MICROSATELLITES; how small? How cheap?

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Rand Simberg wrote:

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:07:25 +0100, in a place far, far away, "John
Thingstad" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Stop insulting Kurt Vonnegut by quoting in yor posts.

Given the vapid stupidity of many of the things that he says, quoting
him *anywhere* is a form of insulting him (and a well deserved one).

But I did like Vonnegut's suggestion that we should require the
Eight Beatitudes to be posted in courtrooms, instead of the Ten Commandments.

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"Since you belong to the company of wise men, | Bill Higgins
and apparently do not kill anyone for money, |
for money, tell me, pray, how you occupy yourselves." | Fermilab
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"we measure distances, we calculate numbers, | Internet:
we are agreed upon two or three points |
which we understand, and we dispute about |
two or three thousand of which we know nothing." |
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