On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:15:17 +0100, Stephen Tonkin wrote:

Marcus Armitage wrote:
does the newsgroup think that it is becoming cool to be an astronomer?

"Becoming"? It's been cool ever since Thales fell down a well and was
"revived" by some pretty handmaidens.

That is a new one to me. Could you please explain further or give me a
reference to follow up.

Norman