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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
  3. From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
  4. Subject: Scientific method (followup)
  5. Message-ID: <By05HH.uv.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
  7. Sender: news+@cs.cmu.edu
  8. Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly National Bureau of Standards
  9. Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
  10. Distribution: sci
  11. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:45:21 GMT
  12. Approved: bboard-news_gateway
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  16. For those who *insist* on the classical method of development of theory
  17. followed by testing for previously unobserved supporting phenomena, the
  18. current condition of HST offers a priceless opportunity. They can develop
  19. their hypotheses now, then after the installation of WF/PC II and COSTAR,
  20. they can look again in more detail. (This was discussed on Thursday with
  21. respect to the discovery of the accretion disk.)
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  23. John Roberts
  24. roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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