View Single Post
  #10  
Old December 24th 05, 03:47 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Sad Christmas Story

Davoud wrote:
If you read this evening's S&T news bulletin, you may have followed
the link to the story about the Christmas morning occultation of
Spica by the Moon http://tinyurl.com/77lpy. The story was well
written by one Alan M. MacRobert.

At the end of the story Mr. MacRobert's biographical sketch says "Alan
MacRobert independently disproved the existence of Santa Claus around
age 7, by dividing the number of houses in North America by the number
of minutes in the night before Christmas. He found the process
liberating rather than disappointing."

Liberated from the magic of childhood at only age 7? I can't help but
imagine what might have happened if Mr. MacRobert had been a budding
biologist at age 7: "Alan MacRobert received a puppy for Christmas
around age 7, and he dissected it..."

Davoud


Clever boy, nothing sad about it. Real life is more exciting than any
fantasy.

A word of comfort: He wasn't totally liberated though. The world of Santa
Claus is not limited to North America.

--
Carsten A. Arnholm
http://arnholm.org/
N59.776 E10.457