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Article #3835Re: astronomers vs researchers (was: Re: research vs commercial grade)
From: Daniel Briggs
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:58
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:58
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In article <93025.192111LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> <LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> writes: >The unfortunate fact is that the word "research" is only used (in astronomy) >by the purveyors of inexpensive telescopes. I dunno about you, but I'm doing "research". So are most of my colleagues. The distinction between observation and experiment is semantically useful, but in practice I've never personally seen a whole lot of difference. Unless they are trying to make a fine distinction, most people use a pretty broad definition of the word research. -- | Daniel Briggs (dbriggs@atnf.csiro.au) | USPA B-14993 | Australia Telescope National Facility | DoD #387 Support the League for Programming Freedom (info from lpf@uunet.uu.net)
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Newsgroups: sci.astro Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!crux.rp.CSIRO.AU!dbriggs From: dbriggs@rp.CSIRO.AU (Daniel Briggs) Subject: Re: astronomers vs researchers (was: Re: research vs commercial grade) Message-ID: <1993Jan27.065825.2580@rp.CSIRO.AU> Sender: usenet@rp.CSIRO.AU (Network news) Nntp-Posting-Host: apus Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility References: <93022.035547LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> <1993Jan25.210450.11520@news.lrz-muenchen.de> <93025.192111LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:58:25 GMT Lines: 15