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From: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: space news from June 19 AW&ST, and Apollo-anniversary editorial
Message-ID: <1989Jul24.043327.1294@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 89 04:33:27 GMT
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In article <14484@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>I just frankly think the other stuff, the "our generation is GOING"
>horse****, is just another regrettable 70's artifact of overenthusiasm,
>like Rolfing and est.  Columbus's generation didn't "GO" either, in
>numbers any more significant than our space specialists have gone.  That
>analogy is fairly flawed so I won't push it.  :-)

Maybe it depends what you mean by "our generation".  Armstrong's
generation may not go, but then Armstrong was 39 when Apollo 11 landed
-- I was 3.  I would guess the readership of newsgroups spans a number
of generations.

(Rolfing and est, what's that? -- Anything like golfing and ESP? :-)

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Brian Yamauchi				University of Rochester
yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu		Computer Science Department
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