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  3. From: dbriggs@rp.CSIRO.AU (Daniel Briggs)
  4. Subject: Re: astronomers vs researchers (was: Re: research vs commercial grade)
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.065825.2580@rp.CSIRO.AU>
  6. Sender: usenet@rp.CSIRO.AU (Network news)
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  8. Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility
  9. References: <93022.035547LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> <1993Jan25.210450.11520@news.lrz-muenchen.de> <93025.192111LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET>
  10. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:58:25 GMT
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  13. In article <93025.192111LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> <LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> writes:
  14. >The unfortunate fact is that the word "research" is only used (in astronomy)
  15. >by the purveyors of inexpensive telescopes.
  16.  
  17. I dunno about you, but I'm doing "research".  So are most of my
  18. colleagues.  The distinction between observation and experiment is
  19. semantically useful, but in practice I've never personally seen a
  20. whole lot of difference.  Unless they are trying to make a fine
  21. distinction, most people use a pretty broad definition of the word
  22. research.
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. | Daniel Briggs  (dbriggs@atnf.csiro.au)                 |  USPA B-14993
  26. | Australia Telescope National Facility                  |      DoD #387
  27. Support the League for Programming Freedom   (info from lpf@uunet.uu.net)
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