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#1 2004-11-23 14:05:44
- GraemeSkinner
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Re: Christmas wishes - what every astronomer wants
http://www.urbanjunkie.co.uk/product.ph … ]Christmas is coming
From an advert in Astronomy Now.
Graeme
There was a young lady named Bright.
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
in a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
--Arthur Buller--
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#2 2004-11-23 15:08:12
- Rxke
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Re: Christmas wishes - what every astronomer wants
Aaawww...
Won't that thing ruin your night-vision? 
I thought you started some kind of celestial wish-list, like:
A big super-nova, visible to the naked eye etc...
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#3 2004-11-23 15:45:41
- Palomar
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Re: Christmas wishes - what every astronomer wants
*Lol...Rik.
My ultimate Christmas astronomy dream would be ocular implants with telescopic power -- say 150x. Or like contact lenses. Scan the sky with simply your eyes and behold the wonders. Suppose I'm dreaming too much or that might be a possibility in a couple of hundred years?
What I want for Christmas is a 10" Celestron with all the fixin's and my own private little observatory. For starters...
Cute, Graeme.
--Cindy
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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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#4 2004-11-23 17:05:28
- Josh Cryer
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Re: Christmas wishes - what every astronomer wants
Mine would be an http://www.globaldialog.com/~obsessiont … ]Obsession Telescope. 
Mmm... Obsession.
Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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