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Hey John (and all)- Astronomy is an armchair hobby? Well, I'm a historian (not done with the PhD just yet, but give me just a couple more years) who started out as a palaeontologist and astronomer--so I come at it from a different angle, but I've (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I remember a book called _The Dragon's Egg_ by Robert L. Forward. The ALFs in that book are residents of a neutron star -- totally different chemistries from H2O-C. (...) Would that be Jupiter? I've heard theories one way and the other -- some (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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Hello again, I''m glad I generated some interest here! I hope, however, that we do not stray too far from discussing LEGO -- I have noticed complaints in at least one other LUGNET newsgroup. (...) Both quite rewarding, but difficult fields in which (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) It's in the context of creating a datsville, so I don't know how anyone can be *angry*. (...) Yeah--my girlfriend's father got his PhD in palaeobotany; not exactly a field in demand, so he ended up being a groundskeeper and specialist for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message <3822B586.38355581@m...ja.com>... (...) Hipparcos (...) 10 (...) that (...) many (...) that (...) on (...) local (...) What it does do, however, is give a link to the VizieR service that I found a couple of (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I just had a look at this. Cool! This is the query engine that seemed so obvious to have, that I hoped would exist, but which was somehow missing from the main Hipparcos pages. I can see that the catalog contains some errors that have been (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message <3825442B.5A4DD282@m...ja.com>... (...) for (...) database (...) I'm (...) for (...) Well, what can I say, but: 1) This was two years ago on a machine with 32meg of memory and a version of Nutscrape that crashed (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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Hi, Paul, (...) Trust me, Stanford has THOUSANDS of computers other than mine to worry about! Oh, and it's not my personal workstation, though I handle most of its technical operation. We have about one computer per two people in our research group. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Whoa! Citation! Can I send this one to tthe Humanities Index? (>Insert the noise of a CV being violently padded here<) (...) Absolutely. Maybe it makes us feel a little closer to reality, like we're not just playing deities but playing (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message <382802B2.3FE87E39@m...ja.com>... (...) would (...) minus (...) than (...) _much_ (...) its (...) on (...) John, it's certainly a very good theory. After considering what you say, I think that I would consider (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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