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Article #1956Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL
From: Larry Wall
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 22:45
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 22:45
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In article <24627@cup.portal.com> fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming) writes: : >Time was then set aside for the : >JPL employees to chat with the astronauts and to get their autographs. : : ...Just think about this sentence for a second... : : I'm not a basher of the individual astronauts; I'd love to be one. : But the thought of people at JPL, the *real* space-science heroes : of the last couple of decades, clustering around a bunch of : Right-Stuffers like teenage groupies... Don't assume: 1) that just because someone set aside time for autographs, that's what the time was used for by those who attended. 2) that everyone at JPL is a "space science hero". 3) that everyone attended (I didn't, as it happens). I'm not saying you were assuming any of 1-3. Just don't. :-) : I dunno. Maybe I'm getting cranky in my old age. Let it pass. OK. It's past. Larry Wall lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!lwall From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL Message-ID: <6528@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 1 Dec 89 22:45:33 GMT References: <2289@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <24627@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 28