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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!ruhets.rutgers.edu!bweiner
  2. From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.astro
  4. Subject: Re: research grade vs. commercial grade
  5. Message-ID: <Jan.23.17.31.48.1993.18087@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jan 93 22:31:49 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan20.211839.27984@zip.eecs.umich.edu>  <1993Jan21.191712.12358@gov.on.ca> <93022.035547LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET>
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  9. Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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  12. LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET writes:
  13.  
  14. >Besides, astronomers don't do "research".  They observe.  "Research"
  15. >implies the ability to change the conditions of the experiment.
  16.  
  17. I object to this - astronomers don't do *experiments*.  Observation
  18. is research.  Theoretical calculations are research.  Historians do
  19. research, for that matter.
  20.  
  21. >Leonard Abbey, F.R.A.S.
  22. >Georgia Tech Research Institute
  23.               ^^^^^^^^ !!
  24.