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- From: pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Znamya
- Message-ID: <C189Lx.LF7.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:36:40 GMT
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- \I hope everybody here recognized the obsurdity of thinking that a 20
- /meter mirror could "extend the daylight hours of the Siberian regions."
- \'The Guardian' clearly doesn't. (Typical newspaper science writing.)
- /The most the mirror would do is make a bright spot in the sky.
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- Or test the deployment mechanism for a larger mirror more useful
- for illumination.
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- \But, as my .sig notes, journalists don't have a monopoly on stupidity.
- /-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
- \ kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
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- Later... maybe even next semester... this account's probably going away...
- --
- Phil Fraering |"...Who in the valley shed the poison tear
- 318/365-5418 |no one knows...
- pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|An old legend of a mythical hero..."
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