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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL
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Date: 1 Dec 89 22:45:33 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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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