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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!darkstar!steinly
  2. From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: NASA Criticism and other...PART II
  5. Message-ID: <STEINLY.93Jan24145026@topaz.ucsc.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Jan 93 22:50:26 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan24.003103.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
  8. Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu
  11. In-reply-to: shanleyl@ducvax.auburn.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:31:03 GMT
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  15. On the question of NASA spin-offs, I seem to recall that
  16. CCDs were originally developed at JPL in the 70's - can
  17. someone confirm/deny this - have I fallen victim to
  18. JPLs superb PR machine :-)
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  20. (and can we say Sony successfully transferred the technology
  21. PROMPTLY to the benefit of all mankind?)
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  23. |  Steinn Sigurdsson    |I saw two shooting stars last night        |
  24. |  Lick Observatory    |I wished on them but they were only satellites    |
  25. | steinly@lick.ucsc.edu |Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?        |
  26. | "standard disclaimer"    |I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care - B.B. 1983    |
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