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#1 2004-08-12 09:35:26
- Palomar
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Re: Hubble's "Cosmic Geode"
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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#2 2004-08-14 12:04:05
- dicktice
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Re: Hubble's "Cosmic Geode"
How could anyone in their right mind (and you know who you are) even contemplate "deep-sixing" the Hubble Space Telescope--for whatever reasons--while it (and no other orbiting optical instrument) is capable of providing us with such incredible imagery of objects we never even imagined existed in intergalactic space. . . ?
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