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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted? (really about Mars)
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- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- References: <1992Nov16.231844.28715@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov17.133700.11812@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:20:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.133700.11812@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.231844.28715@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- >crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
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- >> However, there *are* apparently pluvial formations on Mars.
- >> We *do* believe that there is water somewhere (at least some
- >> of us do), and there have been any number of proposals to use
- >> that water for oxygen for humans to breathe while on a Mars
- >> mission.
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- >Maybe we should be charitable to Mr. Quayle, but when I read his
- >Mars (mis?)statement, I immediately thought of books about Mars
- >I had read as a child in which scientists believed coniditions on
- >Mars were much as Mr. Quayle described.
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- >My thought was how sad that the head of our National Space Council
- >had not learned any planetary astronomy since elementary school.
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- >Maybe Quayle really is quite intelligent and educated, but has bad
- >foot in the mouth disease. Then why is he a politician?
-
- You should be looking more closely at the discussions about our
- miseducational system. I would not be surprised if at least 70%
- of our students never get an astronomy course adequate to read
- _Scientific American_.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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