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Article: <5enpt7$6of@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 22 Feb 1997 21:53:43 GMT
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In article <5elgn5$af6@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
>> 3. this request was to CREATE A DISTRACTION where
>> the populace would focus away from an impending threat,
>> a distraction to be repeated as often as necessary until
the
>> government could get their act together regarding the
threat.
>
>> 4. the duty bound astronomers, doing their best with
this
>> situation, grabbed the next opportunity in a nova
situated
>> where the gawking populace would have their BACKS TO
>> THE THREAT.
>
>> 5. working late into the night and using war game
tactics,
>> the astromoners PLOTTED AN ORBIT that would dive
>> into a swamp of unmapped stars as the nova faded, and
>> would have such an angle against the Sun upon perihelion
>> that the absense of a tail might be excused.
>
> A "swamp of unmapped stars"? Where? We've mapped
the
> whole sky down to around magnitude 20 - almost a million
> times fainter than any stars you can see in the night sky
with
> your unaided eyes - there aren't any unmapped 1st or 2nd
> magnitude stars out there to enlist as "fake
comets".
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
You lie, in an attempt to dampen this argument before it can get
started. You've mapped PORTIONS of the sky to that degree, but
other areas are virtually unmapped. In addition, the charts
available to the public, for use by amateur astronomers, do NOT
contain the full list, else the books would not be able to be
carted about in the hip pocket or along with the portable
telescope dragged to a hilltop.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])