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From: pete@basser.oz (Peter Merel)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Neptune on the Boobtube
Summary: Kessel run syndrome.
Keywords: stupid
Message-ID: <2476@basser.oz>
Date: 29 Aug 89 07:37:50 GMT
References: <7525@ecsvax.UUCP> <44600002@primerd> <980@corpane.UUCP> <1093@jtsv16.UUCP>
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <1093@jtsv16.UUCP> brian@jtsv16.jts.com (Brian A. Jarvis) writes:
>In article <980@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>>The answer was that in 8,000 years it will fly by Barnard's Star, in 20,000 or
>>so it will pass Proxima Centauri, and then the Oort cloud.
...
>said eventually it would be dragged back into the solar system by the
>sun's gravity and could conceivably fly by Earth again in a few centuries.
...

You yanks don't know scientific illiteracy from Uranus. Australia has three
commercial TV operators, all of whom seem to be in some sort of competition
to see who can make the stupidest statement about Voyager. My favourite so
far was a guy called Brian Henderson, who's been the anchorman on one channel
here for about twenty years and is touted as informed and respectable.
He said: "In a stunning scientific breakthrough the latest pictures from
NASA's jet propulsion labs reveal ice volcanoes on Triton ... This makes
Triton the third body in the solar system to exhibit volcanoes, the other
two being Earth itself and the jovian moon, Ten."
-- 
 "We got to figure out the right way to go around and make people not understand
  their bullshit" - SRV.                                       pete@basser.oz.AU
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