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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Idiot Test
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 19:25:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 19:25:54 1986
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> ....100% pure Canadian-mined nickel, mostly mined in Sudbury
> (you know the one:  the acid fumes from the smelters have devistated
> the land around the town so badly that Apollo astronauts came here to
> test the lunar rover, because the area so resembled the dead surface
> of the moon).  

Yes, but for reasons having nothing to do with acid fumes.  The Apollo
astronauts trained at Sudbury because the Sudbury basin is strongly
suspected to be a meteorite crater.  The barrenness of the landscape was
irrelevant, although this misunderstanding was so prevalent that the
mayor of Sudbudy (among others) took offense.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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