Congress wants to cut JWST

In sci.space.policy message 094d1ddb-5477-4766-8c40-f0cf328f2999@bl1g20
00vbb.googlegroups.com, Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:17:21, Quadibloc
posted:

On Jul 8, 6:37*am, Pat Flannery wrote:

I didn't know where "Sulaco" came from BTW, assuming that both it and
Nostromo were either Chinese or Japanese owned spacecraft, based on the
sound of their names:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo

I thought "Nostromo" came from some Italian opera.

Rather than thinking, you should ask Wikipedia.

'Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad,
...."'

'Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in
the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. The book
has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but
two characters dominate the narrative: Señor Gould and the eponymous
anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo.'

'"Nostromo" is Italian for "mate" or "boatswain"'

It is quite readable; I own it, price 5/-.

Next, perhaps, someone will be asking about "Savrola".

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