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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Uri's Magic
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.161818.7888@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 16:18:18 GMT
- References: <bgm21+r@rpi.edu> <1992Dec17.195948.12082@netcom.com> <1h311iINNfm0@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In article <1h311iINNfm0@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >Careful, Robert. Galileo just a few days ago passed through perihelion, so
- >it's now just about as warm as it's going to get, and NASA's been hoping that
- >the warming would be sufficient to allow them to free the stuck ribs. Based on
- >Geller's past performances, in particular the "broken watch" trick, I wouldn't
- >put it past him to claim credit if NASA's next attempt to unstick the ribs
- >works.
-
- I understood that NASA now believes this scenario to be unlikely to
- work. However, they have some other plan that they think has a good
- chance of working. What it was, I've forgotten.
-
- Of course, further discussions of Galileo (if they don't refer to Uri
- Geller) should go to alt.sci.planetary.
-
- Tero Sand
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