Re: (SNES) Slighty left of topic-enjoy a little star-smiling joke

[Albireo54@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/10/02 12:58:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ljandiern@home.com writes:

<< "That sounds great," he said, "but wouldn't I need a really big flash?" >>

Hi Laurie,

Hey, that's pretty good! We astronomers are always tying to collect the dim 
light of celestial objects - how neat it would be if we could provide our own 
flash! Of course, the flash would take some time to reach many targets: an 
hour and nine minutes to Saturn, years to the nearest stars, and thousands or 
millions of years to some of our more distant targets. Would mankind still 
inhabit this planet when it came time to actually take the exposure? 
Hmmm........

We also are hoping for the promised "mostly clear" skies that the weather 
service is talking about for the FDO area tomorrow night. Of course, this is 
New England, and it is winter, so just about anything might happen - and 
probably will. Last Friday, although we got a couple of decent hours of 
observing in, the rosy forecasts were all way off!  :o)

Hope to meet you tomorrow night. We'll be open by 6:30 if there's any chance 
for observing, and we'll also post any late updates.

Thanks for sharing,
Doug Stewart
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