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Article #3621astronomers vs researchers (was: Re: research vs commercial grade)
From: Husfeld, Dirk
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:04
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:04
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In <93022.035547LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> <LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> writes: > One wonders what kind of "research" is done with an 8" telescope? > > Besides, astronomers don't do "research". They observe. "Research" > implies the ability to change the conditions of the experiment. > > Leonard Abbey, F.R.A.S. > Georgia Tech Research Institute > Atlanta, Georgia, USA > labbey@gitvm1.gatech.edu Hi Leonard, observing your message I can't find the smiley it deserves. So as to find out whether it was already missing from what you sent out or whether it was swallowed by my news-reader, I could like to conduct an experiment and ask you to re-submit your message, this time definitely including the smiley and an explicit assertion to this end. Here is mine :-) Dirk Husfeld Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Tel.:(FRG) 89 92 20 94 40 Scheinerstrasse 1 Fax :(FRG) 89 92 20 94 27 8000 Munich 80, FRG Email: husfeld@astronomie.physik.uni-muenchen.dbp.de (X.400) or husfeld@usm.uni-muenchen.de (Internet) PS: Sorry for the trouble with my previous attempt to post.
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Newsgroups: sci.astro Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!news From: HUSFELD@usmv01.usm.uni-muenchen.de (Husfeld, Dirk) Subject: astronomers vs researchers (was: Re: research vs commercial grade) In-Reply-To: <LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET>'s message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03: 55:47 EST Message-ID: <1993Jan25.210450.11520@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News) Organization: University Observatory Munich, FRG References: <1993Jan20.211839.27984@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1993Jan21.191712.12358@gov.on.ca> <93022.035547LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:04:50 GMT X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20 Lines: 30