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#1 2004-07-23 15:11:28

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Re: John Kraus Dies, age 94

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … kraus]Read me

*Inventor of "Big Ear" radio telescope (installed in 1965), which recorded more than 20,000 quasars.

Also invented the helical antenna; the corkscrew-shaped antenna used in global positioning satellites. 

Etc.

--Cindy

We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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