Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brahms!weemba From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: StarDate: March 14 A Toast to Einstein Message-ID: <12446@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 01:14:28 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12446 Posted: Mon Mar 17 01:14:28 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Mar-86 01:47:08 EST References: <508@utastro.UUCP> <12382@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 In article <12382@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> gsmith@brahms.UUCP (Gene Ward Smith) writes: >>Today we celebrate the birthday of Albert Einstein -- the first person >>to suggest that space can be curved. More -- after this. Yay! > 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? Boo! To answer your question: no, but so what? I know you use 'rrn', so put it in your kill file, Gene. Now let's all go back to having a peaceful news- group. Or we'll just start calling you the 'Josh McDowell of net.astro'. O-) Megaton Man, on patrol. Wooo! ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720