to
handle all that stuff.
Paul Adler: I think it's dangerous when people go in saying
'I want a great life experience' and not going in with a strategy
to win the game, so, which I didn't get from him at all. So....
Jeff Probst: But, I agree, I mean it does seem like he's approaching
this in a way that the other 15 people are going to be liking
him. We're all going to be having this great experience together.
On the flip side though, he seems very adaptable. He seems
like a guy that might figure out on Day 4: not working, going
to Plan B. I mean, an astronaut! Just, I would think the mental
preparation alone has gotta prepare you a little bit for a
game like this.
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January 22, 2006: Transcript of Dan-specific
footage from the TV Guide Channel " Survivor: Panama
- Exile Island Preview" (featuring pre-game contestant
interviews and Jeff Probst comments from circa Ep1):
"Danni Boatwright: Family man Dan has
also done a bit of flying - in space.
Jeff Probst: He's a former astronaut. Astronaut!
(whistles) He's been up. So in terms of playing this game,
I think he's very well suited.
Dan (pre-game interview): Survivor
is a very interesting model for long-duration space
flight. Because it's exactly what long-duration crews
are gonna have to deal with. And that is, how do you get
along with this diverse group of people in a stressful
situation? Being able to tolerate how other people
do stuff is a really important skill to have."
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January 9, 2006: Officially
revealed as a contestant on Survivor: Panama - Exile Island on
the Early Show.
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Dan's bio, from the CBS Survivor:
Panama site:
Dan Barry was born in Norwalk, Connecticut,
but considers South Hadley, Massachusetts his hometown.
He is a former astronaut who currently spends his time
building robots for his own company, Denbar Robotics.
Barry's work and research has been supported by the National
Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation,
the Grass Foundation and the American Heart Association
of Michigan. He has five patents and has had over 50
articles published in scientific journals.
For his work
and accomplishments, Barry has received numerous special
honors and awards over the years, including the 1971
McMullen Engineering Award, the 1984 Young Investigator
Award from the American Association of Electrodiagnostic
Medicine, an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from St.
Louis University in 1996; the Vladimir Komarov Diploma
from Federation Aeronautique Internationale in 1998;
an Honorary Life Membership from the United States Tennis
Association in 1999, inclusion in the list of 100 Most
Notable Princeton Graduate School Alumni of the 20th
Century in 2001, and both the Paul J. Corcoran Award
from Harvard Medical School and an Honorary Doctor of
Science degree from Beloit College in 2003.
Barry is a
member of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic
Medicine, Association of Academic Physiatrists, Sigma
Xi (a scientific group), Association of Space Explorers
and the United States Tennis Association.
In 1971, Barry
graduated from Bolton High School in Alexandria, Louisiana.
In 1975, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in
electrical engineering from Cornell University. In 1997,
he received a master of engineering degree and a Master
of Arts degree in electrical engineering/computer science
from Princeton University. In 1980, he received a doctorate
in electrical engineering/computer science, also from
Princeton. In 1982, he received a doctorate in medicine
from the University of Miami. In 1985, Barry completed
an internship and a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
residency at the University of Michigan. He was then
appointed by the University of Michigan as an assistant
professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation and in the Bioengineering Program. He
spent the summers of 1985-1987 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
working in skeletal muscle physiology at the Marine Biological
Laboratory.
Barry was offered tenure at the University
of Michigan in 1992. At the same time, he was selected
by NASA to train at the Johnson Space Center and opted
to relocate to Texas. He completed one year of training
and qualified for assignment as a mission specialist
on Space Shuttle flight crews. A veteran of three space
flights, Barry has logged over 734 hours in space, including
four space walks. He retired from NASA in April, 2005.
Barry currently
lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts with his wife of
24 years, Sue. They have two children, Jenny and Andy,
and one dog, Windy. He enjoys flying, tennis, sailing,
ultimate Frisbee and running. His birth date is December
30, 1953. |
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| Date,
source |
| January 7, 2006 |
| MayanSun at
Sucks |
January 7, 2006: MayanSun from
SurvivorFever.net reports hearing that Daniel T.
Barry (M.D., Ph.D.), astronaut, was possibly a contestant on Survivor:
Panama - Exile Island.
"I got a tip at SurvivorFever around mid December from someone
who thought perhaps that astronaut Daniel T. Barry is on the
show. He was supposedly missing during filming, claimed to
be 'at Cape Canaveral' but returned on
Dec. 12th thinner and with a full beard. Later seen (late Dec.) with
beard shaved and putting some weight back on."
- In agreement with this, the True Dork Times also heard that
there was a contestant named Dan, possibly an astronaut, who
starts off on the tribe of older men.
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| Date,
source |
| Dec. 2005 - Jan.
2006 |
| S12
contestant thread, Survivor
Sucks |
| ChillOne's
spoiler thread, Survivor
Sucks |
December, 2005 -
January, 2006: A rough outline of astronaut-related
contestant rumors and research done in the S12 contestant thread
and ChillOne's spoiler thread at Survivor
Sucks:
- On December 5th, 2005, ChillOne kicks
off the festivities with this sentence: "Military guy has
Air Force roots ... rumored
to be an astronaut! Named Barry or Jerry."
- December 8th, 2005 - Amid the many searches,
the mysterious Shadow
Government posits: "Would one of the sontestants be former
U.S. Astronaut Daniel T. Barry (Retired).?"
- December 18th, 2005 - Wickchix, posting a number of spoilers,
mentions: "I heard the astronaut was..."
(read the linked post for a game-related rumor).
- December 28th, 2005 - Summarizing some research
conducted jointly with Survivor View, biancaxxx suggests: "Well since it's possible there could be an astronaut
I'm gonna explain one of my reasons for thinking it's Daniel
Barry: www.danbarry.net
It was registered 24 Oct 2005, by his son.
The website says "This
site is coming soon. Thank you for your patience."Why
else would he register a website if it weren't for Survivor?
I'm sure there are a million of reasons, but the timing does
fit with when they were meant to register websites."
- January 7th, 2006: A couple more posts suggesting
Dan Barry was the astronaut, and was a contestant (see above
section), including some potential spoiler information from SurvivorFever.
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June, 2005: We can't do justice to Dan Barry's
extensive list of educational and space career accomplishments
in a crappy little blurb on a Survivor-related web site.
So we direct you instead to his complete NASA
biographical sketch,
also linked at right.
For a summary, we'll just copy a couple of sections:
Photo credit: NASA |
"EXPERIENCE: Following graduate school
at Princeton University, Dr. Barry was a National Science Foundation
postdoctoral fellow in physics at Princeton. He then attended
the University of Miami Medical School, graduating in 1982. He
completed an internship and a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
residency at the University of Michigan in 1985. He was appointed
as an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation and in the Bioengineering Program at the University
of Michigan in 1985, and his tenure was approved by the Regents
in 1992. He spent the summers of 1985-87 at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, supported by the Grass
Foundation for work in skeletal muscle physiology and as the
Associate Director of the Grass Foundation Fellowship Program
(1986-87). His research primarily involved biological signal
processing, including signal processing theory, algorithms, and
applications to specific biological systems. The applications
included acoustic signals generated by contracting skeletal muscle,
electrical signals from muscle, and heart sounds. He has also
worked in prosthetic design. Dr. Barry’s work has been
supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National
Science Foundation, the Grass Foundation, and the American Heart
Association of Michigan. He has five patents, over 50 articles
in scientific journals, and has served on two scientific journal
editorial boards.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in March 1992, Dr. Barry
reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992. He completed
one year of training and qualified for assignment as a mission
specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. Dr. Barry has worked
on primary payload development, the Shuttle Avionics Integration
Laboratory (SAIL), portable computing issues for Space Shuttle,
Chief of Astronaut Appearances, flight clinic ombudsman, source
board member for the NASA Space Biomedical Research Institute
(NSBRI), Astronaut Office team lead to NASDA, the Japanese
Space Agency, Chief, ISS Hardware, US and International, and
a tour of duty with the Office of Biological & Physical
Research and the Office of Education, NASA Headquarters, Washington
D.C. A veteran of three space flights, STS-72 (1996), STS-96
(1999) and STS-105 (2001), Dr. Barry has logged over 734 hours
in space, including 4 spacewalks totaling 25 hours and 53 minutes.
Dr. Barry retired from NASA in April 2005 to start his own
company “Denbar Robotics” where he currently builds
robots."
Feel free to peruse the many, many entries in Google.
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