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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: StarDate: March 14 A Toast to Einstein
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 18:03:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 18:03:42 1986
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In article <508@utastro.UUCP> dipper@utastro.UUCP (Debbie Byrd) writes:

>Today we celebrate the birthday of Albert Einstein -- the first person
>to suggest that space can be curved.  More -- after this.

   I think this was Gauss, Debbie. Einstein suggested that space-time was
curved, which is not the same thing. Am I the only one who finds the tripe
emanating from "StarDate" to be often annoying?

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
        Fifty flippant frogs / Walked by on flippered feet
    And with their slime they made the time / Unnaturally fleet.